{"id":159,"date":"2007-02-18T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=159"},"modified":"2007-02-18T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T23:13:00","slug":"im-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/im-champion.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a champion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the things I enjoy doing Rubik&#8217;s related is what is called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubestation.co.uk\/cs2\/index.php?page=fmc\/fmcnewsystem\">Fewest Moves Challenge<\/a>.  It runs once a week, and a scramble is given, and various folks try to solve it in the fewest moves possible.  This is a good counter to speed-cubing, since it doesn&#8217;t require billions of algorithms to memorize.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubestation.co.uk\/cs2\/index.php?page=fmc\/newarchive\/getresults.php&#038;metric=htm&amp;redirect=1&amp;challengeid=141\">results <\/a>are out for FMC # 141, and I won!  As a disclaimer, only 4 people entered this week and a lot of the people I usually see winning were not among them, but a victory is a victory.  It took me 34 moves, and the 2nd place guy had 39.<\/p>\n<p>In other weird Rubik&#8217;s news, I solved it in 38.08 seconds a few minutes ago.  The weird thing is that is an exact tie (to the hundredth of a second) of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/new-post.html\">best ever time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the things I enjoy doing Rubik&#8217;s related is what is called the Fewest Moves Challenge. It runs once a week, and a scramble is given, and various folks try to solve it in the fewest moves possible. This is a good counter to speed-cubing, since it doesn&#8217;t require billions of algorithms to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}