Official names for each OLL?!

[Pitzu]

Are there official names for each OLL?! I know the names for groups, like "'L' shapes" "'T' shapes" etc. but how can you recognize the OLLs inside a group.
I've just started to learn 'L' shapes which means 6 cases.

 

[Pitzu]

I've given names for some special cases like:

- PI

- IQ

- Omega

- T serif

- T sans serif

- diagonal

Any other idea?!

 

[Lucas Garron]

Bob Burton has the most complete naming scheme I know of.

 

[hr.mohr]

Fridrich only named the PLL's so there are no "official" names for the OLL's. Perhaps will the wiki numbers/names become the de facto standard?

 

[Jai]

Jason Thong also has names for his OLLs. (Go to http://jasacube.110mb.com/notation.htm to understand what the + and - means in his algos)

 

[brunson]

Why don't we just stick with Macky's numbers, which I believe are the same as Jessica's, for official designations. Conversationally, I wouldn't mind picking up some names, but I'd prefer to see numbers in forum posts.

Bob has good names for groups, but it has always irked me that he renumbered them from Macky/Fridrich.

I do like some of Jason Thong's terminology for things like "joined set" and "potential set", but his OLLs rename things that already have accepted and widespread common nomenclature. The 7 edges oriented OLLs, in particular, have common names: U, T, Triple-Sune (L), Sune, Anti-Sune, Pi (Bruno) and Double-Sune (H). Build from there.

 

[ImNOTnoob]

Uhh.. Lightning sune? And straight line double sune with the corners paralell to the line? Im really out of ideas.. If they had <26 olls, we can name them by letters.

 

[Pitzu]

Jason Thong also has names for his OLLs.

I like some of his names!

 

[KConny]

Dan Harris also got some names:
http://www.cubestation.co.uk/cs2/index.php?page=3x3x3/cfop/oll/oll

 

[brunson]

Dan Harris also got some names:
http://www.cubestation.co.uk/cs2/index.php?page=3x3x3/cfop/oll/oll

But only for the groups of shapes, not individual OLLs.

 

[MistArts]

Why don't we just stick with Macky's numbers, which I believe are the same as Jessica's, for official designations. Conversationally, I wouldn't mind picking up some names, but I'd prefer to see numbers in forum posts.

Some people like me don't even know one number for an OLL. Why don't we use letters like PLL's.

 

[fanwuq]

I use Lucas Garron's terms for the ones with correct EO. Triple sune is sometimes called twin headed fish or inverse Chameleon.
Below are the basics of other OLLs, they should be obvious.
There are double-layer sune, antisune, double sune.
T (sexy moves), P (not so sexy moves) R and L, T (single layer Chameleon) also called Y perm part 2, F Double sexy moves F', Y perm part 1, F Double not so sexy moves F', other P, T-sune, TuRBo H, TuRBo ajacent, inverse other P (R and L).

 

[fcwy1]

Why not make name them officially?
combine
http://jasacube.110mb.com/oll.htm
and
http://www.cubewhiz.com/teambld.html

maybe we can vote on which name we prefer for each OLL, though it will be alot of work

 

[KConny]

Dan Harris also got some names:
http://www.cubestation.co.uk/cs2/index.php?page=3x3x3/cfop/oll/oll

But only for the groups of shapes, not individual OLLs.

He does, but only for a very few.

 

[Sa967St]

maybe we can vote on which name we prefer for each OLL, though it will be alot of work

or someone could just start a list of all the different names for each case

 

[brunson]

Some people like me don't even know one number for an OLL. Why don't we use letters like PLL's.

Because there are more OLLs than letters in the alphabet? 57>26
Also, the PLL's vaguely resemble the letters they're named after, assigning letters to OLLs would be almost completely arbitrary, so you may as well use numbers.

maybe we can vote on which name we prefer for each OLL, though it will be alot of work

or someone could just start a list of all the different names for each case

Start a Wiki page. When we get enough we can start voting.

 

[MistArts]

Some people like me don't even know one number for an OLL. Why don't we use letters like PLL's.

Because there are more OLLs than letters in the alphabet? 57>26
Also, the PLL's vaguely resemble the letters they're named after, assigning letters to OLLs would be almost completely arbitrary, so you may as well use numbers.

26+26+10=62

Lowercase letter + Upper case + numbers

 

[brunson]

\/\/hatever...

 

[Escher]

perhaps we should just realise that naming OLLs is pointless. over the interwebs we can just link a picture, or the source that we are using, and in real life we can just use a real cube, or 'paint' the picture for the person we are corresponding with...

 

[Lucas Garron]

This is not hard. :rolleyes:

If you want standard OLL names, either pick them yourself and make a page for it, or, say, refer to Burton. Then give your naming scheme a title, like VXO-1.
Then whenever you talk about an OLL, refer to its VXO-1 title, say it's VXO-1, and hope it picks up popularity.
And if someone doesn't like VXO-1, just make VXO-2. Or DH-A.

Either we'll converge on a widely-used standard, or at least we HAVE standards, with not-much-worse consistency.