This is a hill I'm not willing to die on, but it is something I wonder about.

People talk about "solving" rubik's cube, when really they are talking about "restoring" the cube.

I would think that "solving" implied inventing the algorithms.

* Solve => invent algorithm

* Restore => Follow an algorithm

But this battle is lost, and people will always talk about "solving the cube".

So ... what pithy terms could/should be used for the process of inventing algorithms for restoring the cube?