Blindsolving Failure Thread

Mike Hughey said:
I missed both of my first 2 6x6x6 BLD attempts (both for the weekly competition). Both only off by 2 obliques. :( And then I accidentally solved it after the second attempt - I forgot I wasn't supposed to because I was trying to figure out where I went wrong. So now I can't have my first solve on it be BLD. :(
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Well, officially it is only solved if you stopped the timer after you solved it :D
 
AvGalen said:
Mike Hughey said:
I missed both of my first 2 6x6x6 BLD attempts (both for the weekly competition). Both only off by 2 obliques. :( And then I accidentally solved it after the second attempt - I forgot I wasn't supposed to because I was trying to figure out where I went wrong. So now I can't have my first solve on it be BLD. :(
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Well, officially it is only solved if you stopped the timer after you solved it :D
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Oh, well after I did this, I decided I had ruined my chance at it so I went ahead and speedsolved it a bunch (and stopped the timer after I solved it). So it's definitely too late now. Anyway, I'm happy because I did it right for the 7x7x7. So I guess that's good enough.

And Joey, my wife is back, so it'll probably be a while before I can try the big relays. I really hope to get a 6x6x6 BLD before I get to the relays. But the relays will come someday.
 
0/2 Multi-Bld. 35:03.19

My first try at multi. The first cube had a 2x2x3 block + 1 edge correct. The second cube had all but 4 edges correct.

I blame it on my memo. I realized I had forgotten some by the time I started, and obviously didn't review enough.

Fail.
 
Dude if you had a 2x2x3 block + 1 edge correct you should've done speedBLD, flip a few edges and it's gonna be a 2-gen solve!
 
Failed 6x6 BLD :(

the worst part about it, was there was nothing wrong with my execution or solving. when i was finishing the outer corner-centers the cube had an internal pop, after a few minutes i couldnt find the other internal piece, so i gave up. but as i looked, everything i had already solved was correct, so if it werent for the pop, it wouldve been successful :(
 
ROOT said:
Failed 6x6 BLD :(

the worst part about it, was there was nothing wrong with my execution or solving. when i was finishing the outer corner-centers the cube had an internal pop, after a few minutes i couldnt find the other internal piece, so i gave up. but as i looked, everything i had already solved was correct, so if it werent for the pop, it wouldve been successful :(
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Ugh. How frustrating. I feel for you - I really do! I've never had a full pop (I had a piece start to pop out once, but I caught it before it really got out of the puzzle), but it is a constant fear. By the way, how fast was the attempt?

I'm now 0/4 on 6x6x6 BLD. :( A couple of times, I've had situations where the centers won't click into place, and it happens halfway through a commutator, and so there I am rocking the slices back and forth trying to get it to click, and the whole time afraid I'm going to lose my place in the commutator. I'm sure that on at least one of my attempts, this is what went wrong. It's a double challenge to solve the 6x6x6 BLD, since you have to be so careful not to pop.

Between the popping fear and the weird color scheme (which is much harder to deal with on 6x6x6 than it is on 7x7x7, since on the 7x7x7 you have fixed centers to compare with), I think I've decided the 6x6x6 and the 7x7x7 are equally hard to solve BLD. However, as soon as I can get Cubesmith stickers, that should no longer be the case - the popping problem alone isn't enough to do it, at least for me.
 
0/6 now on 6x6x6 BLD. On the most recent one, I messed up an inner X center commutator, and I knew I messed it up, but had no idea how to fix it. I decided to just give up and look at the cube so I could see if I could figure out what I did wrong, and I was able to look at it and figure out what I did wrong. I then pulled the blindfold back on and solved the rest of it correctly, so at least I finally managed one with two looks.

I know I can do it; I just keep messing up every time!
 
joey said:
I DNFd both times at Czech Open, with horribly slow times. Also DNFd the 4x4.

The only upside was the 2/2 in 4:13.
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I saw that - I was disappointed. (Although I didn't know about the times - what were they?) But you did well in everything else (well, except clock), and the 2/2 was fantastic! The best 2/2 multiBLD ever by more than a minute! (Previous best was Rowe Hessler: 5:22.) Spectacular result!
 
Mike Hughey said:
I saw that - I was disappointed. (Although I didn't know about the times - what were they?)
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Yes, I was disappointed too. I don't really feel like posting them.
#1 1:43.xx DNF, did 2 antisunes, meant to do 2 sunes. This was my slow backup solve.
#2 1:31.xx 'Tried' to go fast, didn't work, just sucked.

Mike Hughey said:
But you did well in everything else (well, except clock),
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I broke every PB in competiton, except for BLD. I actually broke my 5x5 PB outside of competition too, with 2:38, thanks to Erik's really nice 5x5. (Which Peter Rocka also used)
Erik and Arnaud said I couldn't compete in BLD if I didn't compete in clock, so they taught me the night before. I kept forgetting it too, and had to be show again quickly as the judge was calling me up! It was a DNF cos I went over 1minute.

Mike Hughey said:
and the 2/2 was fantastic! The best 2/2 multiBLD ever by more than a minute! (Previous best was Rowe Hessler: 5:22.) Spectacular result!
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I'm really pleased with this. I know 2/2 isn't a big multi at all, but it's not what I was going for at all, I know most people won't really recognise it as much, but I'm glad you do too! It was funny, since I had memoed and solved when most other people had maybe finished memoing their cube :P (if that!) This is 2:07.xx per cube, which actually is faster than my 2:27.xx single BLD :P
 
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