{"id":4870,"date":"2025-05-18T19:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2025-05-18T19:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T19:53:52","slug":"new-5x5-and-7x7-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4870","title":{"rendered":"New 5&#215;5 and 7&#215;7 Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After adding a <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4862\">Gan 562 M<\/a> to my collection, I also nabbed an Aofu WRM M 7&#215;7 used alongside several other high-quality puzzles.  I knew my 5&#215;5 record was in reach but my times were really nothing particularly good.  The expensive Gan cube just wasn&#8217;t giving me the edge I needed.  So, with my wife out of town and my shoulder slowly recovering from surgery, I did a few 7&#215;7 solves.  My first one was 16:16.92 &#8211; literally one second slower than my record!  After a few botched efforts with edge pairing going repeatedly awry, I busted out a 14:21 &#8211; breaking my record by two full minutes!  <\/p>\n<p>So, naturally, the question was: could I break two records in one day?  The 5&#215;5 record has stood for three-and-a-half years after all and a sub-four-minute time always seemed out of reach.  Well, after a record-setting 4:03.70, I shattered the record with a 3:48.81!  Sub-four and two records in one day.  These new puzzles are just unreal compared to what things were like when I started.  I&#8217;m quite satisfied with both and while that 7&#215;7 could probably get better, I&#8217;m never in a rush on puzzles that take so long.  Now to edit and update my <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/cubing-records\">cubing-records page<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/screenshot_20250517_144818_twisty-timer1598582657310053703.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/screenshot_20250517_144818_twisty-timer1598582657310053703-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-4867\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/screenshot_20250517_191100_twisty-timer5075634586160852690.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/screenshot_20250517_191100_twisty-timer5075634586160852690-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-4868\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After adding a Gan 562 M to my collection, I also nabbed an Aofu WRM M 7&#215;7 used alongside several other high-quality puzzles. I knew my 5&#215;5 record was in reach but my times were really nothing particularly good. The expensive Gan cube just wasn&#8217;t giving me the edge I needed. So, with my wife [&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-4870","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\/4870","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=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}