A coin with heads facing up is shown as H and a coin with tails facing up is shown as T. Six coins are placed in the Starting Arrangement, as shown in the figure below. A "step" is defined as interchanging a pair of adjacent coins without flipping them.

Starting Arrangement: H H H T T T
Final Arrangement: T T T H H H
The minimum number of steps needed to go from the Starting Arrangement to the Final Arrangement, as shown in the figure, is ________.