{"id":35,"date":"2020-09-29T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/?p=35"},"modified":"2021-12-06T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:10:56","slug":"basics-notation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Basics: Notation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First things first:<\/p>\n<p>When you talk about solving a cube, the first you have to learn is the notation. That&#8217;s the way how a move on the cube is displayed in your instructions.<\/p>\n<p>The most common way of cube notation is a set of 90 deg turns of one or two layer or the whole cube, represented by letters and the Prime symbol.<\/p>\n<p>Every clockwise 90 deg turn of a layer is represented by a letter, every counter-clockwise 90 deg turn of a layer is represented by the same letter followed by the Prime symbol:<\/p>\n<p>The most commonly used shortcuts for turns on the cube are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U \/ U&#8217; &#8211; Up<\/li>\n<li>D \/ D&#8217; &#8211; Down<\/li>\n<li>L \/ L&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211; Left<\/li>\n<li>R \/ R&#8217; &#8211; Right<\/li>\n<li>F \/ F&#8217; &#8211; Front<\/li>\n<li>B \/ B&#8217; &#8211; Back<\/li>\n<li>E \/ E&#8217; &#8211; Equator<\/li>\n<li>M \/ M&#8217; &#8211; Middle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a 90 deg turn of the whole cube with &#8220;fixed&#8221; Top and Down colors the letter y \/ y&#8217; is used.<\/p>\n<p>The notation with letters isn&#8217;t easy to learn for beginners and for cubers with a more visual way of learning (as myself). So I came back to the &#8220;square and arrow&#8221; notation from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/spiegel\/a-258266.html\"><em>Der Spiegel<\/em> article from 1981<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To get a relation to modern &#8220;letter based&#8221; notation I&#8217;ve added the corresponding letters to the symbols. For 3D representations I&#8217;ve decided to use classic 45 deg cavalier projections.<\/p>\n<p>This is a quick overview of the basic moves that I use in my instructions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cbz_all00_notation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58\" src=\"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cbz_all00_notation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1638\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cbz_all00_notation.png 1125w, http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cbz_all00_notation-206x300.png 206w, http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cbz_all00_notation-703x1024.png 703w, http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cbz_all00_notation-768x1118.png 768w, http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cbz_all00_notation-1055x1536.png 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First things first: When you talk about solving a cube, the first you have to learn is the notation. That&#8217;s the way how a move on the cube is displayed in your instructions. The most common way of cube notation is a set of 90 deg turns of one or two layer or the whole &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/?p=35\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Basics: Notation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cubez.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}