{"id":2463,"date":"2017-07-27T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:04:05","slug":"new-4x4-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2463","title":{"rendered":"New 4&#215;4 Record!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_20170727-132241.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_20170727-132241-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_20170727-132241-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_20170727-132241-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_20170727-132241-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screenshot_20170727-132241.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>On the same day that Feliks broke the 7&#215;7 world record, with a 2:08 showing, I managed to shave four seconds off my modest 4&#215;4 personal best.  A 2:14+ time may seem quaint to these speedcubers, but it&#8217;s the best I&#8217;ve ever done.  My newest cube, a stickerless QiYi MoFangGe Snow Leopard, isn&#8217;t really great.  It&#8217;s exploded several times and I am pretty sure I lost a record just in trying to keep it from doing so again.  However, a parity-free run this morning yielded a pretty good time.  While I don&#8217;t think a sub-two-minute run is ever to be in the cards, I&#8217;ll remain humble with this new record.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the same day that Feliks broke the 7&#215;7 world record, with a 2:08 showing, I managed to shave four seconds off my modest 4&#215;4 personal best. A 2:14+ time may seem quaint to these speedcubers, but it&#8217;s the best I&#8217;ve ever done. My newest cube, a stickerless QiYi MoFangGe Snow Leopard, isn&#8217;t really great. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,34,35,26],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-cubing","category-cubing-records","category-high-scores-accomplishments","tag-4x4x4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","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=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}