{"id":757677,"date":"2022-01-19T20:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/watch-teenager-breaks-his-own-blindfolded-puzzle-cube-speed-record\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T20:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:57:31","slug":"watch-teenager-breaks-his-own-blindfolded-puzzle-cube-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/watch-teenager-breaks-his-own-blindfolded-puzzle-cube-speed-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Teenager breaks his own blindfolded puzzle cube speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Teenager-breaks-his-own-blindfolded-puzzle-cube-speed-record.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"PpirVwb_RWs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fastest speed cubing BLINDFOLDED! #Shorts\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PpirVwb_RWs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 19 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A teenager participating in a Florida competition broke his own Guinness World Record for fastest time to solve a rotating puzzle cube while blindfolded.<\/p>\n<p>Guinness World Records confirmed that Tommy Cherry solved a 3x3x3 cube in 14.67 seconds at the World Cubing Association&#8217;s Florida Fall 2021 competition in December, shaving .6 second off his previous record set in August 2021.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels amazing to have the world record. It was such a great moment when all the time and effort I&#8217;ve put in over the years finally paid off the first time I broke the world record,&#8221; Cherry told Guinness after breaking his own record.<\/p>\n<p>Cherry said he thinks he can break the record again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still see room for improvement, so I want to try continuing to set records in 3x3x3 blindfolded,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Although I still have quite a sizable way to go, I eventually want to try for the world records for solving the 4x4x4 cube blindfolded and\/or the 5x5x5 cube blindfolded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 19 (UPI) &#8212; A teenager participating in a Florida competition broke his own Guinness World Record for fastest time to solve a rotating puzzle cube while blindfolded. Guinness World Records confirmed that Tommy Cherry solved a 3x3x3 cube in 14.67 seconds at the World Cubing Association&#8217;s Florida Fall 2021 competition in December, shaving .6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}