Rubik's Cube Page

Glossary

This is the biggest english collection of Rubik's cube terms on the internet. I have translated the Ishino's site's dictionary section and have used Cubefreak's glossary as reference. My thanks to both sites.

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b: turn the Back-face 90 degrees clockwise.

bicube/bondage cube: The Bicube puzzle can be made from a standard Rubik's Cube by gluing pieces together. Seven of the corner pieces are glued to edges to make seven 2x1x1 movable pieces. The five remaining edges are glued to the face centres; one glued to two adjacent centres, and the others are glued one on each face

Bandaged Pyraminx: This puzzle is made from a standard pyraminx by gluing an edge piece to an adjacent corner piece, and then doing the same to the edge on the opposite side of the puzzle.

BCFSSS: (abbrev.) Blindfold Cubing For Seriously Sad Savants - a collection of optimal algorithms to orient corners, permute corners, orient edges, and permute edges.

BCFTSS: Blinfold Cubing For The Seriously Sad - an intermediate step to BCFSSS.

Bert (TM): Lars Petrus' algorithm to double transpose adjacent last layer edges without any other effect on the cube.

Big(ger) Cubes: Refers to 4x4x4, 5x5x5, etc (there was even a 55x55x55)

Blank Cube: just a blank Rubik's cube, without the colored stickers. used for custom face printing. could be ordered at the Official Rubik's site.

BLD: Blindfold Cubing

Blindfold Cubing: To solve a Rubik's Cube without looking after a period of inspection. 1-look solve..

blindfold solving: see blindfold cubing.

Blindfold Team Solving: Team Blindfold Solving

Blindman's Cube: a Rubik's cube made for the blind, using Braille. hard to find. I found mine on eBay.

Block Approach: Intuitive approach for solving, where parts of a puzzle is solved by creating various blocks of pieces. Most block approaches were created for speedcubing, and generally takes less number of algorithms and less moves per solve than other methods

Bottom Layer: LL, or what it says....the bottom layer

BOY Color Scheme: American/Official Color Scheme. Has Blue, Orange, and Yellow on one corner clockwise.

Butterfly Finish: Stopping the timer with the back of one's hands. WCA has warned that this technique can lead to disqualification of the attempt if the cube rests on the hands.

BYO: Another name for Japanese color scheme. Used on Rubik's Deluxe
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