Name: How I Learned Full PLL | Rubik's Cube Tips
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Hey everyone, the final step in solving a Rubik's Cube is permuting the last layer, and in this video I'm going to show you how I learned full PLL.

Modal verbs - A2

So once you finish the OLL stage, your cube can be in one of 22 possible combinations, and here they are right here.

Of course, one of the 22 is a solved case, which is brilliant, and all of us jump up and down and go PLL skip!

Having learned the beginner's method, I already knew the U's permutations, and I knew the two A's.

I must say that for the U, the first time that I learned how to do it, I had a kind of weird way that involved doing like starting with an F2 and ending with an F2, which was very inconvenient, and I actually had this for quite a while.

It took a while until I learned an alternate method of doing it.

So here is UA and here is UB, and the method which I used is one I learned from J-Perm that uses M2 moves.

There is also an RU move, a way of doing it, which is actually how I do it if I do it OH in the more common way that people do it, which is like that.

But the way that I do it involves M moves, and that's just this.

They require a bit of a re-grip, but they're not too bad.

The only one re-grip I had when I was learning this was not learning how to do the D2 flicks with like pinky, ring and pinky.

And so as you can see, I do it sort of like that.

I'm not too slow at it, but I sort of wish that I started learning it the right way.

I'm not too bad with my right hand with doing D2s using my ring and my pinky.

You can't really see that over there, but like that.

Anyway, that's something that I sort of wish that I started out doing correctly.

The J-B is, well, I mean, the J-B perm is probably one of everyone's favourite perms.

And of course, once you know the J-B, you also realise that that covers the T-perm, because the T-perm and the J-B are almost exactly the same.

And then of course, I then realised that that completely covered Y as well.

Y is just like the J-B perm and the T-perm.

It's a bit of a longer than all the others, but it's a really, really nice perm.

I later also realised that the F and the N-A are also variations on J-B, but I learned that a little bit too late, which was sad, but hey, that's life.

The H and the Z were very, very fun perms to do.

Of course, you can tell based on like opposite colours and here having adjacent colours.

And I remember just really enjoying doing like lots of M-moves and U-moves.

Like I would do the H to the Z or the Z to the H, because they were just easy to mix up.

But eventually I found that if I just sort of learned a bit of a pattern to it, like a bit of a rhythm to it, that really helped.

So H's are a lot shorter and H's had a bit of a pattern of like, I sort of like verbalised it so it's like da-da-da, da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da.

And that was sort of my way of learning it.

And rhythm of the Z was a 2-1-2-1 and then so on and so forth.

So it was da-da-da, da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

So H was like 2-1-2-2 and Z was a 2-1-2-1.

R-A and R-B are both also very similar perms and quite easy to recognise.

R-B was probably the one that I learned first.

And because I learned that pretty well, I just ended up learning sort of like the lefty version of the R-B and applying to the R-A.

I know there's another way of doing it that involves rotating it this way and then doing like R-U-D moves, but I just learned it like left-handed and that was really nice too, so I'm pretty used to that.

J-A was another really straightforward PLL and the most common way that people do it of course is this way.

But I actually ended up another way of doing it.

So it involves sort of starting with a bit of a re-grip and doing that.

My daughter does lefty J-Bs to this, to her J-A, so she does it left-handed.

Which I can do as well, just not as fast.

I'm not really sure why she prefers that, but hey.

The F-perm and the V-perm and the E-perm were three that I started off learning, though a really inconvenient, dodgy algorithm, and then I had to relearn better ways of doing it.

Fortunately, now that I know the new ways, I actually have completely forgotten the old way of doing it, but I really suggest getting it right the first time.

But the F-algorithm was just a bit of a variation on the J-B.

So you just start with an R-prime, U-prime and F-prime.

Anyway, T-perm from here and then right at the end, you just end with R-U, U again, and then V-perm.

It's the only PLO that has a cube rotation within it, but whatever.

So yeah, like I said, I had a really weird way of, when I first learned it, that involved two rotations, which is crazy.

But anyway, there's some weird thumb things that you've got to do with the F, but you know, just drill it and it ends up being okay.

And the E-perm, the only thing that you need to be able to do with the E-perm is Ds and D-primes using this.

But once you've got that, it actually becomes a really, really nice perm to do.

If I was doing it with my normal cube, it feels really weird doing it with this one.

And that of course leaves the two Ns and the four Gs, which are definitely the last ones which I learned.

So the first way that I learned how to do the N-perms was doing a Z rotation and then sort of like doing weird stuff.

I later found out that you can do the N-A with just a bit of a starting move, J-B, and then an ending move.

And then at this point, instead of completing the J-B, just do a U-two and then you insert it there.

You can do the exact same thing with this and just do like a lefty, but I'm just not very fast with this.

And so I still do this in my original way.

And this is probably my slowest PLL of all.

One day, I'm probably going to get around to learning a better way of doing it or just really drilling it.

But yep, it doesn't pop up very often, the N-B perm, which is also a real danger because when it does, it really affects my time.

So I probably should recommend like working on your ends a lot more.

All the pro cubers always suggest that, like don't neglect the N-perms, even though they don't pop up very much.

But the way that I do this is that I rotate to the side and then I just do it that way.

And finally, the four lovely G-perms, G-A, G-B, G-C, G-D.

The way you recognize them is, well, the way I do it is that I put all the headlights always go on the left.

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