Blindsolving Failure Thread

First ever 2 tries at 3BLD

I wasn't timing the first one, but about 20-25 minutes I guess. off by 6 edges and... ahem... 7 corners :p

I timed the second one; 13:42 (7:20), off 3 corners and 2 edges, will try again!
 
First ever 2 tries at 3BLD

I wasn't timing the first one, but about 20-25 minutes I guess. off by 6 edges and... ahem... 7 corners :p

I timed the second one; 13:42 (7:20), off 3 corners and 2 edges, will try again!

You should really try to execute edges only a few times until you get good times and can do it smoothly, then do the same with corners and only then try to do both (full solve).
 
You should really try to execute edges only a few times until you get good times and can do it smoothly, then do the same with corners and only then try to do both (full solve).

I've tried separately corners and edges, I haven't done it a lot, though.

I have no problem memorizing and executing corners, I have finished like 4 out of 6 right after my first success, with edges I have problems with both memorizing (many times when recalling my memo I find that I have twisted a piece in my memo and I have to re-memo it again) and execution (setup moves mainly)

I will follow your advice and keep practicing them separately until I'm under 2 minutes for each of them. Thanks!
 
I've tried separately corners and edges, I haven't done it a lot, though.

I have no problem memorizing and executing corners, I have finished like 4 out of 6 right after my first success, with edges I have problems with both memorizing (many times when recalling my memo I find that I have twisted a piece in my memo and I have to re-memo it again) and execution (setup moves mainly)

I will follow your advice and keep practicing them separately until I'm under 2 minutes for each of them. Thanks!
I recommend you memo and execute like this, I learned this from a video by Noahaha, this is how I do it (and my best is a little below 4 minutes, it was a DNF but just because I thought there was parity when actually there wasn't):
For every corner 1 letter
2 Corners make 2 letters
2 Letters make a word (image)
Another 2 letters make another image
2 images interact which is easy to remember even after a long time, like DG BN - Dog eating banana or something, just imagine a big dog eating a banana in a really messy way, it will stick easily.
This way you remember 4 corners just by thinking about a dog eating a banana. Another 2 images interacting like this and you're done with the corners.
Use this method to memo all the corners, then move on to memorizing the edges: for this you don't need to use the images and you don't even want it to stick long: just make a long sentence out of the edges, for example if you have:
ECKOAXTHASJFS
Then it could be:
ECKO AXe THe ASeJ FaS
As you memorize them just start saying:
E, C, EC, K, O ECKO, A,X, ECKO AXe, ECKO AXe, T, H, ECKO AXe THe, A, S, J, ECKO AXe THe ASeJ, F, S, ECKO AXe THe ASeJ FaS, ECKO AXe THe ASeJ FaS, ECKO AXe THe ASeJ FaS, ECKO AXe THe ASeJ FaS
Then close your eyes and keep reapting the sentence in your mind, you can even physically say it. The sentence doesn't have to make sense, just easy to say and remember without getting confused. As you solve the edges the sentence will get shorter and shorter, after the first 4 edges and it's just AXe THe ASeJ FaS, after another 2 it's just THe ASeJ FaS, you'll be finished with the edges in a really short time.
After you're done with the edges, try to remember what you memorized for the corners, since you used images and the edges didn't take that long you'll be surprised how well you remember the corners.

Try this, first just keep doing the thing with the edges over and over. The first time I used this memo for edges I got 3 minutes easily for the edges, after a little practice I can do it in like 2 minutes, and I'm really slow when it comes to finding edges and knowing where to shoot after cycle breaks.
 
5BLD DNF(7:02.14[2:59]) l' D r2 F2 d' u R u' R' u b2 L' B2 u2 L' B b f2 d' F f' u F' L F' u2 U2 B2 l' b2 d2 u' R r' u l' R f U B2 u' b U2 F' r D' F' f' r2 b R' F u2 R B b R' d L2 R'

Off by three wings :fp + two other sub-8 attempts with two centers out.
 
Did a MBLD attempts yesterday, haven't dont it much recently since it's not at my next comp. Far faster than previous attempts at ~43 mins compared to >52 mins. 5/10 though, haven't done long BLD attempts for a while and it felt a little shaky due to lack of practice I think. Still felt so slow ...
 
First attempt at megaminx BLD today. Camera failed in a strange way, not sure what happened. 2 3-cycles of edges (fair enough), 4 twisted corners (wtf? i have no idea how that could even happen). 51:32 (35:30). Finding a piece to start a new cycle is a b****, probably accounts for at least 10 mins of the attempt. Next attempt will probably be Tuesday, hopefully on vid.
 
First attempt at megaminx BLD today. Camera failed in a strange way, not sure what happened. 2 3-cycles of edges (fair enough), 4 twisted corners (wtf? i have no idea how that could even happen). 51:32 (35:30). Finding a piece to start a new cycle is a b****, probably accounts for at least 10 mins of the attempt. Next attempt will probably be Tuesday, hopefully on vid.

So close :) Perhaps the camera ran out of memory/battery?
 
Neither, that's the weird bit :/

Ah :/

My own failures today - 6/7 MultiBLD in 10:57.33[6:10] with lots of things wrong with the last cube. Plus it turns out I can't do 5BLD anymore - keep messing up center memo and forgetting stuff because I'm rushing a lot more. And when I do get a solid memo I keep undoing the set-up moves incorrectly and messing everything up. Back to basics for me :fp
 
Plus it turns out I can't do 5BLD anymore - keep messing up center memo and forgetting stuff because I'm rushing a lot more. And when I do get a solid memo I keep undoing the set-up moves incorrectly and messing everything up. Back to basics for me :fp

I hate it when I go through a bad streak, I get about 10 3BLD DNFs in a row then quit. It always goes back to normal after a while, I wouldn't worry. Maybe do a few careful solves to get the 'feel' of it again?
 
Dw' Lw2 R' F' L' U2 F2 B2 Uw' D' Lw Rw2 U2 Bw Dw2 F' Bw U2 Bw Uw' Lw2 Rw2 Uw Bw Lw' R2 U2 Bw2 Dw' D' Lw Fw U2 R B Uw2 B2 R2 U2 Uw2

4BLD dnf. Trying to get consistent a bit more with 4BLD, and hopefully 5BLD by the championships. I've only gotten about ~10 successes. I'm trying to get a sub-10 time, but everytime it's sub-10 i dnf. This one I DNF'd by 2 pieces, my FL edges where flipped :/
 
Ah :/

My own failures today - 6/7 MultiBLD in 10:57.33[6:10] with lots of things wrong with the last cube. Plus it turns out I can't do 5BLD anymore - keep messing up center memo and forgetting stuff because I'm rushing a lot more. And when I do get a solid memo I keep undoing the set-up moves incorrectly and messing everything up. Back to basics for me :fp

Do like a 5BLD but don't "Think about it" if you get what I mean. Just do it and don't over think anything at all, that's generally the best thing to get back into a rhythm for blindfolded for me. Just do some solves but don't think about it is the best way to describe it I guess. Just be like, I'm going to memorise this, then solve it, that's it.
 
My recent multi failures have been really bad:
a bunch of 4/7s and 5/7s (including a 5/7 in comp), followed by a 5/10, 2/10 (:P tried OP for corners), 5/9, 6/9, 6/9.
Its really frustrating...every time, I actually feel that I've done pretty well before opening my eyes.
 
First attempt at megaminx BLD today. Camera failed in a strange way, not sure what happened. 2 3-cycles of edges (fair enough), 4 twisted corners (wtf? i have no idea how that could even happen). 51:32 (35:30). Finding a piece to start a new cycle is a b****, probably accounts for at least 10 mins of the attempt. Next attempt will probably be Tuesday, hopefully on vid.

It's really true that finding a piece to start a new cycle can be tough on megaminx. I really hate when there are a bunch of edge cycles. I always go alphabetically from the beginning, looking for a piece I haven't used. As long as all the cycles include a piece on the top face, it's usually still easy, though.
 
After practising yesterday only BLD and and had more successes than fails (all untimed), today I completly messed up the first timed one in weeks. Somewhen after the inspection I did a cuberotation wich I have not noticed...

Also I found out that most of the time I am trying to figure out words for my letterpairs. For example JF. It took me at least 30 seconds to find 'JamFight' which is not realy a good one.
 
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