Julian
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DNF 3:09 off by L' U L because of my haste to stop the timer :fp
Though upon me taking off blindfold, I immediately recognized the 8 move comm. So..win? Debating on when to start doing comms/turbo in solves.
Dude what?I take of the blindfold to see all the centers, midges and 16 wings solved. 7:25.90, FML.
Undo all that you did after you were supposed to do parity, do parity, redo all that stuff, finish solve.Did another blind solve at school today
The fastest blind solve I have ever done, if it wasn't for forgotten parity
DAMN
I noticed the parity mistake before I removed my blindfold, but I don't know how to solve that problem yet.
Wow.I had a rather epic fail on megaminx BLD a couple of days ago. First scramble in this week's weekly competition.
DNF [1:21.58.90, 42:45]
First, on the memo, I memorized incorrectly several times, mainly memorizing orientation, but also one critical time with permutation, because I was using my new MF8 megaminx in dim light, and in dim light you can't tell the difference between light yellow and white. So I'd see what I thought were white stickers in the right places and think the pieces were correctly oriented, and then wind up with impossible pairings of clockwise and counterclockwise corners, or odd numbers of edges. Eventually I got it all straightened out and had a memorization that was at least possibly correct. I thought about giving up several times while memorizing because it was going so badly and taking so long, but I just couldn't bring myself to give up, since it would be my only attempt this week.
So anyway, on to the solve phase; I got through most of the corners without too much problem, but then an edge popped out. It took me about 5 minutes to grope around and find it on the floor (I held the megaminx with my left hand the whole time with thumb on my piece 'Y' and index on 'X' so I wouldn't lose my orientation), but I eventually found it and randomly stuck it back in. Again I thought about giving up when I couldn't find the piece, but I figured I had already spent 45 minutes memorizing the thing, and I couldn't give up now!
So then I tried to go as fast as I can and started into edges. I got most of the way through permutation of edges (my final step) when I realized I had a duplicate letter (actually, I had broken a cycle to the same piece twice, so the letter appeared in my memo 4 times!). I thought about it for a while, and eventually realized the memorization I used at my third location was actually one of the bad memorizations from when I had confused colors during memorization. But I could not remember the correct memorization at all. I did remember the other 4 locations, though, so I worked out what the missing letters were by going through the alphabet one letter at a time, and eventually worked out what the missing letters were. Once I did that, I finally remembered the missing memorization. So I undid 12 pieces to get past the bad memorization I had used, and then redid them correctly. I finally finished, pulled off the blindfold, and the result?
One edge flipped. I put it in the wrong way. Everything else was right. Ugh.
Anyway, it was nice to know that I got it completely correct, except my bad luck of putting the piece in wrong.