Josh’s Megaminx Guide: Edges First

 A revitalized & intuitive beginners method. My last layer algs.

Orient edges: You could use edge control before inserting the last edge pair to skip these algs.

Seriously,
use edge control
& skip this case

  F (U R U’ R’) F’ F (R U R’ U’) F’ R U2  R2’F R F’ U2’ R’F R’ F’

Permute edges: The 3-cycle edges are always R ? R’ ? R ? R’ where ? is some U move. The first R ? R’ takes the right
edge and moves it to it’s destination. The next two up moves stop at the other edges to be exchanged.

R U R’ U R U2’ R’  R U2 R’ U’ R U’ R’ R U2’ R’ U’ R U2’ R’   R U2 R’ U R U2 R’

<--Using five up face moves to swap 4 edges.

Careful - one U is not prime.

R U2’ R’ U’ R U’ R’ U R U2’ R’
Permute corners: Do this before orienting the corners. Ignore the U face color and permute based on color. For 3
cycles rotate the minx so the point of the U face is pointing at you & use the right-back face for R and left-back for L.

L R L R <--Sexy move-->
times three
in the middle
of these algs.
      R U’ L’ U R’ U’ L U  L’ U R U’ L U R’ U’   F (R U R’ U’)3 F’  L F (R U R’U’)3 F’L’
<--The left two algs use a setup move
L R L R  on the right front or left front face
      to move a corner into position then
 execute the alg above them. The
Rf Lf’  setup move is reversed at the end.

Rf R U’ L’ U R’ U’ L U Rf’ Lf’ L’ U R U’ L U R’ U’ Lf R U2 R’U’ (R U R’U’)2  R U’R’

Final step orient the corners: Orient the corners one at a time in place. In these examples the green face is the
down-front-right (Dfr) face and we are going to simply call it D from now on. Look at the UFR corner. If it needs
to be twisted clockwise execute (D’R’D R)2. Do a U move to bring another corner into the UFR slot. If that corner
needs to be twisted counter-clockwise execute (R’D’R D)2. Continue adjusting the up face and twisting corners
until the megaminx is solved.

 Example #1 Example #2  Example #3

(R’D’R D)2 U’ (D’R’D R)2 U  (D’R’D R)2 U’ (D’R’D R)2 U2  (R’D’R D)2 U’ (D’R’D R)2 U’

Twist the blue-yellow corner Counter-
 (D’R’D R)2 U’      (R’D’RD)2 U2’ (D’R’DR)2 U’
Clockwise. Move pink-yellow corner into Twisting all three corners clockwise a long combination
place, twist it clockwise then fix U using U’s to 360° the U face