Blindsolving Failure Thread

[V-te]

I tried a 3x3x3-edges-written-semiBLD solve. Off by 2 flipped edges.

I can't wait until I'm confident enough to try a full BLD!

As soon as you get your first edges only, start trying the whole cube.


My failures for today:

DNF big time today at school.
DNF right now. Everything in correct place, but off by 2 misoriented corners. Grr! Lol. I tried Rhanza's memo system. It really works! =)

2 sucessful, 2 failures, so far I have 50% accuracy... I will get better!

 

[Tim Major]

First whole cube attempt. Written down though to help with memo, but didn't read.
2 corners were twisted, and 2 edges flipped, 3 in wrong spots. So, 7 pieces off. Only 11 minutes, as I found it really easy to memo with it written down. Once I get a written down solve, I'll try no paper soon. Memo was 5:20.

 

[V-te]

First whole cube attempt. Written down though to help with memo, but didn't read.
2 corners were twisted, and 2 edges flipped, 3 in wrong spots. So, 7 pieces off. Only 11 minutes, as I found it really easy to memo with it written down. Once I get a written down solve, I'll try no paper soon. Memo was 5:20.

Nice. =) I don't understand how you memo so fast, even with it written down.
How do you memorize the cube?

 

[Tim Major]

First whole cube attempt. Written down though to help with memo, but didn't read.
2 corners were twisted, and 2 edges flipped, 3 in wrong spots. So, 7 pieces off. Only 11 minutes, as I found it really easy to memo with it written down. Once I get a written down solve, I'll try no paper soon. Memo was 5:20.

Nice. =) I don't understand how you memo so fast, even with it written down.
How do you memorize the cube?

Letters corners. Edges numbers. If you write it down, I can just come up with a sentence to remember, and then a stream of numbers for edges. I'm bad at edges though. For corners, I don't have a good way of memoing orientation. How do you do it?

 

[V-te]

First whole cube attempt. Written down though to help with memo, but didn't read.
2 corners were twisted, and 2 edges flipped, 3 in wrong spots. So, 7 pieces off. Only 11 minutes, as I found it really easy to memo with it written down. Once I get a written down solve, I'll try no paper soon. Memo was 5:20.

Nice. =) I don't understand how you memo so fast, even with it written down.
How do you memorize the cube?

Letters corners. Edges numbers. If you write it down, I can just come up with a sentence to remember, and then a stream of numbers for edges. I'm bad at edges though. For corners, I don't have a good way of memoing orientation. How do you do it?

For Edges, I Have a letter system.

UL = A
LU = A'
UB =B
BU = B'
UF= C
FU = C'
UR= D
RU = D'
FL = E
LF = E'
FR = F
RF= F'
FD = G
DF= G'
RD = H
DR= H'
RB= I
BR= I'
LB = J
BL= J'
LD= K
DL= K'
BD= L
DB = L'

For corners, I use something I call tap-and-go. I tap the first color, then I tap the place where it's supposed to go, and then I tap the place where the next piece goes and so on. Once I get down the taps, I repeat them until I feel comfortable, and put on the blindfold, and go. I usually take about 5 mins with tap-and-go, but I just started using it. It's effective for me.

 

[Tim Major]

First whole cube attempt. Written down though to help with memo, but didn't read.
2 corners were twisted, and 2 edges flipped, 3 in wrong spots. So, 7 pieces off. Only 11 minutes, as I found it really easy to memo with it written down. Once I get a written down solve, I'll try no paper soon. Memo was 5:20.

Nice. =) I don't understand how you memo so fast, even with it written down.
How do you memorize the cube?

Letters corners. Edges numbers. If you write it down, I can just come up with a sentence to remember, and then a stream of numbers for edges. I'm bad at edges though. For corners, I don't have a good way of memoing orientation. How do you do it?

For Edges, I Have a letter system.

UL = A
LU = A'
UB =B
BU = B'
UF= C
FU = C'
UR= D
RU = D'
FL = E
LF = E'
FR = F
RF= F'
FD = G
DF= G'
RD = H
DR= H'
RB= I
BR= I'
LB = J
BL= J'
LD= K
DL= K'
BD= L
DB = L'

For corners, I use something I call tap-and-go. I tap the first color, then I tap the place where it's supposed to go, and then I tap the place where the next piece goes and so on. Once I get down the taps, I repeat them until I feel comfortable, and put on the blindfold, and go. I usually take about 5 mins with tap-and-go, but I just started using it. It's effective for me.

I suck at taps. I use just say, AB ED for corners.
That would mean sending A (the buffer) to B, then B would be in buffer and I send to E, then so on. For edges.
1'8 23 5'7'
This would mean flip one and send to 8 (1 is buffer), then 8 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 5, 5 flip and send to 7, then continue. I would be flipping 7. By flip, I mean, the fastest way, or way I normally use for no flip, but with flip I put it in flipped. I might try your edges system, though your corners system seems inefficient. Also, I solve corners first, which apparently is weird, so I need to check how to deal with parity, when doing corners first.

 

[V-te]

I suck at taps. I use just say, AB ED for corners.
That would mean sending A (the buffer) to B, then B would be in buffer and I send to E, then so on. For edges.
1'8 23 5'7'
This would mean flip one and send to 8 (1 is buffer), then 8 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 5, 5 flip and send to 7, then continue. I would be flipping 7. By flip, I mean, the fastest way, or way I normally use for no flip, but with flip I put it in flipped. I might try your edges system, though your corners system seems inefficient. Also, I solve corners first, which apparently is weird, so I need to check how to deal with parity, when doing corners first.

Hmm.. I see, I feel more comfortable with letters, and I think tap-and-go has potential, so I will continue practicing it. As for the corners first, If you get parity, you can start the edges by doing the same R perm, then when the edges are solved, the parity will go away. It doesn't matter if you do the fix at the end.

 

[aronpm]

I had a long post written out, but my browser crashed, so I'll summarize.

@V-te: I also memorize the corners sometimes with 'taps'. It is much faster than memorizing orientation and permutation, as well as during the solve. I also suggest, if you aren't already, solve corners first and memorize corners last. This lets you do the least amount of effort for memorizing the corners. But, if you're doing multiBLD, memorize with items in rooms. For everything. With the edges, if you're going to do letters, I suggest ditching the A/A' thing and just going with A/B. More letters, but less 'primes' to get in the way.

@ZB_FTW!!!: For corner orientation, I suggest reading Lucas Garron's page on corner orientation. He's got some good stuff in his BLD pages.

 

[Tim Major]

I suck at taps. I use just say, AB ED for corners.
That would mean sending A (the buffer) to B, then B would be in buffer and I send to E, then so on. For edges.
1'8 23 5'7'
This would mean flip one and send to 8 (1 is buffer), then 8 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 5, 5 flip and send to 7, then continue. I would be flipping 7. By flip, I mean, the fastest way, or way I normally use for no flip, but with flip I put it in flipped. I might try your edges system, though your corners system seems inefficient. Also, I solve corners first, which apparently is weird, so I need to check how to deal with parity, when doing corners first.

Hmm.. I see, I feel more comfortable with letters, and I think tap-and-go has potential, so I will continue practicing it. As for the corners first, If you get parity, you can start the edges by doing the same R perm, then when the edges are solved, the parity will go away. It doesn't matter if you do the fix at the end.

Ahh, thanks, that cleared a bit up. I'll give taps ago, but I don't think it will work.

Edit: Thanks, will do.

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

I just did the most awesome BLD.
I memorized everything, then I put on my blindfold. Then I forgot.

 

[Chuck]

I just did the most awesome BLD.
I memorized everything, then I put on my blindfold. Then I forgot.

LOL
It often happens when we rush memo too fast.

 

[Muesli]

3 attempts at edges only 3x3x3 BLD yesterday. 1 outright failure, 2 edges wrong and 2 edges flipped.

It's getting there! I spent about 5 minutes memorising each.

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

I just did the most awesome BLD.
I memorized everything, then I put on my blindfold. Then I forgot.

LOL
It often happens when we rush memo too fast.

No no, I'm used to memorizing everything in about 2 minutes maybe. This time I failed I made up though, got a 3:09 success a while after that

3 attempts at edges only 3x3x3 BLD yesterday. 1 outright failure, 2 edges wrong and 2 edges flipped.

It's getting there! I spent about 5 minutes memorising each.

Be a man, do the whole thing!

 

[blah]

Epic fail: 0/4 multiBLD at Carnegie Mellon

 

[Micael]

Epic fail: 0/4 multiBLD at Carnegie Mellon

I guess you tried to stackmat it...

 

[Micael]

Multi BLD 11/13 in 58:03.10

Memorization: 35:27.00
- First 6 cubes & refresh: 15:59.20
- Last 7 cubes & refresh: 19:27.80
Execution: 22:36.00
TOTAL: 58:03.10

Awesome memo time, but I think you can cut couple of minutes in the execution.

 

[shelley]

I attempted a 5x5 BLD today. While setting up a parity fix at the end, the cube slipped out of my hands. Epic fail.

 

[Micael]

I attempted a 5x5 BLD today. While setting up a parity fix at the end, the cube slipped out of my hands. Epic fail.

It once happen to me with a 4x4x4, but on the very first alg!!! I know it is painfull (especially, you did the 5x5x5). Well, at least you tried it

 

[Slash]

I attempted a 5x5 BLD today. While setting up a parity fix at the end, the cube slipped out of my hands. Epic fail.

Would it have been solved?
try again and slow down at the end

 

[MatsBergsten]

I tried my first full 4x4x4 BLD solve. I spent an hour memorizing centres, 50 minutes memorizing edges and about 10 minutes to memorize corners and do revision. Execution took about 20 minutes. Besides being my first full attempt, it was the first time I'd attempted to solve the centres blindfolded.

All the corners were solved (it would have just been embarrassing otherwise). It was off by 14 centres (although some have been clearly scrambled, so I must have had an execution mistake). It was also off by 10 edges (probably caused by the centre mistake and another mistake).

Oh well. Maybe next time.

That takes some stamina!!! Not a very bad result either for a first. And you can be assured that if you continue to try it your times will get very much better "almost by themselves" (not that that is very important in itself, solving the cube is)