The document discusses the Rubik's Cube, including its inventor Erno Rubik, the standard notation used for moves and rotations of the cube, abelian group theory related to solving it, and several common step-by-step methods for solving the cube like the God's Algorithm and Fridrich Method. It also includes statistics on average times to solve different steps of the cube.

1. T h e R u b i k ’ s C u b e S o l v e r

2. Ernő Rubik Hungarian Inventor July 13, 1944

3. Mechanics of the Cube

6. Moves Notation Standard face-turns Slice Moves Cube rotation

7. Abelian Group X2 X I X' X' X I X' X2 X2 I X' X2 X X X' X2 X I I X' X2 X I *

8. How to solve a Rubik’s Cube Optimum Solution – God’s Algorithm Layer-by-Layer Method (LL method) Jessica Fridrich Method (F2L-OLL-PLL) F2l with Keyhole-OLL-PLL

20. Solving Statistics: 73.22 97 Total 50.48 82 F2L 5.14 11 Top Cross Average Upper Bound Step