{"id":469,"date":"2011-01-17T23:39:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-02-01T21:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:34:50","slug":"my-first-rubiks-cube-competition-in-aachen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"My first Rubik&#8217;s Cube Competition in Aachen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello guys,<br \/>\nThat was an exciting weekend! We just came back this morning from the Rubik&#8217;s Cube competition <a href=\"http:\/\/cube.hackvalue.de\/ao11\/s\/en\/media\">Aachen Open 2011<\/a> in Germany.<br \/>\nMy official times:<br \/>\nSingle Solve <strong>31.80 Sec<\/strong><br \/>\nAverage of 5 is <strong>34.61 Sec<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcubeassociation.org\/results\/p.php?i=2011KILI01\">Click here for a few more stats.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcubeassociation.org\/results\/p.php?i=2011HOWE01\">Click here for Simon&#8217;s stats.<\/a><br \/>\nHere is an amazingly boring video of me:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XhaHSAYSfxk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Simon and I felt like 14 year olds.<br \/>\nFirstly because we were <em>hysterically focused<\/em> on these little colorful cubic toys trying to solve them as quickly as possible on the plane, on the train, in the night and before breakfast &#8211; high-fiving each other when getting close to our records.<br \/>\nSecondly because the age average of the contestants was really around 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few images (with a few of the older contestants):<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_472\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aachen_open_collage.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-472\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aachen_open_collage-650x432.jpg\" alt=\"Aachen Open Collage\" title=\"Aachen Open Collage\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"size-large wp-image-472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aachen_open_collage-650x432.jpg 650w, http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aachen_open_collage-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aachen_open_collage.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erik Akkersdijk, Stefan Pochmann, Lars Vandenbergh, Istv\u00e1n Kocza, Uli Kilian, Simon Howells<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nA big compliment to the organisers of the Aachen Open. Although it was the second biggest cube event in the world everything went smoothly and totally on schedule. Everyone was happy, relaxed and very friendly.<br \/>\nBig thanks to the students and members of RWTH Aachen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello guys, That was an exciting weekend! We just came back this morning from the Rubik&#8217;s Cube competition Aachen Open 2011 in Germany. My official times: Single Solve 31.80 Sec Average of 5 is 34.61 Sec Click here for a few more stats. Click here for Simon&#8217;s stats. Here is an amazingly boring video of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}