Okay, so now I am going to bring on a second cube, just to briefly explain notation because if you want to really expand on speed cubing and get pretty good of it, you will want to know notation. So, we will set that aside and bring out different cube.
Right, so notation, okay, so to start of the basic turns and this is pretty much all you will need for now. You can find certain notation glossaries on other websites and stuff like that. I will provide some of those websites at the end for notation. So it depends on which way your cube is facing, the camera is like right after my left shoulder here so it is a bit different, but this is front to me, left, U. Now, we will not be really dealing with the back side or the down side all that much. So, we will just start sort of the basic things.
So, facing to me now, for the right side, the right side is turned that way or clockwise, it is just R, that is all right – done, and just turn it back, it is different, it is R’ or referring as R-i. So, R, R’, but you want to say it R-i, do not say R apostrophe because that is just a bit more standard, R-i is just for talking about it. So, R, R’, and the same thing as pretty much for every other face. U, it is not T for top or anything, it is U for the upper face. So again, for clockwise we have U, nothing after anything and to go back, we have U’. And in the front side, we have F, F’. And, as for the bottom and left face and the back face they are a little bit different because you have to look at them a bit more. You may think that L’, anyway, if you are going to ask L’ is that, just because R is that, but you have to look at it closely, L’ is actually that. I got confused about it. I do not know if anyone else have does about left and back and stuff notation because it is reverse everything else.
Just for an example, so we have L, L, L’. As for the back side, it is kind of hard to say because it is facing away from the camera, but we have B, B’. And so, for this whole thing we have, I will start at the right, I will explain as the whole where we have this particularly. This is R, F, U, L, D, and B, pretty simple in itself, pretty self-explanatory. So we have R, R’, U, U’, stuff like that. Then for two turns, it is not two R’s or anything, it is R2 – this is an R, sorry. F2, R2, so if you think of the letter and then with the F2, just turn that side twice, then it would be four, you do not think it would be back as long as you turn the side twice.
And, the last thing, as you rotate the cube, so if you rotate, this is front, right, L, F stuff. If you rotate it, this is not front anymore, this is now right and this is front. So we will rotate again, this is back and this is right and this is front. If you rotate this way, this is not U anymore, this is the U and this is the L. It is pretty basic. It should not be too hard to understand. I think that is about it for notation that you all need to know right for now.
Now, hold on just a second again. Again, this is something I caught after I did the most of it. Again, the R, R’ thing. R’, it is usually refers to as R-prime, but I am more used to or referring to this as R-i. So, R, R-prime, U, U-prime, but I will be referring to it as R-i just because it is kind of easier to say and I am more used to it and it is back to--
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