Blindsolving Failure Thread

[cubeRemi]

wow, fast for a first attempt. I hope you'll get it next time!!

Remi

 

[Zava]

Hungarian Open was a great blindfold failure for me.
both qualifying single blds were dnf, one of them off by a 3cycle of edges, at the other, I forgot to undo a B setup after the corners.
multi bld: first try 1/7, don't know what happened there... also I missed the 4th cube, and did its memo on the 5th, the 5th's memo on the 6th cube. they told me that I have 2 hours for the 2 tries, I thought the sum of the 2 time has to be under 2 hour. and when I gave my cubes to the judges for scrambling, they were amused that I want a 7/7 in 20 minutes... so next try was 3 cube, 0/3, only orientation errors.
4x4 first try was off by an undone R setup before the edges, second with a + Dw or Dw' rotation before corners.
at 5x5 I only remembered ~half of the memo, second try was dns.
why can't I bld at competition?!

 

[McWizzle94]

4x4x4 BLD DNF 17:07.03

DNF for the 6th time I think. This one was actually pretty close though. I was off by 5 centers. 2 of them I cycled in the wrong direction and I don't really know what happened on the other 3. Anyway I am getting an ES soon so hopefully I don't have to deal with POPs.

 

[fanwuq]

Failure to practice for maybe a month? I shall do BLD again soon.

 

[McWizzle94]

4x4x4 DNF 17:07.03 BLD

I did this yesterday and I was off by an r2 and a bunch of centers. This is using my new ES cube which I got yesterday. Its an amazing cube and my speedsolve average went down a lot because of it!

 

[Pedro]

4x4 DNF in 8:46

for this week competition...I had 2 corners flipped and a r2 move missing (forgot to do the last r2 move from the parity fix )

 

[Garmon]

I'm practicing BLD, starting with edges only, DNF in 10:26, but I had a phonecall so - 4 minutes. I messed up the breaking into new cycle bit.
I will learn corners after I get a good edges only BLD attempt.

 

[cookingfat]

I'm practicing BLD, starting with edges only, DNF in 10:26, but I had a phonecall so - 4 minutes. I messed up the breaking into new cycle bit.
I will learn corners after I get a good edges only BLD attempt.

ha, that's exactly how I learnt it, it works well doing it like that.

When I learnt both, I kinda just migrated onto doing the corners first. It's easier to work out whether you need a parity fix or not.

Keep going, you'll get it. My first solve was like 18 minutes or something.

 

[masterofthebass]

On the plane to germany:

5x5 BLD 30:xx

I was off by 1 3 cycle of x centers because I cycled them the wrong way. Even when I go super slow and carefully, I still can't get a stupid 5x5 BLD :/

 

[Mike Hughey]

Even when I go super slow and carefully, I still can't get a stupid 5x5 BLD :/

So then never go super slow and carefully. That way you can make more attempts. I really think one of the keys to getting successful at big cubes BLD is just doing lots of them, with as little time between attempts as possible. So going faster is liable to help more than it hurts. I think that overly rushing it isn't wise, but move as fast as is comfortable.

My first ever 5x5x5 BLD was on a plane from the Philippines to the USA. I didn't use a blindfold; I solved it under the tray table.

 

[McWizzle94]

I tried making a 3x3x3 BLD video today, but around 8 of them were DNF's, and I still didn't get a successful one on video.

 

[Faz]

Did a 2x2 bld average of 12 - 4/12 were right. No wonder i DNF so much on 3x3

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

i did a 2x2x2 average of 12 yesterday! haha, one DNF too, i think it was 1:12 average.

this isn't really the place to post it, but the post above me reminded me about it.

 

[fanwuq]

I had 2 4min DNFs.
The stupid thing is that I can do the memo, but I messed up on executing the Y perm. I also got a DNF (23seconds on 2x2) for the same reason. So I'm PRACTICING y PLL TODAY.
clock memo is awesome, but I think that method is so much better for 3OP than M2 (only 1 clock instead of 2, and no centers to worry about.) I'll try clock memo for 3OP.

 

[McWizzle94]

4x4x4 BLD DNF 19:xx.xx

This one was kinda off but I don't know what I did wrong. Maybe a little more than half was solved. I am on a 4x4x4 DNF streak and it really sucks. However, I beat my 3x3x3 BLD PB like 3 times in the past week and a half.

 

[fanwuq]

I don't know what's going on! I suddenly lost my ability to BLD the corners! I had perfect accuracy, probably 100 solves in a row for the 2x2 BLD, now, yesterday and today, my accuracy suddenly became 0%! I can do it at all! I went really careful for 20 solves just now and all DNFs! Has this happen to anyone else before? I didn't switch methods, algs, or anything. My accuracy for Edges is better than ever. Why?

 

[Mike Hughey]

I don't know what's going on! I suddenly lost my ability to BLD the corners! I had perfect accuracy, probably 100 solves in a row for the 2x2 BLD, now, yesterday and today, my accuracy suddenly became 0%! I can do it at all! I went really careful for 20 solves just now and all DNFs! Has this happen to anyone else before? I didn't switch methods, algs, or anything. My accuracy for Edges is better than ever. Why?

It happens to different degrees for different people, but it happens to everyone. Just relax and keep going, and eventually it will come back to you.

Oh, and your perfect accuracy thing was just a lucky phase too - it'll probably be a while before you get another 100 in a row.

 

[cpt.Justice]

3x3 BLD
1:47.xx DNF
My current PB is 2:06.70, so I got kinda pissed
But then again, it keeps me motivated! I wanna reach sub 2!

 

[fanwuq]

Unsure about my memo system again.

 

[boiiwonder]

Failed at 3op

the corners are hard imo