Birdflu aims to contain all knowledge of algorithms and positions for the last layer of Rubik's Cube, and present it in simple and useful ways. For now is has all algs up to 17 moves.

Hand crafted by Lars Petrus in Oakland 2015-17.

Big thanks to Tom Rokicki for generating the algs!

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Combo Alg Sets implement the old idea of solving LL in one look with only a few dozen memorized algs by using a pair of algs for each. ZBLL can be solved with only 14 algs, and the full LL with 39.

Combo ready algs are marked by a c

The name: "Birdflu" is the shortest English word containing the basic move letters BRDFLU.

Questions: birdflu@lar5.com

24 positions
Shortest 9
Fastest 7.56
Avg shortest 11.75
9 moves 10 algs
10 moves 42 algs
11 moves 306 algs
12 moves 1 215 algs
13 moves 5 427 algs
14 moves 27 826 algs
15 moves 137 528 algs
16 moves 730 683 algs
17 moves 3 740 487 algs
Setup: L2 F2 L B L' F2 L B' L
COP OLL CO CP EO EP
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Ao
Bo
bo
Co
Do
Eo
Fo
Go
Ad
Bd
bd
Cd
Dd
Ed
Fd
Gd
Ab
Bb
bb
Cb
Db
Eb
Fb
Gb
Al
Bl
bl
Cl
Dl
El
Fl
Gl
Ar
Br
br
Cr
Dr
Er
Fr
Gr
Af
Bf
bf
Cf
Df
Ef
Ff
Gf
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PLL
OLL 27
OLL 26
OLL 24
OLL 23
OLL 25
OLL 21
OLL 22
OLL 13
OLL 16
OLL 33
OLL 45
OLL 39
OLL 55
OLL 52
OLL 57
OLL 15
OLL 14
OLL 34
OLL 46
OLL 40
OLL 56
OLL 51
OLL 28
OLL 7
OLL 12
OLL 32
OLL 44
OLL 36
OLL 54
OLL 49
OLL 10
OLL 9
OLL 30
OLL 41
OLL 37
OLL 50
OLL 11
OLL 8
OLL 29
OLL 42
OLL 38
OLL 47
OLL 5
OLL 6
OLL 31
OLL 43
OLL 35
OLL 53
OLL 48
OLL 20
OLL 3
OLL 4
OLL 19
OLL 18
OLL 17
OLL 1
OLL 2
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r
f
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Position COP Shortest Solution
Ab4B
9 L' B L' F2 L B' L' F2 L2 show
Al4B
9 B L' B R2 B' L B R2 B2 show
Ao4B
9 B2 L2 R2 F2 D F2 L2 R2 B2 show
Cb4B
9 B L2 B R2 B' L2 B R2 B2 show
Db4B
9 R2 B2 R F2 R' B2 R F2 R show
bo4B
11 L U L' U L' U' L2 U' L2 U2 L show
Bo4B
11 B' U' B U' B U B2 U B2 U2 B' show
Go4B
11 B' L D2 L' B U B' L D2 L' B show
bb4B
12 L' B U' B' U' L B U' L' U' L B' show
Bl4B
12 B L' U L U B' L' U B U B' L show
Co4B
12 F R B' R' F' R2 F2 R' B R F2 R2 show
Do4B
12 R2 B2 R F R' B2 R2 B' R' F' R B show
Fb4B
12 B' R B R' U2 B2 L F' L F L2 B2 show
Bb4B
13 F2 L2 F2 U R U' L' U' L2 U2 R' U' L show
bl4B
13 R2 B2 R2 U' F' U B U B2 U2 F U B' show
Cl4B
13 F U' F' R2 F' R2 U R2 U' F2 U F' R2 show
Eb4B
13 L2 B U' B2 U L2 U' L2 B L2 B U B' show
El4B
13 B2 L' U L2 U' B2 U B2 L' B2 L' U' L show
Eo4B
13 L F' D F2 R' F R D' F L' F2 U F' show
Fl4B
13 B L' B' R B2 L B R B R2 F' U2 F show
Fo4B
13 B U' B2 F' U F2 U' B2 U B' F2 U' F show
Gb4B
13 L2 D L2 D' R B2 D' B2 D R' B2 U B2 show
Gl4B
13 L U2 L' B2 R B R F R2 B R' F' R show
Dl4B
14 F U F2 L F L2 B U2 B2 U' B2 U' B' L show
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