Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Ville Seppänen]

Mike just keeps getting crazier. I'm going to try a single 5x5x5 now and post the DNF here.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Ville, have you really never done a 5x5x5 BLD? If not, I'm guessing you'll get it right away - probably first solve. Anyone as good as you at 4x4x4 BLD should have very little trouble doing 5x5x5 BLD.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

Ville, have you really never done a 5x5x5 BLD? If not, I'm guessing you'll get it right away - probably first solve. Anyone as good as you at 4x4x4 BLD should have very little trouble doing 5x5x5 BLD.

Sure I have done it, even got it right twice out of about 30. In fact, I have alot of trouble with 5x5x5, mainly because I don't feel like practicing it much.

The solve I just did was DNF, 16:05.41 with 5:52 for memo. Off by only 3 X-centers. I'm pretty happy with this, it's my fastest DNF. (Fastest successful is 23:33.xx)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Ville, have you really never done a 5x5x5 BLD? If not, I'm guessing you'll get it right away - probably first solve. Anyone as good as you at 4x4x4 BLD should have very little trouble doing 5x5x5 BLD.

Sure I have done it, even got it right twice out of about 30. In fact, I have alot of trouble with 5x5x5, mainly because I don't feel like practicing it much.

The solve I just did was DNF, 16:05.41 with 5:52 for memo. Off by only 3 X-centers. I'm pretty happy with this, it's my fastest DNF. (Fastest successful is 23:33.xx)

Amazing time. Yeah, probably if you practiced it more, you'd get really accurate.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

5x5x5 BLD DNF
1:06.25.69

My First 5x5 BLD attempt ever! Kinda a bad DNF but still glad to see SOME clumps of the cube solved when i was done so not a TOTAL loss, i just REALLY need to get used to the extra centers on a 5x5 that u dont have to deal with on a 4x4 BLD and i think i can get a success on this! it was fun

 

[masterofthebass]

Finally tried another 5x5 BLD. It turned out almost exactly the same as at Nationals

26:35 DNF

Off by 2 X centers (same as nats), a few T centers (swapped M slice, just like nats), and because I used M2 for T centers, was off by a couple of midges as well.

I got all corners+wings though.

around 16:00 for memo

 

[Tim Reynolds]

33:25 5x5 DNF, 17:30 memo. I've been doing 5x5 constantly for a while, and am about 0/25 right now. I attempt to do 2 solves per day, and have not yet gotten one.

This one's really frustrating though...I was a three-cycle of wings off. The reason? I remembered my image of an island, and instead of converting it to IL, I converted it to IS (which is ice skates for me). I am quite certain I can do a 5x5 bld, it's actually starting to feel easy (despite the fact I've DNFed every attempt I've done). A bunch of my DNFs were (at least partly) due to the fact that I didn't realize that you couldn't do M2 edges before centers, at least not for the special cases like M U2 M U2.

Bah. Success coming soon (I hope)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Wow - nice 5x5x5 attempts by everybody.

Tim, you're obviously very close. You'll probably get 2 or 3 in a row when you finally do get one, so keep at it once you get a success. At least, that's what seems to happen for me - I get them in streaks, 3 or 4 in a row usually.

I had the same thing happen to me with my inner edges on my most recent 6x6x6 (although I missed 2 inner centers as well) - I had an image of a truck, and I converted it to TR (which is train for me) instead of TK. I've decided to change TK as a result - I think it's maybe my most dangerous image now for mistranslation. (TK is on Chris Hardwick's list as truck, which is how I got it to begin with. I've moved a bunch of his images to different letter pairs in my scheme, because they often confuse me like this. His brain must work a little differently from mine. )

 

[Kenneth]

My first post here:

Pyraminx: DNF (1:07.36) ... two edges and one centre missoriented.

r u U B' R B R B' L R' L' R' L' B' R L U L' R' U R' L' U' L' B'

Hybrid, two turns solves a 5-cycle edge permutaion, the rest was orientation. I rushed the orientation memo when I saw the permutation was easy, that's why I failed.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Thanks for the encouragement Mike...sadly, I was 0/3 today in 5x5s. The last one was 31:37 (my new best time for an attempt) and 2 X-centers off. With centers I never try to trace where I made a mistake, it's never really worth it.

On this one, though, I made a blunder during memo, and noticed while blindfolded that I had two "V" 's in my +center route (in my method, that never will happen on centers, except sometimes with an A or less often a B or C). Based on my visual memory of the cube and based on what I remembered about my thought process during +center memo, I decided to guess that the latter was a W instead, and it fortunately worked.

That's the end of my 5x5 bld binge, since I'm going to college tomorrow and will be really busy. I'll try to find time for one a day, but this two-to-three-per-day thing will end.

 

[Nghia]

1:17 on Ville's scramble (R2 U2 D' R D2 U R2 D2 U R' D' L D2 R2 D F' B D' U' B2 D F' L U L2) , I forgot 2 2-cycles for corners

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thanks for the encouragement Mike...sadly, I was 0/3 today in 5x5s. The last one was 31:37 (my new best time for an attempt) and 2 X-centers off. With centers I never try to trace where I made a mistake, it's never really worth it.

On this one, though, I made a blunder during memo, and noticed while blindfolded that I had two "V" 's in my +center route (in my method, that never will happen on centers, except sometimes with an A or less often a B or C). Based on my visual memory of the cube and based on what I remembered about my thought process during +center memo, I decided to guess that the latter was a W instead, and it fortunately worked.

That's the end of my 5x5 bld binge, since I'm going to college tomorrow and will be really busy. I'll try to find time for one a day, but this two-to-three-per-day thing will end.

I'll commiserate with you - I was just 0/3 on 5x5x5 last night/this morning. So I DNFed 5x5x5 BLD in the competition this week.

It looks like you're going to have a very good time for your first 5x5x5 BLD solve! My first one was around an hour.

Good job with the guess on the + centers. It's always worth it to give it a try!

One a day will still serve you well. It's plenty often enough to keep your speed and accuracy up. It's only when I drop to less than that that I start to lose my accuracy, which is what has happened to me lately, I think.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

39.85 3x3x3 DNF, two edges flipped. And it was nonlucky. I memoed correct but I cycled BD instead of DB. It even had parity!

 

[NickNack]

On 3x3, I just spent around 10 mins trying to memo it (I'm horrible with memo), with the first algorithm, I knew I messed up.

 

[nitrocan]

I just sucked at the Dutch Masters 2008. Both attempts were DNFs,second one off by two edges (not oriented correctly) and the first one was a parity error.

 

[Kian]

first 3 multiblind attempt. (bored at work, no timer)

cube 1- 2 edges misoriented
cube 2- pretty much scrambled, haha
cube 3- solved

 

[Raffael]

I sucked at everything bld on Dutch Masters.

0/2 multi bld.
Two DNF's in normal bld.

 

[nitrocan]

I sucked at everything bld on Dutch Masters.

0/2 multi bld.
Two DNF's in normal bld.

I know the feeling

 

[ShadenSmith]

25:xx 4x4 BLD DNF.

26 pieces solved, started with 8. First attempt.

 

[blah]

25:xx 4x4 BLD DNF.

26 pieces solved, started with 8. First attempt.

Don't give up! Keep trying, I had 8 DNFs before I had my first success Waiting for your post in the accomplishment thread By the way, that's pretty fast for a first attempt I think, at least it's faster than mine...