Blindfold Failures Thread

[Riddler97]

6BLD DNF - 23:52.27 [10:53.12]

By two inner x-centres.

 

[willtri4]

Tried some 3bld again today, all 3 dnfs and the fastest one was a 2:51. Apparently BLD skill atrophies more than regular speedsolving. I've got a long way to go if I want to get back to where I was.

 

[newtonbase]

Recalled last edge pair on a 3BLD solve as BA not VA. Cost me a 1:36.08 Mo3 which would have been a PB by over 16s! The downside of audio.

 

[Underwatercuber]

Recalled last edge pair on a 3BLD solve as BA not VA. Cost me a 1:36.08 Mo3 which would have been a PB by over 16s! The downside of audio.

I usually don't mix pairs up with audio but sometimes audio can screw you up

 

[newtonbase]

I usually don't mix pairs up with audio but sometimes audio can screw you up

I tend to be more careful on similar sounding letters but that's not one that I'd usually get wrong. The solve before that was a PB single so I'm still happy.

 

[guysensei1]

26:40 5bld dnf by 3 midges

I just cant get a 3rd success it seems

 

[Christopher Cabrera]

I tend to be more careful on similar sounding letters but that's not one that I'd usually get wrong. The solve before that was a PB single so I'm still happy.

Instead of using audio I use a nonsense string of short, simple words. I find that it's faster than creating an image, but more consistent than straight up audio.

 

[newtonbase]

Instead of using audio I use a nonsense string of short, simple words. I find that it's faster than creating an image, but more consistent than straight up audio.

That's pretty much what I do but I don't always use set words. Think I'll use BRA instead of BAA to avoid this problem.

 

[Underwatercuber]

Instead of using audio I use a nonsense string of short, simple words. I find that it's faster than creating an image, but more consistent than straight up audio.

I do it by quadruplets(idk)
Example
TiSJaiL DIAB RaPXR X

 

[Christopher Cabrera]

I do it by quadruplets(idk)
Example
TiSJaiL DIAB RaPXR X

the way I do it has a bit more structure to it For your example I would use
TesS JaiL DIana ABby RaP XRay X

 

[newtonbase]

the way I do it has a bit more structure to it For your example I would use
TesS JaiL DIana ABby RaP XRay X

I switch out some tricky ones so X is SH for me. So:
ToSs Jel DIe AB RiP SHaRe Xmen
Single letters are superheroes to help me remember parity. Recently I've been switching BU with LU in edge memo so I don't need a parity alg so I don't really need my heroes unless those pieces are already solved.

 

[CyanSandwich]

5BLD - 4:17.20[1:35.16] off by 4 x and 2 +, not sure what happened there.

 

[guysensei1]

23:18 5bld dnf by some slice move somewhere

Still no 3rd success

 

[Underwatercuber]

Several fails
1. 4bld dnf 1. Somehow managed to completely screw up 13 centers :l also didn't memo the last cycle of wings
2. 4bld dnf 2. Even worse than 4bld dnf 1. Basically stared at a cube for a while then mixed it up with a blindfold on.
3. mbld dnf 1/4. Didn't memo 1 edge letter pair on a cube, on another didn't fix twisted corners and last forgot last corner letter pair
4. mbld dnf 1/5. Basically the same as mbld dnf 1/4 except 1 cube is only halfway solved

 

[guysensei1]

23:55 5bld dnf by a U2 somewhere

Still no 3rd success

 

[Cale S]

4:35.69 [1:45] 5BLD DNF by 3 wings

would have made a 4:47 mean of 3...

scramble had wing and corner-midge parity too

 

[sigalig]

Some really sad stuff happened at 6.25 this weekend....

DNFed a would-be overall 4bld PB, 3:23 by a separate two wing cycle. Would have been 20WR and 4NAR

Spoiler: 3:23 4bld dnf by 2 wings

Also DNFed an 8:52 5bld single by 2 +centers. At least I got a success after that so I'm not as sad about this

Also completely blew it on all of my multibld attempts, which is the event I care most about ughhhhh. 19/29, 18/29, then 22/29. I really don't get what happened here. My accuracy is never, literally never close to being this bad at home. I'm not sure I've actually ever DNFed these percentages of cubes before since I got into multibld (maybe the 7/29 percentage, but definitely not 10/29 or 11/29)
29 cubes feels relaxed since I've been trying 33 for a while (with a few sub-hour attempts on 33), so I really dont get what the problem here was. I'm gonna spend the next couple of weeks trying to figure this out.

 

[Daniel Lin]

ughhh
off by 2 midges that i missed during memo
also had a 30 second pause during corners

DNF(10:01.07) f' U F' r d D2 L' b' F D' f2 u' L2 l d' B' U L' F L F L2 D B R U u2 l' f' b' d2 l' u B' d' L2 u l U2 D f r2 F d f u2 r d' f' u' b2 L R' f' b2 R2 B u R' f2

 

[newtonbase]

Blind drives me insane. Didn't get to try a solve until late evening but got PB2 first go (8/12 and I even used a few comms). 2nd solve took more than double the time followed by so many DNFs that I'm going to bed early.

 

[guysensei1]

21:26 5bld dnf by something idk

Still no 3rd success