Elementary notation

Elementary Notation refers to a type of notation that attempts to break pen spinning down into the smallest core components, such that a limited set of symbols can be used to describe all pen spinning tricks. Elementary notation systems tend use the traditional slot system for pen spinning, but differ greatly with how they describe the tricks.

There are currently three main elementary notation systems:

1. Hexbinmos' Elementary Notation, developed in the early 2010s and notorious for its complicated structure and use of Greek symbols
2. RPD's Simplified Elementary Notation system, a simplification of Hexbinmos' system with a reduced trick list, romanized symbols and traditional slot transition notation used in place of the original complicated grammar of Hexbinmos' system
3. Pitch Yaw Roll Notation, an additional abstraction of RPD's notation that reduces the trick list into a single trick 'Rotate' and breaks tricks down into a series of spinning direction and positional state changes plotted in a list format.