Anyone out there ever planned out your cross... and then forgot before the solve?

[4Chan]

I hate when i plan the cross, place hands on timer, and then forget.
Forcing me to do it on the spot.

 

[Benc]

Yeah, it did happen to me sometimes. Kinda messes my planning of doing the cross~

 

[Kian]

absolutely. i have also ( in competition) inspected and totally zoned out for a few seconds before i realize i should be paying some attention. it's not a fun feeling.

 

[Unknown.soul]

That happens to me on hard crosses, but easy ones I don't forget.

 

[shelley]

Sometimes in competition I start BLD solves looking for cross pieces. Now I always take a moment to focus and make sure I know what I'm doing.

 

[not_kevin]

Sometimes in competition I start BLD solves looking for cross pieces. Now I always take a moment to focus and make sure I know what I'm doing.

Once I started BLD and thought, "Wow... this is a nice X-cross!" And then I remembered I was doing BLD and thought, "Wow, I just wasted 10 seconds doing nothing productive... I suck"

 

[qqwref]

This happened to me once or twice in competition, back in the days when they used to cover your cube between inspection and the solve. I've heard from a few other people who this happened to as well. Thankfully no inspection only wastes two or three seconds, but still, it's annoying

 

[Sa967St]

that happends to me often in OH solves, but its only happened a few times in 3x3x3 speed. I've learned to focus after having several bad official solves n_n

 

[TMOY]

I voted "I do corners first" but yes, forgetting the star happens to me sometimes at megaminx.

 

[AvGalen]

I never forgot how to do it, but I have made execution mistakes many times. It's weird ending up in the last layer and suddenly see a white edge-piece between all the yellows.

 

[bamman1108]

Never been to a competition. Never inspected my cube before a solve.

 

[Tetris Cube]

With Petrus I try to plan out my 2x2x2 block, and forget it after I start sometimes. Does that count? lol If by luck, I already have a corner/edge pair, I never forget where the pieces are.

 

[fanwuq]

Never. Sometimes, very rarely, I don't focus and just do not even bother to see the whole cross before I start the solve, but I never forget what I'm thinking about.

 

[cmhardw]

I have forgotten my cross after the inspection when solving in competition before. That's extra embarassing ;-)

--edit--
What's worse is when you plan something special like an Xcross, and realize during the execution of it that your plan of how to solve it was incorrect and leaves some cross pieces missing, or only solves a couple pieces that you intended to solve. Those are fun solves too

Chris

 

[Mike Hughey]

I have forgotten my cross after the inspection when solving in competition before. That's extra embarassing ;-)

--edit--
What's worse is when you plan something special like an Xcross, and realize during the execution of it that your plan of how to solve it was incorrect and leaves some cross pieces missing, or only solves a couple pieces that you intended to solve. Those are fun solves too

Chris

Both times that I thought I saw an Xcross in competition, I wound up with one of my cross pieces flipped after nearly finishing the F2L. Now I have a strict rule to never go for Xcrosses in competition, even if I think I see them. (I do hope that someday that will change, after some practice at home, but for now it's much safer.)

 

[abr71310]

I never forgot how to do it, but I have made execution mistakes many times. It's weird ending up in the last layer and suddenly see a white edge-piece between all the yellows.

I've been there too...

Oh gosh I remember during one of my ALMOST sub-20s (ended up being 26.36) I had realized on my LL (PLL step) that I permuted R and O on the bottom later cross wrong to begin with, so the top was essentially "impossible" -- I had to create an on-the-spot alg to flip the edges around (thankfully I just did M2 U2 M2, then a U-perm... ), but that was a scary moment in my life.

 

[AJelsma]

sometimes i dont learn it right tho