Rubiks Cube/Revenge Basics

Terminology

One side of the cube is called a Face. There are six Faces on the cube: Front, Back, Down, Up, Left, and Right.	The Individual pieces are Corners, Edge pieces, and Center pieces. The whole section of little cubes that you can turn is called a Slice.

Move Notation

In order to denote specific moves we use notation that looks like this: F f B b L l R r U u D d.
Upper case letters stand for the outer faces such as the Front Face, Back Face, Down Face, etc.
Lower case letters stand for the inner faces just behind the outer ones, such as the inner front Face, inner back Face, etc.
Here are a few diagrams to show were each slice is located and how each can turn. The slices turn on the dark lines.

A letter by itself means a clockwise turn of 90°:
R - turn the outer Right Face clockwise.
f - turn the inner Front Face clockwise.

A letter followed by the number '2' means 2 x 90° turns. Note that these can be either two clockwise turns or two counterclockwise turns, the result is the same.
R2 - turn the outer Right Face twice

A letter followed by an appostrophy means a counterclockwise turn of 90°:
D' - turn the outer Down Face counter CW.
l' - turn the inner Left Face counter CW.

Note: Do the move as if you were looking directly at that face. The move B' would be done as if you were looking at the Back Face from behind the cube. The move d' would be done as if you were looking at the Down Face from underneath the cube.

Move Example

Here is an example of a move algorithm: F L' U2 l'

Here is what you would do with your cube -

More Examples

When looking at solutions, some of the diagrams may have cubes that are gray.
The gray cubes are ones that you don't need to be worried about in that particular step.

This is a picture example of how to put the blue-yellow edge piece in the Left and Front faces next to the other blue-yellow edge piece in the Upper and Left faces. All the gray cubies are ones that aren't involved when moving the blue-yellow piece so they can be ignored for this step.

A letter by itself means a clockwise turn of 90°: R - turn the outer Right Face clockwise. f - turn the inner Front Face clockwise.	A letter followed by the number '2' means 2 x 90° turns. Note that these can be either two clockwise turns or two counterclockwise turns, the result is the same. R2 - turn the outer Right Face twice
A letter followed by an appostrophy means a counterclockwise turn of 90°: D' - turn the outer Down Face counter CW. l' - turn the inner Left Face counter CW.	Note: Do the move as if you were looking directly at that face. The move B' would be done as if you were looking at the Back Face from behind the cube. The move d' would be done as if you were looking at the Down Face from underneath the cube.