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Blindsolving Failure Thread

3BLD DNF - 33.98 off by 3 edges
third scramble of weekly comp

6BLD DNF - 31:47.79 [13:13]
from the weekly comp
off by 10 left obliques, 6 right obliques, 11 inner x-centers, 7 outer x-centers, 4 inner wings, and 4 outer wings
That sounds like a lot, but 72.37% of the cube is solved
 
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So I'm pretty bad at BLD now...

DNF(38.098), DNF(1:01.639), DNF(51.794), 43.745, DNF(1:01.873), 1:26.129, DNF(38.243), DNF(1:06.607), DNF(1:29.506), DNF(56.884), 1:13.843, DNF(3:24.848)

Haven't practiced in ages.

I think a lot of the DNFs were due to faulty setup moves because they were off by a looottt. I'm pretty sure I only did one move wrong in the second 38. The last one was the only ragequit. I forgot my corner memo.

I'm thinking of practicing BLD again.
 
10/13 multi in 59:55. first try over 9 cubes actually. Need to work on memo as I had to rush exec to fall under the hour.

Edit: Another try today and same result. 2 cubes off by a lot thanks to some mess up in the M slice. 1 off by 2 flipped edges. Only solace being the time was almost 4 minutes faster.
 
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6BLD DNF - 32:13.60 [15:15]
done for the weekly comp
off by 4 right obliques, 2 inner x-centers, 3 outer x-centers, 8 inner wings, 7 outer wings, and 6 corners (2 corners if you do an R'), so 30 pieces total
Solved pieces = 122/152 = 80.26%
 
7BLD DNF - 1:06:17.61 [31:37]
First attempt ever at 7x7 blindfolded, done for the weekly competition
The fixed centers aren't on the faces they should be, so I definitely missed some layers. It might be easier to miss layers because I use the Shengshou mini. There are also two lines of red centers on the orange face and one line of orange centers on the red face. Also some similar blocks of centers on the green and blue faces.

If you imagine the fixed centers are all moved 90 degrees clockwise on the z axis, the pieces it was off by are 11 left obliques, 11 right obliques, 8 inner x-centers, 11 inner
+-centers, 8 outer x-centers, 15 outer +-centers, 4 inner wings, 4 outer wings, and 6 midges. All the corners were solved. Total that makes 78 pieces, so the percentage of solved pieces was around 60%.

JA UF MH KW QD NR ZL PT (16lo)
AQ MB NU DE IO ZJ PG RL HS H (19ro)
AN CE IO DV JQ KP RW LS JT HT (20ix)
AN UQ EO IV FP BW RL SG ZT HL (20i+)
ME AN FI UG QP VH WS CL TJ ZR (20ox)
UE QI MV NA PF RW JZ KD SL T (19o+)
LM CK AP JF ZB GS EH OR WD QV IN Q (23iw)
DJ TV WP AE CQ OL RG HS IF WZ MB NZ (24ow)
AC SN OG HW BD T (11m)
JI ZU WQ O (7c)

total number of targets = 179
 
My first Multi-BLD attempt 0/2

19:02.01[13:51.76]

First cube was off by 3 corners, which was 2 letters, which I memorized but it didn't come to mind. The 2nd cube was off by 6 edges, and all of the corners was wrong, I don't know what the hell happened there. I was feeling really confident with this. I memorized 40 cards in 8:58, too, so I guess that's why. Although I did a lot of reviewing, since this memo was 13 minutes.

First cube:

Edges: Apple Father - Apple Banana - Noodles Pole - Doughnut Heart - Maskow Music - Graveyard Elephant (Orient RD)
(Actual letters: AF-AB-NI-OL-PJ-XE)

Corners: Banana Cat - Heart House - Maskow Fancy
(Actual letters: BC-LH-JQ)

Second cube:

Edges: Music Elephant - Graveyard Snake - Mother Apple - Ball Slide - Half Pipe Riley (My dog) - Arrow Ball
(Actual letters: PE-XS-KA-OG-UR-VO)

Corners: Monkey Arrow - Ball Half pipe - Table Banana - Snake Father
(Actual letters: MV-OU-TB-SF)

1. R2 B2 F2 R' F2 R F2 R2 D2 F2 R2 D L' B2 F' L2 U R' B R F' Rw Uw'
2. D2 L2 F2 L' R2 B2 D2 U2 R D2 F' D2 F D' U2 F' L2 B D L2 Fw Uw
 
4BLD DNF:
09:58.08

Rw' U' R' Fw' L' U2 Fw2 L2 Uw' Fw2 R' B U R Uw2 B2 R2 Uw L2 U' Fw Uw' Rw' Fw2 L' U2 Rw' Uw2 L2 D F' U Rw Fw' L' B2 Rw2 Fw2 Uw2 F'

Off by two centers. I forgot to do a setup move on the very first comm >.<

I've been doing a 4BLD attempt every night since Monday though, so I'll probably get a few successes sooner or later.
 
6BLD DNF - 35:47.92 [18:50]
off by an A perm and 3 left obliques
completely failed memo and took 5 minutes to memorize left obliques
scramble from the weekly competition

At least the execution felt fast, and this is the closest non-success I've had so far.
 
5BLD DNF - 9:16.07 [3:00]
off by 4 +-centers, 4 corners, 4 midges, and 8 wings, first scramble of weekly competition

5BLD DNF - 10:13.92
off by 3 +-centers, 3 corners, and 2 wings, second scramble of weekly competition

5/7 in 18:30.33 [8:30]
first attempt at 7 cubes, didn't review at the end and forgot lots of things
 
7BLD DNF - 1:05:50.10 [25:25]
second attempt ever, done for the weekly competition. I accidentally executed inner +-center memo on inner x-centers and didn't realize it until I had started to do inner x-centers, so I had to undo and redo around 40 extra targets. It ended up being off by 8 left obliques, 8 right obliques, 3 inner +-centers, 11 inner x-centers, 4 outer +-centers, 8 outer x-centers, 4 inner wings, and 4 outer wings.
Number of solved pieces = 162/212 = 76.4%
result

3BLD DNF - 34.79 L2 F2 U2 F D2 U2 R2 U2 F2 D2 B' R' D B' U R2 U2 L' B F R
messed up execution
 
first try with 19 cubes.

17/19 were solved but the time was 1:00:48.xx

so that's one extra cube not solved so real result was 16/19 and I couldn't do it in 1 hour...

Need to get my memo just a little bit faster before the comp so I can attempt 19 cubes there...
 
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