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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Dallas Disaster: this refers to his failing of all three blindfold solves at Caltech Dallas Summer competition 2005.

David Singmaster: Mathematician from United Kingdom who first popularized Rubik's Cube through discovery of the mathematics involved in it..

Darth Maul: a puzzle kind of like the Simpson's puzzle

DCC: (abbrev.) Dutch (Netherlands) Cubist Club

DCD: (abbrev.) Dutch Cube Day: Annual official speedcubing competition held since 2003. Held in early October in The Netherlands

D-Cross: To solve the cross with the side on the bottom. speedcubing.

Deep Cube: Cubing robot invented by Evan Gates.

Deluxe Tower: a puzzle

Devil's Algorithm: algorithm that takes a puzzle through all possible configurations.

D-face: bottom face

Diamond Dodecahedron: puzzle

Dino Cube: The Dino Cube is a cube shaped puzzle, and like the Skewb, it has eight axes of rotation centred around the corners.

DNF: Did Not Finish.

DNS: Did Not Solve

Dogic: This beautiful puzzle has the shape if a regular icosahedron. Its 20 triangular faces are divided into 4 regular triangles. There are two types of moves: Twisting the 5 complete faces meeting to a vertex (face twist), or the 5 small triangles at a vertex (tip twist).

Double Extended Cross: Completing 2 slots of the F2L in addition to the normal cross as the first step

Double Layer Turn: kind of turn in which 2 layers are turned as one in one direction. indicated by lower-case letter of the face or by adding a "w" after the face name

Double Parity: situation in which both the orientation parity and the permutation parity errors occur on a 4x4x4

Double Transposition: Swapping 2 and 2 pieces

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