{"id":1303,"date":"2013-03-19T10:20:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T10:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T10:20:36","slug":"new-cubing-record-4x4-240-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1303","title":{"rendered":"New Cubing Record: 4&#215;4 &#8211; 2:40.67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/4x4-record-2.40.67.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/4x4-record-2.40.67-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"4x4-record-2.40.67\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/4x4-record-2.40.67-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/4x4-record-2.40.67.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>I still time myself doing 3&#215;3 solves here and there but I&#8217;ve mostly abandoned speed cubing other cubes.  After breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1271\">both my 2&#215;2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1267\">3&#215;3 records<\/a> recently, in the same day, I took a peek at the larger cubes.  Until I get a new 6&#215;6 I&#8217;m not even going to try and my 5&#215;5 attempts were <b>far<\/b> from my record (I solved in 6:11, record is just over 5:00).  The 4&#215;4 sat there, the spectacular ShengShou cube, and so I tried it.  Centers were solved quickly, maybe 30 seconds.  It&#8217;s that middle edge matching that kills me!  Well, ultimately I finished the cube in 2:40.67, less than a second faster than my prior record.  While that&#8217;s not really a huge deal, breaking my 2&#215;2, 3&#215;3 and 4&#215;4 personal bests all within the same month is pretty cool.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still time myself doing 3&#215;3 solves here and there but I&#8217;ve mostly abandoned speed cubing other cubes. After breaking both my 2&#215;2 and 3&#215;3 records recently, in the same day, I took a peek at the larger cubes. Until I get a new 6&#215;6 I&#8217;m not even going to try and my 5&#215;5 attempts [&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-1303","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\/1303","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=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}