Blindsolving Failure Thread

2:46 DNF. Memo was perfect-but as I executed I fumbled on a tperm while on edges and I lost place of how I was holding it so I screwed up some pieces there in the process :(.

Need to get around to actually using M2 in solves..need to get used to it so I can use r2 for 4x4x4
 
I've yet to get a successful blindfold solve, but I'm always ridiculously close...Today, I really though I had it...then I popped. One corner and One Edge just barely popped out, but still fell out none the less. I put them back in and continued with the solve, because I really knew that I had it this time. I stop the timer, take off the blindfold, and find that I put the edge back in right...but the corner was rotated...everything else was right...:(
 
AJ Blair said:
I've yet to get a successful blindfold solve, but I'm always ridiculously close...Today, I really though I had it...then I popped. One corner and One Edge just barely popped out, but still fell out none the less. I put them back in and continued with the solve, because I really knew that I had it this time. I stop the timer, take off the blindfold, and find that I put the edge back in right...but the corner was rotated...everything else was right...:(
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Not sure if I should say "ouch, sorry" or "AHAHAHAHA!!!"
 
RyanReese09 said:
I think that would be a success in competition to be honest. It would be unambiguously solved..one flipped edge and one twisted corner from a pop means solved.
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No it's a DNF.
EDIT: Unambiguously solved is things like one centre cap popping off when you put the cube down, or one sticker falling off
EDIT2: Also, one edge flipped could mean that you had 2 edges flipped (i.e. mistake), then you popped one and put it back in the correct way round, leaving the other one as the only flipped one
EDIT3: My EDIT2 was ninja'd by aronpm
 
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RyanReese09 said:
I think that would be a success in competition to be honest. It would be unambiguously solved..one flipped edge and one twisted corner from a pop means solved.
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If you had a solve where you would DNF by 2 flipped edges, but one of them popped and you put it in incorrectly, then you would have one edge flipped, and the cube is not 'unambiguously solved' because you didn't flip those edges.
 
kinch2002 said:
Why would the judge need to pick up the puzzles though? The only reason I can think of is if the hour is up and they want to see how many are solved without disturbing you. But apart from that they shouldn't be going near the puzzles
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That's already a good reason... Sometimes you don't want to stop the solve right when the time limit is reached, but you still have to record the correct score. If for some reason you can't see enough faces of a given cube to be certain that it is actually solved, you have to pick it up to check.
 
TMOY said:
That's already a good reason... Sometimes you don't want to stop the solve right when the time limit is reached, but you still have to record the correct score. If for some reason you can't see enough faces of a given cube to be certain that it is actually solved, you have to pick it up to check.
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But then it doesn't really matter if they pick it up surely? I mean, it's nice to carry on, but tbh you've messed up a fair amount if you need to keep going back to various cubes. I understand your point about telling them what to do if they need to pick them up, but for me, I don't expect to be stretching the time limit (and wouldn't mind stopping if I did reach it) so I'm not fussed.
 
4bld DNF:
11:57.62(5:58.94)

I can't believe it, this time it's 2 edges off! For the first time I get the centres correct but I missed a 2 cycle of edges :( I usually check every edge piece to see that I went over all of them but I've decided to stop playing too safe because it's too boring (hence the faster DNFs)

Oh well, shall get one tomorrow!
 
amostay2004 said:
4bld DNF:
11:57.62(5:58.94)

I can't believe it, this time it's 2 edges off! For the first time I get the centres correct but I missed a 2 cycle of edges :( I usually check every edge piece to see that I went over all of them but I've decided to stop playing too safe because it's too boring (hence the faster DNFs)

Oh well, shall get one tomorrow!
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Don't be like me and get a sub8 success after 100+ DNFs, okay?
 
6/13 in 34:14

Memo was 18:41

3 cubes off by 2 twisted corners, 2 cubes off by 3 edges, 1 cube off by 7 edges, and 1 cube off by 3 corners.

It was my first time using routes 11/12/13 but they went better than I expected. Memo wasn't a problem although I got a bit sloppy with my revision technique. I want to try 13 again tomorrow but I've also got other bld stuff to do for the weekly comp. Next week I want to do 16, but I need one more route... :/
 
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