{"id":4420,"date":"2022-07-01T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2022-07-01T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:52:35","slug":"new-megaminx-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4420","title":{"rendered":"New Megaminx Record!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/megaminx-record.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/megaminx-record-300x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/megaminx-record-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/megaminx-record-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/megaminx-record-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/megaminx-record.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was really impressed with my latest Megaminx record &#8211; getting my time down to 7:21 and then an even 6:00.  In light of having this kick-ass new Gan 3&#215;3, I realized just how good a magnetic speed cube can be.  Next up really should be a 2&#215;2 or a Pyraminx, but neither are really <b>FUN<\/b> puzzles.  The Megaminx, however, it an entertaining solve and with that, my order was set: YJ YuHu V2M.  I lubed it up and immediately noticed just how fast and precise it was. One sub-seven-minute solve (would&#8217;ve been my record just a few months ago) was followed by a slamming sub-5:30!  I was impressed by just how good this puzzle was!  One more sub-6 and then I got a 5:18!  FORTY seconds faster than my old record!<\/p>\n<p>That evening, I revisited the puzzle, getting several close times (in the 5:20 &#8211; 5:30 range).  Whether a sub-five-minute solve is possible, I&#8217;m not sure, but this puzzle is simply wonderful and it&#8217;s still just so much fun revisiting things like this and breaking records.  Of course, I&#8217;m probably getting close to my limits on them all, but at 46 years old, I&#8217;m still enjoying it!  So psyched!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really impressed with my latest Megaminx record &#8211; getting my time down to 7:21 and then an even 6:00. In light of having this kick-ass new Gan 3&#215;3, I realized just how good a magnetic speed cube can be. Next up really should be a 2&#215;2 or a Pyraminx, but neither are really [&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-4420","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\/4420","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=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}