Blindsolving Failure Thread

QCcuber4 said:
I'm pretty sure I posted that a while back, but for those who were watching the bld event at ToF2010,

right near the end of my solve, 3x3x3 bld, as I was doing my last corner Y-perm, my BU edge popped.... would've been my first try and first success in a bld event. ended up being my first failure.
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Same thing happened to me at TOW, except it was 3 moves into the solve :P
 
Almost had my very first 3x3x3 BLD solve today (EVER)... But apparently some of my set-up moves must have been incorrect, because at the end, only two edges were wrong (correct position, incorrect orientation). Everything else was correctly solved (including corners and all the rest of the edges). Closest I've ever come to a complete 3x3x3 BLD solve, though. It gave me the feeling of "so close... Yet so far away..." :(
 
Phlippieskezer said:
Almost had my very first 3x3x3 BLD solve today (EVER)... But apparently some of my set-up moves must have been incorrect, because at the end, only two edges were wrong (correct position, incorrect orientation). Everything else was correctly solved (including corners and all the rest of the edges). Closest I've ever come to a complete 3x3x3 BLD solve, though. It gave me the feeling of "so close... Yet so far away..." :(
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Two edges flipped most likely means that you didn't notice there was a flipped edge somewhere while memoing.
 
Julian said:
Two edges flipped most likely means that you didn't notice there was a flipped edge somewhere while memoing.
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That can be it, but it's also possible if you are solving directly (as you would with Classic Pochmann) and you memorize the wrong sticker of the correct piece somewhere. I'm actually more likely to make this mistake, since I take steps to avoid missing flipped edges.

It is fairly unlikely that it was a setup move mistake, unless you count setting up the wrong sticker of a piece as a setup move mistake, which I guess is possible.
 
To be fair, I'm not entirely sure what the mistake was, but I do know I definitely made a mistake. I think I should leave it up to the experts to deduce what it might have been (wrong sticker, right piece sounds plausible). I'm finding this to be my only mistake in all of my blindsolves (like I said, yet to be successful). Every time it's nothing but a whole bunch of incorrectly oriented pieces, almost never in the wrong location (seems to happen mostly with edges, hence I can solve a 2x2 no problem). I seriously need to work on that, it seems. >.<
 
Perhaps you should try solving two pieces at a time, just to find your mistake. Scramble a cube, solve the corners, then quickly identify the first two pieces to fix with edges, close your eyes, and solve them. Then see if you got them right. If so, go on to the next two pieces and try again. Keep doing this until you find a piece that is flipped in place or you solve the cube. If you never seem to make the mistake of having flipped edges, then maybe you're just not noticing flipped-in-place edges when you're memorizing. If you do get a flipped edge somewhere along the line, think about what you did and see if you can find your mistake. You might really figure out what kind of mental trick is messing you up that way.

It sounds to me like you're close to having lots of successes - you just need to overcome this problem. Analyzing your mistakes can really help in a situation like this.
 
Thank you. I tried that, and I think it's due to error during memorisation; choosing the wrong sticker/letter.
I.e. My "W" and "X" are on the same piece (LD). Choosing "X" when I should choose "W" is an example of my type of error.

I'll just need to practise that, then.
 
Phlippieskezer said:
Thank you. I tried that, and I think it's due to error during memorisation; choosing the wrong sticker/letter.
I.e. My "W" and "X" are on the same piece (LD). Choosing "X" when I should choose "W" is an example of my type of error.

I'll just need to practise that, then.
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I used to do the same thing a lot. Especially when I first transitioned to M2. Even during untimed safety solves where I just wanted successes.

It'll go away.
 
To be honest it was like 7 hours ago so I don't remember. Possible. But I am feeling more confident because I narrowed down a possible reason for me DNF'ing because of corners. Sometimes when going through my letters I would go to the next piece and for some reason my brain would skip over the letter V.
 
5x5x5 Blindfolded DNF (~28 min)
I did this for the Weekly competition 2011-13.
It was scramble 2: D2 Uw2 Lw2 Rw' F2 Uw2 Lw2 B Bw Fw L2 Lw D' Dw' Uw' B2 U2 L B2 R Uw2 Fw2 U2 B Uw2 L' U' L2 Lw2 U2 B' Bw' L' Uw2 B2 F' L Uw Lw2 D Lw2 Bw Fw D2 Dw F R' B' R B2 Bw' Fw2 U2 L Lw Rw B2 U2 Lw R2

I know that I failed at a simple argorithm when solving the inner edges (in the last minute of solving). The result was:


After doing S2 only the middle edges are wrong. How can this happen?
I use M2 for edges, there´s no S2 in the hole execution.
 
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