Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Mike Hughey]

Megaminx BLD: DNF (1:04:43.81, 29:43)

Fifth scramble of the weekly competition.

Off by just a 3-cycle of edges. On finishing a cycle, I forgot to repeat the starting piece of the cycle.

I used Stefan's commutators instead of the algorithms I was using. They're wonderful - I'm sticking with these from now on. They're easy to see and understand, easy to execute, and WAY easier to set up.

This scramble had something like 4 corner cycles and 5 edge cycles, as well as a corner twisted in place, and so it was really quite difficult, especially to memorize. (It's really hard finding which pieces you haven't used yet when memorizing a megaminx!) With a slightly easier scramble, it should be easy to get sub-hour! Maybe next week.

 

[McWizzle94]

10:10.45 4x4x4 BLD DNF!

This one was insanely fast, but it felt normal kind of...anyway I was off by 4 edges and 10 centers. So Yea it was almost sub-10 and now this is my 20th DNF.

 

[Mike Hughey]

10:10.45 4x4x4 BLD DNF!

This one was insanely fast, but it felt normal kind of...anyway I was off by 4 edges and 10 centers. So Yea it was almost sub-10 and now this is my 20th DNF.

Wow - you're getting fast! Congratulations - I hope you get a successful fast one soon!

 

[McWizzle94]

10:10.45 4x4x4 BLD DNF!

This one was insanely fast, but it felt normal kind of...anyway I was off by 4 edges and 10 centers. So Yea it was almost sub-10 and now this is my 20th DNF.

Wow - you're getting fast! Congratulations - I hope you get a successful fast one soon!

Thanks!!!!

 

[joey]

Like YO and stuff!
McWizzle94 you can do it!!!! I havn't had much time to try 4x4 BLD (or any BLD for that matter) but I hope to get one soon, and hope you do too!

 

[McWizzle94]

Like YO and stuff!
McWizzle94 you can do it!!!! I havn't had much time to try 4x4 BLD (or any BLD for that matter) but I hope to get one soon, and hope you do too!

Like Yo and Thanks

 

[fanwuq]

1:53.45 L2 B D' L2 D2 B' L D' L2 R F' L2 D B' F R' B' F L' R' D2 B2 F2 D U2
This was the 2nd time doing that scramble.
First time, I messed up when doing the corners and DNFed it without moving on to the edges. Memo was sub-50s, could have been new PB.
2nd time, I spend about 40s rechecking my memo and got a success.
If only I didn't mess up on the execution the first time...
I did 5 solves. One one success, and it was 4:33. 2 DNFs were sub-2:30 min and I messed up right at the beginning. One I finished and one that I just DNFed before finishing. 2 other DNFs were around 3:30 and are off by only 1 or 2 cycles.

 

[martijn_cube]

3x3 multi 2 cubes:
1 cube solved, other DF/FL misoriented. total time 26 min.
Beer isn't helping
I will have to try that another time.

Edit: right after this i scrambled the missed cube, and tried the memo agian. this time it was solved

 

[byu]

3x3x3 BLD

DNF

Three edges were in the wrong place, but oriented correctly. One more three-cycle on the edges would have fixed it.

 

[martijn_cube]

2 cubes multi blind. forgot to memo a flipt BD.
1cube solved, 1 with 2 flipt edges.

total time 15:02.08 (10 min memo, 5 solve)

when i saw the flipt edges at the end. i tried the 2 solves again. and solved them in 4:56.

 

[fanwuq]

4 or 5 solve on the bus. Only one success, it was 3:30. The DNFs were 2:55 to 4:10, only one was off by a lot.

 

[boiiwonder]

freestyle solve FAIL. I still dont get it.

 

[Rubixcubematt]

2 multi=1/2, second one totally of. needa create roman rooms........................
time was 8:00

 

[JustinJ]

My second attempt at a full cube BLD, three corners wrong. Way better than my last one though, I think I had maybe, three pieces right on that one.

 

[martijn_cube]

3:02.78, failure. i think i did a turn wrong somewhere.
to fix it i needed to do: M2, UL, M2. but i had already done UL.
memo was 1:35

 

[byu]

18 minutes on my second attempt at a 3x3x3 BLD, a failure.
I was off by two edges and two corners that needed to be switched. A T-permutation would have fixed it.
10 minute memorization.

 

[tim]

2 multi=1/2, second one totally of. needa create roman rooms........................
time was 8:00

Just do it. It takes about one minute for each room.

 

[byu]

13 minute 3x3x3 BLD failure - 5 1/2 minute memorization.
I was off by 5 not permuted edges, and two corners that needed to be swapped. I think I rushed too much in the memorization. Usually my memorizations are about 10 minutes.

 

[tim]

5x5 bld: dnf (18:19). I was off by 2 x-centers. Memo was 6:50 (and it didn't feel fast at all). There's so much room for improvement, unfortunately i'm too lazy to practice...

another dnf, this time 15:51, but totally messed up...

15:22 dnf...

 

[McWizzle94]

13:07.06 4x4x4 BLD DNF

I was off by an edge cycle I memo'ed but forgot to do and 3 corners which I cycled the wrong way.