Blindfold Failures Thread

G2013 · Nov 17, 2015

Failed to get the 1st place in a competition in 3bld;

forgot to execute 2 letters, (so it was a DNF). The time was 1:34.xy DNF, and the winning time was 1:44.xy

I would have got the first place.

Anyway, I finished 2nd, which is not bad.

PenguinsDontFly · Nov 23, 2015

OH. MY. GOD.

DNF (45.51) B2 F2 U' L2 U B2 D2 F2 U' L2 U2 B' R D2 U F D2 L2 B2 L F' Rw2 Uw

scramble is in my orientation, 4 corner targets, 10 edge targets. wow. off by 3 edges. wouldve been first sub 1 and first sub 50.

biscuit · Nov 24, 2015

(5:43.22 dnf) R' L2 D' B' U' L2 F' R D L' U2 R' L' U2 F2 R' F2 D2 F2 R2 Rw' Uw2

NO!!!!!!!! I was off by a rotated corner! (not including buffer piece obviously) That would have been only my 4th success, and my best success by close to three minutes! I need to come up with a better way of memoing twisted corners/flipped edges. What do most people do? Do you just remember which ones need to be flipped/rotates, or do you remember two targets to solve them?

EDIT: Lol. I just did it again, not realizing it was the same scramble until I was about to start solving... I got a 6:05 so there's that...

sqAree · Nov 24, 2015

8:44.71 3BLD DNF, first try after many weeks, pb is something >9min. Was (for me) quite easy memo but somehow in the end 3 edges where cycled. :/

willtri4 · Nov 24, 2015

biscuit said:
(5:43.22 dnf) R' L2 D' B' U' L2 F' R D L' U2 R' L' U2 F2 R' F2 D2 F2 R2 Rw' Uw2

NO!!!!!!!! I was off by a rotated corner! (not including buffer piece obviously) That would have been only my 4th success, and my best success by close to three minutes! I need to come up with a better way of memoing twisted corners/flipped edges. What do most people do? Do you just remember which ones need to be flipped/rotates, or do you remember two targets to solve them?

EDIT: Lol. I just did it again, not realizing it was the same scramble until I was about to start solving... I got a 6:05 so there's that...

I memo twisted corners as 2-cycles, and remember where flipped edges are visually.

SirWaffle · Nov 25, 2015

7bld pop during parity, would have been a success.

http://imgur.com/2dj0fZi

ZeshaaK · Nov 25, 2015

SirWaffle said:
7bld pop during parity, would have been a success.

http://imgur.com/2dj0fZi

That would give me nightmares if that happened to me lol

guysensei1 · Nov 25, 2015

biscuit said:
Do you just remember which ones need to be flipped/rotates, or do you remember two targets to solve them?

I solve white on top, so for corners I remember where the white/yellow stickers are as individual letters (or a pair if there are more than 1 corner)
Edges I just visually keep track of them. Same for MBLD.

TheCoolMinxer · Nov 25, 2015

(5:54.54) DNF U2 L B U L' B L Rw' B2 R' U' Uw L2 D' Fw' Uw2 U' L R U' F' Fw2 Uw' Fw2 Rw' U' L' Uw R2 U D L R' U2 Uw' F2 B D2 B' Uw

Off by 3 Centers, Memo was around 3:17. First decent sub6 attempt which was actually close

biscuit · Nov 25, 2015

TheCoolMinxer said:
(5:54.54) DNF U2 L B U L' B L Rw' B2 R' U' Uw L2 D' Fw' Uw2 U' L R U' F' Fw2 Uw' Fw2 Rw' U' L' Uw R2 U D L R' U2 Uw' F2 B D2 B' Uw

Off by 3 Centers, Memo was around 3:17. First decent sub6 attempt which was actually close

That's better than all but one of my attempts in 3x3.

biscuit · Nov 26, 2015

(8:44.36 dnf)U F2 L F2 U R2 D' R F R L2 U' R2 D R2 U2 F2 U' L2 F2 Fw' Uw

I don't even... Not only did I get a eh at best time on this amazing scramble, it was the third attempt that I was off by a corner rotation tonight. I just completely forgot the last two targets. I knew there were two more targets, and I knew which two pieces they were, but I couldn't recall, and trying to match the two letters. I guessed and got the first one correct, but the second one I guessed wrong and was off my one corner rotation. I still have only 3 (sorta 4) successes. *sigh* I should be up to like 8, but some really small errors cost you in blind.

TheCoolMinxer · Nov 29, 2015

2 twisted corners ._.

DNF(44.47) L U' R F' R U2 R2 B' U2 B2 D2 B2 R D2 F2 R' B2 L2 U2

SirWaffle · Nov 30, 2015

use comms they say..... Guess it would help to use the right comm xD

1. DNF(29.81) L2 B2 F2 U' L2 D' F2 L2 U R2 D2 B' D' F L2 B U' B2 L2 R' F

Berd · Dec 1, 2015

SirWaffle said:
use comms they say..... Guess it would help to use the right comm xD

1. DNF(29.81) L2 B2 F2 U' L2 D' F2 L2 U R2 D2 B' D' F L2 B U' B2 L2 R' F

Ouch. How's bld going?

SirWaffle · Dec 1, 2015

Berd said:
Ouch. How's bld going?

Tis going good

Well although dnfs i am too flustered by them because they were back to back, close, and really good memo. Kind fo just trying to force my 4bld memo to be faster so i expect more dnfs to come but hey it paid off in 3bld

1. DNF(3:07.67) L2 B D2 L2 F' Fw Uw2 F' L' Uw' B2 Uw' R2 Fw Uw' B D2 U2 Fw R' Fw D2 L' D' Uw Rw' Fw' Uw' L' U' L' U' L' D' U' R' Uw2 D' Fw B
2. DNF(3:11.86) B Uw2 Fw' Uw' Fw F' U' R B' D' F Fw2 B2 R' L B2 D2 Fw' Uw2 F D' L2 U Rw' D' F' D2 Uw2 F2 B Rw' U L F Rw U' Uw F2 U' D'

DELToS · Dec 1, 2015

Well I forgot to time my 3BLD solve and it ended up being 2 corners off from successful :/

Roman · Dec 2, 2015

4BLD DNF(2:26) on comp.

Scruggsy13 · Dec 3, 2015

ughh, 2/3 multi (16:01)
corner twist on the first cube

AKQuaternion · Dec 3, 2015

Trying to learn 3BLD. Did my first two attempts earlier today. First was around 12 minute memo, 8 minute solve. Off by three permuted corners and 4 flipped edges (huh?) Couldn't replicate it to figure out what I did, I think I mis-scrambled.

Second was 12 minute memo, 8 minute solve and only off by two flipped edges. And I know *exactly* what I did. Stupidly memorized the position of the buffer piece to flip at end. Instead of memorizing the buffer position. So I ended up with the original buffer piece position and the buffer position flipped. So annoying. Look for me in the accomplishments thread soon.

I'm using OP corners, M2 edges. Edge memo is *really* slow right now, I learned corners blind a couple of weeks ago so I've had more practice. (Basically I was doing 2BLD.)

biscuit · Dec 3, 2015

AKQuaternion said:
Trying to learn 3BLD. Did my first two attempts earlier today. First was around 12 minute memo, 8 minute solve. Off by three permuted corners and 4 flipped edges (huh?) Couldn't replicate it to figure out what I did, I think I mis-scrambled.

Second was 12 minute memo, 8 minute solve and only off by two flipped edges. And I know *exactly* what I did. Stupidly memorized the position of the buffer piece to flip at end. Instead of memorizing the buffer position. So I ended up with the original buffer piece position and the buffer position flipped. So annoying. Look for me in the accomplishments thread soon.

I'm using OP corners, M2 edges. Edge memo is *really* slow right now, I learned corners blind a couple of weeks ago so I've had more practice. (Basically I was doing 2BLD.)

For the edges, you probably momoed the wrong sticker on the piece. For example, my letter scheme dictates that UB is A, while BU is S. If the target was A, but I memoed S, doing that twice would cause your issue.

Thread starter	Similar threads	Forum	Replies	Date
	Modification to BOP (Only corners)	Blindsolving Discussion	2	Dec 30, 2023
	Blindfold	Cubing Help & Questions	9	Sep 3, 2023
A	Why not to list all cycles of rubik's cube?	Blindsolving Discussion	13	Jul 8, 2023
	Any tips for 3x3 BLD?	Cubing Help & Questions	11	Mar 7, 2023
D	[Help Thread] I used nail polish remover to remove a cube logo	Cubing Help & Questions	1	Feb 4, 2023

Blindfold Failures Thread

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

SHJ

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

SHJ

Member

SHJ

Member

Member

Scruggsy13

Guest

Member

Member