{"id":656,"date":"2007-10-08T07:59:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/rubik-cube-championship\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T07:59:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:59:42","slug":"rubik-cube-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/rubik-cube-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubik Cube Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>1980&#8217;s flashback to Rubik&#8217;s Cube<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/rubikcube.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a Rubik cube game\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nVia <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071007\/ap_on_en_ot\/rubik_s_cube_race_1\" target=\"_blank\" >Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>BUDAPEST, Hungary &#8211; A 16-year-old took the top prize at the Rubik&#8217;s Cube world championship Sunday, solving the puzzle five times in an average of 12.46 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>But the fastest single attempt was a cool 10.88 seconds, just off the world record of 9.86 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Nakajima of Japan won the main event for twisting the classic 3&#215;3 cube \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which has nine colored tiles on each on its six sides \u00e2\u20ac\u201d into the winning position, where all like-colored tiles are on the same face.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Kang of the United States, who came in second for the main event, set the best time for a single attempt at the championship. The world record has been held by Thibaut Jacquinot of France since May.<\/p>\n<p>The five-attempt event garners the top award of $7,000, prizing consistency over of a single \u00e2\u20ac\u201d possibly lucky \u00e2\u20ac\u201d win.<\/p>\n<p>More than 250 competitors from 33 countries took part in the event, the first to be held in Hungary \u00e2\u20ac\u201d where the game was invented by Erno Rubik in 1974 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d since competition began in 1982.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071007\/ap_on_en_ot\/rubik_s_cube_race_1\" target=\"_blank\" >Read more&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1980&#8217;s flashback to Rubik&#8217;s Cube Via Yahoo News: BUDAPEST, Hungary &#8211; A 16-year-old took the top prize at the Rubik&#8217;s Cube world championship Sunday, solving the puzzle five times in an average of 12.46 seconds. But the fastest single attempt was a cool 10.88 seconds, just off the world record of 9.86 seconds. Yu Nakajima [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}