Blindsolving Failure Thread

[MiloD]

1:23.43 DNF

dropped an edge cycle during exec.

I'm kind of glad I didn't get this solve. **** would have rocked my world. I'm improving quickly and still shooting for sub 1 this summer.

 

[Tim Major]

11:10.70 DNF
I was doing 3x3 bld while aronpm was doing 4x4 bld, and he'd stopped solving before I even put on my blindfold. I really rushed this, and I'm pretty sure I would have successed if I didn't forget to rotate back after doing parity Off by 12 edges . Not that disappointing really, but I'm not racing him again, because I wanna take my time.

 

[Zane_C]

11:10.70 DNF
I was doing 3x3 bld while aronpm was doing 4x4 bld, and he'd stopped solving before I even put on my blindfold. I really rushed this, and I'm pretty sure I would have successed if I didn't forget to rotate back after doing parity Off by 12 edges . Not that disappointing really, but I'm not racing him again, because I wanna take my time.

What method do you use?

 

[mande]

I've started to suck at BLD. Around 2-3 weeks back, every 1 out of 3 solves for me used to be sub 2. Then I took a 2 week break since I had exams. Last week I started practising, and I haven't gotten a single sub 2 solve yet.

 

[Tim Major]

11:10.70 DNF
I was doing 3x3 bld while aronpm was doing 4x4 bld, and he'd stopped solving before I even put on my blindfold. I really rushed this, and I'm pretty sure I would have successed if I didn't forget to rotate back after doing parity Off by 12 edges . Not that disappointing really, but I'm not racing him again, because I wanna take my time.

What method do you use?

Old Pochmann, I give each sticker a letter (a-x on edges, a-x on corners) and come up with sentences (that make no sense at all) and memorise that. How come? Also, I plan on switching to M2 shortly.

Edit: and add a corners multi DNF to that.

 

[Zane_C]

11:10.70 DNF
I was doing 3x3 bld while aronpm was doing 4x4 bld, and he'd stopped solving before I even put on my blindfold. I really rushed this, and I'm pretty sure I would have successed if I didn't forget to rotate back after doing parity Off by 12 edges . Not that disappointing really, but I'm not racing him again, because I wanna take my time.

What method do you use?

Old Pochmann, I give each sticker a letter (a-x on edges, a-x on corners) and come up with sentences (that make no sense at all) and memorise that. How come? Also, I plan on switching to M2 shortly.

Edit: and add a corners multi DNF to that.

That's what I do , but I don't do it with much pieces so it's easy to memorise.

 

[Tim Major]

11:10.70 DNF
I was doing 3x3 bld while aronpm was doing 4x4 bld, and he'd stopped solving before I even put on my blindfold. I really rushed this, and I'm pretty sure I would have successed if I didn't forget to rotate back after doing parity Off by 12 edges . Not that disappointing really, but I'm not racing him again, because I wanna take my time.

What method do you use?

Old Pochmann, I give each sticker a letter (a-x on edges, a-x on corners) and come up with sentences (that make no sense at all) and memorise that. How come? Also, I plan on switching to M2 shortly.

Edit: and add a corners multi DNF to that.

That's what I do , but I don't do it with much pieces so it's easy to memorise.

So how do you memo? I want something similar to mine, but maybe a little better.

 

[Zane_C]

11:10.70 DNF
I was doing 3x3 bld while aronpm was doing 4x4 bld, and he'd stopped solving before I even put on my blindfold. I really rushed this, and I'm pretty sure I would have successed if I didn't forget to rotate back after doing parity Off by 12 edges . Not that disappointing really, but I'm not racing him again, because I wanna take my time.

What method do you use?

Old Pochmann, I give each sticker a letter (a-x on edges, a-x on corners) and come up with sentences (that make no sense at all) and memorise that. How come? Also, I plan on switching to M2 shortly.

Edit: and add a corners multi DNF to that.

That's what I do , but I don't do it with much pieces so it's easy to memorise.

So how do you memo? I want something similar to mine, but maybe a little better.

Corners visual, some edges visual and the rest letters.

 

[Cool Frog]

Attempted Solve minus the corners(cannot solve yet) and was off by 2 flipped pieces, don't know where I went wrong so i wrote out my story and am going to undo.

 

[aronpm]

3x3 MultiBLD: 4/10 = -2 DNF in 41:20.22
First try on 10 cubes. Memo was 27:14. My solving order was really weird because at first I forgot the first edges on the first cube. I started working from the back. I popped the 4th cube, and for some reason, I didn't even turn the 7th cube! The second was off by 2x 2cycles of edges, 5th was scrambled, 6th was two twisted corners, and 10th was two flipped edges.

 

[kinch2002]

I get to post in both blindfold threads now that Belgium is over.
Complete failure at 5bld. 1st attempt I had 7 min memo I think but just couldn't seem to recall half of it. I sat there for ages trying to remember stuff but gave up after 21 mins. 2nd attempt I went a slower on memo (10 mins maybe). Recalling was easy enough but I locked up right near the beginning and got lost in the alg, which would explain why a load of pieces were all over the place by the end.
4bld my failure was to not have a sub-10. First solve I missed by 8 centres and 4 edges (i.e. one wrong slice move somewhere). By the 2nd attempt I had done multi, 2 5blds and a 4bld since 11.30am so my brain was far to dead to memo fast. 10:51 success. I count that as a fail

EDIT: 5bld scrambles were rubbish. I think it was something like 3 solved centres on the first and 5 on the second 4bld ones were fine

 

[Mike Hughey]

I get to post in both blindfold threads now that Belgium is over.
Complete failure at 5bld. 1st attempt I had 7 min memo I think but just couldn't seem to recall half of it. I sat there for ages trying to remember stuff but gave up after 21 mins. 2nd attempt I went a slower on memo (10 mins maybe). Recalling was easy enough but I locked up right near the beginning and got lost in the alg, which would explain why a load of pieces were all over the place by the end.
4bld my failure was to not have a sub-10. First solve I missed by 8 centres and 4 edges (i.e. one wrong slice move somewhere). By the 2nd attempt I had done multi, 2 5blds and a 4bld since 11.30am so my brain was far to dead to memo fast. 10:51 success. I count that as a fail

Sorry to hear it, but now you have it out of your system - you can do great next time!

EDIT: 5bld scrambles were rubbish. I think it was something like 3 solved centres on the first and 5 on the second 4bld ones were fine

Oops - I take it that means you haven't learned to reorient yet? It's really worth doing for cases like that. 3 solved centers usually means a good scramble, since it almost always means there's another orientation with much more than 10 solved. (I say that based on a general feeling from experience, not from actual knowledge of the numbers. But it does feel right to me.)

 

[TMOY]

EDIT: 5bld scrambles were rubbish. I think it was something like 3 solved centres on the first and 5 on the second 4bld ones were fine

On the first scramble, there were 5 white (black on my cube) center cubies on the red face. So I simply put all 8 black center cubies on it and swapped whole centers at the end of the solve. (I did that for other centers too.)
My solve was a DNF too but at least I got the black center right
(It was also my fastest DNF so far, 26 minutes.)

 

[Zane_C]

9 minute memo. Not far in I did a center commutator wrong and did what I thought was to undo it. A few centers later I realised I undid the com wrong and couldn't be bothered to back trace the previous centers and undo the 2 wrong commutators.

 

[aronpm]

Lol, 0 cubes in multi isn't even really worth a post here, but...
0/4 = -4 in 9:29.15 (4:15 memo)

The memo was faster than I expected. The first cube was off by 2 flipped edges. The second cube was off by 3 edges and 4 corners. The last two were pretty messed up.

EDIT: 1/4 in 9:20.78 (5:00 memo).
Last cube was solved. First was 2 twisted corners. Second was 2 flipped edges and M slice edges. Third was two flipped edges and two twisted corners.

 

[Isbit]

I realised that my Y-perm turns the centers... That's probably the reason why I've only had three succesful 4x4 BLD's... and the reason that I DNF'ed two of my three DNFs at Karlstad open.
:fp:fp:fp

 

[Zane_C]

I realised that my Y-perm turns the centers... That's probably the reason why I've only had three succesful 4x4 BLD's... and the reason that I DNF'ed two of my three DNFs at Karlstad open.
:fp:fp:fp

Don't feel so bad, infact the bolded words relate exactly to me, I found out about this a week or so ago and have still only had 3 successes. Luckily though I didn't dedicate to much solves with corners before centers. Remember you can still do corners first if the swaps are divisible by 4, which is quite often.

 

[kinch2002]

Weekly Comp 2010-21 Multibld 8/9 57:10.41 [40:11.17]. I see anything less than 100% as failure. Especially as this one broke my streak of about 45 cubes in multibld (a few 2s and 3s, then 4,5,7,8,7,7). The 3rd cube had corners solved and edges totally wrong - no idea how this could happen apart from by executing the wrong memo entirely (not likely as I used one long journey for the 7 cubes that I did with letters). Pretty slow attempt (was hoping for sub-50), but that might be due to making up an extra 2 journeys as I went along

 

[04mucklowd]

Weekly Comp 2010-21 Multibld 8/9 57:10.41 [40:11.17]. I see anything less than 100% as failure. Especially as this one broke my streak of about 45 cubes in multibld (a few 2s and 3s, then 4,5,7,8,7,7). The 3rd cube had corners solved and edges totally wrong - no idea how this could happen apart from by executing the wrong memo entirely (not likely as I used one long journey for the 7 cubes that I did with letters). Pretty slow attempt (was hoping for sub-50), but that might be due to making up an extra 2 journeys as I went along

Unlucky on not making the 9/9
What execution method do you use now, still 3OP?

 

[kinch2002]

Weekly Comp 2010-21 Multibld 8/9 57:10.41 [40:11.17]. I see anything less than 100% as failure. Especially as this one broke my streak of about 45 cubes in multibld (a few 2s and 3s, then 4,5,7,8,7,7). The 3rd cube had corners solved and edges totally wrong - no idea how this could happen apart from by executing the wrong memo entirely (not likely as I used one long journey for the 7 cubes that I did with letters). Pretty slow attempt (was hoping for sub-50), but that might be due to making up an extra 2 journeys as I went along

Unlucky on not making the 9/9
What execution method do you use now, still 3OP?

No I've switched to Classic Pochmann corners and M2 pair edges. I use one long continuous journey and 4 word phrases (made from 4 letters of course) at each stop point. 3OP was a nightmare to do more than 2 cubes with because it was strings of 20 numbers to memorize per cube plus visual orientation memo.