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An analysis of the corner and edge permutations of the 3x3x3 cube has already been done by Bruce Norskog. His results for the quarter-turn metric are:

Distance       Positions    
--------       ---------    
 0q                    1    
 1q                   12    
 2q                  114    
 3q                1,068    
 4q               10,011    
 5q               93,840   
 6q              877,956   
 7q            8,197,896   
 8q           76,405,543   
 9q          710,142,108   
10q        6,565,779,580   
11q       59,762,006,092   
12q      506,821,901,799