Blindsolving Failure Thread

[MatsBergsten]

4BLD again

Now I had a success, 4BLD in 14:28. That's nice.
Why in this thread then?

Because I filmed it, but I had camera failure
(forgot to charge batteries)

 

[SimonWestlund]

Now I had a success, 4BLD in 14:28. That's nice.
Why in this thread then?

Because I filmed it, but I had camera failure
(forgot to charge batteries)

Aww. That's too bad! I wanted to see you solve the 4x4 blind. Try to get another one on tape

 

[joey]

1:24 3x3 BLD DNF.
Heh, first try in ages.

 

[Slash]

24:44 4x4 BLD - DNF, I did the last 3-cycle of the centers wrong. It could have been my 3rd success, but not PB.
first try since the end of April.

 

[MatsBergsten]

More DNF:s sub Swedish NR.
Yesterday 12:14, just forgot an l2. (Had it been an L2 instead it would
just have been +2)
This morning 13:08, a 3-cycle of centers off. Even had edge parity.

But I don't think I would dare to go this fast on a real competition.
They are to rare.

 

[fanwuq]

5:26.09
Void cube (cube stickered without center cap) DNF.
I forgot about the parity, so I was off by 4 edges.
I'm really out of practice; I forgot my letter system for edges. Edges took around 2:30 to memorize, but corners were still pretty fast, around 10-15 seconds. Execution was slow because I'm out of practice, and cube pops easily without center caps. Hopefully I can get back to sub-3 after a few more solves.

 

[Stefan]

I forgot about the parity, so I was off by 4 edges.

Off by 4 edges? How did you manage to do that? What method/mistake?

 

[hehehaha!]

7 3x3x3 BLD attempts all ending in DNFs! I suppose BLD is not for me!

 

[DevenNadudvari]

7 3x3x3 BLD attempts all ending in DNFs! I suppose BLD is not for me!

Me Too!
I suck at BLD

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

I forgot about the parity, so I was off by 4 edges.

Off by 4 edges? How did you manage to do that? What method/mistake?

It was a void cube, as stated in the post. On a void cube you can have a parity of just 2 edges, because there are no fixed centers.

 

[Stefan]

It was a void cube, as stated in the post. On a void cube you can have a parity of just 2 edges, because there are no fixed centers.

Maarten... c'mon... I know all of that. But 2 just doesn't equal 4.

 

[SimonWestlund]

7 3x3x3 BLD attempts all ending in DNFs! I suppose BLD is not for me!

Just keep practising

 

[Gparker]

It was a void cube, as stated in the post. On a void cube you can have a parity of just 2 edges, because there are no fixed centers.

Maarten... c'mon... I know all of that. But 2 just doesn't equal 4.

Maybe it was regular 3x3 blind parity? I know on a normal 3x3, if I forget about parity, i'm off by a couple of edges or corners.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

It was a void cube, as stated in the post. On a void cube you can have a parity of just 2 edges, because there are no fixed centers.

Maarten... c'mon... I know all of that. But 2 just doesn't equal 4.

Maybe it was regular 3x3 blind parity? I know on a normal 3x3, if I forget about parity, i'm off by a couple of edges or corners.

Or he might have forgotten about parity AND forgotten a 3-cycle of edges?

P.S. I was already wondering why Stefan would ask such a dumb question. So I thought maybe you missed something in the post.

 

[cmhardw]

@void cube BLD

Why don't you just visually (without memorizing) trace the cycles of the corners and edges to determine if the corner and edge parities match? This takes certainly sub-10 seconds, and with practice probably 5 or less. Then, if the parities don't match, you can memorize as if the E layer was offset by a quarter turn (and make this your first turn of the solve too). I wonder if it would be faster to just execute the void cube parity alg, or to use this approach? I guess the void cube parity alg would be a faster approach since tracing the cycles takes time.

Just an idea, probably not the best one though.

Chris

 

[fanwuq]

Multi BLD:
1/2
13:34.44
First cube was off by 2 corner orientations (bad memo) and edge 3-cycle (bad execution).
I think this is actually a PB.

And about the void cube solve, I just randomly hand mixed my cube before I put on the center caps. During the memo, I knew something was wrong-- even parity for corners and odd parity for edges. I didn't really care at the time and just solved it. I think the ending result was an edge 4-cycle.

 

[Zava]

two more 3x3 dnfs at Mammut open. I have 12 in a row now! (and 12 out of 12 too ) nevermind, both of my solves would've been slow.

 

[Mike Hughey]

two more 3x3 dnfs at Mammut open. I have 12 in a row now! (and 12 out of 12 too ) nevermind, both of my solves would've been slow.

Ugh. Again? I'm so sorry for you.

You need to convince your competition organizers to do best of 3 instead of best of 2. It's much easier to hit one when you get three tries. In the USA almost everyone does best of 3, unless it's a qualifier round.

And how slow was slow, anyway? I'm guessing you have a pretty silly idea of slow. At your speed, you can do three attempts in less time than it takes some to solve one, even including time for the scramblers to rescramble in between.

 

[Zava]

two more 3x3 dnfs at Mammut open. I have 12 in a row now! (and 12 out of 12 too ) nevermind, both of my solves would've been slow.

Ugh. Again? I'm so sorry for you.

You need to convince your competition organizers to do best of 3 instead of best of 2. It's much easier to hit one when you get three tries. In the USA almost everyone does best of 3, unless it's a qualifier round.

And how slow was slow, anyway? I'm guessing you have a pretty silly idea of slow. At your speed, you can do three attempts in less time than it takes some to solve one, even including time for the scramblers to rescramble in between.

yeah, again... I think it's my fate, being OK at bld, but not getting a single success in comp.

well, I tried convincing them at hungarian open.. but this was a small competition, more of a show, a commercial for the mall we were at, so there would'nt be time for that. I know 3 tries are easier, once I thought I've got 3 tries, and succeeded on the third one then they told me it's just 2 tries. I can just hope czech open will be best of 3

umm, I think the first one was like 1:43, second one 1:54, I only forgot to flip 2 edges on the second one. both scrambles were really hard :/

 

[MatsBergsten]

5x5 BLD

Arrgh!!!

I must write off some frustration. This weeks contest was so infuriating, so close:

Solve 1: 12 centers off, but not randomly. 3 in a row of each colour in the left slice
on each of U / F / D / B. I don't understand how I did it.

Solve 2: I solved the whole cube, but as the last thing before opening my eyes
I decided to flip one edge (+ the buffer). Then I look and find that it did not need
to be flipped.

Solve 3: (only a minute ago). Lightning memo 13+. (Rather easy, 13 pieces solved
without any parity). Nice and smooth (and fast) execution and I open my eyes: 26:25,
PB with six minutes. But after some joyful moments I notice that BDL and BDR are
twisted. Aaaarrgh again!!