Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Zane_C]

I'm opposite of you Aron, I don't focus on speed at all and try and get the accuracy. With 3x3 it's a different story though.

 

[kinch2002]

My failure is not starting the timer for 5bld execution on my fastest memo and execution ever...so approx 12:10 DNF. Read page 6 of weekly comp 18 for more details...

 

[riffz]

Memorized the 4x4 for the second attempt ever (last one was over a year ago) and started solving corners first when I realized that my algs weren't center safe :fp

Next time I'll do centers first

 

[kinch2002]

Memorized the 4x4 for the second attempt ever (last one was over a year ago) and started solving corners first when I realized that my algs weren't center safe :fp

Next time I'll do centers first

One year makes you a pretty experienced bigcubebld-er Which of your corner algs aren't center-safe? I had that problem with my H perm, but you can just do 2 A perms instead for that

 

[riffz]

Memorized the 4x4 for the second attempt ever (last one was over a year ago) and started solving corners first when I realized that my algs weren't center safe :fp

Next time I'll do centers first

One year makes you a pretty experienced bigcubebld-er Which of your corner algs aren't center-safe? I had that problem with my H perm, but you can just do 2 A perms instead for that

All 3 of the ones I use for corners. I'll just do centers first. A year makes you forget a lot of things. Surprisingly, I could still remember the r2 parity alg even after that long.

 

[kinch2002]

Memorized the 4x4 for the second attempt ever (last one was over a year ago) and started solving corners first when I realized that my algs weren't center safe :fp

Next time I'll do centers first

One year makes you a pretty experienced bigcubebld-er Which of your corner algs aren't center-safe? I had that problem with my H perm, but you can just do 2 A perms instead for that

All 3 of the ones I use for corners. I'll just do centers first. A year makes you forget a lot of things. Surprisingly, I could still remember the r2 parity alg even after that long.

I really like corners first because you can quickly visual memo them last and then execute them straight away. r2 parity alg has painful memories for me - I messed up the alg in a 4bld and a 5bld attempt at my last comp (the 5bld had 2 flipped midges as well so didn't matter so much).

 

[riffz]

Memorized the 4x4 for the second attempt ever (last one was over a year ago) and started solving corners first when I realized that my algs weren't center safe :fp

Next time I'll do centers first

One year makes you a pretty experienced bigcubebld-er Which of your corner algs aren't center-safe? I had that problem with my H perm, but you can just do 2 A perms instead for that

All 3 of the ones I use for corners. I'll just do centers first. A year makes you forget a lot of things. Surprisingly, I could still remember the r2 parity alg even after that long.

I really like corners first because you can quickly visual memo them last and then execute them straight away. r2 parity alg has painful memories for me - I messed up the alg in a 4bld and a 5bld attempt at my last comp (the 5bld had 2 flipped midges as well so didn't matter so much).

Yea, it would be nice to do corners first but I'm so used to the corners algorithms I use that I wouldn't switch. Its not that bad since I've switched to a more long-term approach for corners memo on the 3x3 and this will carry over nicely.

 

[TMOY]

I use L R U2 L' R' U' y L' R' U2 L R U y' as a supercube-safe H-perm for corners.

Yeterday: 11.01 DNF, off by the whole orange and green centers swapped. They were the last two I had to solve and I swapped the wrong cubies...

 

[Zane_C]

So just then I decided to attempt 4x4 bld.
Anyway my memory was flowing nicely, when I was nearly done memorising the centers I ran into solme problems, I wasted precious minutes trying to figure it out. It turned out I wasn't shooting to a piece because I thought I had already cycled it. So I just stopped timing the memorising and I would just time a bld execution as fast I could.

Right at the start I stuffed up the corner alg, you know the Y perm used for Old Pochmann lol.

 

[TMOY]

First 6^3 BLD attempt: DNF in 1 hour 20 minutes (21 minutes memo).
Both inner and outer wings were a 3-cycle off.
Centers were big fail I most probably did a cube rotation wrong at some point (and I think I know when it happened). For corners, 2 misoriented ones and a double 2-cycle off, probably because of the same wrong rotation (I executed corner parity at the end of the solve, after the centers).

 

[Daniel Wu]

I was doing some solves in public the other day and I went 1 for 9 on 3x3 BLD averaging around 4-6 minutes a solve.

 

[Zane_C]

1/2 multi in 8:21.
Off by 2 flipped edges, I memorised it flipped and still forgot about it!

EDIT: 19:15.00 4BLD DNF, 10 centers and 2 edges already solved.
I noticed the top layer corners were off by a U2 so I incorrectly did a commutator.
4 centers and several edges were off, the incorrect edges would probably be explained by the U2.
But why are the centers off? and what's with the U2? that will always remain a mystery.

 

[kinch2002]

1/2 multi in 8:21.
Off by 2 flipped edges, I memorised it flipped and still forgot about it!

EDIT: 19:15.00 4BLD DNF, 10 centers and 2 edges already solved.
I noticed the top layer corners were off by a U2 so I incorrectly did a commutator.
4 centers and several edges were off, the incorrect edges would probably be explained by the U2.
But why are the centers off? and what's with the U2? that will always remain a mystery.

You probably just forgot to undo a setup move. U2 puts 4 centres, 4 corners and 8 edges? Sound about right?

 

[kinch2002]

1/2 multi in 8:21.
Off by 2 flipped edges, I memorised it flipped and still forgot about it!

EDIT: 19:15.00 4BLD DNF, 10 centers and 2 edges already solved.
I noticed the top layer corners were off by a U2 so I incorrectly did a commutator.
4 centers and several edges were off, the incorrect edges would probably be explained by the U2.
But why are the centers off? and what's with the U2? that will always remain a mystery.

You probably just forgot to undo a setup move. U2 puts 4 centres, 4 corners and 8 edges? Sound about right?

First 6^3 BLD attempt: DNF in 1 hour 20 minutes (21 minutes memo).
Both inner and outer wings were a 3-cycle off.
Centers were big fail I most probably did a cube rotation wrong at some point (and I think I know when it happened). For corners, 2 misoriented ones and a double 2-cycle off, probably because of the same wrong rotation (I executed corner parity at the end of the solve, after the centers).

Wow...I commend you for trying a 6bld! You'll get one next time

 

[riffz]

So just then I decided to attempt 4x4 bld.
Anyway my memory was flowing nicely, when I was nearly done memorising the centers I ran into solme problems, I wasted precious minutes trying to figure it out. It turned out I wasn't shooting to a piece because I thought I had already cycled it. So I just stopped timing the memorising and I would just time a bld execution as fast I could.

Right at the start I stuffed up the corner alg, you know the Y perm used for Old Pochmann lol.

You do know that the popular Y perm will rotate centers, right?

 

[Zane_C]

So just then I decided to attempt 4x4 bld.
Anyway my memory was flowing nicely, when I was nearly done memorising the centers I ran into solme problems, I wasted precious minutes trying to figure it out. It turned out I wasn't shooting to a piece because I thought I had already cycled it. So I just stopped timing the memorising and I would just time a bld execution as fast I could.

Right at the start I stuffed up the corner alg, you know the Y perm used for Old Pochmann lol.

You do know that the popular Y perm will rotate centers, right?

Your've got to be S***ING me. I used to do the corners last, now i guess I'll have to switch back. (unless the swaps are divisible by 4)
Thanks for pointing this out I feel so foolish, but I still find it pretty funny.

I'm very glad I only just started doing 4BLD.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

First 6^3 BLD attempt: DNF in 1 hour 20 minutes (21 minutes memo).

That's insane. I've gotten a 1:02 attempt with 35 minutes memo. So either my memo sucks, or your execution sucks XD

 

[TMOY]

My execution sucks My memo/exec ratio is quite consistent with the ones I get on the other big cubes.

 

[TMOY]

4^3 BLD in 8:32, off by 3 wings

 

[Zane_C]

4^3 DNF (18:16)
The thing that fails so much about this is that I had 23 edge targets so that calls for the r2 parity algorithm. I was to caught up in a constant thinking ahead execution that I forgot to do it at the end. :fp