Blindsolving Failure Thread

[AbstractAlg]

it's memo, or corners, or edges.

1) memo:
2.1 you remember wrong sticker. example, if it's red-white, and red on it, you accidentally remember the white one. that happened to me a lot before. but that could lead only to misoriented pieces. the permutation is good, but you flip some of the edges remembering wrong cycle.
2.2 wrong tracking pieces - very common problem at the beginning of blindfold cubing

2) edges:
2.1 wrong setup - that can lead to many problems. permutation is not good or you do setup for the opposite edge, so you don't do setup for red-white, but white-red, but that would also leave you with some flipped edges.
2.2 not undoing setups - you forgot to undo setup
2.3 M slice flipped - if you aren't careful enough with M slice it would also give you incorrect permutation.

3) corners:
3.1 not undoing setups properly
3.2 wrong setup
3.3 forgetting where you are at the moment ("have I finished alg", "is there cancelation", "whatthe?"..) or not executing algorithm (Yperm) good.

These are mistakes that I made before, but with practice it all becomes pretty natural and mistake-free.
Figure out what are you doing wrong, it must be something wrong.
Good luck.

 

[conn9]

29.91, DNF(14.23), DNF(38.19), 29.76, 40.90, 36.90, DNF(43.29), DNF(36.28)
did some solves tonight, this was the best part :|

I got a 24 earlier in the day but it was easy (1x2x2 block solved)

Can you try this scramble I got before? : F2 D L2 D' L2 F2 D L2 B2 R2 U2 F' L' R' D R F R2 U B2 L2

 

[chardison1980]

it's memo, or corners, or edges.

1) memo:
2.1 you remember wrong sticker. example, if it's red-white, and red on it, you accidentally remember the white one. that happened to me a lot before. but that could lead only to misoriented pieces. the permutation is good, but you flip some of the edges remembering wrong cycle.
2.2 wrong tracking pieces - very common problem at the beginning of blindfold cubing

2) edges:
2.1 wrong setup - that can lead to many problems. permutation is not good or you do setup for the opposite edge, so you don't do setup for red-white, but white-red, but that would also leave you with some flipped edges.
2.2 not undoing setups - you forgot to undo setup
2.3 M slice flipped - if you aren't careful enough with M slice it would also give you incorrect permutation.

3) corners:
3.1 not undoing setups properly
3.2 wrong setup
3.3 forgetting where you are at the moment ("have I finished alg", "is there cancelation", "whatthe?"..) or not executing algorithm (Yperm) good.

These are mistakes that I made before, but with practice it all becomes pretty natural and mistake-free.
Figure out what are you doing wrong, it must be something wrong.
Good luck.

i figured it out i think lol
i think its when i break into a new cycle, when im going through my memo, i was told to skip my buffer when its solved as before i would just add it into my memo. for figuring out parity
i just did 6 of the same scrabmles memos and solves 3 sites 3 blind, and what i think i did and am doin is when i break into a new cycle, im forgetting to solve the new sticker, and go on to the next one, so essentually messing up my centers.

 

[AbstractAlg]

so, you skipped both buffer and next pieces? neat.
good to know where is the mistake, now practice.

 

[Mike Hughey]

8x8x8 BLD, fourth try: DNF [1:14:48.79, 40:35, 3iX, 6mO]

It looked like I did the wrong orbit for one set of 3 obliques. Not sure what went wrong with the inner X centers; I tried to figure them out but they didn't make sense. Oh well.

 

[blackzabbathfan]

1/2 multiblind because i picked up one cube with the wrong orientation.

 

[JyH]

1/2 multiblind because i picked up one cube with the wrong orientation.

That was me... Your second cube was off because you had two twisted corners or something like that.

 

[JasonK]

Took a break from 4BLD for a week:

DNF(15:13.22) off by 2 corners and 2 centres

Was determined to get a success so took my time with memo and reviewed a bit more than in previous attempts. I still wasn't confident with the centre memo though so to only be off by 2 was quite surprising. The corners were just from doing parity wrong though. :fp

 

[Cubenovice]

4 BLD: popped during very first slice move for center comm, cube crumble...

Just before the attempt I was thinking about how this mini QJ had never ever popped

 

[AbstractAlg]

4 BLD: popped during very first slice move for center comm, cube crumble...

Just before the attempt I was thinking about how this mini QJ had never ever popped

irony... it makes you smile... bummer.

 

[conn9]

My first ever attempt at whole cube 3BLD, it had corner parity as well, and it ended up being solved except for just 2 edges flipped! I'd never memoed edges before as well, so I'd call this more an accomplishment than a failure! I'm already loving BLD.

 

[blackzabbathfan]

That was me... Your second cube was off because you had two twisted corners or something like that.

It was a different MBLD attempt at my house the next day.

 

[conn9]

2nd BLD attempt, I was one alg off grr DNF(7:38.37) Don't know how though.

Time for a 3rd attempt.

 

[AbstractAlg]

First try 4BLD - DNF(time-unknown).

Memo: centers, edges, corners.
Solve: corners, centers (2 left, but I forgot which ones so I knew that cube won't be solved and that pissed me so I stopped although I could finish up all the edges.

However, pretty nice, I was amazed how well I understand comms.

Method: corners - comms, centers - comms, edges - r2.

P. S. did first sighted 5BLD solve. OMG, I LOVE BLD.

 

[Maskow]

My first try to 23 cubes in multi: 19/23 in 58:24.20 [33:15]
2x I skipped one word in the cycle
2x I don't know where I did mistake

Knowing my accuracy I think that the month will pass or two (or three) before I will do it completely : F

 

[Jakube]

My first try to 23 cubes in multi: 19/23 in 58:24.20 [33:15]
2x I skipped one word in the cycle
2x I don't know where I did mistake

Knowing my accuracy I think that the month will pass or two (or three) before I will do it completely : F

So fast. How many attempts do you do every week?

 

[Maskow]

In this week I did 5 (I count only attempts with 20+ cubes) but it isn't a rule. There are a weeks when I did only 1-2 and weeks when I try to do one attempt per day.

 

[kinch2002]

In this week I did 5 (I count only attempts with 20+ cubes) but it isn't a rule. There are a weeks when I did only 1-2 and weeks when I try to do one attempt per day.

That's crazy. You must enjoy doing attempts quite a lot!

 

[Jakube]

In this week I did 5 (I count only attempts with 20+ cubes) but it isn't a rule. There are a weeks when I did only 1-2 and weeks when I try to do one attempt per day.

Wow! This explains you fast progress. I don`t think anyone did this much multi practice before.
When I tried managing 15 cubes in 1 hour, I did 3 attempts per week, currently only 1 per week.
Keep up the good work and you will soon beat Zane.

 

[Mike Hughey]

8x8x8 BLD, fifth try: DNF [1:13:25.41, 37:05, 6iO 2C] (still no successes)

For the 6 obliques, I was able to determine certainly that I applied one commutator to the wrong orbit, accounting for all 6 pieces. The corners being twisted was inexcusable - I really should spend a few more seconds memorizing corners before I start - this is ridiculous.

I realize that considering my 7x7x7 BLD accuracy is around 20%, I shouldn't feel bad about missing my first 5 tries at 8x8x8, but this is starting to get disappointing.