CFOP · Schritt 4

PLL — 21 Algorithmen

Vollständige PLL-Algorithmus-Referenz für den Zauberwürfel. Lerne 2-Look-PLL für Anfänger oder meistere alle 21 Algorithmen für vollständiges One-Look-PLL.

21 Fälle — vollständige Referenz

The home stretch

OLL already turned the whole top face one solid color. PLL has exactly one job left: slide every last-layer piece into its correct position without touching its orientation. When the last piece clicks home, the cube is solved — provided your F2L stayed intact.

PLL algorithms look long, and that is on purpose. By this stage every piece is already oriented, so an algorithm has the least freedom to move things around: it must cycle the pieces you want while returning every other piece untouched. That politeness is what makes the sequences long — not difficulty.

21 beats 57. Deciding which full step to learn first? PLL is the smaller mountain — only 21 cases against OLL’s 57. Front-load it.

Climb the ladder: 4 looks → 3 looks → 2 looks

You do not need all 57 OLL cases before you start using full PLL. Harris lays out an explicit path from the beginner method to one-look CFOP:

4-look (beginner)
Edge cross, then orient corners, then position corners, then position edges — four small algorithm families. This is the beginner last layer.
3-look (the bridge)
Learn just the 7 OLL cases where every edge is already flipped to orient the corners in one look, then do full PLL in one look. Cross → 7-case OLL → PLL. This is the rung most worth climbing next.
2-look (CFOP)
Full 57-case OLL in one look, then full 21-case PLL in one look. The expert last layer.

Recognition: line up first, then look

Harris’s recognition advice is an action, not a static glance: rotate U to bring as many already-solved pieces home as you can, then read what is left over. Pre-aligning makes the remaining mismatch jump out — and it is the only way to tell mirror cases (Ua vs Ub, Ja vs Jb, the four G-perms) apart reliably.

Solid bar → edges only

A full bar of three matching stickers across a side means those corners are home. You are in an edge-only case — a U-perm, H, or Z.

Headlights → adjacent swap

Two matching corners with a different center color between them (“headlights”) are a solved pair. The case is an adjacent-swap family: T, J, or R.

No headlights → diagonal swap

No headlights anywhere means a diagonal swap — Y, V, or N — or a G/E-perm. Diagonal swaps never show headlights.

See the two you’ll use most

Watch the two most common PLLs run on a real cube. The T-perm is the single most-used case and the backbone of 2-look PLL; the Ua-perm is the classic edge 3-cycle. The top face is already one color — PLL only slides the pieces into place.

T-perm — the adjacent-swap workhorse

RUR'U'R'FR2U'R'U'RUR'F'

Ua-perm — the edge 3-cycle

R2U'R'U'RURURU'R

Learn it by family, not by flashcard

Harris does not present 21 loose pictures — he buckets them into seven bite-size families that share a shape and a feel. Learn one member, internalize the trigger, then derive its mirror. The families are the study plan.

Edge perms (Ua, Ub, H, Z)

All four corners home; only edges cycle. The fastest family — done as M-slice flicks.

M2UM2U2M2UM2

Corner perms (Aa, Ab)

All four edges home; a single diagonal corner 3-cycle. Built on the R' U R' D2 trigger.

xR'UR'D2RU'R'D2R2x'

R-perms (Ra, Rb)

One adjacent corner swap plus an edge 3-cycle. A solved block on one side; the mirror is the other.

J-perms (Ja, Jb)

An adjacent corner pair and adjacent edge pair swap on one face — the most beginner-friendly combined perm.

RUR'F'RUR'U'R'FR2U'R'U'

N-perms (Na, Nb)

Two diagonal swaps crossing — the hardest pair. Long by design: two whole columns trade.

G-perms (Ga–Gd)

A 3-corner cycle paired with a 3-edge cycle. Four mirror-confusable cousins, all driven by a wide-U turn plus a re-grip rotation.

The rest (T, F, V, Y)

The high-value standalones — including the T-perm, the most-used PLL of all.

RUR'U'R'FR2U'R'U'RUR'F'

All 21 verified cases. Filter by family. Tap a card to copy the algorithm.

PLL 01 intermediate

Ua-Perm

edges only

Drei Kanten sind fehl am Platz und zyklieren in eine Richtung. Eine Kante ist bereits gelöst.

R2U'R'U'RURURU'R

P 1/18 11 moves

PLL 02 intermediate

Ub-Perm

edges only

Drei Kanten sind fehl am Platz und zyklieren in die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu Ua. Eine Kante ist bereits gelöst.

R'UR'U'R'U'R'URUR2

P 1/18 11 moves

PLL 03 intermediate

H-Perm

edges only

Alle vier Kanten sind fehl am Platz. Gegenüberliegende Kanten sind getauscht. Der Würfel hat von allen vier Seiten ein symmetrisches Muster.

M2UM2U2M2UM2

P 1/72 7 moves

PLL 04 intermediate

Z-Perm

edges only

Alle vier Kanten sind fehl am Platz. Benachbarte Kanten sind in einem Z-Muster getauscht.

M2UM2UM'U2M2U2M'

P 1/36 9 moves

PLL 05 intermediate

Aa-Perm

corners only

Drei Ecken zyklieren in eine Richtung, während alle Kanten gelöst bleiben.

xR'UR'D2RU'R'D2R2x'

P 1/18 11 moves

PLL 06 intermediate

Ab-Perm

corners only

Drei Ecken zyklieren in die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu Aa, während alle Kanten gelöst bleiben.

xR2D2RUR'D2RU'Rx'

P 1/18 11 moves

PLL 07 advanced

E-Perm

corners only

Alle vier Ecken sind in diagonalen Paaren fehl am Platz. Alle Kanten sind gelöst.

x'RU'R'DRUR'D'RUR'DRU'R'D'

P 1/36 17 moves

PLL 08 intermediate

T-Perm

edges + corners

Zwei benachbarte Ecken müssen tauschen. Die Ecken vorne-rechts und vorne-links werden vertauscht, plus zwei Kanten.

RUR'U'R'FR2U'R'U'RUR'F'

P 1/18 14 moves

PLL 09 intermediate

Y-Perm

edges + corners

Zwei diagonal zueinander stehende Ecken müssen zusammen mit zwei Kanten tauschen. Keine zwei benachbarten Teile passen zusammen.

FRU'R'U'RUR'F'RUR'U'R'FRF'

P 1/18 17 moves

PLL 10 advanced

F-Perm

edges + corners

Die Ecken vorne-rechts und vorne-links tauschen, und zwei Kanten auf der vorderen/rechten Seite tauschen.

R'U'F'RUR'U'R'FR2U'R'U'RUR'UR

P 1/18 18 moves

PLL 11 advanced

V-Perm

edges + corners

Zwei diagonal zueinander stehende Ecken tauschen, plus zwei benachbarte Kanten tauschen. Komplexes Muster ohne übereinstimmende benachbarte Teile.

R'UR'U'yR'F'R2U'R'UR'FRF

P 1/18 15 moves

PLL 12 intermediate

Ja-Perm

edges + corners

Die Ecke vorne-rechts tauscht mit der Ecke hinten-rechts, die vordere Kante tauscht mit der rechten Kante.

L'U'LFL'U'LULF'L2ULU

P 1/18 14 moves

PLL 13 intermediate

Jb-Perm

edges + corners

Die Ecke vorne-rechts tauscht mit der Ecke hinten-rechts, die vordere Kante tauscht mit der hinteren Kante.

RUR'F'RUR'U'R'FR2U'R'U'

P 1/18 14 moves

PLL 14 intermediate

Ra-Perm

edges + corners

Zwei Ecken und drei Kanten sind in einem Zyklus auf der rechten Seite verschoben. Eine Kante ist an der richtigen Position.

LU2L'U2LF'L'U'LULFL2U

P 1/18 14 moves

PLL 15 intermediate

Rb-Perm

edges + corners

Spiegel von Ra. Zwei Ecken und drei Kanten verschoben, eine Kante korrekt.

R'U2RU2R'FRUR'U'R'F'R2U'

P 1/18 14 moves

PLL 16 advanced

Na-Perm

edges + corners

Beide diagonalen Eckenpaare tauschen auf einmal. Alle vier Ecken sind fehl am Platz, wobei auch alle vier Kanten verschoben sind.

RUR'URUR'F'RUR'U'R'FR2U'R'U2RU'R'

P 1/72 21 moves

PLL 17 advanced

Nb-Perm

edges + corners

Ähnlich wie Na, aber gespiegelt. Alle Teile in einem gespiegelten Muster verschoben.

R'URU'R'F'U'FRUR'FR'F'RU'R

P 1/72 17 moves

PLL 18 advanced

Ga-Perm

edges + corners

Drei Ecken und drei Kanten sind alle in einem komplexen Zyklusmuster fehl am Platz.

R2UR'UR'U'RU'R2U'DR'URD'

P 1/18 15 moves

PLL 19 advanced

Gb-Perm

edges + corners

Drei Ecken und drei Kanten fehl am Platz. Spiegel des Ga-Musters.

R'U'RUD'R2UR'URU'RU'R2D

P 1/18 15 moves

PLL 20 advanced

Gc-Perm

edges + corners

Drei Ecken und drei Kanten fehl am Platz. Ähnlich wie Ga aus einem anderen Winkel.

R2U'RU'RUR'UR2UD'RU'R'D

P 1/18 15 moves

PLL 21 advanced

Gd-Perm

edges + corners

Drei Ecken und drei Kanten fehl am Platz. Ähnlich wie Gb aus einem anderen Winkel.

RUR'U'DR2U'RU'R'UR'UR2D'

P 1/18 15 moves

Common mistakes

Finger tricks that make PLL fast

M-slice flicks drive the edge perms. The H-perm (M2 U M2 U2 M2 U M2) and the U-perms are meant to be flicked with the slice, not turned face by face.

Wide-U plus a re-grip is the signature of every G-perm: a double-layer u turn cycles the layer as one fluid motion, and the baked-in rotation re-presents a comfortable R/U grip mid-algorithm.

Rotations are part of the trigger. When an algorithm contains a cube rotation, treat it as one continuous motion with the moves around it — not a separate step. And memorize with your hands: PLLs decompose into familiar triggers (the sexy move R U R' U', the R U R' F' opener, the F … F' sandwich), so the hand chunks them rather than reciting them.

CFOP-Einführung →

Going further

Once full PLL is fluent, Harris points straight at the expert horizon:

COLL — orient and permute the corners together in one look when edges are already oriented, so PLL collapses to a pure edge case.
ZBLL — orient and permute the entire last layer in a single algorithm, given oriented edges. The far horizon.
VH / ZB during F2L — influence the last layer while inserting the final F2L pair so you arrive at a known, smaller LL subset.

OLL-Algorithmen

Wiederhole die Orientierung der oberen Seite vor dem PLL

CFOP-Einführung

Verstehe, wie PLL in die vollständige CFOP-Methode passt