Blindsolving Failure Thread

My second attempt at speedBLD: DNF (24.53, total time 52:59.56). Off by an N perm.

That makes me 0/2. I'm not very good at this, I'm afraid - I make too many mistakes tracing. At least it was close.

Edit: I figured out what I did wrong. Through sheer stupid carelessness, I miscalculated the AUF - I thought I needed a U2 at the end before the PLL, but I really needed a U. Then to make matters worse, I forgot to do the U2 (that was incorrect anyway) when I actually did the solve. :fp
 
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14/15 in 52:29.09(32:58)

I did this for the Weekly Competition 35.
Cube 11 popped during the last Y-Perm, I put the edge back (but with the wrong orientation) and finished Y-Perm (but of course wrong).
But good result anyway, I did no memorisation mistakes.
 
20/25 in 58:08.69[34:33]

-3 edges.
-3 corners.
-4 edges.
-2 edges + 3 corners.
-2 edges + 2 corners.

Disappointing, but this was still some very good practice.

After watching the footage, I realised I wasted 1:50 trying to recall a single edge image. I ended up making an incorrect guess, thus being off by 4 edges.
 
First 4 blind attempt since nats... Ready for the time? Ready for it? This is SO pro! 1:29:27.15! Oh.. wait..
Memo for Centers: Around 3 mins
Memo for Edges: Around 1 hour 15 mins
Memo for Corners: Idk, really quick
Also, DNF. Center memo was slightly off, but everything else was good. Must have really messed up somewhere though cause there were just blobs of correct colors.
Reconstructionish:

u F2 r2 F2 U' u' B f' D R2 B2 u2 L2 R' D' f D2 B' L' r' F' B u' f2 F r B' u B L2 f2 L' U2 f2 L F B2 L u B2
Rotation: z
Memo:

Centers:
IO JE NL QU SP PX FM CT WH

Problems:
Missed Cycle: FK PF (Somehow.. That really doesnt make sense)
When memoing, I realized that I put a double P. That was all fine and stuff, so I left it. EXCEPT, I use U2 for centers so the C (replacement of buffer) was a U2 away.

Edges:
GI SX AQ LP HM EU VC FT JW OK RN Q
Ok... I did this around 15 times or so which is why the time is so so so long. The result is actually completely correct.

Corners:
CR XU BK C

Very Quick and correct.

Memo amount:48 letters
 
20/25 in 58:08.69[34:33]

-3 edges.
-3 corners.
-4 edges.
-2 edges + 3 corners.
-2 edges + 2 corners.

Disappointing, but this was still some very good practice.

After watching the footage, I realised I wasted 1:50 trying to recall a single edge image. I ended up making an incorrect guess, thus being off by 4 edges.
Wow. I can imagine Mike getting very excited about this :P
 
2:59.xy DNF. Lost the scramble, because instead of hitting DNF in PPT I hit the x and deleted the solve...

The solve was off by six flipped edges. All execution mistakes. I tried to incorporate Uperms into the solve and got this. Maybe I'll just stick with comms for now...
 
5x5 BLD DNF(7:32.51), memo was slightly over 3:30. Off by: 2 +centers and 3 wings.
I rushed execution like a mad man :p, I undid one wing comm.

Wow, so fast. Amazing! And all of the bad ones were at least kind of close.
Thanks! Yes, I'm glad there were no cubes completely scrambled.
 
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I did my first 2 full 4BLD attempts today. Both were DNF.

The first one was DNF because I started with corners first (only solved 3), then realized that messed up my centers, but still kept going. I also had edge parity, and never learned how to solve it.

For the second on, I honestly thought I did everything correctly, but I looked at the footage, and my second cycle of the whole solve (centers first), I undid a set up move wrong (It involved shooting to the bottom centers, which I hate >:( )

I might try another later. The times were both 21's. 15 minute memo, and my x-cube 4 sucks, so I have to go really really slow with it.
 
9/10 in 37 off by two fliped edges and 4BLD in 6:57 off by two centers
I found some interesting stuff in my head :D
 
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-!!

4BLD 15:02

I was 100% sure I memo'd everything correctly. When I took off the blindfolded, everything was unsolved besides the centers. It was a completely scrambled cube with the centers correct. -.-

I looked at the footage, and I found out why. I solve centers first, and my last center case was a switch between 2 oposite centers on U and D. My set-up move was U2 and D2, and I did that, but I forgot to undo it afterwards......

:fp
 
Failed 5x5x5 BLD average of 12. Both DNFs were very close. I will certainly try again at some point for another average of 12, but I'll probably wait until after worlds. Still 10/12 accuracy is about 83% which I can be happy with :)

13:30.66, 15:24.59, 12:15.59, 16:15.69, 12:29.75, 15:32.00, 15:11.22, 19:10.37, DNF (17:02.72), 18:37.75, DNF, 13:41.07 = DNF
 
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