Rubik's Cube could be coloured in such a way as to emphasise the corners or edges, rather than the faces as the standard colouring does; but neither of these alternative colourings has ever become popular. The original (3×3×3) Rubik's Cube has eight corners and twelve edges. There are 8! (40,320) ways to arrange the corner cubes. Each corner has three possible orientations, although only seven (of eight) can be oriented independently; the orientation of the eighth (final) corner depends on the preceding seven, giving 3 (2,187) possibilities. There are 12!/2 (239,500,800) ways to arrange the edges, restricted from 12! because edges must
Floppy Cube (20), the Rubik's Domino (18) and, to some extent, the Pocket Cube (11). The table also shows that there is only one combination that is exactly 8 moves away from the solved state; this is the combination in which all the corners are in their correct places but all the edges are flipped, analogous to the "superflip" on the Rubik's Cube, which requires 20 moves to solve. The Super Floppy Cube (often shortened to "Super Floppy") is a common variant of the Floppy Cube. It was also invented by Katsuhiko Okamoto but several versions have also been produced by other