Blindsolving Failure Thread

[trying-to-speedcube...]

I would feel bad for you, Jude, but what you did was just dumb, sorry

Do you know what went wrong on your multi BLD failures?

 

[Jude]

I would feel bad for you, Jude, but what you did was just dumb, sorry

Do you know what went wrong on your multi BLD failures?

I know, people kept saying "unlucky" to me and I always responded with "I wasn't unlucky, I'm just an idiot".

Re: multi BLD, the one that was a T perm off I just forgot to finish off my last cycle, and the one that was a J perm off I have no idea what went wrong..

 

[Daniel Wu]

First day with M2 on 3x3. 2 complete fails and 1 that was off by 4 flipped edges. Wow.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Argh, 1:15.53 DNF with 2 flipped edges, I'm getting these incredible times more and more these days, I expect a sub-1 solve soon

 

[aronpm]

I have had a few blindfold failures over the past week. I've been trying to get a successful M2 solve (I used to do Old Pochmann for edges). Quite a few times I messed up with the setup moves to shoot to LB and RB (the worst edges to shoot to, in my opinion). That happened about three times. I did another solve with M2 and... the four bottom edges were flipped.

Tonight I tried my second MultiBLD attempt (2 cubes). First cube was off by three edges, and I forgot the order of edges in the second cube.

My first successful M2 solve will happen eventually... or maybe I should stick to Old Pochmann for a while.

 

[Slash]

Road to 5x5 BLD:

Video description:
everything in the video about the result... Total time: 39:27 (31:10 memo, 8:17 exec)
I use freestyle-ish commutators for centers(with 4 buffers), Old Pochmann for corners, r2 for wings, 3-cycle or M2 for middle edges(in this vid I used 3-cycle)

sorry for the quality, I recorded this with my mobile...

 

[Chuck]

@ Slash
That's pretty fast execution, Slash. My first 5x5x5 BLD were 15:28 minutes memo and 19:09 execution. Good luck on your next solve.

Today's Failure:

After 3 months without practicing multi:

Multi BLD 11/13 in 58:03.10

Memorization: 35:27.00
- First 6 cubes & refresh: 15:59.20
- Last 7 cubes & refresh: 19:27.80
Execution: 22:36.00
TOTAL: 58:03.10

Cube #4: forgot to do parity fix (very stupid mistake)
Cube #5: I didn't have a clue where I've done wrong. I hate this feeling.

Next time will be better.

Tim, I'm start practicing...

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Tu quoque, Trombi?

It won't take long before I won't stand a chance staying in the top-3 of Europe...

 

[Isbit]

Multi 3 cubes
27 minutes, so OK time
on the first cube I got a flipped edge, so my buffer edge ended up flipped as well

second cube: forgot the memo, so I counted all the pieces i remembered and ended up with two edges that weren't in my memo and tried to fix them and hope for the best. Three edges in the wrong positions and two edges unplaced and flipped (if I remember correctly)

Third cube: Two flipped edges

so the result was 0/3, with less than ten pieces off. If only they had been on the same cube...:fp

 

[MatsBergsten]

Road to 5x5 BLD:

Not far off, you'll soon get it. And as Chuck says, so fast execution!

 

[Gunnar]

I've gotten 2/2 once in multi-BLD, and I want to improve my time, but just seem to get failures. I've had 1/2 with small mistakes on one cube 7 times in two days, all attempts 2-3 min faster than my only success.

 

[MatsBergsten]

I've gotten 2/2 once in multi-BLD, and I want to improve my time, but just seem to get failures. I've had 1/2 with small mistakes on one cube 7 times in two days, all attempts 2-3 min faster than my only success.

Maybe you think it is a silly comment, but Multi in its nature is more about accuracy
than speed. 3/3 in 30 minutes is better than 2/2 in 5 minutes. (And I know that you know that) So why don't you go for that instead? High speed is something you really have got already!

 

[kinch2002]

First time attempting 3 cubes. 2/3 in 32 minutes (outside allowed time of 10 mins per cube). Had 3 corners flipped on 3rd cube. Soooo close!

 

[Isbit]

third try 3 cubes multi.
i always ends up with two unoriented pieces at 2 cubes! this time I got 0/3 beacuse i slipped with my fingers on the first cube while solving. last time I got 1/3 (with two unoriented pieces at two cubes, of course!) first try was also 0/3 (see my previous post).

I think I have to practise breaking into new cycles, because that's when I get it wrong.

(not sure what preposition i should use between pieces and cubes, is "at" correct?)

 

[cmhardw]

Ok, so I realize that it is very rare that I post in this thread. This is not because I am super accurate or anything silly like that, but because I don't usually track my DNFs. However, I am absolutely mystified as to the cause of this most recent DNF.

I was doing a 5x5x5 BLD solve using the new optimizing center orientation approach discovered by Stefan, and discussed at length by Chester. Recently Daniel and I have decided to incorporate this into BH.

So my DNF looks like this:
All 3x3x3 pieces (including central most centers) are solved.
All wings are solved except for a stupid error on one of the cycles. Basically, they should all be solved if I wasn't making stupid mistakes.

And now the mystifying part: The movable center pieces are completely scrambled! I have 5 solved after the scramble, when probably 8 or so were solved before the scramble.

:confused:

I know I didn't do triple layer MES turns when solving the central most centers, and the move I did to solve centralmost centers is supercube safe (verified on my 5x5x5 supercube).

Can anyone help offer ideas how this could have happened? The only other possible explanation I can think of is a total and utter memo fail, of epic proportions. I'm hoping it was some weird kind of solving error that I have just never done before. My recall of what I memorized for centers was quick and easy. So the only other thought I have now is maybe I memo'd x-centers as t-centers or something :fp like that.

Has anyone ever had such a DNF before?

Chris

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

I always rescramble the cube again, refresh memo, and try to reconstruct the solve you did again, then you will find what went wrong. That you scrambled some already solved pieces points out a memo error, I don't think you really made any incredible execution mistakes. I think you mixed up x-centers and +-centers, that seems like the most plausible solution.

 

[Truncator]

Noooo...

3x3 BLD off by four edges in ~13 minutes. First time I've ever gotten all of the corners, but my memo method is so bad I don't like trying.

 

[Isbit]

seventh try 3 multi, 2/3 in approx. 25 minutes.
First cube was off by ONE corner (+buffer piece)! Frustrating

 

[aronpm]

I tried my first full 4x4x4 BLD solve. I spent an hour memorizing centres, 50 minutes memorizing edges and about 10 minutes to memorize corners and do revision. Execution took about 20 minutes. Besides being my first full attempt, it was the first time I'd attempted to solve the centres blindfolded.

All the corners were solved (it would have just been embarrassing otherwise). It was off by 14 centres (although some have been clearly scrambled, so I must have had an execution mistake). It was also off by 10 edges (probably caused by the centre mistake and another mistake).

Oh well. Maybe next time.

 

[Muesli]

I tried a 3x3x3-edges-written-semiBLD solve. Off by 2 flipped edges.

I can't wait until I'm confident enough to try a full BLD!