{"id":4424,"date":"2022-07-02T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2022-07-02T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:56:51","slug":"another-new-megaminx-record-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4424","title":{"rendered":"Another New Megaminx Record! WOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot_20220702-101334_Twisty-Timer-e1656777381921.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot_20220702-101334_Twisty-Timer-e1656777381921-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot_20220702-101334_Twisty-Timer-e1656777381921-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot_20220702-101334_Twisty-Timer-e1656777381921-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot_20220702-101334_Twisty-Timer-e1656777381921-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot_20220702-101334_Twisty-Timer-e1656777381921.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As stated previously, I&#8217;m loving my new magnetic Megaminx and this morning, a quiet Saturday with a sleeping puppy by my feet, I figured I&#8217;d do a quick speedrun.  It was about 1:10 before I got my first two layers done &#8211; mostly par for the course &#8211; but my middle edges\/corner matching was pretty solid.  This puzzle&#8217;s bright faces make it easy to identify and so for the first time, I&#8217;ve been looking ahead.  A quick slip-up on my penultimate layer and some fidgeting permuting centers (my weakest step) made things a bit slow, but I&#8217;ve become much more adept at orienting corners and placing them.  The end result?  A staggering <b>one-minute improvement<\/b> and a mind-boggling 4:16 solve!  I was blown away! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As stated previously, I&#8217;m loving my new magnetic Megaminx and this morning, a quiet Saturday with a sleeping puppy by my feet, I figured I&#8217;d do a quick speedrun. It was about 1:10 before I got my first two layers done &#8211; mostly par for the course &#8211; but my middle edges\/corner matching was pretty [&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-4424","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\/4424","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=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}