OBL: An Intuitive Guide
An explanation of OBL from a user's perspective.
Left Tent / Left Whale
Faces:
Left Tent
/
Left Whale
Recognition Tips
Bad tent/whale; splitting tent on top and sandwiched tent on bottom breaks squareshape.Algorithms
Best Alg: 1,0/-4,-1/-3,0/4,1/-1,0
Swap tent on top (so that it's not touching the slice) with same-colored spill on bottom (keeping shell on DL) to form spill/axe.Color Mirror Algs
Use best alg canceled with /6,6/ at the end.Related Cases
Parent Cases
Relatively useful cases that can be reached in one slice from this case.
Mirrors
Top/Bottom Mirror:
When the top and bottom face are swapped with each other.
Left/Right Mirror:
When both the top and bottom face are swapped with their respective left/right mirrors.
Pseudo Mirrors:
When only one face is left/right mirrored. Not a real mirror, but it looks like one; don't be tricked!
