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Blindsolving Failure Thread

Mike, you're the greatest cuber I've ever known.
I can't say anything else, I'm speechless.

Cheer up. The process is always as important as the result.

Oh, it's okay - I'm quite happy. And the kudos from you and Maarten mean a lot to me - thank you to both of you! If I didn't think the process was as important as the result, I would have quit a long time ago! :D

I might try to put the video on YouTube sometime this week, but I'll have to speed it up a whole bunch to make it fit. If I do, I'll probably speed it up super-fast so it only takes a couple of minutes - otherwise it seems like it would just be too long and boring, considering I missed it.
 
Sorry to double-post, but I thought this was worthy of it (Edit: I see Chuck posted as I was about to, so it wasn't a double-post after all):

2-7 Relay BLD: DNF (2:58:28.82, about 1:45 memorization)

Nnnnooooooooooo!!!!! It was so close! Only 3 outer wings wrong on the 6x6x6; everything else was correct! On the 6x6x6, I memorized S instead of T for the last outer wing, so S and T were 3-cycled with my buffer piece. :(

I have to go back and check the video to find out the precise memorization time, but I haven't gotten around to it.

The 5x5x5 scramble was this week's third BLD scramble; the 6x6x6 and 7x7x7 scrambles were this week's fifth speedsolving scrambles for each; the 4x4x4 scramble was:
U2 U2' L' Rw2 D2 U Rw' R U' F' L2 Fw' B U' Rw2 B2 Fw' Rw' F2 D' U R' F' Rw' R2 U B' U' Fw R Rw2 Fw U' B2 R2 Fw' U' R L2 Rw'
the 3x3x3 scramble was the 15th scramble in this week's multi scrambles, and the 2x2x2 scramble was:
F U F U' R' U R' F U'

I figured it was a holiday and I had to still get my last 5x5x5 BLD, 6x6x6 BLD, and 7x7x7 BLD all out of the way, so why not do them all at once? :) And I got two of them right, too! :D

It's so disappointing it was so close - it may be a while before I get around to trying it again. The memorization was really solid; I memorized this way:
memorize 7x7x7
refresh 7x7x7
memorize 6x6x6
refresh 6x6x6
refresh 7x7x7 and 6x6x6
memorize 5x5x5
refresh 5x5x5
refresh 7x7x7, 6x6x6, 5x5x5
memorize 4x4x4
memorize 3x3x3
refresh 4x4x4 and 3x3x3
refresh 7x7x7, 6x6x6, 5x5x5, 4x4x4, 3x3x3
memorize 2x2x2
GO!

You're insane, Mike. And congratulations, of course. Next time you'll got it!
 
I might try to put the video on YouTube sometime this week, but I'll have to speed it up a whole bunch to make it fit. If I do, I'll probably speed it up super-fast so it only takes a couple of minutes - otherwise it seems like it would just be too long and boring, considering I missed it.

Please do! I wouldn't want to miss your reaction ;)
 
5x5 BLD - DNF
out by two swapped corners(forgot the parity fix), 3 swapped middle edges(???) and with 4 wrong x centers(I did the two 3-cycle commutators wrong...)
Time: 30:04.41, 21ish memo
Oh My God!!! I gotta try an other today!!!

I tried to record this, but I forgot to start the camera xD
 
DNF'ed a solve around 6:00... Using old pochmann, I did White-Red instead of Red-white, so I had about six flipped edges. and a 3 cycle of mis-oriented corners.

My corner memo takes SO long tho. Anyone willing to share what they do? I just tap the piece and remember the color for orientation, but I have to recheck it over and over again to fully memorize it.
 
8/9 in 28 minutes, 18 minutes memo. I failed to memorize one flipped edge. ARGH!
Gosh, Tim! That's so fast! :eek:
I would post something like that in Accomplishment Thread, not in the Failure :fp

It wasn't sub-3/cube, hence the post in the Failures Thread.

My corner memo takes SO long tho. Anyone willing to share what they do? I just tap the piece and remember the color for orientation, but I have to recheck it over and over again to fully memorize it.

Tap the stickers, not the pieces.
 
I now have 12 official BLD DNFs in a row :(
I came close on one of them, 2 flipped edges again!!

But you did very well on the vid where many people was watching you at the airport. Maybe you should practice BLD under tension and distraction more. It works well for increasing concentration, and increased concentration means increased accuracy, at least for me :)
 
I tried my first Edges only blind,(I'm still learning how to solve the entire cube, but I understand the edges) I missed a setup move, malperformed an algorithm, and forgot one edge. Lol. I got nervous.... I'll try again soon. =) Lol.
 
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