{"id":1244,"date":"2013-02-23T21:11:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T21:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2013-02-23T21:11:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T21:11:20","slug":"new-cubing-record-7x7-2449-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1244","title":{"rendered":"New Cubing Record: 7&#215;7 &#8211; 24:49.59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7x7cube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7x7cube.jpg\" alt=\"7x7cube\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7x7cube.jpg 225w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7x7cube-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>OK, 25 minutes is an absurdly long time to solve a cube, <b>BUT<\/b> it is also about four minutes faster than my prior record.  Now, to be fair, I&#8217;ve only actually solved the cube twice for time.  This time, the first two centers took two minutes each.  All were done by the eight-minute mark or so and inner edges were done by 15.  I don&#8217;t know specifics after that, but all-in-all, it was a long solve.  <\/p>\n<p>I should note that I tried a Gigaminx solve after.  At 25 minutes I was just finishing reducing the thing to a Megaminx (whose record is nearly eight minutes!), so it&#8217;s safe to say that one took me a long while.  <\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;a new record.  Not a great one, but it does the trick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, 25 minutes is an absurdly long time to solve a cube, BUT it is also about four minutes faster than my prior record. Now, to be fair, I&#8217;ve only actually solved the cube twice for time. This time, the first two centers took two minutes each. All were done by the eight-minute mark or [&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-1244","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\/1244","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=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}