What do YOU do when you get a corner twist during a large average?

What do YOU do with corner twists???


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pipkiksass

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We've all done it - you're scrambling your cube and you think "did I just twist that corner?"... although you're 90% sure you did, you carry on regardless, then you reach OLL (or last 4 corners) and whaddya know? You have an unsolveable case.

So personally, I know I should DNF the solve or, as per WCA regs, twist another corner to make a solveable OLL and carry on, but what I generally do is stop the timer, delete the solve, then carry on with my session.

Just wondering if other forumites behave like miscreants and reprobates, and indulge in similar underhand tactics, or if I'm the only dishonest one?

Inb4 "you're only cheating yourself" - I know. I cube purely for my own personal enjoyment and couldn't give two hoots. Thanks though!

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To be honest I don't really care. It's easy enough to twist a corner back into a solveable case without too much detriment to your time, or at my speed anyway. If it's near the start I might go back, but otherwise, meh.

also if I think I twisted a corner during the scramble, I'll twist it back before I start the solve

Yeah, this too.
 
If the (suspected) twist is during the scramble, I'll check it with Prisma's picture of what the cube should look like and correct it. If it happens during the solve, I can sometimes tell which one it is and correct it, if not I'll wait until LL to twist a corner back.
 
Since CO is my first step, I usually detect such a corner twist during inspection, twist it back and start the solve normally.
 
Ao100 at home isn't a competition. I time myself to track my personal progress and all I care is that the average reflects that. If something other than bad solving screws up a solve (corner twist, pop, doorbell or phone goes, someone yells for attention, dog eats cube, etc.) then I just delete the solve.
 
Wow, I always kept solving through PLL and would end up having to switch around edge pieces which is annoying, but just twisting a corner is much easier since that's how it got that way in the first place.
 
Did Yoda enter one of the poll results?

I just twist the corner and carry on. Meh.
 
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