{"id":1195,"date":"2013-02-01T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2013-02-01T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:54:22","slug":"2nd-best-3x3-record-new-best-average-of-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1195","title":{"rendered":"2nd Best 3&#215;3 Record &#8211; New Best Average Of 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zhanchi-stickerless.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zhanchi-stickerless-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"zhanchi-stickerless\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zhanchi-stickerless-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zhanchi-stickerless.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I <b>love<\/b> my stickerless Dayan Zhanchi.  The thing is just the smoothest cube I&#8217;ve ever touched and solving it is such a joy.  It&#8217;s been referred to as the <i>butter cube<\/i> because of its absurdly smooth turning.  <\/p>\n<p>And today, I figured I&#8217;d take 5 minutes and do some quick runs.  Not only did I get another best average of five (41.09) but I also performed my second-fastest solve ever!  33.67 seconds is still more than a second and a half slower than my record, but also a second and a half faster than my old record!  The fact that I averaged 41 seconds over five solves is amazing (but also mostly credited to that 33-second beast of a run).  In any event, it&#8217;s a new record and a new 2nd-best record and for that, I&#8217;m pretty thrilled.  My times:<\/p>\n<p><b>42.32 \/ 33.67 \/ 44.72 \/ 43.78 \/ 40.96<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my stickerless Dayan Zhanchi. The thing is just the smoothest cube I&#8217;ve ever touched and solving it is such a joy. It&#8217;s been referred to as the butter cube because of its absurdly smooth turning. And today, I figured I&#8217;d take 5 minutes and do some quick runs. Not only did I get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-cubing","category-cubing-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}