Awkward Shapes

OLL 18 — Awkward 2

Awkward shape with bar on left.

Recognition — what OLL 18 looks like

Watch & step through the algorithm in 3D

Algorithm

rUR'URU2r'

7 moves. Execute with the solved layers on the bottom and the last layer on top.

Setup / recognition

Apply this scramble to a solved cube to reach the OLL 18 case so you can practise it on demand:

z2rU2R'U'RU'r'

Category: Awkward Shapes. This is one of the cases you recognise by the shape the top stickers form before the algorithm.

About this case

OLL 18 (Awkward 2) is an OLL case — the orientation step of CFOP. Awkward shape with bar on left. Once the last layer is fully oriented, the top face shows a single colour and you move on to PLL to permute the pieces into place.

Related cases

These cases look similar to OLL 18 and are easy to confuse — drill them together to sharpen your recognition:

Train this in the algorithm trainer ← All OLL cases