Biggest cubing Letdown

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What was your biggect cubing letdown EVER? like for example a 59/60 MultiBLD lol even though i doubt that has EVER happened but im just giving u an idea.

For me there are too many to name lol, so lets hear yours.
 
I reset the timer on my best BLD ever...it was definitely sub-2 but I'll never know exactly...now I'm stuck with this 2:08 pb that I'm too busy to do anything about.

Also finding out certain people cheat was a pretty big letdown

and....finals are killing my times...I suck at everything these days. only 8 more days until I go UBER HARDCORE.
 
lol, The first ever in competition 2x2x2 OH event, I'm first out = no matter what time I do I will get the WR. That made me so nervous I could not solve the cube, a total brain lock. Ok, I DNF'd = no WR. But I must solve the cube so it can get scrambled for the next round. I was still unable to solve it and had to ask the scrambler to do it for me. In the next round I was calmer and had no problems solving it because Gunnar had in the mean time set a WR that I was sure I could not beat.
 
PatrickJameson said:
Once, at a competition, I was doing a bld solve and my phone rang! I couldn't concentrate and I DNFed...

The person that called me later went missing and they are still looking for the body...:P
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I think that murder was an error, the only person to blame is you who did not shut the phone down before starting the attempt :p
 
Kenneth said:
lol, The first ever in competition 2x2x2 OH event, I'm first out = no matter what time I do I will get the WR. That made me so nervous I could not solve the cube, a total brain lock. Ok, I DNF'd = no WR. But I must solve the cube so it can get scrambled for the next round. I was still unable to solve it and had to ask the scrambler to do it for me. In the next round I was calmer and had no problems solving it because Gunnar had in the mean time set a WR that I was sure I could not beat.
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WOW.... thats.. GOTTA hurt lol. :p
 
Kenneth said:
PatrickJameson said:
Once, at a competition, I was doing a bld solve and my phone rang! I couldn't concentrate and I DNFed...

The person that called me later went missing and they are still looking for the body...:P
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I think that murder was an error, the only person to blame is you who did not shut the phone down before starting the attempt :p
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I didn't know it was in my pocket lol.
 
Back when I first started 5x5x5 BLD and I was still pretty much only concerned with success and not time (my accuracy was not good then) I had my worst ever BLD DNF. I was down to everything solved except for parity in the wings. As I was executing the parity alg (r2 B2 U2 l U2 r' U2 r U2 F2 r F2 l' B2 r2) on the last l' I could feel that I pulled more than just the inner l slice on the turn. I must have spent maybe 5 minutes trying to use my body's muscle memory to figure out if I had actually pulled multiple faces or not. After finally thinking I had figured it out and thinking I fixed I stopped the timer and opened my eyes. The cube was off by an inner m turn. Not an inner M but and inner m only. The whole attempt had taken me around 45 minutes or so, and I almost screamed (back then that was a total DNF, not a +2). I forced myself to spend about 20 minutes after that solve practicing my wing parity alg blindfolded. I still to this very day fear doing the same mistake during the parity fix on 5x5x5 and am ultra aware of the turns I am doing during that alg.

Also DNF'ing the 5x5x5 at Worlds 2007 felt pretty crappy as well. That is my biggest competition let down ever.

Chris
 
My biggest letdown, without a doubt, is the US Open last year. Two +2s in the final round, plus extreme chokage on the last two solves, cost me a trip to Budapest for WC2007. I don't know if I will ever be fully over that one.
 
My biggest letdown has to be 3x3 this past competition. Of course, I wasn't happy with my 2x2 results, but whatever.

I had a 13, 13, 14 for the first three solves on a cube I don't even use (my good one was stolen). Then, I mess up F2L on the fourth solve, giving me an 18.

And the last solve was two turns off, for no real reason...

I could've gotten a sub-14 average, but I blew it and got a 15.45.
 
Most letdowns have been in blindfolded for me. Things like forgetting a corner-3-cycle (no setups needed) on the D-face of the cube (I thought it was solved, the judge told me later it wasn't) or popping during multi-blind (happened twice already)

Not being able to go to Belgian Open 2008 (and saying goodbye to Gilles) was another one

But the biggest letdown was that I found a 15 move FMC solution that only left 2 corners misoriented, but couldn't recreate it :(
 
my biggest letdowns at compeitition (was only to 2 yet) were that I messed up the R perm in two OH solves, once I could undo it the other one I had to do half f2l again.... and at blind I've got the wrong side front... at 3x3 doing wrong PLL (A instead of V) and stop the timer -_- all at one competition
At home months ago with an average of 30 or 35 I've got a pop at 18.xx during PLL...
 
World Championships 3x3x3 OH turbo choke
Dutch Open 2007 3x3x3 OH AVG choke on the last two solves
UK Open 2007 2x2x2 Single I could have done the single WR for 2x2x2 if I solved it from the other angle!
Belgian Open 2008 3x3x3 OH AVG dropped the cube a few times

I must tell you tough, it's not healthy to think of your setbacks. :p
 
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World Championship 2005: finishing 13rd in the 3x3x3 semi-finals with 12 people going through to the final. I set my worst average for quite some time in that round and I also got one +2, which eventually costed me a place in the final.

It wasn't until I got to the final again in the 2007 championships that I managed to fully put this behind me.
 
My biggest letdown so far was my last Magic solve at WC a DNF (1.07 sec) If I had had that solve I would have been world champion, I could have been that with a time under 1.25sec but thats life, I even took it easy I thought.
 
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