Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Faz]

ya i just put random vids that don't matter there.

 

[Sakarie]

Dnf on 4x with 4edges wrong: 7:03.30 fastest try ever.

 

[SimonWestlund]

First attempt on the 5x5 BLD resulted in a DNF.

7 middle edges and 5 corners wrong :fp

I'm not really sure about what I did wrong, but it might have been memo and is might have been a screw-up on an alg, but I really don't get how that could've resulted like it did..

Oh well I'm happy with the result

Time was 35:02

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

6x6BLD: 1:02:55.31 DNF, off by:

4 corners
4 inner x-centers
4 left obliques
4 right obliques
4 outer x-centers
8 inner edges
8 outer edges

All arranged in 2-cycles.

Yes, I solved it perfectly, I just did a U2 somewhere in the middle of the solve. This is really frustrating.

 

[Mike Hughey]

6x6BLD: 1:02:55.31 DNF, off by:

4 corners
4 inner x-centers
4 left obliques
4 right obliques
4 outer x-centers
8 inner edges
8 outer edges

All arranged in 2-cycles.

Yes, I solved it perfectly, I just did a U2 somewhere in the middle of the solve. This is really frustrating.

Ugh. I hate when that sort of thing happens.

And nice job, Simon - you've proven you can do it now!

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

6x6BLD: 1:02:55.31 DNF, off by:

4 corners
4 inner x-centers
4 left obliques
4 right obliques
4 outer x-centers
8 inner edges
8 outer edges

All arranged in 2-cycles.

Yes, I solved it perfectly, I just did a U2 somewhere in the middle of the solve. This is really frustrating.

Ugh. I hate when that sort of thing happens.

And nice job, Simon - you've proven you can do it now!

At least I know that my memo was secure and good, and didn't contain mistakes. That's also a great feeling

Maybe I should try a 7x7 sometime...

 

[Mike Hughey]

At least I know that my memo was secure and good, and didn't contain mistakes. That's also a great feeling

Very true!

Maybe I should try a 7x7 sometime...

Of course you should!

 

[SuperNerd]

First ever attempt at 3x3 blind

DNF(9:53.16)
B' L' B R' F' D' B2 D' L' F2 L R2 B R2 D' R2 D R2 L' B' R2 U F R' B'

Finishing State: FR and UB swapped, UFR and UBR swapped and oriented incorrectly, and DFR and DBL oriented incorrectly.

Pretty close, but my memo is reaaaaaally slow. I do the story memo. Anyone have any tips? I'm going to go do another attempt now.

For a first attempt, that memo is not very slow! It's quite fast for a first try. Just simply practicing by doing more solves usually at least halves your time, without making any method improvements at all. I'd just stick with what you're doing now for a good 20 or 30 solves, anyway. Then you can start trying other ways to memorize.

Thank you. I got a successful solve on my 7th(?) attempt, and it was a 5:20.25. So a lot of practice did help my times. Now I'm just going to go for accuracy.

First ever attempt at 3x3 blind

DNF(9:53.16)
B' L' B R' F' D' B2 D' L' F2 L R2 B R2 D' R2 D R2 L' B' R2 U F R' B'

Finishing State: FR and UB swapped, UFR and UBR swapped and oriented incorrectly, and DFR and DBL oriented incorrectly.

Pretty close, but my memo is reaaaaaally slow. I do the story memo. Anyone have any tips? I'm going to go do another attempt now.

OMG! This scramble is awsome. I just have attempt and my time was 43.20 It's my new PB Thanky you very much SuperNerd

Glad that my failure was a success for someone!

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Kill me.

4x4BLD on video attempts:

8:37 DNF
Interrupted
8:30 DNF
7:44 success (battery ran out)

 

[blah]

Kill me.

4x4BLD on video attempts:

8:37 DNF
Interrupted
8:30 DNF
7:44 success (battery ran out)

Thou shalt dieth.

 

[Anthony]

Spent an hour just to fail. I was just casually memorising while chatting

[4x4 BLD DNF video]

Wow, you seemed human, for once.

 

[ben1996123]

4^3 BLD:
Yesterday in the bus: 12:04, off by 2 centers.
Today, in the bus again: 12.03, off by 3 corners.

Consistency ftw? :confused:

EDIT: 3x3 BLD with 1 layer already solved off by 3 edges... (I was using the scramble in badmephistos BLD video with bldmaster's memo technique.) Wasnt timing, but it was about 5 or 6 minutes

 

[Faz]

20 min 4x4 DNF last night.

Off by 2 edges (forgot to fix parity) and 5 centers. Don't know what happened with the centers.

 

[babyle]

1st attempt 4x4 bld 20:36 off by 5 centers and 3 edges

 

[Andreaillest]

I suck at executing edges. My memory is fine and corners are good, but I can't execute to save my life. Arg, I was pretty close for my first success.

 

[Yes We Can!]

First attempt at 5x5 BLD:

1 hour, 4 minutes.

Off by 14 pieces.
2 corners
2 centers
4 wings
6 middle edges

 

[SuperNerd]

Sitting in the car, I had a really fast memo *for me* (3-4 minutes) and like a 1 minute execution.

Off by an F perm.

I always have my DNF's off by a PLL(T perm, F perm, R perm). Anyone think there is a reason for this?

 

[99aceofspades99]

Sitting in the car, I had a really fast memo *for me* (3-4 minutes) and like a 1 minute execution.

Off by an F perm.

I always have my DNF's off by a PLL(T perm, F perm, R perm). Anyone think there is a reason for this?

maybe you break into a new cycle and forget to undo the perm?
Just a guess

 

[Gaétan Guimond]

Failure

Wow blindfold record 30.94 Haiyan Zhuang China Xi'an Spring 2010


Tel Aviv student joins Rubik's Cube tournament
By LAUREN KRUGEL
CJN Intern
Dror Vomberg was not even a twinkle in his mother's eye during the Rubik's Cube craze of the early '80s.
Nonetheless, the 20-year-old can solve the puzzle in under three minutes. Blindfolded.
Vomberg, who studies math at Tel Aviv University, was one of hundreds of "cubists" who attended the World Rubik's Games Championships at the Ontario Science Centre Aug. 23 and 24. It was the first competition of its kind to be held in more than two decades.
Invented by Hungarian Erno Rubik in the 1970s, the Rubik's Cube became one of the most successful toys of all time -- more than 250 million cubes were sold. With 43 quintillion possible configurations and only one correct one, some people have been known to solve the puzzle in as little as 16 seconds.
"It's addictive," said Vomberg, absentmindedly turning the edges of his cube. "It's linear thinking. You have to visualize."
Amid the din of clicking plastic, contestants stood behind gigantic replicas of the multicoloured cubic puzzles. A digital clock ticking away above their heads, they deftly flipped and twisted the sides of their cubes, their hands moving at lightning speed.
Vomberg, who flew from Israel to attend the competition, returned to his seat disappointed. He did not break his record of solving a 3x3 cube in two minutes and 19 seconds, although three minutes and 56 seconds is still a pretty good time, he admitted.
Cubing is not very popular in Israel, he said, "especially blindfolded." Here, Vomberg said, everyone wants to talk to him, and several young, eager cubists asked him to autograph their cubes. While in Toronto, he has been interviewed on Canada A.M. and YTV.
Vomberg has been an avid cubist since he was a child, but it wasn't until he was 15 that he learned how to solve the cube blindfolded.
He once saw a man doing the puzzle behind his back and was inspired to try it himself.
"I thought this guy has to have extraordinary vision or something," he said. "I thought I'd try it."
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The cube popularity took a dive after hungary budapest championship of the world in 1982. The return in competition after 21 years was the world championship in toronto canada in 2003. Exactly had the same place at the science fair my web page photo that I placed on my web site that I took on the national championship of 1982.

My domain web page is rubikscuberecord.com and I'm the only one to have solved the cube blindfolded. If you don't believe in the one that has brought back the cube you will have to answer to the irreversables evidence. Contrary to it's return in 2003 in the store where the cube sales were influenced by the championship wich was not the case in 1982.

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The best challenger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2UiUDklVP8

 

[TheMachanga]

I learned M/2 for edges and now I can't blindsolve.