Blindfold Failures Thread

[Cale S]

first attempt at 9x9 blindfolded - 1:27:49 DNF
most pieces are solved but still looks pretty messy

this was a lot harder than I expected and I don't feel confident with the 3 innermost layers, so I'm not sure if I want to try this again soon

 

[Mike Hughey]

so I'm not sure if I want to try this again soon

I just want to clarify that my "like" applies (wholeheartedly!) to all except this part of the post.

 

[Dylan Swarts]

@Mike Hughey Why don't you try 9BLD? You have an 8bld success and you compete in 6bld and 7bld quite often.

 

[Mike Hughey]

@Mike Hughey Why don't you try 9BLD? You have an 8bld success and you compete in 6bld and 7bld quite often.

I would, but I haven't ever gotten around to getting a 9x9x9. And because of my having a weird color scheme, I can't just borrow one from someone else.
Someday.

 

[M O]

4bld DNF by 3 centers, would have been PB

 

[Cale S]

9BLD attempt 2:
1:28:23 DNF by 33 centers, 46 wings/midges, and 5 corners (78% of pieces solved, 89% of centers solved)

corners can be solved with L U2 L' U2, not sure what this means

Felt a lot more confident with execution this attempt

 

[Mike Hughey]

corners can be solved with L U2 L' U2, not sure what this means

What it means is that probably the vast majority of the wrong pieces are due to doing U2 L' when you should have done L' U2. If you still had most of the pieces left to go, it might possibly even be the only mistake you made.

I would guess from that that you probably solve centers before wings? Although it's possible that you could have that few centers wrong because a lot of them worked out nicely or were pre-solved, it's probably more likely that you had some centers solved (but no wings) before making the mistake.

 

[PokeCubes]

official 5BLD off by 2 +centers, and I failed 4BLD qualification for nats because I DNFed out of an 8:22

 

[Cale S]

9BLD attempt 3: 1:23:24 DNF
off by 26 centers mostly in bars, 4 midges (2-2swap), and 4 wings (4-cycle)

one wrong slice would explain the centers and wings, not sure about midges

 

[Dylan Swarts]

Getting there! Keep trying Cale!! Goodluck

 

[Cale S]

9BLD attempt 4
1:31:59 DNF by 3 centers skipped over one letter pair

getting closer

 

[Dylan Swarts]

6bld Attempt 4
DNF by again 4lO 4rO then 3oX and 2iX. 4 corners like always, an inner l2 or r2 off but the bars rotated because of my corner algs at the end (OP), many inner wings and 6 oW.. Dunno if my method is faulty or something, since I use beginners for the whole thing.
Corners: OP
Midges: M2
Wings: r2
Centers: U2

Exec order: iX, oX, rO, lO, wings, corners.

for D face targets for obliques, I setup to Df and do (for left obliques): 3Rw' U U r U' (inner)l2 U r' U' (inner)l2 U' 3Rw' U2 which is a comm from Graham's list which I turned into an oblique alg. For right obliques I do that on the left side with the U2 at the start.
I hope that made sense. If this alg is faulty, please let me know. I do believe it is correct tho..
Maybe I am just doing very badly at exec...
Or I should hold off 6bld until I know full 3 style..

 

[Jacck]

The second 3Rw' should be 3Rw, not?
Another idea: if you have a letterpair with a difficult piece in it, you could move that to another place/face, then solve the (changed) letterpair and undo the move afterwards.
Some more moves but sometimes easier to do (and kind of the same as setups in 3 style).
Even if your D-obliques should be the last to solve (and to be followed by an U2) you could move it to the front face, solve it there and an oblique of the right face, then bring the D-oblique back, then solve the oblique of the right face and then end with U2.

And I don't think that you should wait for full 3 style. Your "beginner's"-method takes more moves but should be easier to do without errors.

 

[Dylan Swarts]

Yes sorry it should be 3Rw, misstyped. Thanks for the idea about D targets, I think I will definitely try that!

 

[PetrusQuber]

I'm a newbie at 3BLD, and I tried to do JUST EDGES, and failed. I don't even know how I did it. My guess is that I made a mistake in undoing setup somewhere, or I misremembered what my letter pair stood for (So i have turban, and I go for TN when it was TB). Oh btw this is my, like, 5th attempt.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I'm a newbie at 3BLD, and I tried to do JUST EDGES, and failed. I don't even know how I did it. My guess is that I made a mistake in undoing setup somewhere, or I misremembered what my letter pair stood for (So i have turban, and I go for TN when it was TB). Oh btw this is my, like, 5th attempt.

A bit of advice - use a known scramble, and when you finish and it came out wrong, try the same scramble again. You can check your memorization against the scramble to see if you made a mistake, and then try solving two pieces at a time and find your mistake. Or perhaps you'll find you just made some silly mistake when executing, and it works the second time! Either way, it's nice to find out what went wrong if you can, and you gain confidence by realizing it was probably just a small thing that went wrong.

 

[PetrusQuber]

A bit of advice - use a known scramble, and when you finish and it came out wrong, try the same scramble again. You can check your memorization against the scramble to see if you made a mistake, and then try solving two pieces at a time and find your mistake. Or perhaps you'll find you just made some silly mistake when executing, and it works the second time! Either way, it's nice to find out what went wrong if you can, and you gain confidence by realizing it was probably just a small thing that went wrong.

Oh, thanks a lot. I have never tried this before. I'll post again in a week (if i fail).

 

[PetrusQuber]

First BLD attempt since like September, I’m pleased to say my technique hasn’t all been lost (which isn’t saying much), and I did a solve which took around 15 minutes, off by 4 edges and 2 corners.

 

[ProStar]

First BLD attempt since like September, I’m pleased to say my technique hasn’t all been lost (which isn’t saying much), and I did a solve which took around 15 minutes, off by 4 edges and 2 corners.

Try doing sighted solves, then start doing sighted solves except close your eyes to do/undo setup. Then start memorizing just the corners, then just the edges, then finally all of it. That's basically what I did, except I learned 2BLD and then did 2MBLD(2/2) while I was giving up on 3BLD so I was able to skip the memo buildup part and go straight from sighted solves with blind setups to full cube.

 

[OreKehStrah]

I'm a newbie at 3BLD, and I tried to do JUST EDGES, and failed. I don't even know how I did it. My guess is that I made a mistake in undoing setup somewhere, or I misremembered what my letter pair stood for (So i have turban, and I go for TN when it was TB). Oh btw this is my, like, 5th attempt.

Sorry to bump an old comment but weirdly enough, I was able to do a full 3bld solve before I could do an edges only lol