Blindsolving Failure Thread

[RyanReese09]

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.

Perhaps that's me too. The multi competition I went to and failed I got 1:40 and 1:50 BLD DNFs..slow either way you look at it, and the multi went terrible. I'm hoping I have off days too .

My failure-Haven't done a multi since my last competition. Partly Mikes fault ;D.

 

[Mike Hughey]

My failure-Haven't done a multi since my last competition. Partly Mikes fault ;D.

You're welcome.

But I guess I can one-up you here by giving my most recent failure from last night (which I did in addition to all those 3x3x3 BLD attempts): 7/11 in 60:00 for the weekly competition. My worst result in ages. I couldn't remember one image for the edges on one cube, and I took the whole time trying to remember it. The other cubes were all really close, though.

 

[Julian]

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.

I remember you saying recently that you think you do better in competition is because you're well rested; I believe you said you do BLD stuff late at night.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I remember you saying recently that you think you do better in competition is because you're well rested; I believe you said you do BLD stuff late at night.

Being well-rested mainly helps with speed - I can't be really super fast (relatively speaking, for me) without being well-rested, especially on big attempts (multi or 5x5x5 BLD or bigger). But as for accuracy, even that doesn't seem to matter - I can go without sleep for almost 48 hours and still hit 100% accuracy on a big multi effort, if it's a good day, or I can be very well-rested and still have terrible accuracy, if it's a bad day. It's really surprising to me that this is true.

Oh, and I can even be fast on a 3x3x3 BLD when sleep-deprived; it's only bigger efforts that I can't be fast on if I'm not well-rested.

I did that 7/11 multi last night from 3 to 4 AM. I was definitely sleep-deprived for that one.

 

[RyanReese09]

I'm not saying I don't stay up late, but why do you? Don't you have work in the morning or something?

 

[Mike Hughey]

I'm not saying I don't stay up late, but why do you? Don't you have work in the morning or something?

Yes I do, I really shouldn't stay up so late. I just can't resist sometimes. I'm going to get some good sleep tonight. Good night.

 

[MrMoney]

Thank you for the support guys! It means so much to me

My goals for the rest of the week: Do another MBLD attempt (Try 15 cubes for Michael´s race) and try to do 100 BLD solves. I hope I will find the time as I am going to my uncles this weekend. Oh how I love BLD

 

[Zane_C]

I'm getting a lot worse at BLD and will continue to. I want to practice a lot, but school work is getting in my way.

Today for once I actually did a lot of BLD.
I've been slow with converting pieces to images and after that, the images won't stick.

Earlier today in the multi race, I got 3/5 in 14 minutes. For the weekly comp I gave up after it took me 3 minutes to memo the first 2 cubes of a 4 cube attempt.

I've DNF'd both 5BLD attempts, the first was 14 minutes and I gave up on the second because I had much difficulty memorising the x-centers.

The only time my images worked was with 4BLD. I only solved 1/3 attempts, a 6 minute success and a 5:xx and 4:11 DNF.

 

[RyanReese09]

5/11 in 54:45.88 on video.

4 off by a 2flip or 2twist
2 off by 2 edges and 2 corners.

Slow and bad. First serious multi since my fail at my last comp. Stupid flipped edges and twisted corners in place. I need an improved system.

 

[tim]

For the weekly comp I gave up after it took me 3 minutes to memo the first 2 cubes of a 4 cube attempt.

Huh? Why? 3 minutes for 2 cubes isn't that bad.

Stupid flipped edges and twisted corners in place. I need an improved system.

I hate them, too. I think everyone does. How do you memorize them at the moment?

 

[RyanReese09]

Huh? Why? 3 minutes for 2 cubes isn't that bad.



I hate them, too. I think everyone does. How do you memorize them at the moment?

For flipped edges I use 1 letter per image (because chances are there won't be more than 1 flipped). I just place it on the ceiling. But the problem is remembering to look in that location. Most of the time I forget. The one time I did remember in taht multi I had Riachu zap everyone. So I remembered that way.

Right now for corners I just memorize a single letter and place it in the middle of the room and depending on where i setup for the pure twist I'll do headlights or chameleon. Hard to explain and I'm rushed for time.

I'm thinking of doing 1 of 2 things
Safety-Reshoot the twisted via Y/J perm back twisted
2) I hold YO. So say the yellow sticker of the buffer will end up headlights orientation, on the left. I'll memorize B (that sticker is B for my scheme) and then I'll have the D or U sticker of the other twisting piece. So say my DFR needs to be twisted. Say the white sticker of that is on the right. That's T. So I'd make the letter pair image AT (ATlas) in my location. So I could F2 setup. Or R2 setup into chameleon. Hope that makes sense. I'm thinking this option would be much smarter/faster.

 

[TMOY]

Did it ever happen to you ? I just got a 1:24.46 DNF by 1 twisted corner AND 1 flipped edge

During the execution of corners, one of them twiisted in place by acident (I noticed it but I was not sure if it has actually twisted or not); later in the executon, one edge popped and I put it back the wrong way.

 

[RyanReese09]

Spoiler

I just realized I did a wrong example in my above post. I say B T and my example and I give ATlas as the pair. Meant BooT. Not that anyone noticed/cared about the post but I'm nitpicky

 

[cmhardw]

I'm getting a lot worse at BLD and will continue to. I want to practice a lot, but school work is getting in my way.

Any practice is good practice. It's days like the ones you just had that make you better. Getting a really awesome solve in BLD does not make you improve. It's the bad days and the horrible DNFs solves that make you improve.

I know that probably sounds weird, but in all my time of BLD cubing I've found this to consistently be true. Do you remember any of your personal best solves from a year or more ago? I don't. But, I still remember most of my really bad DNFs. This is because they taught me how to get better.

Don't lose motivation. Days like this one are what make you better.

 

[Zane_C]

Thanks Chris, I'll especially take note of your last sentence.

 

[MrMoney]

Ugh... Guess I broke my weekly streak of 13cubes MBLD....

8/13 in 1:01.35 ... That was horrible. And the thing is, these scrambles were normal and maybe even abit easy. A LOT less twists and flips then last week. I guess it is true that you have good days and bad.

I´m scared. Will probably just try a small MBLD in Sweden, like 10 cubes or so

 

[Micael]

Yea, your streak was really incredible. Still a nice effort.

I remember last week, there was twisted pieces everywhere!

 

[tim]

18/20 in 56:07 (33min memo)

Messed up a 2-flip algorithm and failed at undoing two corner targets. ARGH!

5x5x5 DNF in 11:33 (5:00 memo). I was off by a center 3-cycle. That would've beaten my old PB by two minutes .

 

[Xishem]

18/20 in 56:07 (33min memo)

:O Wow.

I didn't know that WR performance was a failure now-a-days.

 

[Sebastien]

hehe, this would still be world record.