Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Slash]

4x4 bld in 14:11, off by 2 misoriented corners and 4 centers. SH*T!!

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

AARRGGGHHH!!!!!!!

4x4BLD 9:53 DNF, off by r2

 

[Mike Hughey]

AARRGGGHHH!!!!!!!

4x4BLD 9:53 DNF, off by r2

Stackmat alert!

Seriously, I suggest you start doing the following:
1. Start a stopwatch.
2. Put your hands on a stackmat timer, and start it.
3. Memorize, don blindfold, and solve your 4x4x4 BLD.
4. Stop the stackmat.
5. Remove blindfold. If you made the stackmat, you can forget about stopping the stopwatch, and CELEBRATE!

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Gimme a stackmat then.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Gimme a stackmat then.

Awww, you don't have one? I'm sorry. (I forgot how expensive they are outside the USA.)

 

[cmhardw]

AARRGGGHHH!!!!!!!

4x4BLD 9:53 DNF, off by r2

Maarten, congrats on the close call! I've had DNFs like that, off by a single slice turn and no more, and I've had them more than once! Yes I know it is frustrating, but remember in BLD any practice is good practice. I know that your next sub-10 will not only be a success, but I think it will be even faster!

Good luck on your next sub-10. I'm totally yelling "Stackmat!" when you get it

Chris

 

[Olivér Perge]

My closest 4x4x4 blindfolded in competition was off by 4 pieces. Two centers and two corners. Memod one corner wrongly, such a noob mistake.

Video of the result from 0:05 to 0:30 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idv3swd5gyY.

 

[LarsN]

AARRGGGHHH!!!!!!!

4x4BLD 9:53 DNF, off by r2

Good luck on your next sub-10. I'm totally yelling "Stackmat!" when you get it

Try again, Maarten. We all want to yell at you

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

KEEP YELLIN!

9:09 DNF, off by 4 centers.

 

[Mike Hughey]

KEEP YELLIN!

9:09 DNF, off by 4 centers.

Oh wow, Maarten - you're getting GOOD! I can't wait to shout "Stackmat!"

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

You'll have to wait anyway, I'm taking a little break from 4x4BLD now to work on a secret event.

 

[MatsBergsten]

4x4BLD: 10:15.16
My second successful solve this year. Why in this thread? My goal wasn't mainly to solve it, but to get sub10. Oh well, a success is just as good?

Very good Daniel! That's a PB, is it not?

 

[MatsBergsten]

KEEP YELLIN!

9:09 DNF, off by 4 centers.

You had one 10+ and two sub-10 this week.
Even if the were DNF:s you seem to have made huge progress,
real huge. Memoing or solving or both?

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

I think both, but mostly memoing. The 9:09 had sub-5 memo!

 

[LarsN]

You'll have to wait anyway, I'm taking a little break from 4x4BLD now to work on a secret event.

5x5BLD? I like my 7th place

Weekly competetion first scramble 5x5BLD: DNF (21:48)
My fastest DNF yet, off by a cycle of x-centers

 

[Chuck]

Whoa, Maarten.

Clearly I've lost.

Congratulations!

Recently I haven't practicing again, because I had just finished writing a book about speedcubing and BLD cubing. I've got a publisher too. I Hope everything goes well...

Maybe I'll post the book here in PDF.

But none of you could understand Indonesian, right?

 

[TMOY]

Got a 2:02.xx yesterday, missed only because I did a 3-cycle of corners in the wrong direction
At least I know I am really close to sub-2 now

 

[Tim Major]

You'll have to wait anyway, I'm taking a little break from 4x4BLD now to work on a secret event.

Ball in cup?

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Nope, something else.

My first 6x6BLD attempt! Not surprisingly, DNF. Off by:

0 inner x-centers,
5 left obliques,
5 right obliques,
4 outer x-centers,
8 inner wing edges,
11 outer wing edges,
0 corners.

Too tired to do a post-mortem; time was 1:10:07.17 (pronounce one hour, ten minutes, seven seconds and seventeen hundreths)

The memo was about 40 minutes. Percentage of pieces solved: 78.29%

 

[Mike Hughey]

Nope, something else.

My first 6x6BLD attempt! Not surprisingly, DNF. Off by:

0 inner x-centers,
5 left obliques,
5 right obliques,
4 outer x-centers,
8 inner wing edges,
11 outer wing edges,
0 corners.

Too tired to do a post-mortem; time was 1:10:07.17 (pronounce one hour, ten minutes, seven seconds and seventeen hundreths)

The memo was about 40 minutes. Percentage of pieces solved: 78.29%

Awesome! I'm always happy to see someone else trying this. And not a bad time for first attempt, either! And considering you got most of the obliques and centers right, you know you can really do it - you're already good at wings, so it's not such a big deal that you missed them this time.