MGLS

Description

MGLS is a system for orienting last layer while solving the last slot of the first two layers.

Proposer: Shotaro Makisumi, Lukas Garron

Proposed: 2004

Steps:

1. Insert the last slot edge while orienting all last layer edges.
2. Insert the last slot corner while orienting all last layer corners.

Click here for more step details on the SpeedSolving wiki

Origin

Shotaro Makisumi started developing the idea in 2004 [1].

Development

From 2006-2007 Lucas Garron completed development and the set of steps were named MGLS after the last names of Makisumi and Garron [2] [3]. MGLS is similar to one of the original forms of the Heise method [4].

Other MGLS Information

Makisumi's Algorithms

Source

Google Sheets

Source

Sarah Strong's Algorithms

ELS CLS

Pronunciation

In June, 2010, Garron declared the official pronunciation of MGLS to be "muggles" [5].

Credit

Thanks to Lucas Garron for providing links to the sources on this page.

References

[1] S. Makisumi, "F2L Last Corner + LLCO," Makisumi's Website, 2004. [Online]. Available: https://web.archive.org/web/20070913114107/http://cubefreak.net:80/f2lc_llco.html.

[2] L. Garron, "MGLS - Makisumi-Garron Last Slot," Garron's Website, 2007. [Online]. Available: https://cube.garron.us/MGLS/.

[3] L. Garron, "[Speed cubing group] MGLS speedcubing method," Yahoo! Groups - Speed Solving Rubik's Cube, 15 June 2007. [Online].

[4] R. Heise, "Re: [Speed cubing group] MGLS speedcubing method," Yahoo! Groups - Speed Solving Rubik's Cube, 15 June 2007. [Online].

[5] L. Garron, "MGLS: Now with pronunciation!," SpeedSolving.com, 16 June 2010. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/mgls-now-with-pronunciation.21922/.