A searchless method of calculating the tunings of typical controllers is developed for linear plants with a time delay, the use of which makes it possible to minimize the quadratic criterion I 2 with respect to an internal disturbance. The basic idea of the method consists in obtaining the complex frequency response of a suboptimal linear controller, followed by approaching the characteristic of a typical controller to this frequency response in the essential frequency band using the least squares method. Recommendations on selecting the smoothing filter time constant and the suboptimal system’s dynamic error are given for a system comprising a PID controller and a second-order plant with a time delay.