Blindsolving Failure Thread

Should go ahead and post this. I was pissed when it happened.

55.xx DNF. 23 memo. No solved edges/no new cycles for edges. 1 solved corner. Did 2 letters for corners, and then I noticed for the entire right layer, I could just z' and E perm. I actually noticed that while memo'ing edges.

I DNFd on corners...I somehow mis-memo'd the letters I had to execute (I presume. I don't want to know how nubbish of a mistake I made)

PB DNF.
 
Something strange I got in a DNF on the weekend. Completed all my edges, then R-Perm for parity, started old-Pochmann corners.

I FORGOT HOW TO DO A Y-PERM. Seriously. I'm like WTF?

Bearing in mind, I can do full PLL, and several times a day, I'll grab the cube on my desk and flick through 10-20 Y, T or J-Perms (trying to improve finger speed). I do at least 100 Y-Perms every day. I can do it slow, fast, whatever.

But, in the middle of a solve, all going well, timer going. I could remember the cube, but I FORGOT HOW TO DO A Y-Perm. Sat there for 30 seconds, and thought it was F, R U2', R', U2.... Realised it was wrong, then I did another one, same incorrect execution before ragequitting.

Does this ever happen do you guys? What the hell is it? And what to do to prevent this?

(For the record, re-scrambled and re-attempted it without a timer, solved the thing fine).
 
RyanReese09 said:
1:00.93 success. 1 corner comm in it, executed slow due to awkward LUD moves. FML. Part of BLD race.
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I feel your pain. Mine was not as close, 1:04.16, but I had a really bad lockup in it on one corner commutator. I guess if not for the lockup it still would have been above a minute, but it was still close enough that I'm still shaking. I got a 1:08.33 4 solves before it.

There are some really nice scrambles towards the end - aron should really do the rest. Several of those are substantially easier than the scramble he got the 22 on. :eek:
 
Yeah I just went in there to see if you had updated your post with any, and noticed you did 20 more! I've done 23 today already. I'm at 68 or 69 or whatever. I plan on hopefully finishing today. My brain can still take some heat.

I was going to do the rest with corner comms, but I'm not done with my little "project" I have going on, concerning them, so I decided to just do them. Wouldbe nice practice anyway :D.
 
RyanReese09 said:
I plan on hopefully finishing today. My brain can still take some heat.
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I added another 20 since you checked, but I'm saving the last 10 for tomorrow, in hopes I might do better then. I might do more 3x3x3 BLD solves today, but they'll just be practice solves - they won't count. :) (Well, other than the multi for the weekly competition that I'm going to do later tonight.)
 
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Woha, nice time Zane!

I just tried a slightly bigger attempt and failed:
12/15 + 5x5x5 in 1:03h. Memo for the 15 cubes was 23 minutes. It would've been a very fast 15 cubes attempt if i had skipped the 5x5x5. But i didn't want to change my plan :).
The mistakes on the three cubes were:
- memorized the wrong sticker (=> two disoriented corners)
- forgot to memorize a flipped edge (=> two flipped edges)
- no idea - it was off by a corner 3-cycle and it wasn't a memorization mistake
 
tim said:
Woha, nice time Zane!

I just tried a slightly bigger attempt and failed:
12/15 + 5x5x5 in 1:03h. Memo for the 15 cubes was 23 minutes. It would've been a very fast 15 cubes attempt if i had skipped the 5x5x5. But i didn't want to change my plan :).
The mistakes on the three cubes were:
- memorized the wrong sticker (=> two disoriented corners)
- forgot to memorize a flipped edge (=> two flipped edges)
- no idea - it was off by a corner 3-cycle and it wasn't a memorization mistake
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Tim: You are seriously freakish :D When is the next biiiig German competition? I want to come but not for a 1day comp :-(
 
Zane_C said:
23 minutes to memo 15 cubes is impressive, so I'm guessing if you attempted just those cubes the time could've/would've been sub-40?
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Thanks. Yes, it would've been sub-40. I usually need about a minute per cube.

Zane_C said:
What times do you usually get for single 5BLD attempts?
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Usually my times are around 14 to 15 minutes. But this attempt was particularly slow. The center images just didn't stick... :(
And another reason for the looong 5x5x5 part: I went through all 15 cubes before i started memorizing the 5x5x5.

MrMoney said:
When is the next biiiig German competition? I want to come but not for a 1day comp :-(
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I don't know. Probably Aachen Open next year.
 
Ramadan Sulejman weekly 21:

MBLD: 13/13 in 59:41 = 13 points

I am mentally wrecked after that MBLD attempt, all those cubes with 3-4 corners twisted in every scramble or buffers in place... The memo was 30min and then refresh for another 15 minutes. This is no good as I will certainly be slower in competition. Need to speed things up but not sure how. This is my 4th(?) week with all 13 cubes success, pluss some 9´ers where I DNF a few cubes. In those attempts I speed up ALOT and that makes my DNF some cubes. I think 3min each cube is perfect and makes me solve the cubes every time.. Whether it is 3 cubes or 13 :S
 
MrMoney said:
Ramadan Sulejman weekly 21:

MBLD: 13/13 in 59:41 = 13 points
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Um, I"m sorry, but I think this is the wrong thread. Anyone who considers a 13/13 in regulation time to be a failure is too good for their own good, in my opinion. :)

Oh, and congratulations on all your successes.

Oh, and I'm sometimes faster in competition than I am at home; maybe that will happen to you too! I find that it's not the conditions that matter; it's just the day - some days are good and others are bad. For me, there's no telling which days will be good days and which will be bad ones until I actually try a solve. Whether I'm at a competition or not doesn't really seem to matter.
 
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