Blindsolving Failure Thread

I've been putting it off for a while, but I finally tried doing my first BLD solve. 15:53.xx DNF by 2 flipped edges :mad:

Corners were pretty easy. I use Old Pochmann, although I am trying to learn BH. The buffer was solved so I had to break into a new cycle right away. Other than that, it was straightforward.

Edges messed me up. I use M2. I solved the buffer piece but I didn't recall that it was flipped. So after I broke into a new cycle and solved everything, I didn't flip the DF and UB pieces.

I'll try another solve or two tonight.
 
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5/9 multi in 1:00:00
mistakes were: 3cycle of edges, some edges cycled/oriented, and also some edges(the M2 thing that was caused by forgetting an edge)
I ran out of time. The last cube's edges weren't solved yet, so if I'd had like 30sec more, it would've been 6/9.
I'm happy though, at least it's not a DNF.
 
9/10 = 8 points in 23:12.60 (scrambles from weekly comp #52)

Memo was 13:58. Off by 3 edges.

I think I can do sub20. I messed up a bit on memorizing one cube because my edges originally started like this: "VDKXDK" (notice the double DK. I didn't notice until I memorized corners and noticed that corners had parity but edges didn't) Also, I did a lot of revision for safety, and a bit of a pause recalling the second part of a cube's edges.

16 cubes (or more... :P) is my goal for Melbourne Summer Open. No offence intended, but the current WR just seems slow...

An additional thing to note: according to qq's webpage, the fastest 8/8(=8 points) is 21:33, only ~2 minutes faster than this :P
 
1:54 3x3 blindfold solve off by 2 flipped edged which I memmorised but forgot to execute.
 
aronpm said:
9/10 = 8 points in 23:12.60 (scrambles from weekly comp #52)
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Although this is a failure, it is insane. I think the word is "inspiring".

PAPPAS!!15 said:
1:54 3x3 blindfold solve off by 2 flipped edged which I memmorised but forgot to execute.
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You'll get a sub-2 very soon, unfortunately DNFs are part of the journey towards it.

10/14 in 52:28.
Spef told me to attempt 14 for the weekly comp, after some thinking I decided I was going to do it. I really thought I would struggle to sub-1 hour, even if I went as fast as I could. After I had memorised the first 13 I was thinking I'll have to rush the last one because I was probably moving into around 38 minutes, I was amazed to see 30 minutes on the timer.
The 4 cubes were off by: A lot, edge 3-cycle, corner 3-cycle and corner+edge 3 cycles.
I'm disappointed as with many of my recent multi attempts, it has been the first cube (last cube I memo) that is a DNF. I suppose I just need to get stuck into some 3BLD. In this attempt it was the first cube which was off by "a lot".
 
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Yes said:
No such thing :p
Good luck, keep trying!
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Woops :p UB. And thanks.

16:30 DNF. I twisted 2 corners that were already correctly oriented and failed hard on edges. I should really start using letter pairs or at least something easier than using pure visual...

EDIT: 15:18 DNF. 2 flipped edges and forgot to freestyle 3 edges. y' M' U2 M U2 y :\
 
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4x4 DNF - 29:47.35, memo ~15
Execution mistake on the second last edge comm, leaving 3 edges cycled. 4 centers, 1 edge, and 4 corners were permuted correctly to start. Both parities.

3x3 DNF - 3:02.16, memo ~1:30
My times are usually 4 to 5 min. Was off by a 3 cycle of edges I memo'd wrong.
 
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Just did one of my first full attempts. Probably my fifth, I went through edges no problem and totally forgot my corner memo so I open my eyes and I had the cube in the wrong orientation. Double fail.

Edit: My next attempt:

Did edges flawlessly and then went onto corners. Was going fine until I realized that I was shooting to C and then to D which are both the same cubie and thought I made a memo mistake so I stopped the time and checked the cube. It was a new cycle that I forgot. Solve was off by 5 corners. Closest attempt yet.

Edit 2: 3rd Attempt

My brother started talking to me mid solve and made me lose my spot during Y-Perm. Edges were messed up anyway.

Quick Question. I'm writing down my letter pairs and then memoing them. Doing it like this would you count it as a full success or no?
 
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Tried my first 6x6 for the christmas comp. 40 minutes memo, not too much of a problem. I did the centers, and halfway through the second set of obliques the slice I was getting misalignments on changed. Mine's pi-modded, so it should only be on the UD plane after the inner x-centers are solved, but it started happening on the LR plane. Bleh. Gave up at about an hour.

6x6 blind is really hard...turning the right inner slice is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Messed up a lot of times, usually caught myself, but from the looks of it at least one of my mistakes. Also memo-ing obliques was hard since I kept switching orbitals. I think I'll be sticking to 4x4 and 5x5 for a while.

Also I've been getting lots of 4x4 and (guess what) 5x5 DNFs. I should be able to stackmat 4x4s sometime soon (averaging 11-12 minutes, best DNF was 10:21), and probably sub-20 5x5. But I should probably try to get a solve now and then...
 
Yea that's what I figured. I can do edges fine now I just can't get the corners. I'm done with attempts for tonight. I'm going to review my lettering for corners and practice them specifically tomorrow and hopefully get a success.
 
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