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Ned Batchelder

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Ned Batchelder's personal web site, blog, writings, software, math, parenting, autism

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Two-part Rubik's algorithms

When Rubik’s Cube first appeared decades ago, I jumped on it. I bought one, and spent an entire summer fiddling with it. Over that summer, I developed a solving technique that has stuck with me. My technique is not the fastest; that was never the goal. My algorithms make sense to me because they are constructed, and…