Best scramble you messed up

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Idk if many people have had this, but have you ever had a really good scramble then messed it up in the most funny way? You can also put fumbles on this thread i guess.

I just had one:
5 move cross, 2 free pairs-
-messed up one of ther free pairs
-accidentally removed a completed pair from slot and almost broke it
-did wrong OLL (did sune for this thing: R U2 (R2 U') (R2 U') R2 U2 R)
-did wrong PLL
-got 39.95
(i forgot what scramble)
 
I got a really lucky set of scrambles in a comp, i could have one looked one of the scrams, i also had a 14 move scramble that i fumbled by “accidentally” tossing the cube in the air because i was going to pick up my cube after it looked like i was going to +2. I ended up not starting the timer anyway lol. This DNFed me out of a gold medal
 
Generated By csTimer on 2025-01-16
single: 5.55

Time List:
1. 5.55 U' F' U2 R2 B2 L2 U2 F L2 R2 B' F' R' B' R2 D' L' U F2

y'
U' B R F D' R' L // EOCross
U' D L' U' L D' // 1st+2nd
U2D R' U R D' // 3rd+TSLE
y U' // accomplishing literally nothing
D R2 U' R2 U' R2 U2 R2 UD' // TTLL

// 30stm 5.55s 5.40tps

However, I could have done:

y'
U' B R F D' R' L // EOCross
U' D L' U' L D' // 1st+2nd
U2D R' U R D' // 3rd+TSLE
R2 U' R2 U' R2 U2 R2 // TTLL

for 26stm. However, I still was super slow bc i suck at recognising pseudo
 
Back in June 2008 I got to PLL in 4 seconds. The WR was 8.72 at the time and my official PR average was 15.23, so it's had to really convey how lucky this was… until the cube popped during PLL. 😆

 
Generated By csTimer on 2024-12-15
single: 9.68

Time List:
1. 9.68[Biggest choke of my life] D2 L2 D2 B2 L' R2 B2 D2 U2 L' R2 F D' R D' F U L' U B

Could have been a 6, maybe even a 5. 3 move double x cross, 8 move last 2 pairs into decent LL.

Inspection-

XX-Cross- M U' r'
3rd pair- u L' U' L
4th pair- D' L' U L
OLL- U' f R U R' U' R U R' U' f'
PLL- R U' R' U' R U R D R' U' R D' R' U2 R'
 
Generated By csTimer on 2024-12-15
single: 9.68

Time List:
1. 9.68[Biggest choke of my life] D2 L2 D2 B2 L' R2 B2 D2 U2 L' R2 F D' R D' F U L' U B

Could have been a 6, maybe even a 5. 3 move double x cross, 8 move last 2 pairs into decent LL.

Inspection-

XX-Cross- M U' r'
3rd pair- u L' U' L
4th pair- D' L' U L
OLL- U' f R U R' U' R U R' U' f'
PLL- R U' R' U' R U R D R' U' R D' R' U2 R'
It's sad that you couldn't take advantage of that scramble, it looks very easy. But I decided to look at the scramble since I thought the LL could be improved, so I looked into a few ZBLS cases with some slightly different starts and I was able to find 2 solutions that could be good. I tried to find the shortest ZBLL algs for the case while also not losing out on speed too much, and I think I was able to find algs for both solutions that fit. Unfortunately I don't think this scramble is too amazing for ZB since none of the ZBLL's were very short.
M U' r' // xxcross
U D R U' R' D' // 3rd pair
S' R U R' S // ZBLS
U R U2 R' U' R U' R' U r U R' U' r' F R F' // ZBLL
U2 R U R' U R U2 R2 F' r U R U' r' F U2 // ALTERNATE ZBLL 30 moves but probably slower due to double U2 Pre and Post AUF's
x' y2 // inspection
M' B' D R' U R D' R' // xxxcross
U2 L U M' U' L' U l U' L' // ZBLS
U r R D R' U R U' D' r' F R' F' U' // ZBLL
 
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