Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Mikel]

First 7x7 BLD attempt: DNF

[47:30 memo, 1:28:09 total, 2 ox, 2 o+, 4 i+, 13 iw, 14 ow, 7 midges, 8 c]

I was only off by 8 centers which is nice. I don't know what happened with the edges or corners. My memo seemed fairly solid.

 

[TheNextFeliks]

Ugh. 43 second memo fastest ever. But messed up j perm. FML

 

[antoineccantin]

dfsg kmlkjlkgdj.lfj.jmg.,gdnt,nm,dtrn.,snsaf.m,sg .m, jsdl;ndgkjhgdjkndgjkdf
gfndkjdhldfhdnldndfjdxld; opuehto;i/

12:18.98 4BLD DNF because I did V instead of U during corners

fsdklfhdsikhouisfhisdhniusenfeeriyfff

 

[etshy]

12:18.98 4BLD DNF because I did V instead of U during corners

nevertheless , this is AWESOME

Memo Time ?

 

[antoineccantin]

nevertheless , this is AWESOME

Memo Time ?

8:00ish

 

[Mike Hughey]

First attempt: 6 hours, 58 seconds (3 hours 49 minutes memo time).

Off by: 5 corners, 9 middle edges, 8 wings, 6 corner centers, 16 middle centers.

Why couldn't I have decided to go for something easy, like 9x9x9?

 

[DrKorbin]

First attempt: 6 hours, 58 seconds (3 hours 49 minutes memo time).

Off by: 5 corners, 9 middle edges, 8 wings, 6 corner centers, 16 middle centers.

Why couldn't I have decided to go for something easy, like 9x9x9?

I knew it You are trying gigaminx!
How do you solve middle edges, t-centers and wings?

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

First attempt: 6 hours, 58 seconds (3 hours 49 minutes memo time).

Off by: 5 corners, 9 middle edges, 8 wings, 6 corner centers, 16 middle centers.

Why couldn't I have decided to go for something easy, like 9x9x9?

I applaud you. What method do you use for midges and + centres? I don't know any comms for them that aren't awful. They're the reason I'll only try master kilominx blind and not gigaminx.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I knew it You are trying gigaminx!
How do you solve middle edges, t-centers and wings?

I applaud you. What method do you use for midges and + centres? I don't know any comms for them that aren't awful. They're the reason I'll only try master kilominx blind and not gigaminx.

For middle edges and middle centers I use essentially the same algorithm, the 12-mover that many people use for megaminx BLD. I hate trying to notate megaminx, but I guess it's something like [Rr L'l' F2' R'r' Ll, U] for middle edges, and [Rr L'l' f2' R'r' Ll, U] for middle centers. It's simple enough to use, set up, and remember that I don't tend to get confused. For wings I use the same thing as for corners, only a layer in: [F r F', U]. All the algorithms are quite comfortable for me; I don't think I can really do much better. Memorization is the worst part, followed by figuring out the setups.

The roughest thing was handling the memorization of center pieces. There just aren't enough fingers to keep track of what pieces you've already solved. I had a terrible time with mismemorizing the centers and having to go back and correct the memorization; if I can get where I don't do that, I think I could shave an hour and a half off just for that. The other bad thing I did was that I picked a bad letter placement for the corner centers. If I change that to be more logical, I think I'd save another half hour on that. So 4 hours seems quite reasonable, assuming I can get better about not making the mistakes memorizing centers.

Still, even that is an awfully long time for a single solve.

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

The roughest thing was handling the memorization of center pieces. There just aren't enough fingers to keep track of what pieces you've already solved.

It might help to choose targets on a face in a particular order, then you only have to keep track of which piece on a face you have reached rather than all tracking all of them, although perhaps you already do this since there are still more faces than fingers.

 

[Mike Hughey]

It might help to choose targets on a face in a particular order, then you only have to keep track of which piece on a face you have reached rather than all tracking all of them, although perhaps you already do this since there are still more faces than fingers.

Yes, I definitely do that. But a gigaminx is huge, so you tend not to be able to use all 5 fingers on each hand - eventually you just can't reach. And it's way too easy to lose your grip and lose track. And it doesn't help that it takes nearly an hour to memorize a set of centers, and your hands start to freeze up after about a half hour.

 

[Mikel]

First attempt: 6 hours, 58 seconds (3 hours 49 minutes memo time).

Off by: 5 corners, 9 middle edges, 8 wings, 6 corner centers, 16 middle centers.

Why couldn't I have decided to go for something easy, like 9x9x9?

Very impressive stuff Mike! Was this the longest amount of time you spent on a BLD attempt?

 

[Mike Hughey]

Very impressive stuff Mike! Was this the longest amount of time you spent on a BLD attempt?

Very much so; I think my longest attempt of anything before this was just under 4 hours.

 

[etshy]

First attempt: 6 hours, 58 seconds (3 hours 49 minutes memo time).

Off by: 5 corners, 9 middle edges, 8 wings, 6 corner centers, 16 middle centers.

Why couldn't I have decided to go for something easy, like 9x9x9?

This is the most outstanding BLD attempt I have ever seen I will be attempting MegaBLD next month , and who knows maybe some day I will attempt this
you're a source of inspiration for all of us

 

[antoineccantin]

1:27.xx 3BLD off by 2 edges

 

[antoineccantin]

1:18.55 off by 2 corners
Had about 42 memo.

 

[acohen527]

1:18.55 off by 2 corners
Had about 42 memo.

how u improve so fazt

 

[Mikel]

7x7 BLD (2nd attempt): DNF

[47:47 memo, 1:28:14 total, 4 lob, 7 rob, 11 ox, 8 o+, 4 ix, 3i+, 8 iw, 10 ow, 4 m, 4 c]

My memo seemed solid. I feel like my mistakes are most likely from execution.

[Key for mistakes: lob - left obliques, rob - right obliques, ox - outer x-centers, o+ - outer plus centers, ix - inner x-centers, i+ - inner plus centers, iw - inner wings, ow - outer wings, m - middle egdes, c - corners]

 

[A Leman]

For middle edges and middle centers I use essentially the same algorithm, the 12-mover that many people use for megaminx BLD. I hate trying to notate megaminx, but I guess it's something like [Rr L'l' F2' R'r' Ll, U] for middle edges, and [Rr L'l' f2' R'r' Ll, U] for middle centers. It's simple enough to use, set up, and remember that I don't tend to get confused. For wings I use the same thing as for corners, only a layer in: [F r F', U]. All the algorithms are quite comfortable for me; I don't think I can really do much better. Memorization is the worst part, followed by figuring out the setups.

The roughest thing was handling the memorization of center pieces. There just aren't enough fingers to keep track of what pieces you've already solved. I had a terrible time with mismemorizing the centers and having to go back and correct the memorization; if I can get where I don't do that, I think I could shave an hour and a half off just for that. The other bad thing I did was that I picked a bad letter placement for the corner centers. If I change that to be more logical, I think I'd save another half hour on that. So 4 hours seems quite reasonable, assuming I can get better about not making the mistakes memorizing centers.

Still, even that is an awfully long time for a single solve.

Also, good try Mike. Your tenacity is remarkable. GigaBLD centers do seem to be really difficult to even think about theoretically and you are already making attempts. I just tried and my hands can only keep track of 7-8 centers and I can use my feet for 2 if I always shoot to targets in order(something like an arbitrary definition of clockwise for the faces). That still leaves a few visual centers untill your fingers are free from solved centers. Anyway, Good luck!

This is the most outstanding BLD attempt I have ever seen I will be attempting MegaBLD next month , and who knows maybe some day I will attempt this
you're a source of inspiration for all of us

Good luck, but if I were you, then I would focus on 5BLD or multi first. There are so many little things about megaminx that made it very difficult for me.

 

[antoineccantin]

how u improve so fazt

Push memo to be faster+turn super fast during execution.