Blindsolving Failure Thread

I feel for you - those are so demotivating. But in my experience, often a disaster like this is followed by a full-on success. Good luck with your next try - I'm sure you'll get one soon!

Lars those happen, no worries man. Just remember the golden rule for big cube BLD, especially for 6x6 and 7x7: Any practice is good practice, no matter the outcome.

Thank you for your encouragements Chris and Mike. I think I'll reserve a few hours for my next attempt this thursday. I feel motivated already :)
 
I feel for you - those are so demotivating. But in my experience, often a disaster like this is followed by a full-on success. Good luck with your next try - I'm sure you'll get one soon!

Lars those happen, no worries man. Just remember the golden rule for big cube BLD, especially for 6x6 and 7x7: Any practice is good practice, no matter the outcome.

Thank you for your encouragements Chris and Mike. I think I'll reserve a few hours for my next attempt this thursday. I feel motivated already :)
 
I feel for you - those are so demotivating. But in my experience, often a disaster like this is followed by a full-on success. Good luck with your next try - I'm sure you'll get one soon!

Lars those happen, no worries man. Just remember the golden rule for big cube BLD, especially for 6x6 and 7x7: Any practice is good practice, no matter the outcome.

Thank you for your encouragements Chris and Mike. I think I'll reserve a few hours for my next attempt this thursday. I feel motivated already :)
 
Thank you for your encouragements Chris and Mike. I think I'll reserve a few hours for my next attempt this thursday. I feel motivated already :)

Isn't this a deja vu? Because I've read exactly this not very long ago!

Then there's the other golden rule; The more you struggle for something, the better it feels when you make it! Keep fighting!
 
Maybe this is more an accomplishment, but unfortunately it feels more like a fail to me:

7/8 MultiBLD at MPEI Open 2010 in 1:00:00

I had perfectly solved 7 whole cubes and corners + 4 edges of the last cube, but wasn't able to recall these last few edges. I tried to recall them for like 1-2 minuten but was tabbed on my shoulder then because time was over. I'm very angry about this, because Memo felt secure during all the other cubes.

Special remarks:

- This is my first try at 8 cubes. I decided to try 8 after it took me "only" 51 minutes to try 7 (5/7, 2 flipped edges twice) at Dutch Nationals.
- Still my highest amount of cubes tried outside of an official attempt is 3 cubes :D
 
I really hope this is true
Any practice is good practice, no matter the outcome.

since today i got something like 14 DNFs. Every kind of mistake: wrong memo, wrong memo recall, wrong setups, wrong algs, forgotten parity, edges flipped, corners misoriented... and also once i took the cube with white in F instead of U. Anyway, the last solve was a succesfull 2:45.92, which is a pretty good time for me
 
1:58 DNF at Toronto Fall. I forgot to do the M2 parity fix between edges and corners. Other than that, memo and execution were perfect. :( Everyone failed their first attempt so Dave let those who DNFed under 3 mins have another attempt but I blew that one as well.
 
using new memo method
12:23.75 DNF (for just edges) (yea i'm slow)
Memo was like 8:30 which is 2ish minutes faster then my previous attempt

2 flipped edges, meh. still debating on a 2nd room for corners, or doing sound outs for them
i'm thinking 2nd room to be honest..such a powerful system it is..
memo will get so much faster when I get accustomed to lettering, right now I have to go through the alphabet until i reach the sticker for my memo :-/
 
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18/20 in 1:05 (40 minutes memo)

I went rather slow for memo. So sub-30 memo should be pretty easy.

Oh, yeah - nice job! Remember, the 20/20 needs to happen in competition - it's no good getting it at home.

Or since you can sub-30 memo, maybe you should just skip to 24/24 and put that old record out of its misery. :)
 
@ Tim: That's amazing! Why did you only do 12 in Munich?
24/24 would be absolutely awesomely amazing, but somewhat unrealistic, I guess.
 
Oh, yeah - nice job!
Or since you can sub-30 memo, maybe you should just skip to 24/24 and put that old record out of its misery. :)

Thanks, Mike. I can't memorize 20 cubes in under 30 minutes, yet. I guess i'm around 35 minutes on a good day. I said it's easy because it'll just take some practice ;). Therefore i also started memorizing cards this weekend. First attempt was about 8 minutes and my PB is currently 4:56 minutes (fourth attempt).

@ Tim: That's amazing! Why did you only do 12 in Munich?

Because i hadn't practiced for ages. Ask Kai or Hubi about my performance on Friday evening. I even struggled getting 4/4 in under 10 minutes (my results were 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4).

24/24 would be absolutely awesomely amazing, but somewhat unrealistic, I guess.

Amazing: yes. Unrealistic: not at all. I've recently met a few memory sportsman at the "Memo Masters" (German Memory Championship). Their results are what i would call unrealistic ;).
 
Thanks, Mike. I can't memorize 20 cubes in under 30 minutes, yet. I guess i'm around 35 minutes on a good day. I said it's easy because it'll just take some practice ;). Therefore i also started memorizing cards this weekend. First attempt was about 8 minutes and my PB is currently 4:56 minutes (fourth attempt).
Wow, it's nice to see you making such good progress with memorizing cards! Maybe I should try again - I did a couple of attempts a while ago and then decided I was too slow and didn't bother anymore.

And I am looking forward to the 24/24 someday. I know you can do it. The biggest question is whether someone else will beat you to it or not.
 
Amazing: yes. Unrealistic: not at all. I've recently met a few memory sportsman at the "Memo Masters" (German Memory Championship). Their results are what i would call unrealistic ;).

Have you tried to get them to learn BLD?
 
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