Blindsolving Failure Thread

HAHAHAHAHA
First scramble weekly competition 3:
2 twisted corners (UFR and UBL)
9:40 DNF

First scramble weekly competition 4:
2 twisted corners (UFR and UBL)
9:46 DNF

wtf is going on? I think it's just meant to be that I don't get a success on stackmat.
 
2:20.xx DNF (woah)
Memo was 55 (yay). Dunno what went wrong..
Had a huge recall delay on my 2nd location in my room, you think you'd remember a unicorn coming out of a closet with a dead pikachu on its' horn <_<
3x twisted corners correctly permuted
3x cycled corners, two of which twisted
3 cycle of edges

<_<. M2 is so fast omahgawd.
 
Hahah oh god I love BLD


I hate to say I told you so... :)

It's going to be even more epic when I'm done my letter pair list and I get much faster. Having to memorize 2 locations instead of 6+

I'm going to stackmat me memorizing BA-BX. Going for sub1 minute. I'll edit this post with my time ^_^. I memorized the A's pretty fast yesterday so I thought I'd make memorizing it interesting ;).

Edit-23.03
 
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14/16 in 52:02.44 (34:06)

Those corners were the worst I've ever had, 20 twisted corners and 7 flipped edges, I'm hoping those corners I why my memo took a little longer than usual.

Cube 13: Image confusion, only executed the first edges but the pause probably equalled ~ a full execution. Even if I recalled the correct edge image, I labelled a corner wrong.
Cube 16: Labelled the last corner wrong.

I found this scramble not good, but interesting: U' B2 U R B' F' U F U2 F U2 R' B2 R' B2 R' U' F' R U2 L2 R D2 R' F
 
Plenty of things to post in here :(

Helsinki Open fails

5bld: I've had a nightmare using my normal rather freestyle memo system in competitions recently, so in the morning I decided to switch for the competition. So I did safety solves (10 min memos instead of 5-6).
1. 2 centres and 3 sets of wings. Wings was because I undid the parity setup move straight after doing the T perm and then did my wing switching alg. Stupid thing that I'd only ever do in comp of course! Not sure what happened with centres.
2. Can't remember what this was like :p

4bld: Again, safety solves. 7:xx, 10:xx, 7:xx
Can't remember the details, but one was a wrong setup move and one was forgetting to execute one location (5 wings off).

Multibld: It went far worse than I could ever imagine. Recently I've been doing 34 memo, 20 execution. Here I went a bit too slow and lost my concentration on the last 3 cubes to memo, resulting in a 39:xx memo. So I rushed execution a bit too much. Kept locking up badly, and ended with 4 cubes off by one move (from lockups). 2 cubes were wrongly flipped edges (hate memoing these), and the last one was an edge 3-cycle. Nightmare :(

3bld: At least I got 2 sub 1:30s. Also had a 1:14 DNF by 2 flipped edges (didn't see it during memo).

I think I'll take an extended break from bld stuff now because that kind of killed what motivation I had left for it.
 
Come on. Everybody has a bad day once in a while. The break shouldnt take more than 1 day:)
Hey, Dennis, give him a break. It was a pretty bad day. I could see a day like that making me give up BLD for a whole week! :)

I know that for me, BLD definitely has its good days and its bad days. And a bad day can be pretty terrible. Daniel, I hope you'll just give it another chance; someday you'll hit a good day and probably set a bunch of records.
 
Hey, Dennis, give him a break. It was a pretty bad day. I could see a day like that making me give up BLD for a whole week! :)

I know that for me, BLD definitely has its good days and its bad days. And a bad day can be pretty terrible. Daniel, I hope you'll just give it another chance; someday you'll hit a good day and probably set a bunch of records.

Ok:p

Well, i guess i have a good day then.
I just made a video of a 5x5x5 BLD and got a new PB:)
I will upload it now...

Dennis
 
2/3 18:18.92 [12:15]
Went through memo twice, nothing tricky about any of the cubes, sure it was 3/3, but 2 corners were twisted on the 3rd cube :( Looking at the scramble I got the memo correct, not sure how I managed to mess it up in execution though. Looks like I might be able to do 4 cubes comfortably soon.
 
Plenty of things to post in here :(

Helsinki Open fails

5bld: I've had a nightmare using my normal rather freestyle memo system in competitions recently, so in the morning I decided to switch for the competition. So I did safety solves (10 min memos instead of 5-6).
1. 2 centres and 3 sets of wings. Wings was because I undid the parity setup move straight after doing the T perm and then did my wing switching alg. Stupid thing that I'd only ever do in comp of course! Not sure what happened with centres.
2. Can't remember what this was like :p

4bld: Again, safety solves. 7:xx, 10:xx, 7:xx
Can't remember the details, but one was a wrong setup move and one was forgetting to execute one location (5 wings off).

Multibld: It went far worse than I could ever imagine. Recently I've been doing 34 memo, 20 execution. Here I went a bit too slow and lost my concentration on the last 3 cubes to memo, resulting in a 39:xx memo. So I rushed execution a bit too much. Kept locking up badly, and ended with 4 cubes off by one move (from lockups). 2 cubes were wrongly flipped edges (hate memoing these), and the last one was an edge 3-cycle. Nightmare :(

3bld: At least I got 2 sub 1:30s. Also had a 1:14 DNF by 2 flipped edges (didn't see it during memo).

I think I'll take an extended break from bld stuff now because that kind of killed what motivation I had left for it.

I hope that doesn't include your 4x4x4 BLD tutorial!
Don't take a break from BLD, practice less if you wish, but keep sharp for when you wish to "return" :)
 
Plenty of things to post in here :(

Helsinki Open fails

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Hey Daniel,

Sorry that you had a bad day at the Helsinki Open, I know how painful competition failures can be. I DNF'd out of the 5x5x5BLD event at Worlds 2007, which is pretty much one of the worst feelings I've ever had in my competitive cubing career. I know you probably don't want to hear this right now, but for me my biggest failures are actually incredibly motivating for me in the long run. I improve more from being motivated by the sting of a big failure than I do by the excitement of a big success. Being successful makes me lazy, I'm happy that I got a good time and that is that. Having a big, painful failure focuses my energy and makes me want to improve so that it doesn't happen again. I know it sucks, but try to think of it as fuel for motivation to improve for your next competition, when you will have a wonderful day in competition! :D
 
12/16 = 8 points AGAIN

But this time it was in 37:21.86

23:48 memo, 13:34 exec

One cube was off by 3 edges, one off by 3 corners, and the other two off by ~8 pieces.
 
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Thanks for all the kind messages guys :)
I'll think about it carefully and figure out why my success rate drops so dramatically in comp. And then I'll come back and get some decent times in a competition. After all, I it would be silly to totally give up on some of my best events.
 
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