Wilhelm
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Got a 2:41 DNF single today with 2 Edges flipped. Must've messed up during execution. Would've been PB by 30 seconds
I just had my first 4BLD attempt, and it was a DNF with a time of 33:58.73 minutes. Memo went extraordinarily well, with no mistakes; there was no parity in either corners, edges, or centres, which was nice, although I specially spent the whole morning memorising all the parity algs just in case. I also got it on video. Next attempt tomorrow!
EDIT:
I'm back a few hours later with a streak of 15 DNFs in 3BLD! So frustrating...well, I only had 2 solves over 2:30 minutes, and 2 sub-2 solves, both of which were very close to a success.
Now that you're getting into multiBLD and bigBLD, I strongly recommend that you start doing post-mortems on your DNF solves to try to figure out what you did wrong. If you are doing something wrong, and keep getting DNFs, then more practice is only reinforcing the bad habit right now.
I use a technique that I derived to post-mortem a 3x3 DNF as well as big cube DNF.
Another suggestion would be to, immediately after a DNF, write down your memo for the cube. Re-scramble the cube again using the same scrambling algorithm. Solve the scramble again, this time sighted, using the memo that you wrote down. See if that helps you spot any errors that may have happened during the solve.
It's exciting to watch your progress! Remember, though, that as you get further into BLD that more practice is not always good practice. More good practice is always a good thing Good practice means to try to figure out what went wrong during a DNF rather than just attempting another solve after a DNF.
Good luck with your practice, and keep up your hard work!
I just had my first 4BLD attempt, and it was a DNF with a time of 33:58.73 minutes. Memo went extraordinarily well, with no mistakes; there was no parity in either corners, edges, or centres, which was nice, although I specially spent the whole morning memorising all the parity algs just in case. I also got it on video. Next attempt tomorrow!
EDIT:
I'm back a few hours later with a streak of 15 DNFs in 3BLD! So frustrating...well, I only had 2 solves over 2:30 minutes, and 2 sub-2 solves, both of which were very close to a success.
15 straight DNFs and you're almost certainly doing something wrong.. Chris gave good advice!I'm back a few hours later with a streak of 15 DNFs in 3BLD! So frustrating...well, I only had 2 solves over 2:30 minutes, and 2 sub-2 solves, both of which were very close to a success.
Now that you're getting into multiBLD and bigBLD, I strongly recommend that you start doing post-mortems on your DNF solves to try to figure out what you did wrong. If you are doing something wrong, and keep getting DNFs, then more practice is only reinforcing the bad habit right now.
I use a technique that I derived to post-mortem a 3x3 DNF as well as big cube DNF.
Another suggestion would be to, immediately after a DNF, write down your memo for the cube. Re-scramble the cube again using the same scrambling algorithm. Solve the scramble again, this time sighted, using the memo that you wrote down. See if that helps you spot any errors that may have happened during the solve.
It's exciting to watch your progress! Remember, though, that as you get further into BLD that more practice is not always good practice. More good practice is always a good thing Good practice means to try to figure out what went wrong during a DNF rather than just attempting another solve after a DNF.
Good luck with your practice, and keep up your hard work!
Yeah, definitely good advice here
How close were you?
15 straight DNFs and you're almost certainly doing something wrong.. Chris gave good advice!
Another suggestion would be to, immediately after a DNF, write down your memo for the cube. Re-scramble the cube again using the same scrambling algorithm. Solve the scramble again, this time sighted, using the memo that you wrote down. See if that helps you spot any errors that may have happened during the solve.
It's exciting to watch your progress! Remember, though, that as you get further into BLD that more practice is not always good practice. More good practice is always a good thing Good practice means to try to figure out what went wrong during a DNF rather than just attempting another solve after a DNF.
That's perfectly natural. Think of it as two olls maybe?My first attempt at 3BLD after becoming very comfortable with 2BLD. Memo felt good. Set ups were coming quite naturally and then halfway through a T perm I lost track of the alg and had to stop. What a crappy thing to fail on.
7BLD DNF - 37:09.64 [19:00]
did one move wrong somewhere, just like a lot of my attempts so far
I think I can consistently memorize correctly but execution errors are keeping me from a success
memo was really bad but execution is sub-20 so I guess I can start filming my attempts now
3BLD - 3 edges wrong due to confusing Q with K in memory. Need proper letter pairs. 1 twisted corner too.
Keep on pushing, you're gonna get a succes! (I feel it in my bones.)