Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Zane_C]

7x7x7BLD: DNF 1:45:xx(58:xx)

Third attempt. Looked like I forgot to undo an U' setup move early in the solve. The good thing was that my memo felt pretty strong. Full visual.

That is just amazing.

 

[LarsN]

7x7x7BLD: DNF 1:45:xx(58:xx)

Third attempt. Looked like I forgot to undo an U' setup move early in the solve. The good thing was that my memo felt pretty strong. Full visual.

That is just amazing.

Well, it's actually just me being lazy. I didn't bother learning a memo system, though on such big a cube it would likely shorten my memo time.

 

[MatsBergsten]

7x7x7BLD: DNF 1:45:xx(58:xx)

Third attempt. Looked like I forgot to undo an U' setup move early in the solve. The good thing was that my memo felt pretty strong. Full visual.

That is just amazing.

Well, it's actually just me being lazy. I didn't bother learning a memo system, though on such big a cube it would likely shorten my memo time.

Keep it up . If it was only an U' setup off it was probably a good try
anyway. And even if you are lazy (I've memorized some 2500-3000
words/pics for my memo) and go just visual it is still an amazing feat to
us mortals to visualize a full 7x7. (comparison again, i've done a visual
3x3, there's my limit)

 

[kinch2002]

Ok, here is my long list of failures from Swedish Open:

3bld: DNF, DNF, DNF

Spoiler

1. DNF 2 flipped edges (not sure why - I assume i shot to the wrong sticker)
2. DNF 2 flipped edges (missed a flipped edge in place during memo)
3. DNF 4 corners and 4 edges - i.e. one setup move

4bld: 9:35 NR, DNF, DNF

Spoiler

1. 9:35 Not really a failure. Safety solve
2. DNF (9:xx) Proper fast(ish) memo. Then had a couple of minutes pause on edges. Out by 2 edges in the end because I forgot to memo the very last edge.
3. DNF (9:xx) This time my memo went horribly because I was getting interference from the other solves. Out by 2 corners because I forgot to memo the last one

5bld: DNF, 22:xx NR

Spoiler

1. DNF (30:xx) Did not enjoy this attempt at all. My first since May I think. Must have spent 5 minutes on x centres just trying to figure out why stuff wasn't working, and then rememoing when I corrected my mistakes. Another massive pause in wing execution. Out by 2 centres. Not sure why
2. 22:xx (+2) My first attempt helped me remember how to do 5bld, so this one was easy. Safety solve because I knew I would get a NR and win with one anyway. Out by F2 because I forgot to undo parity setup

Multibld: 7/11

Spoiler

Memo was smooth enough. Spent 40 minutes on it (rather than the 33-35 I had done at home) so it was solidly in there. I managed to not quite memo my last (and first to solve) cube properly though (visual memo for that one), so I had 2 flipped edges. Then 2nd cube I shot to the wrong corner once (memo was correct but I was just silly). Something like 5th cube was 2 corners out, don't know why. 8th cube massive pop. Really annoyed with this, because I did 3 11 cube attempts in the weeks running up it and missed 1 cube in total!

 

[joey]

DNF(1:08.53), DNF(1:05.96), DNF(1:13.06), 1:09.75, DNF(1:30.30)

My accomplishment = doing 5 attempts in a row.

1. 1:09.75 U2 L U L' R2 B F' D U' F2 L2 F2 R L' D2 F' L' F2 D2 U2 F U' R L F2

 

[aronpm]

3x3x3 Multiple Blindfolded: 2/7 = -3 in 17:18.35
Comment: First two cubes were solved. Third cube was off by 2 twisted corners. Fourth was off by a 3cycle of corners. Fifth was off by 2 twisted corners. Sixth was off by 4 edges and 3 corners. Seventh was off by 2 flipped edges.
[...]
5x5x5 Blindfolded: DNF, DNF(12:44.58), DNF(14:17.56) = DNF
Comment: I think I did a + center comm incorrectly during the second solve (like l U' r U l U' r' U instead of l' U' r U l U' r' U). I was very confident with the third solve but it was off by 6x, 7+ and 4 wings.

Memo on 2/7 was 10:32. I don't know what happened with the twisted corners because they weren't twisted before the execution and the ones that were were solved.

I also did a 5bld DNF 10:38, off by like 14 centers and 4 edges. Memo was 4:30. My centers are suck.

 

[Zane_C]

Awesome memo times Aron, too bad on the DNFs though.

 

[Yes We Can!]

53.31 DNF U' B' U L R2 B' F' D B2 F L2 R B2 F2 D B F' D L2 R F2 U' B F' R

Off by two 2-cycles :/ Very fast DNF for me! And it was even close

 

[Tim Major]

Weekly 38 3BLD:
5:29.96, no refresh, so that's good. (It was really hard to make the story for the edges, which is the reason I decided not to refresh, because it would've taken too long. Corners were also pretty slow, so I didn't refresh.)
Happy about the time. I accidentally started inspecting for the 2nd attempt with the timer not started (as if I was going to do a 3speed), so DNF.
3rd one was today at the meetup in Melbourne. Decided that because I already had a decent success for me, to go flat out, and got 3:55.71 DNF by 2 flipped edges. Really easy solve >_<
Edges -> Edward Sometimes Licks Jack's Hand. People Read Umbrella Xylophones. Edward. Then I just used visual for 2flip.
Corners -> HeP, ViF, MatT. Then used visual for 2twist.
I labeled O as P, so it should've been sth along the lines of Obviously Qqwref's Vicious
It sucks, because during the solve, I went now shoot to here tapping a piece (in my head), but then realised that was O, and I was meant to shoot to P. I decided to trust my story rather than my visual 1:55~ memo. Waaaiii fast for me.

 

[Daniel Wu]

First Multi attempt ever. 1/2 in 15(?) minutes. I didn't time it because I didn't want time pressure. Second cube I did parity when I didn't have to and ended up with four flipped edges and the middle layer off my an M2. I think that's pretty good for my first attempt at this.

 

[RyanReese09]

30 minute some DNF
edges took 5 minutes to memo, corners I had to keep going over because in my "going over it" i kept seeing my route was different.

My memo was funny though for both edges and corners (not appropriate to say here though

I use letter system for corners. though i find that it blows

i kow this isn't the place but i want a different memo way then letter system for corners..it sucks. (what do you guys use?)
meh, 1aqt time

 

[Zane_C]

I use letter system for corners. though i find that it blows

i kow this isn't the place but i want a different memo way then letter system for corners..it sucks. (what do you guys use?)
meh, 1aqt time

Visual, at first it'll be difficult but you'll get used to it.

 

[aronpm]

4bld: dnf 3:59.55

off by 2 twisted corners, a 2cycle of corners, 3 centers, a 5cycle of wings, and a 2cycle of wings. So not really close. Memo was about 1:22 I think. I think 10 centers were solved.

scramble: f2 F' L2 B L2 f2 r2 f2 U' r2 u R' F2 L' R r U' r2 D L R u' f' D' F' L' U' D f' U' r2 f2 U2 f' D2 L' D' r' D L2

edit: raeg dnf 3:57.33

centers were like this: 1 red and 1 green swapped, 2 blue and 2 white swapped

I think I started solving with the wrong buffer for the second cycle.

easy scramble too

editedit: dnf 4:12 wtf is this

2 3cycles of centers 2 twisted corners 3 cycle of wings

 

[Mike Hughey]

4bld: dnf 3:59.55

off by 2 twisted corners, a 2cycle of corners, 3 centers, a 5cycle of wings, and a 2cycle of wings. So not really close. Memo was about 1:22 I think. I think 10 centers were solved.

scramble: f2 F' L2 B L2 f2 r2 f2 U' r2 u R' F2 L' R r U' r2 D L R u' f' D' F' L' U' D f' U' r2 f2 U2 f' D2 L' D' r' D L2

edit: raeg dnf 3:57.33

centers were like this: 1 red and 1 green swapped, 2 blue and 2 white swapped

I think I started solving with the wrong buffer for the second cycle.

easy scramble too

editedit: dnf 4:12 wtf is this

2 3cycles of centers 2 twisted corners 3 cycle of wings

Ville has competition.

 

[cmhardw]

4bld: dnf 3:59.55

O_O Wow that is awesome! Keep up the attempts, because if you can DNF this fast you will surely get a success this fast soon as well! Memo in 1:20-ish is

Very nicely done!

Chris

 

[MrMoney]

MBLD first attempt with this many cubes: 2/6 51:30.00 (39min memo). I do have alot of interruptions around me but I will not blame it on that. I am really unsure where it went wrong, as I felt everything was going well. No images were hard to recall so this is really frustrating.

#1 solved
#2 4 edges needed to be flipped. Guess I set it up wrong (there were 3 edges+buffer that needed to be flipped)
#3 Messed this one up as I had to undo alot of moves to undo a mistake I made (AE instead of EA)
#4 solved
#5 About 6 pieces wrong
#6 Two corners and two edges. Now how did this happen!?

Oh well, it was fun because I had to use previously unused rooms to fit in the extra cubes. I did not feel overwhelmed by the amount of cubes so I guess I will be training with 6 from now on

 

[TMOY]

4BLD in 7:18, off by 2 centers

 

[Cubenovice]

Very first attempt at 3x3x3 BLD:

Off by 2 flipped edges and 2 flipped corners... Let's not mention the total time

Probably used a wrong set up for an edge but I really, really thought I had the corners planned out correctly.

Will have another attempt at the same scramble.
If it works out I am going to try the weekly comp BLD event!

EDIT:
I decided against the 2nd attempt and went straight to the weekly comp

DNF (44:30.74)

Yes that's right! 44 minutes spend on my 2nd full BLD attempt
Memo took around 10 minutes en then I felt I messed up the reversal of a set up move on edge no 10...
But I could not reconstruct so I stopped.
Solved the cube, re-scrambled and went at it again; edges went OK this time and then I felt I messed up one of the last corners' reversal.
All in all 44 minutes well spent because it was definately faster than my very 1st attempt and this time I felt both instances where I was screwing up

EDIT2: finally did all the set up moves OK and then found out that I had UFR and UBR corners switched.
Took two more attempts and double checking to discover that this actual the infamous BLD parity...
So the result of my final attempt will appear shortly in the BLD accomplishment thread!!!

 

[Daniel Wu]

2:41, 3:05 (DNF 2 flipped edges), 2:42 (DNF 2 flipped edges), 3:30 (DNF 4 corners), 3:00 (DNF, gave up at corners cube slipped out of my hands XD), 2:50 (DNF :confused

 

[MrMoney]

444BLD 35min (25min memo) DNF.

19/24 centers correct, seems like I did a commutator wrong and after that everything went to hell

I still have a HARD time memoing edges for r2 as the orientation keeps confusing me. Maybe I am not ready for this. Or maybe I should just practise centers and corners for now.