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CLL: Fish

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Six cases with one yellow corner, the front right yellow facing front.

Goal

The white layer on the bottom is done. The top is the Fish shape. One algorithm solves the whole top layer.

How to recognize it

Only compare top-layer stickers with each other, never with the bottom layer. Words used here:

  • Front sticker (or left, right, back): the non-yellow top sticker on that side. On a side with two non-yellow stickers, call them front and rear (or left and right).
  • Matching pair: a side's two top stickers have the same color.
  • Opposite colors: red and orange, green and blue. Two different colors that are not opposite are neighboring colors.

Put the yellow corner at the front left. Compare the front sticker with the right sticker, the back sticker and the left side's rear sticker. One always matches and one is always opposite.

How to hold the cube

White on the bottom. Every case in this lesson uses the same grip, shown under the controls. The player adds a U at the start or end when needed.

The main idea

Fish 2 is the familiar Fish algorithm, with the top corners already in place. The other cases make the yellow face and move the corners at the same time.

Next lesson

Go to CLL: Reverse fish.

Step 1 / 10

U': Top face: turn 90°, front face goes right

The front sticker matches the left side's rear sticker and is opposite the right sticker.

Hold the yellow corner at the front left, with the front right yellow facing front.

Step 1 of 10: U'. Top face: turn 90°, front face goes right