Blindsolving Failure Thread

[TMOY]

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.

If you use alternatively the Y-perm and its inverse (which is also a Y-perm but rotates centers in the opposite direction), you can even use it whenever you have no corner parity. Unfortunately you have no way to fix that parity without affecting centers at all, you must either keep track of what you're doing to centers or solve them before the parity fix...

 

[mr. giggums]

I was hoping to get my first 3x3x3 BLD sucess after about 6 or 7 attemps I finish saw the red side solved and I thought YES FINALLY. But then I noticed I was off by a 3-cycle of edges and then I was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I even just ate so rice so I tought I had it in the bag.

EDIT: Another DNF by a 2 2-cycles of edges

 

[LarsN]

At HLSP Open last weekend I dnf'ed all my bigcube BLD attempts

Three close attempts for 4x4x4bld including a sub10 dnf with only two centers off.

First attempt for 5x5x5bld was dnf 16:3x.xx. I cycled a middle edge commutator the wrong way.
For second attempt I went as far as two commutators into the solve when I realized that I had reoriented the cube, but forgot to memo the new orientation. I took a wild guess and then went on to screw up the next commutator and gave up on the solve. I guessed right on the centers though!

Both solves had 9:3x.xx memo, which would never have brought me close to a WR.

OFF TOPIC: Did you know that HLSP was a surprise party/official WCA competition for my birthday? How can you not realise that there is going to be a competition in your own house you ask? Well ... I guess my wife lies better than I ever imagined

 

[Yes We Can!]

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

My first ever sub-1 attempt at 3x3 BLD. I was doing the 1st scramble of weekly competition 22 and it was really easy for me. After I got really nice edge memo I decided to go for it and memo the corners very quickly (it worked).

I was done with my memorization after 20 seconds. My heart started to go BAMBAMBAM
But I could remember my whole memo.
In the end I took the blindfold off and I thought it would be solved.
The time was 59.30, but the cube was off by 3 corners
Oh well, at least I know I can do it ^^

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

Haha Cornelius, I took it safe and went over the memo once again
For that scramble I had 30~33 memo

 

[Mike Hughey]

My first ever sub-1 attempt at 3x3 BLD. I was doing the 1st scramble of weekly competition 22 and it was really easy for me.
...
The time was 59.30, but the cube was off by 3 corners

Very nice! I hated that scramble - I memorized it sub-30, I think, and my memory was solid on it, and it was easy, but when I started to solve it, I realized that I had memorized it wrong - I used some letters incorrectly. I tried to figure out what it really was and got close, but it was wrong. So it was a very slow DNF.

 

[MatsBergsten]

My first ever sub-1 attempt at 3x3 BLD. I was doing the 1st scramble of weekly competition 22 and it was really easy for me.
...
The time was 59.30, but the cube was off by 3 corners

Very nice! I hated that scramble - I memorized it sub-30, I think, and my memory was solid on it, and it was easy, but when I started to solve it, I realized that I had memorized it wrong - I used some letters incorrectly. I tried to figure out what it really was and got close, but it was wrong. So it was a very slow DNF.

I think this is very interesting. I also found that scramble very easy, but as you cannot really have the same words as I have (mine are swedish ) I don't understand why. Ok, it did not have parity and no extra cycles, but still. ( I got sub-1:30 which is very good for me). I don't use visual so what makes that scramble easy??? :confused:
I can still recall all letter pairs for edges by the way (I did it almost ten hours ago)

 

[Yes We Can!]

My first ever sub-1 attempt at 3x3 BLD. I was doing the 1st scramble of weekly competition 22 and it was really easy for me.
...
The time was 59.30, but the cube was off by 3 corners

Very nice! I hated that scramble - I memorized it sub-30, I think, and my memory was solid on it, and it was easy, but when I started to solve it, I realized that I had memorized it wrong - I used some letters incorrectly. I tried to figure out what it really was and got close, but it was wrong. So it was a very slow DNF.

I think this is very interesting. I also found that scramble very easy, but as you cannot really have the same words as I have (mine are swedish ) I don't understand why. Ok, it did not have parity and no extra cycles, but still. ( I got sub-1:30 which is very good for me). I don't use visual so what makes that scramble easy??? :confused:
I can still recall all letter pairs for edges by the way (I did it almost ten hours ago)

I just found it really nice, that there were only 6 corner targets (one cycle) and also only one edge cycle. Other than that, there were one corner and one edge solve by the scramble. I think this can be called an easy scramble in general

 

[CuBeOrDiE]

I just memorized the whole cube in 5 minutes (good for me), did the first few turns, and then the cube popped. :fp what a failur

 

[Micael]

My first ever sub-1 attempt at 3x3 BLD. I was doing the 1st scramble of weekly competition 22 and it was really easy for me.
...
The time was 59.30, but the cube was off by 3 corners

Very nice! I hated that scramble - I memorized it sub-30, I think, and my memory was solid on it, and it was easy, but when I started to solve it, I realized that I had memorized it wrong - I used some letters incorrectly. I tried to figure out what it really was and got close, but it was wrong. So it was a very slow DNF.

I think this is very interesting. I also found that scramble very easy, but as you cannot really have the same words as I have (mine are swedish ) I don't understand why. Ok, it did not have parity and no extra cycles, but still. ( I got sub-1:30 which is very good for me). I don't use visual so what makes that scramble easy??? :confused:
I can still recall all letter pairs for edges by the way (I did it almost ten hours ago)

hahaha, that was a very good memorization for me too! I did not check though, but the execution was normal and still got 1:33, very good for me. Edge execution was actually not that good because I had to shoot to the three so called "ugly case" (M2).

 

[Zane_C]

After 7 minute memo on the first weekly comp scramble I gave up through execution because I couldn't think what to do, even if I did I had done something wrong before it anyway.
Basically I had to swap 4 opposite centers like this:
set up = r2 U2 r2
Now my approach would be something like this;
Rw' F2 (r' U2 r) u2 (r' U2 r) u2 F2 Rw
Rw' F2 (r' U2 r) d2 (r' U2 r) d2 F2 Rw

Is this a good way?

 

[Sakarie]

After 7 minute memo on the first weekly comp scramble I gave up through execution because I couldn't think what to do, even if I did I had done something wrong before it anyway.
Basically I had to swap 4 opposite centers like this:
set up = r2 U2 r2
Now my approach would be something like this;
Rw' F2 (r' U2 r) u2 (r' U2 r) u2 F2 Rw
Rw' F2 (r' U2 r) d2 (r' U2 r) d2 F2 Rw

Is this a good way?

I'm afraid it ain't good. I think the best would be U2 x' r2 u2 r2 u2 x U2. But that moves some other centers (yours too) so you should do it last.

 

[TMOY]

This alg moves only the Ufr and Dbl centers in addition of the 4 centers you want to solve. (Actually it performs a double 3-cycle: Ufr -> Ubl -> Dbr and Dbl -> Dfr -> Ufl.) It you take this into account it is possible to use it at an early stage of the solve.
If you really don't want to move any other centers than the first 4, you can do for example: y l2 U r2 U' L2 U r2 U2 l2 U r2 U' l2 U r2 y'.

 

[Samania]

I watched badmephisto's ENTIRE BLD video. Then i gave it a shot.

Maybe BLD isn't for me...

 

[amostay2004]

I watched badmephisto's ENTIRE BLD video. Then i gave it a shot.

Maybe BLD isn't for me...

Watching the video once and giving it one shot isn't going to get you anywhere. Try harder.

 

[Samania]

I watched badmephisto's ENTIRE BLD video. Then i gave it a shot.

Maybe BLD isn't for me...

Watching the video once and giving it one shot isn't going to get you anywhere. Try harder.

Heh yeah. It was probably because I didn't understand it or I was memorizing and watching How I met your mother at the same time.

 

[kinch2002]

I watched badmephisto's ENTIRE BLD video. Then i gave it a shot.

Maybe BLD isn't for me...

BLD isn't easy at first. You'll hear some people say that it's simple, but in reality it's only simple once you know what you're doing properly. Keep trying and maybe find and read a few other tutorial sources and you will get there. Just keep going

 

[blah]

8/10 multiBLD in 28:15.61.

Mismemorized one letter on cube 3. Didn't see a flipped edge on cube 9. No execution mistakes.

This is my second multiBLD attempt since January 29 (day before Washington DC Open 2010). First attempt happened about an hour ago It was 7/10 in 31 minutes (actually, more like 9/10 but I won't bother explaining). My brain is fried.

 

[aronpm]

Wow. Any idea what the memo time was?

 

[Sa967St]

8/10 multiBLD in 28:15.61.

Mismemorized one letter on cube 3. Didn't see a flipped edge on cube 9. No execution mistakes.

This is my second multiBLD attempt since January 29 (day before Washington DC Open 2010). First attempt happened about an hour ago It was 7/10 in 31 minutes (actually, more like 9/10 but I won't bother explaining). My brain is fried.

GOGO WR