{"id":3769,"date":"2021-03-01T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:17:17","slug":"new-4x4-record-sub-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/3769","title":{"rendered":"New 4&#215;4 Record!  Sub-2 Minutes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210301-134420_Twisty-Timer-e1614632689114.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210301-134420_Twisty-Timer-e1614632689114-300x242.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210301-134420_Twisty-Timer-e1614632689114-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210301-134420_Twisty-Timer-e1614632689114-1024x825.png 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210301-134420_Twisty-Timer-e1614632689114-768x619.png 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210301-134420_Twisty-Timer-e1614632689114.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I haven&#8217;t done any speed solving in quite some time, but after ordering a treasure trove of puzzles for Christmas, I was enjoying my 4&#215;4 MoYu Meilong and its magnets.  I realized just how quickly it turned and I thought a new record could be in sight.  After an impressive 2:04 &#8211; an eight-second improvement on my existing personal best, I busted out my very first sub-2-minute run!  Clocking in at 1:54.10, this was my first new record in over a year.  I am certain I could improve upon it &#8211; but I don&#8217;t feel any burning need to do so.  The 2-minute threshold is satisfying enough!  Pretty psyched and this year marks my 10-year cubing anniversary.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done any speed solving in quite some time, but after ordering a treasure trove of puzzles for Christmas, I was enjoying my 4&#215;4 MoYu Meilong and its magnets. I realized just how quickly it turned and I thought a new record could be in sight. After an impressive 2:04 &#8211; an eight-second improvement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-cubing","category-high-scores-accomplishments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","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=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}