Method Shapes

Eight Corners

Method: Corners First

Proposer: Ernő Rubik (1974)

Twelve Edges

Method: Edges First

Proposer: Ulrich Roddewig (1979, earliest known)

Cross

Method: Layer By Layer, CFOP, CFCE

Proposer: Donald Taylor (1978, earliest known)

Cross + F2L Pairs

Method: CFOP, CFCE

Proposer: John Conway, David Benson, and David Seal (1979)

Oriented State

Method: Thistlethwaite, Kociemba, Human Thistlethwaite, MI2, SSC

Proposer: Morwen Thistlethwaite (1979-1980)

EOLine > Oriented State

Method: MI2, SSC

Proposer: James Straughan (2011)

Joseph Briggs (2015)

Layer + LL Corners

Method: Waterman

Proposer: Marc Waterman and Daan Krammer (1981),

Many others prior (1979-1981)

2x2x2 Block

Method: Petrus

Proposer: Lars Petrus (1981)

2x2x3 Block

Method: Petrus, early unnamed methods by Thistlethwaite and Jackson

Proposer: Morwen Thistlethwaite (1979),

Bradley Jackson (1979),

Lars Petrus (1981)

XCross

Method: CFOP, CFCE, Snyder Method 2

Proposer: Anthony Snyder (1982 for Snyder Method 2),

Chris Hardwick (2003 for CFOP)

Tripod

Method: Tripod

Proposer: Ryan Heise (2002),

Michael Gottlieb (2008)

Doug Li Block

Method: Doug Li Method

Proposer: Doug Li (2002)

1x2x3 Block

Method: Roux

Proposer: Gilles Roux (2003)

Cross + One Corner

Method: L2L

Proposer: Duncan Dicks (2004)

Columns

Method: Columns First

Proposer: Various (2004, 2007, and further)

1x2x3 + adjacent 1x2x2 block

Method: MI1

Proposer: James Straughan (2006)

1x2x3 + 2x2x2 block

Method: Nautilus, M-CELL

Proposer: James Straughan (2006),

Joseph Briggs (2015)

EOLine

Method: ZZ, MI2, SSC

Proposer: Gilles Roux and Adam Gehin (~2003), Ryan Heise (2004, based on Gehin's video)

Published by: Zbigniew Zborowski (learned of the step from others in 2004, published in 2006)

2x2x3 + Corners

Method: Tudor

Proposer: Kenneth Gustavsson and others (2007+),

Joseph Tudor (2018)

1x2x3 + opposite 1x2x2 block

Method: 42

Proposer: Joseph Briggs (42, 2017)

2x2x3 + EOBelt

Method: Mehta

Proposer: Yash Mehta (2020)