The Group D2 (edge)

Silviu Radu did most of the analysis of the 98304 different cubes of this subgroup. Here the the table with the distances, the average distance is 16.93:

Distance
Number
Distance
Number
0f
1
11f
1030
1f
0
12f
1844
2f
3
13f
2134
3f
0
14f
4604
4f
1
15f
5959
5f
0
16f
11355
6f
28
17f
22676
7f
44
18f
36221
8f
128
19f
11617
9f
71
20f
94
10f
494

Up to M-symmetry there are 23232 cubes which exactly have this symmetry. All cubes can be solved within 20 moves and there are 12 cubes up to M-symmetry which need 20 moves. All except 2 of these cubes are antisymmetric (that is the inverse is M-symmetric to the cube itself).
Some nice examples are listed below.
The next table gives the number of cubes up to M-symmetry which exactly have D2 (edge)-symmetry, the average maneuver length is 16.96 now:

Distance
Number
Distance
Number
0f
0
11f
230
1f
0
12f
403
2f
0
13f
461
3f
0
14f
1064
4f
0
15f
1396
5f
0
16f
2667
6f
4
17f
5397
7f
6
18f
8736
8f
22
19f
2713
9f
10
20f
12
10f
111

If you are interested in a list of all optimal maneuvers for this subgroup, they are included in the file D2e.zip. The 11 20f*-maneuvers up to M-symmetry and M-antisymmetry are also included in the file 20moves.zip.

 

Name
shortest maneuver with exactly this symmetry
Generator
U F2 U2 D2 F2 D (6f*)
Name
Generator
U' R2 D2 U2 R2 D2 U' (7f*)
Name
Generator
R2 U' B2 R' B U' B L2 U L2 B U B' R' (14f*)
Name
Generator
L R' F2 U2 B' L2 R2 F D2 F2 L R' (12f*)
Name
Generator
L B2 D2 L F' D2 U2 B R' D2 F2 R' (12f*)
Name
Generator
U' R' F2 R2 F2 D U F2 R2 F2 R2 D' U' R' U (15f*)
Name
Generator
R' U' B' F2 D' L B' L2 F' L D' B2 F' U' R' U2 (16f*)

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