Blindsolving Failure Thread

Zane_C said:
Thanks, Dennis.

I did film the entire thing and I don't think it's necessary to construct a compressed video of it. It's late and here's a tiny bit of evidence in case anyone wants it. I will delete this in a few days.
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Very nice, i watched it.
I will also do a multi again this weekend.
16 or 20, i dont know. Maybe i will try 20 in sub-1 h.
Whats your best sub-1 h? What do YOU think is possible?

Dennis
 
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6x6 BLD DNF 56:59 (might not be correct, I noticed at 27:00 I was almost done memo-ing, started reviewing, looked up and saw qqtimer stopped at 27:07, so I assumed it took me 3 minutes to review).

Why was it a DNF? During my first set of centers (outer x centers), I did a commutator with setup move U'. I then did the next commutator, and thought to myself "I never undid that U, did I?" So I undid the commutator, did a U, and kept going.

The corners are solved, but off by U. The wings are solved, off by U (normally I do wings after centers, but on this attempt there were no parities and I was having trouble remembering wings, so I did them first). All of the outer x-centers are solved, except for 4 (consistent with this being the only mistake). The first oblique set is also consistent with that being the only mistake. I've never been happier to find that I made multiple mistakes, as it looks like the 2nd obliques and the inner Xs had more mistakes than just that one. I would have been pretty pissed off if I had missed a 6x6 bld because of that one very stupid mistake.
 
Tried my first 7x7. 1:30:08 (47 memo, 43 execution). Off by 2 outer x-centers and 3 obliques in each orbit. I'm pretty sure the 3 obliques in each were because I did the last 3 obliques in the second set on the first set instead. I may have made one other oblique mistake, not sure, plus the outer x's which I don't want to try to track down.

Painfully, painfully close. I didn't have any problems with recall, just executed cycles wrong probably. Grr. I guess the good thing is that I can memorize 8 sets of 24 without too much issue, and that overlapping images weren't a problem (even when I realized like 3 sets later that my image for HA was not, in fact Hagrid, but rather that that was H. I realized this when I got an actual H, and instead of going back and changing my memo drastically I just remembered the old one as "fake hagrid" and the new one as "real hagrid"). I figure I can get a success...if I can set aside this much time to do another attempt once school starts. This time I went painfully slow on execution to try to not turn the wrong slice.

Another failure to add is this week's weekly competition...1/22 in blindfold (0/3 in 2x2, 1/3 in 3x3, 0/8 in big cubes, 0/8 in multi). Oh well.
 
48.50, 47.10, DNF(1:02.57), 50.38, 1:10.26, 57.22, 50.76, 56.50, 43.62, 47.88, DNF(1:15.60), 55.08 = 52.73 mean of 10/12

Today I wanted to get an avg12 because I don't think I've done one before =( 11th solve had terrible letters for edges and 14 of them to memo
 
2/3 34:04.50. Not using my letter pair list.

Seems I undid a setup move incorrectly, and I did a wrong alg for an M slice piece. Twice. UF belongs in UB, UB belongs in FD, the UB piece and FD are flipped, which had to be execution mistakes.
Just a question-When executing corners first (which I did on the 2nd cube only) (I am probably going to keep to memorizing edges first/letters second), when I have parity and I do the alg, I have to..er.

I always remember in my locations, that if the 2nd image (2 letters per location since I'm nub), is on the M slice, and say it's for FU, I'd know that since the M slice is off, so I really need to do BD. So when you have to do parity when you execute corners first, basically instead of looking for the 2nd image in the location (realizing the M slice would be off by M2 when doing it) I should look for the 1st letter instead? Does anyone understand? I'm failing at wording this.
 
9/10 in 42:07 (30:15)

4th cube off by 2 edges, because I memoed it wrong. I memoed TDUS as a 3 cycle, and it was actually TCUS. During the execution, I wasn't sure, but I stuck to my original memo, and was wrong.
 
12/16 = 8 points in 41:40.88 (25:37.56)

One cube was off by 4 edges and 4 corners (I think off by U2 some time after solving edges), two were off by 3 edges, and the fourth (which I didn't notice until I was putting them away... lol) was off by 2 flipped edges.

That was my first time using 3 new routes. Memo could be faster but I wasted some time because it's too dark to process the stickers properly.

I tried a different review scheme for this; normally I do "2-2-2-2-...-n" with n cubes (so, memo 2 and review them, memo the next two and review them, etc, then review them all at the end), but instead I did 2-2-2-2-8-2-2-2-2-8-16. If that makes any sense :P
 
15/16 in 53:21.93 (32:49) - 13th cube off by 2 twisted corners, weekly comp scrambles.

I was going steady, but I did expect this to be faster. Especially the execution.
There were 2 twisted corners which I seen and memorised. However, I memorised one of the corners in the wrong orientation. :fp

The finishing time should've been ~53:13, but a computer message came up and I didn't realise the timer hadn't stopped.
 
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Zane_C said:
15/16 in 53:21.93 (32:49) - 13th cube off by 2 twisted corners, weekly comp scrambles.

I was going steady, but I did expect this to be faster. Especially the execution.
There were 2 twisted corners which I seen and memorised. However, I memorised one of the corners in the wrong orientation. :fp

The finishing time should've been ~53:13, but a computer message came up and I didn't realise the timer hadn't stopped.
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Its so painfull to see your results :D
Because there is just ONNNEEEEE cube that is wrong all the time. The execution could be faster?!

Dennis
 
aronpm said:
12/16 = 8 points in 41:40.88 (25:37.56)

One cube was off by 4 edges and 4 corners (I think off by U2 some time after solving edges), two were off by 3 edges, and the fourth (which I didn't notice until I was putting them away... lol) was off by 2 flipped edges.

That was my first time using 3 new routes. Memo could be faster but I wasted some time because it's too dark to process the stickers properly.

I tried a different review scheme for this; normally I do "2-2-2-2-...-n" with n cubes (so, memo 2 and review them, memo the next two and review them, etc, then review them all at the end), but instead I did 2-2-2-2-8-2-2-2-2-8-16. If that makes any sense :P
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Great. Not the result but the time.
I will try a multi today i think.

Dennis
 
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