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We are going to use the official NxNxN notation (/the- rubiks-cube/notation/advanced/): F – Outer front face clockwise U' – Outer up face anticlockwise L2 – Double turn of the left face (180o) Fw – Outer block move: the two front faces together clockwise. For NxNxN cubes we mark how many layers to grab but we can ignore this for a 4x4 cube since the numbers is always 2: 2Rw'. Other tutorials use lowercase letters to mark double turns. f – Lowercase letters mark inner slice turns.