Cubing FML

[Georgeanderre]

or how about when you're in the middle of the monster parity algorithm while solving a larger cube with the reduction method, and you get distracted, and the whole cube gets messed up? fml I HATE THAT!!

You mean "Holy Grail Parity" and yes this has happened to me... I just kept turning while talking, one of the joys of muscle memory is you don't need your eyes or even your brain, your fingers do the work

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What's worse is forgetting the 2R' in the middle... messes up quite a lot, but nothing a few commutators can't rectify

 

[ThtDarnNeighbor]

i need to reassemble my maru 4x4

yep.

 

[Endgame]

Was having a very lucky solve, then my mother her cat decides to sit on the Space-bar. FML

>pops of 2 edges of a ShengShou 4x4 v3
>breaks cube
FML

 

[antoineccantin]

I got a huge POP during feet (doing 3rd pair), so I DNF'ed it. I finish that pair (there was only 3 moves left), and then there was a pair solved on top of it's slot, I do sledge to insert it and orient edges, and I get LL skip...

I got the pop around 20ish. I could of gotten sub-30...
I would have had a counting 45 in avg5.

 

[NoHacer]

I just finished a solve and was about to stop my stackmat timer... and the cube lands on the power switch and turns it off.

 

[Michael Womack]

I just finished a solve and was about to stop my stackmat timer... and the cube lands on the power switch and turns it off.

Some time I acidently hit the reset button after a solve on my timer

 

[ben1996123]

I might as well post this here because someboooooodeeh closed the general failures thread.

3x3 with feet is harder than 3x3 bld. I think I've had 1 feet success before about 3 years ago but I don't remember doing it, so I'm not going to count it. I just tried my second attempt ever and I got a pop. I actually managed to get the piece in (with a torpedo ) in under a minute, but the next turn, popped 2 corners and an edge. 3 F2L slots solved in 5 minutes. I might even say that 4x4 bld is easier than 3x3 feet. failure.

 

[timeless]

(21.01) D2 F R' L2 F' R2 B D B F' U2 R2 D F2 U2 D' R2 D F2 U2 F2 R B' U2 D'
wouldve been sub 20 OH PB if i didnt drop the cubing while doing U perm

 

[Ekid]

Don't Buy Cubes Of Lightake

Don't buy cubes of lightake me and my sister ordered 2 magics from them (cause of the free shipping) in april i got mine in june and my sister got something in the mail from them 2 days ago and it wasn't a magic it was a pineapple thing tell me if some thing like this happend to you

 

[uniacto]

today, I was doing a ao5, and on the last one, I felt something crawling on my leg. trying not to think about it, i kept cubing until i finished the last average, and when i checked, there was a huge spider just sitting on the back of my calf. FML

 

[Michael Womack]

I ordered a Zhanchi and 2 sets of cubsmith Half-Bright 5x5 sets from Cubedepot. The next day I was in the prosses of removing the stickers from my main 5x5 then I got an E-mail from Cubedepot saying they were out of the Half-bright set they gave me 2 options one was the get the regular set or refund my money I got a refund. FML I had to get the stickers directly from Cubesmith.

 

[Endgame]

Don't buy cubes of lightake me and my sister ordered 2 magics from them (cause of the free shipping) in april i got mine in june and my sister got something in the mail from them 2 days ago and it wasn't a magic it was a pineapple thing tell me if some thing like this happend to you

no

 

[5BLD]

Try to dye an old white cube black
The pieces begin melting in the hot water
Fml

 

[Yuxuibbs]

^
tried to make my white lunhui a black lunhui with permanent marker and now the stickers are black/almost black (tried using water, alcohol, crc and stuff to get the rest of the marker off but it doesn't work)
FML

 

[Alcuber]

In the middle of a great 4x4 solve, could have possibly been a PB, I look down on 3x3 stage (couldn't resist ) and see the time of the solve before...

 

[KCuber]

i rarely forget to start a stackmat timer, but i did it TWICE in my last comp:fp

 

[CarlBrannen]

I ordered three QJ minis from Lightake in mid June. I look in the mail box for them starting a week later. I wonder WTF? Mid July I get an email telling me they've shipped. By mid August I'm accusing my neighbors of stealing my mail (because they don't like the clicking noises at 2AM). August 19 the package arrives. It's way too small to hold three QJs. I think "WTF". There's a little note inside saying they're out of stock and will send the remaining later.

I take apart the one QJ mini, carefully clean all the parting edges, lubricate the crappy screws (which don't have washers and are obviously going to wear through the thin plastic) and put a drop of 30K silicone oil in the mechanism. I'm doing this at my desk, wondering if the boss is going to wander in and catch me obviously not doing anything useful. But I'm just too excited to see what this guy will be like.

Result: The screws bind so the cube doesn't always have the same amount of slack. The screws have such a coarse thread that you can't fine adjust the tension easily. And it doesn't just pop it Jiffy Pops (tm). What did I expect with a $3 cube from a Hong Kong company with free shipping?

FMCL.

 

[Hunter]

 

[ThomasJE]

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I got a 20.05 avg12 yesterday.

 

[spyr0th3dr4g0n]

I got 3 20.0x roux solves in an avg of 12, and still haven't sub 20 a roux solve.