Blindsolving Failure Thread

Does a rage quit count as failure? I'm doing plain old 3Blind. I'm memo-ing.
And memo-ing.
And still memo-ing.

I rage quit my memo and stopped the timer at 4:40.27...

It wasn't even a hard memo or anything!! Corners had 2 cycles and edges had just 1! UGH. My brain just WOULD NOT memorize the letters. Grrr. Honestly, it's a pretty easy scramble... D2 U2 F L2 F D2 B' U2 F2 D2 L2 U B U F L' B2 D' U B
Sigh...
 
Ickathu said:
Does a rage quit count as failure? I'm doing plain old 3Blind. I'm memo-ing.
And memo-ing.
And still memo-ing.

I rage quit my memo and stopped the timer at 4:40.27...

It wasn't even a hard memo or anything!! Corners had 2 cycles and edges had just 1! UGH. My brain just WOULD NOT memorize the letters. Grrr. Honestly, it's a pretty easy scramble... D2 U2 F L2 F D2 B' U2 F2 D2 L2 U B U F L' B2 D' U B
Sigh...
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Ouch, that sucks. Do you think there was anything distracting you? Maybe try and shut that off next time.
 
megaminxwin said:
Ouch, that sucks. Do you think there was anything distracting you? Maybe try and shut that off next time.
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I can't think of anything that was particularly distracting. The setting was the same as it always is for blind. my family was talking amongst themselves, but I was in the basement with the door shut, so I could just hear voices. It was no different than it ever is... On the bright side though, I did a blind solve today with one of the basketball games on right in front of me, and that didn't bother me at all. I've decided that I might try to start practicing blind in front of TVs so that when I do bld at a competition, the noises there will not be as distracting.
 
Ickathu said:
I can't think of anything that was particularly distracting. The setting was the same as it always is for blind. my family was talking amongst themselves, but I was in the basement with the door shut, so I could just hear voices. It was no different than it ever is... On the bright side though, I did a blind solve today with one of the basketball games on right in front of me, and that didn't bother me at all. I've decided that I might try to start practicing blind in front of TVs so that when I do bld at a competition, the noises there will not be as distracting.
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Ah, yeah, I hate it when that happens. But that's probably a good idea. It helped my self-confidence about blindsolving when I did a solve on the bus, with about 20 rowdy and loud schoolkids watching. Took me a few attempts over several days, but when I did it, their reaction was bloody hilarious.
 
9/10 MBLD for the weekly competition. I screwed up a Y perm on the 5th cube. Time was 57:24.13. I was so mad when I screwed that Y perm up. My camera also never started recording. (I blame that on not being able to see when I don't have glasses on :P)
 
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Rubiks560 said:
9/10 MBLD for the weekly competition. I screwed up a Y perm on the 5th cube. Time was 57:24.13. I was so mad when I screwed that Y perm up. My camera also never started recording. (I blame that on not being able to see when I don't have glasses on :P)
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20/20 by nats? Do 1 attempt per day of summer, add a cube every 2-3 days or something.
 
Mike Hughey said:
8x8x8 BLD eighth attempt: DNF [1:15:13.82, 37:40, 3mW 3oO]

Done using the blindfold race scramble. Just six pieces wrong - I'm usually really close, but I still haven't gotten one right yet. It was sad - this one felt really good. Maybe next weekend.
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Damn. Especially considering it was your eighth attempt. That would've been amazing if you'd succeeded.

Right now, I've been failing at trying to learn 4x4 blind. I think I'll leave that for a bit.
 
Mike Hughey said:
8x8x8 BLD eighth attempt: DNF [1:15:13.82, 37:40, 3mW 3oO]

Done using the blindfold race scramble. Just six pieces wrong - I'm usually really close, but I still haven't gotten one right yet. It was sad - this one felt really good. Maybe next weekend.
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Wow! I barely have the patients to speedsolve an 8x8. Good luck next week!
 
Another RAGE QUIT
I know why this one happened though. My parents aren't home so my dog was barking like crazy. (Ever heard a beagle "bark"? It's more like a whiny howl that is extraordinarily loud)
Donned the blindfold at 2:01 (usual memo is 1:20-1:35), got distracted during the corners, screwed them up, totally forgot my edge memo or whether or not I had parity, DNF'd at 2:57....

AUGH!! I really need ear muffs/plugs...
 
6x6x6 BLD (for the weekly competition): DNF [25:11.79, 14:37, 2iX].

Off by just 2 inner X centers - I memorized S instead of R (I executed correctly for my memorization, but memorized wrong).

Memo was a little slow, but as a result was very secure. Execution was actually faster than Jakube's UWR solve's execution - this was just 10:35 execution! I had probably less than 10 pauses throughout the whole solve - I was almost always able to think ahead.

And while I'm at it, I should also mention I've been missing BLD solves right and left this week. Funny how just as you think you're starting to get really solid with accuracy on BLD, you suddenly start missing everything.
 
8x8x8 BLD ninth attempt: DNF [1:16:20.28, 40:39, 3oO 3iO].

Six pieces again. This time, both were definitely memorization mistakes. On the outer obliques, I memorized HL when it was actually LH; after I was done, I realized I could still remember them visually, so I know for sure that was my mistake. For the inner obliques, I realize now that I memorized F twice - I memorized F instead of E.

A funny but frustrating thing happened on this attempt - I accidentally printed out last week's scramble (from the blindfold race, because they were both on the same page of posts). I sat down, got situated, started the video camera, and started memorizing. I memorized the first image and thought, "wow, what a coincidence - I think that was my first image last week". Then I memorized the next two images and realized the whole first location was the same. I was dreading what that meant, so I went ahead and memorized the second location too just to make sure that it really was a duplicate. It was. So I quit, and tried to guess what the initial orientation of the cube was and tried to apply the reverse scramble. It didn't work - I'm pretty sure I guessed the original orientation wrong. So then I had to do a speedsolve so I could try again. I don't know how long it took, but I do know that it took me 19:10 from the time I started memorizing, through the time I tried to apply the reverse scramble, to the time I finished the speedsolve. It felt fast - I suspect it was my fastest speedsolve - probably sub-13.

So maybe the most impressive thing about the attempt is that I scrambled an 8x8x8 correctly two weeks in a row. :)
 
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