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Rubik's Cube: fundamental techniques

Commutators

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A commutator is a sequence of the form X.Y.X-1.Y-1. The idea is that X.Y does half of what you want, but also has side-effects. Then X-1.Y-1 does the other half of what you want, and also undoes those side-effects.

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