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Blindfold Failures Thread

RyanReese09

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1:47.69 DNF. 3 cycle corners. I'm not sure how I screwed that up? Those were part of a new cycle....

Though upon me taking off blindfold, I immediately recognized the 8 move comm. So..win? Debating on when to start doing comms/turbo in solves.
 
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3:42 memo, this feels secure and I am confident.
7 wings and the corners left to solve... oh crap why have I gotten the letter B twice?

I thought about it, and there was absolutely no way I broke into a new cycle. I should've realised it was actually F, I quite often label F as B due to a similarity with 3x3.

I take of the blindfold to see all the centers, midges and 16 wings solved. 7:25.90, FML.
 

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4bld, 12~ minute memo, going over edges for last time, brain absolutely fried, realised I labeled a piece wrong, which meant I did again later in the solve. Probably would've just taken 1m to fix, and then a quick run through but I'd had it and rage quitted.
(now is my success total 1/3, or isn't this a real DNF :p)
 

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Did another blind solve at school today
The fastest blind solve I have ever done, if it wasn't for forgotten parity

DAMN

I noticed the parity mistake before I removed my blindfold, but I don't know how to solve that problem yet.
 

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1st 2 full 3x3 attempts: DNF(8:25), DNF(7:15) - Classic Pochmann

8:25 - Memo 3:15 and deliberate slow execution - A complete mess and I didn't want to even try and do a post mortem with Chris's guide
7:15 - Memo 3:25 - Much better (relatively) 2 bad oriented edges, 3 bad oriented corners and a clear R perm missing so I must have had parity and mis counted.

I would have to say I am disappointed though in reality I shouldn't be.

I made the conscious decision initially to deal with orientation using cycles rather than sorting afterwards and I think that messed up my cycles on both edges and corners. It was more of a problem in solve 1 and I believe led to the major scale DNF. I think I messed memo in solve two for orientation I think my lettering scheme for stickers does not help and I am not 100% confident of actually remembering my letters (as in getting the right letters for that sticker).

As for pure memo ability I don't think this is a problem and looks promising. I think memorisation will be a strong point and my execution will be weaker. For info I used a journey and a POA based memo. Can still remember both solves now so I might be over memoing if thats possible? After a while I think I could try corners visually alone

I'm not convinced with my poor execution that shouldn't just change to M2 edges at this stage.

EDIT: I think I missed the y at the end of one of my J2 perms on edges on solve 1
 
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Third full BLD try, memorized, and came close, but I slipped when doing a J Permutation, on one of the last three algorithims(I had a 2x2x3 block in the end!).
 
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I had a rather epic fail on megaminx BLD a couple of days ago. First scramble in this week's weekly competition.

DNF [1:21.58.90, 42:45]

First, on the memo, I memorized incorrectly several times, mainly memorizing orientation, but also one critical time with permutation, because I was using my new MF8 megaminx in dim light, and in dim light you can't tell the difference between light yellow and white. So I'd see what I thought were white stickers in the right places and think the pieces were correctly oriented, and then wind up with impossible pairings of clockwise and counterclockwise corners, or odd numbers of edges. Eventually I got it all straightened out and had a memorization that was at least possibly correct. I thought about giving up several times while memorizing because it was going so badly and taking so long, but I just couldn't bring myself to give up, since it would be my only attempt this week.

So anyway, on to the solve phase; I got through most of the corners without too much problem, but then an edge popped out. It took me about 5 minutes to grope around and find it on the floor (I held the megaminx with my left hand the whole time with thumb on my piece 'Y' and index on 'X' so I wouldn't lose my orientation), but I eventually found it and randomly stuck it back in. Again I thought about giving up when I couldn't find the piece, but I figured I had already spent 45 minutes memorizing the thing, and I couldn't give up now!

So then I tried to go as fast as I can and started into edges. I got most of the way through permutation of edges (my final step) when I realized I had a duplicate letter (actually, I had broken a cycle to the same piece twice, so the letter appeared in my memo 4 times!). I thought about it for a while, and eventually realized the memorization I used at my third location was actually one of the bad memorizations from when I had confused colors during memorization. But I could not remember the correct memorization at all. I did remember the other 4 locations, though, so I worked out what the missing letters were by going through the alphabet one letter at a time, and eventually worked out what the missing letters were. Once I did that, I finally remembered the missing memorization. So I undid 12 pieces to get past the bad memorization I had used, and then redid them correctly. I finally finished, pulled off the blindfold, and the result?

One edge flipped. I put it in the wrong way. Everything else was right. Ugh.

Anyway, it was nice to know that I got it completely correct, except my bad luck of putting the piece in wrong.
 

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I had a rather epic fail on megaminx BLD a couple of days ago. First scramble in this week's weekly competition.

DNF [1:21.58.90, 42:45]

First, on the memo, I memorized incorrectly several times, mainly memorizing orientation, but also one critical time with permutation, because I was using my new MF8 megaminx in dim light, and in dim light you can't tell the difference between light yellow and white. So I'd see what I thought were white stickers in the right places and think the pieces were correctly oriented, and then wind up with impossible pairings of clockwise and counterclockwise corners, or odd numbers of edges. Eventually I got it all straightened out and had a memorization that was at least possibly correct. I thought about giving up several times while memorizing because it was going so badly and taking so long, but I just couldn't bring myself to give up, since it would be my only attempt this week.

So anyway, on to the solve phase; I got through most of the corners without too much problem, but then an edge popped out. It took me about 5 minutes to grope around and find it on the floor (I held the megaminx with my left hand the whole time with thumb on my piece 'Y' and index on 'X' so I wouldn't lose my orientation), but I eventually found it and randomly stuck it back in. Again I thought about giving up when I couldn't find the piece, but I figured I had already spent 45 minutes memorizing the thing, and I couldn't give up now!

So then I tried to go as fast as I can and started into edges. I got most of the way through permutation of edges (my final step) when I realized I had a duplicate letter (actually, I had broken a cycle to the same piece twice, so the letter appeared in my memo 4 times!). I thought about it for a while, and eventually realized the memorization I used at my third location was actually one of the bad memorizations from when I had confused colors during memorization. But I could not remember the correct memorization at all. I did remember the other 4 locations, though, so I worked out what the missing letters were by going through the alphabet one letter at a time, and eventually worked out what the missing letters were. Once I did that, I finally remembered the missing memorization. So I undid 12 pieces to get past the bad memorization I had used, and then redid them correctly. I finally finished, pulled off the blindfold, and the result?

One edge flipped. I put it in the wrong way. Everything else was right. Ugh.

Anyway, it was nice to know that I got it completely correct, except my bad luck of putting the piece in wrong.
:eek: Wow.
 
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