Blindsolving Failure Thread

[fanwuq]

About 5 DNFs in a row, including a POP.
Last solve 2:25.45, where I memorized the last 4 edges, but forgot to do them. Would have been a 2:40 success had I done them.
Scramble was D2 F' D R2 D' L R' B2 D U' L D2 B D' U2 L2 D L' F' R' B' F' L R' U2

Ok, Finally success:
2:55.50 (1:38) Went slow with memo to be careful.
R2 B2 L' R2 D2 U L B' F' L2 R2 B' R2 B F' L B2 F2 R' F2 R U L D F2

 

[MatsBergsten]

wowow, that scramble was just 2 good. I did a 4x4 bld attempt, but it was off by 2 3-cycles of edges. The time was 11:06.17!!!!! the scramble is awesome. Uw' U Rw D B Fw2 R2 Fw2 R' Fw' Uw' L2 R Fw' F2 L' Rw' R2 B' Fw Rw Fw' F2 L' R' F Rw2 F2 D2 B2 Fw2 Uw2 Rw D Uw' U' Fw2 F' R' Uw2 I bet ville will get sub-4 with this....

I suppose that scramble has a lot of centers solved, but the way I oriented it, it had double parity - it was actually pretty tough for me, despite the centers.

I got a 9:31.96 (3:56) DNF - I had one 3-cycle of edges left. I'm not sure where I went wrong on it.

So you're getting pretty good at this, for someone who still hasn't had a successful solve yet!

I could not resist, had to try too

But I'm in the wrong thread
Cause I made it, with speed and a new PB 13:55
(and as you say with double parity, 10 centers solved).

 

[Rubixcubematt]

wowow, that scramble was just 2 good. I did a 4x4 bld attempt, but it was off by 2 3-cycles of edges. The time was 11:06.17!!!!! the scramble is awesome. Uw' U Rw D B Fw2 R2 Fw2 R' Fw' Uw' L2 R Fw' F2 L' Rw' R2 B' Fw Rw Fw' F2 L' R' F Rw2 F2 D2 B2 Fw2 Uw2 Rw D Uw' U' Fw2 F' R' Uw2 I bet ville will get sub-4 with this....

I suppose that scramble has a lot of centers solved, but the way I oriented it, it had double parity - it was actually pretty tough for me, despite the centers.

I got a 9:31.96 (3:56) DNF - I had one 3-cycle of edges left. I'm not sure where I went wrong on it.

So you're getting pretty good at this, for someone who still hasn't had a successful solve yet!

I could not resist, had to try too

But I'm in the wrong thread
Cause I made it, with speed and a new PB 13:55
(and as you say with double parity, 10 centers solved).

who cares if it is in the wrong thread. Congratz! I have had 2 attempts today, and the first one was a massive failure, the other one was of by a 3-cycle of edges. I wonder if i should have another attempt today.....

 

[MatsBergsten]

8/8 in 30:13 (18 min memo). I don't know if i'll ever get fast again...

Wow, that's only a failure for you

How fast would you do it normally?

Yes, I of course think like Simon, your speed (and accuracy) is awesome.
Just curious, WHY do you think you have lost your speed?
(just lack of practise or any new ways of solving/memoing the cubes?)

And why don't you make an official competition attempt so as to show who should
really have the WR Multi?

 

[Rubixcubematt]

just did another 2 attempts, i forgot what the first one was of by, but it wasnt much, and the 2nd one was off by a B2, 3 edges and 4 centres. At least they arent total failures....

 

[McWizzle94]

wowow, that scramble was just 2 good. I did a 4x4 bld attempt, but it was off by 2 3-cycles of edges. The time was 11:06.17!!!!! the scramble is awesome. Uw' U Rw D B Fw2 R2 Fw2 R' Fw' Uw' L2 R Fw' F2 L' Rw' R2 B' Fw Rw Fw' F2 L' R' F Rw2 F2 D2 B2 Fw2 Uw2 Rw D Uw' U' Fw2 F' R' Uw2 I bet ville will get sub-4 with this....

I tried this scramble, and about 5 minutes into memo, my dad called me and said he needed me downstairs. When I came back, I realized that i screwed up the memo so I just DNF-ed it.....

 

[fanwuq]

Tried OH BLD twice and failed while executing corners. Visual memorization was also a bit harder for OH.

 

[byu]

Really? How so? I do memo easily OH, I see no difference. Execution just messes me up... I can't do M moves one handed.

 

[fanwuq]

Not that much more difficult, just a bit harder to reach pieces to tap them, haha.
For M turns, I just pull with my thumb. I always mess up on corners, I didn't even get to the edges.

 

[byu]

You do corners first?

 

[Rubixcubematt]

NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO failure yet again. 3 attempt, 3 DNFs. Will I ever get a success?!?!?!?!?! i forgot what the first 2 were of by, but the second one was off by 2 stupid centers. GGRRRR. I knew that i didnt really remember them, but i knew most of it and hoped for the best at the end. Blah, I am really annoyed......

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO failure yet again. 3 attempt, 3 DNFs. Will I ever get a success?!?!?!?!?! i forgot what the first 2 were of by, but the second one was off by 2 stupid centers. GGRRRR. I knew that i didnt really remember them, but i knew most of it and hoped for the best at the end. Blah, I am really annoyed......

I undrestand your frustration. I consider myself lucky, that I got 4x4 BLD correct in my 3rd try

But look at it from the bright side: your first success will be unbelievably fast!

My first success was in 45 minutes... My next success was 17 minutes, which is still my PB

But keep going, and your first success will be sub-10 or something :S

 

[MatsBergsten]

NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO failure yet again. 3 attempt, 3 DNFs. Will I ever get a success?!?!?!?!?! i forgot what the first 2 were of by, but the second one was off by 2 stupid centers. GGRRRR. I knew that i didnt really remember them, but i knew most of it and hoped for the best at the end. Blah, I am really annoyed......

One of the next three!! Betcha! (to quote another bld forecaster )

 

[SimonWestlund]

Tried multi for the first time..

1/2 in about 11 minutes (can't remember exactly)

second one was off by 2 edges and 2 corners


This is still an accomplishment for me but since it's not 100% success I think it should go in this thread

 

[byu]

I tried OH BLD again, failure completely. I think I did a cube rotation early on, because it was nowhere near solved.

 

[Rubixcubematt]

Damn, tried a 4x4 bld after my one bld solve yesterday, and i got 10:59 DNF, by a 3-cycle of edges. Wow, I can really see myself getting good at this. And it wasnt a lucky solve either IMO, it just felt normal. I think memo was ~5:30-6 mins, maybe more.

EDIT: just realised what the mistake was that caused the DNF, I didnt memo it! I thought everything was done, but obviously it wasnt. This would have been a massive pb.

 

[Lord Voldemort]

Yay!
I got all the edges correct and 5 corners (3x3x3)
I was off by one cycle of corners, but that's ok.
This is the best I've gotten so far (THANKS BYU )

 

[byu]

Yay!
I got all the edges correct and 5 corners (3x3x3)
I was off by one cycle of corners, but that's ok.
This is the best I've gotten so far (THANKS BYU )

You're welcome. Anything that I wasn't clear on that made you get a DNF, or was it just a memo problem?

 

[Mike Hughey]

Damn, tried a 4x4 bld after my one bld solve yesterday, and i got 10:59 DNF, by a 3-cycle of edges. Wow, I can really see myself getting good at this. And it wasnt a lucky solve either IMO, it just felt normal. I think memo was ~5:30-6 mins, maybe more.

Wow, that's fast. I've always imagined that someday we'd get to where it would require sub-10 to make the top 100 at 4x4x4 BLD. With you kids getting so fast so quickly, I really think it could come true before too long.

 

[KJiptner]

12/15 multi BLD
2x 2 corners twisted because of memoing the wrong sticker. The 3rd cube is off by 5 corners because of an execution mistake. The attempt was untimed. I didn't memorize in one go. I even went to the mall inbetween. =D