Resources about Rubik's Cube

• speed solving
  • Roux (a.k.a as bridging)
    • Learning the Roux method
    • Simple Roux Method of Solving Rubik’s Cube
    • Introduction - Roux Tutorial
      • uses TwistySim
  • ZZ
    • Example Solves - Beginner ZZ Tutorial
• notation
  • Rubik’s cube notation by Sebastiano Tronto
  • 3x3x3 notation
    • which clarifies naming of E, S, r etc.
• papers
  • The Generalized Rubik’s Cube: Combinatorial Insights Through Group Theory
    • it cites \citef{salkinder2021nxnxn}
    • has its own notation for nxnxn cubies
    • works out many details about general nxnxn cubes and their corresponding group theory
  • Commutators in the Rubik’s Cube Group
    • uses notations like UR, FUR to denote edges and corners, which I prefered
    • nice diagrams
    • demo with Twizzle
  • Generalising the configurations of an N×N×N Rubik’s Cube
    • aimed to find an expression for the total number of possible configurations of an N×N×N Rubik’s Cube
    • uses notations like ur, fur, u_1 for 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 cubes
    • generalize to N×N×N with 3x3x3-style edges and 4x4x4-style corners
• solving with linear algebra
  • asked by this Reddit post
  • Mathematics of the Rubik’s cube by W. D. Joyner in 1996
  • Non-Commutative Gaussian Elimination and Rubik’s Cube
• uts-016I
• uts-016H