Clever way to learn OLL
Clever way to learn OLL
I was searching some informations about OLL probabilities and found that on SpeedSolving forum from a British guy (Mark Rivers):
Here is a list of all the OLL shapes, ordered by the average number of moves they save compared to solving the same cases with 2-look OLL. Learning full OLL in this order is a good idea because the ones nearer the top will cut more time off your solves, on average.
10.00 Stealth 8.50 Squares 8.13 Dots (1/54) 7.50 T shapes 7.31 Small lightning bolts 6.67 P shapes 6.00 Kites 5.88 C shapes 5.58 L shapes 5.56 Knight moves 5.38 Fishes (excluding kites) 5.25 Big lightning bolts 4.25 H 4.13 I shapes 3.81 Dots (rare) 3.44 Awkward 2.63 W shapes
In fact, learning just the top 15 OLL algs delivers 42% of the total move savings of learning full OLL, so if you only want to learn some of it, those are the ones to go for.
If I learn OLL one day, I think I'll memorize cases in this order, it's smart.
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