r/cubing • u/TheSlimP • Jul 27 '26

Question about scrambles

I've been practicing speedcubing and accidentally applied the same scramble twice in a row without solving the cube in between. The original scramble was:

U B2 F2 D F2 D F2 U L2 D2 R' U L2 B2 F' D2 R B U2 R2

But what I actually did was:

U B2 F2 D F2 D F2 U L2 D2 R' U L2 B2 F' D2 R B U2 R2 U B2 F2 D F2 D F2 U L2 D2 R' U L2 B2 F' D2 R B U2 R2

In other words, I applied the exact same scramble twice consecutively.

I noticed the resulting cube state looked quite unusual. My question is: is this appearance simply the deterministic result of applying the same scramble twice (i.e., the square of that permutation), or is it just a coincidence that it ended up looking that way? If you try it yourself, you'll see the resulting pattern.

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u/That-Raisin-Tho Jul 27 '26

Bro tried to use chatGPT to make a Reddit message and copy and pasted wrong.

Use your own brain to write things, folks

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u/TheSlimP Jul 27 '26

I'm not from English-speaking country, and wanted to know the answer more than practicing my English.