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I learned to solve the Rubik's cube in the same way that many new solvers learn these days, that is, I learned someone else's solution. Like most cube solutions, it relied on memorized move sequences to finish some parts. I didn't really like such memorization because it made me feel like I had "cheated", and moreover, what if I were to not solve for cube for ten or twenty years, then one day see one and try to solve it? Surely I wouldn't remember such sequences!

More than two years after first learning to solve the cube, I finally learned methods by which one can solve a Rubik's cube, and other similar puzzles, without any need for memorization. Since then I have been working on solving many new types of twisty puzzle using such concepts, and I've written walkthroughs on many of them.

Introduction
Puzzle Classification Terminology
Common Name Index
Universal Notation

Puzzles -- Graphical Index

Fundamental Tetrahedra [Standard Notation is UFRL]

Vertex Cut	Type A	Order 1	Order N	---	---
	Type B	Order 3	Order 4	Order 5	Order N
	Type C	Order 2	Order 3	Order N	---
Edge Cut	Type A	Order 1	Order 2	Order N	---
	Type B	Order 2	Order 3	Order 4	Other N
	Type C	Order 2	Order 3	Order 4	Order N

Combination Tetrahedra

Vertex Cut

Type AB

Order 1

Order 2

Fundamental Hexahedra

Face Cut	Type A	Order 2	Order 3	Order 4	Order N
Vertex Cut	Type A	Order 1	Order N	---	---
	Type B	Order 1	Order 2	Order 3	Order N
	Type C	Order 2	Order 3	Order 4	Order N
Edge Cut	Type A	Order 2	Order 3	Order 4	Order N
	Type B	Order 1	Order 2	Order 3	Order N
	Type C	Order 1	Order 3	Order N	---
	Type D	Order 2	Order 4	Order N	---

Combination Hexahedra

Vertex Cut	Type AB	Order 1	Order 2
Edge Cut	Type AB	Order 1	---
	Type BC	Order 1	---
	Type CD	Order 1	---

Dihybrid Hexahedra (currently only Polyfeatrics with Fundamental parents)

Strong	FA2EA2	FA3EA3	FA4EA4	FAnEAn
	FA3EB1	FA4EB2	FAn+2EBn	---
	FA2ED4	FAnED2n	---	---
	VA1EA2	VAnEAn+1	---	---
	VB1ED2	VBnED2n	---	---
	VC2EA2
Uniform	FA2VA1	---	---	---
	FA2VB1	FA4VB2	FA2nVBn	---
	FA2VB2	---	---	---
	FA2VC2	FA4VC3	FA2nVCn+1	---
	FA2ED2	FA3ED4	FAn+1ED2n	---
	VB1EA2	---	---	---
	VB2EB1

Fundamental Octahedra

Face Cut	Type A	Order 2	Order 3	Order 4	Order N
	Type B	Order 2	Order 3	Order 4	Order N
Vertex Cut	Type A	Order 3	Order 4	Order 5	Order N
	Type B*	Order 3	Order 5	Order N	---
Edge Cut	Type A	Order 1
	Type B	Order 1
	Type C	Order 1
	Type D
	Type E

*Octa VB4 is Octa VB3VHC, etc

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