Blindsolving Failure Thread

[kinch2002]

A bld day alone: First would be 7bld. I have no 6x6 so it would have to be straight to the 7. Then I'd try a 2-5 bld relay. I might also figure out pyra and mega bld and attempt those until I get a success. If I had time maybe a 3bld with feet(!).

EDIT: Might as well post a bld failure here too: It's one of those not-really-a-failure ones. 5x5x5 2nd scramble of weekly comp got a 6:26.93 memo and then spent 2 minutes remembering one of my centre cycles. Also missed a letter during wings and undid 15 wing pieces to get back to it. So it resulted in a 10:12.78 exec and 16:39.71 success overall. Should have been sub-WR off that sort of memo

 

[MatsBergsten]

So it resulted in a 10:12.78 exec and 16:39.71 success overall. Should have been sub-WR off that sort of memo

Wow, I find your speed of improvement fantastic. In the same time I have improved from say 23 to 22 minutes you have gone from 30 to 16-17.

And your story reminds me of really learning how to correct mistakes like that wing execution. You don't have to backtrace all wing edges. But I do too in a situation like that.

We'll see about 7x7 bld. Is there anyone who knows how many people who have done a 7x7? In the unofficial list on speedcubing there are four. But I don't think you can
update the list any longer.

 

[Parity]

Sounds like an impressive day, Mats. That's a pretty good result for your first try at 8 cubes multi!

I think the more developed memory systems really don't have much trouble with reuse. At least, I find it much like you do. If I'm well-rested and not under any stress, I can do BLD solving all day long, reuse rooms, and never get in trouble.

As for your initial question, of course I would try something big if I had a day alone - probably a 7x7x7 multi to start with. I think I might have a chance like that next weekend - not a whole day alone, but an evening anyway. Maybe I'll finally do my fourth attempt!

Can you tell me about your room memory?

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

So it resulted in a 10:12.78 exec and 16:39.71 success overall. Should have been sub-WR off that sort of memo

Wow, I find your speed of improvement fantastic. In the same time I have improved from say 23 to 22 minutes you have gone from 30 to 16-17.

And your story reminds me of really learning how to correct mistakes like that wing execution. You don't have to backtrace all wing edges. But I do too in a situation like that.

We'll see about 7x7 bld. Is there anyone who knows how many people who have done a 7x7? In the unofficial list on speedcubing there are four. But I don't think you can
update the list any longer.

Kuti is on that list.

I'm going to do it in 2010, I promise.

 

[kinch2002]

So it resulted in a 10:12.78 exec and 16:39.71 success overall. Should have been sub-WR off that sort of memo

Wow, I find your speed of improvement fantastic. In the same time I have improved from say 23 to 22 minutes you have gone from 30 to 16-17.

And your story reminds me of really learning how to correct mistakes like that wing execution. You don't have to backtrace all wing edges. But I do too in a situation like that.

Well I only had 1 attempt a week since the start of the year before...and that wasn't helping me get faster at all, so now I do one a day and it works nicely . It's you and Mike that inspired me to get into big cube bld really so thanks!

I know that I don't have to backtrack all the wings normally, but this case was different because I had shot some r-slice pieces to the wrong place as well due to being r2 out from where I expected to be. It should also be possible to correct this quicker than backtracking but it was too difficult to think of on the spot.

 

[Mike Hughey]

So it resulted in a 10:12.78 exec and 16:39.71 success overall. Should have been sub-WR off that sort of memo

Wow, I find your speed of improvement fantastic. In the same time I have improved from say 23 to 22 minutes you have gone from 30 to 16-17.

And your story reminds me of really learning how to correct mistakes like that wing execution. You don't have to backtrace all wing edges. But I do too in a situation like that.

We'll see about 7x7 bld. Is there anyone who knows how many people who have done a 7x7? In the unofficial list on speedcubing there are four. But I don't think you can
update the list any longer.

Kuti is on that list.

I'm going to do it in 2010, I promise.

I know Chris Hardwick did it. It seems to me like someone else did, but I can't remember who right now.

And Daniel, your rate of improvement on 5x5x5 BLD is outrageous. I've only had a couple sub-7 memorization attempts, and those were almost 7. Once you get your execution speed up, you're going to be way faster than me. Very impressive!

 

[kinch2002]

So it resulted in a 10:12.78 exec and 16:39.71 success overall. Should have been sub-WR off that sort of memo

Wow, I find your speed of improvement fantastic. In the same time I have improved from say 23 to 22 minutes you have gone from 30 to 16-17.

And your story reminds me of really learning how to correct mistakes like that wing execution. You don't have to backtrace all wing edges. But I do too in a situation like that.

We'll see about 7x7 bld. Is there anyone who knows how many people who have done a 7x7? In the unofficial list on speedcubing there are four. But I don't think you can
update the list any longer.

Kuti is on that list.

I'm going to do it in 2010, I promise.

I know Chris Hardwick did it. It seems to me like someone else did, but I can't remember who right now.

And Daniel, your rate of improvement on 5x5x5 BLD is outrageous. I've only had a couple sub-7 memorization attempts, and those were almost 7. Once you get your execution speed up, you're going to be way faster than me. Very impressive!

I'm definitely going to be joining the 7bld list by the end of the year...it's on my New Year's Aims.

I guess my memo on 4bld got down to a best of 3:05 when I was practising that, so it doesn't surprise me too much that I'm down to around 6 mins for 5bld after doing 9 solves in a week - it's slightly slower per piece than 4bld which is what you would expect. Hopefully I'll keep reducing the time I take to figure out the tricky centre comms (usually the ones with bottom pieces) - that's where I can currently see space for improvement. The real mystery is why it still takes me over a minute to memo a 3x3

 

[Zane_C]

I thought I would try BLD with minumum rehersing memo.
For those who think it's impossible...
Guess what, my accuracy just got worse.

2:54.33, DNF(2:17.30), DNF(2:21.05), DNF(2:20.45), DNF(2:39.89), DNF(2:15.37), DNF(2:39.25), DNF(2:56.17), DNF(2:37.19), DNF(2:39.30)

Some were off by just a few wrongly oriented pieces while other were off by a lot, on one cube there was only one corner solved.

 

[Kev43]

As for your initial question, of course I would try something big if I had a day alone - probably a 7x7x7 multi to start with. I think I might have a chance like that next weekend - not a whole day alone, but an evening anyway. Maybe I'll finally do my fourth attempt!

What are the results of your first three attempts?

 

[Mike Hughey]

As for your initial question, of course I would try something big if I had a day alone - probably a 7x7x7 multi to start with. I think I might have a chance like that next weekend - not a whole day alone, but an evening anyway. Maybe I'll finally do my fourth attempt!

What are the results of your first three attempts?

All DNFs, all 0/2, all six puzzles fairly close to solved, each one somewhere around 3 hours total. I don't remember the details, but they're all posted somewhere back in this thread.

I'm not positive I'm going to get the chance to try next weekend, but if I do get the chance, I will give it a go. Hopefully this time I'll finally get them.

 

[ShadenSmith]

As for your initial question, of course I would try something big if I had a day alone - probably a 7x7x7 multi to start with. I think I might have a chance like that next weekend - not a whole day alone, but an evening anyway. Maybe I'll finally do my fourth attempt!

What are the results of your first three attempts?

All DNFs, all 0/2, all six puzzles fairly close to solved, each one somewhere around 3 hours total. I don't remember the details, but they're all posted somewhere back in this thread.

I'm not positive I'm going to get the chance to try next weekend, but if I do get the chance, I will give it a go. Hopefully this time I'll finally get them.

I remember witnessing the first

 

[MrMoney]

Just attempted my first MBLD with 3 cubes (which will be my goal from now on):

1/3 solved in 26minutes 13seconds

1. DNF 3 cycle of corners
2. Solved
3. 2flip edges 2 corners wrong

I have started to outline my "memory-method" involving each of my sisters´ bodies for corners and letters representing edges.

Will be fun to see if I get any success in competitions.

 

[TMOY]

4^3 BLD in 11.11, DNF by two centers and three wings

 

[Tim Major]

First 5bld failure after 7 consecutive successes. 5:56 memo (best ever) and then dropped the cube while on the 2nd alg . Could have picked it up with a 1/24 chance of getting it right...but couldn't be bothered to try. Was the first weekly comp scramble

Even though it wouldn't count, I would have solved it sighted, then re-scrambled, just so that memo didn't go to waste

 

[Isbit]

4^3 BLD in 11.11, DNF by two centers and three wings

I DNF'd in the exact same time on my first weekly-solve. I did parityalg r2 instead of r2 parityalg

anyway, tried domino BLD for the first time today. Since I don't really have a method, I wasn't surprised that I DNF'd. Not even close. Will probably try again later.

 

[aronpm]

4BLD DNF: 10:29.40 (6:10 memo)
I messed up the last centre comm I think, because most of the wings were scrambles and 4 corners were off.

Edit:

DNF(10:32.11), I had to stop because I couldn't remember the last half of the wings. That's because I did memo in 5:00

 

[Mike Hughey]

Since everyone else is doing it, I thought I should join in the fun.

4x4x4 BLD: DNF in 6:44.17, 3:33 memo. Off by 2 centers because I did the commutator backwards.

It was the second scramble in the weekly competition this week. All the scrambles seemed very nice this week.

 

[TMOY]

After my DNF in 11:11, I got one in 10:10, off by 3 edges and 4 centers.
My next DNF will be in 9:09

 

[blah]

As for your initial question, of course I would try something big if I had a day alone - probably a 7x7x7 multi to start with. I think I might have a chance like that next weekend - not a whole day alone, but an evening anyway. Maybe I'll finally do my fourth attempt!

What are the results of your first three attempts?

All DNFs, all 0/2, all six puzzles fairly close to solved, each one somewhere around 3 hours total. I don't remember the details, but they're all posted somewhere back in this thread.

I'm not positive I'm going to get the chance to try next weekend, but if I do get the chance, I will give it a go. Hopefully this time I'll finally get them.

I remember witnessing the first

I remember witnessing the eleventh.

 

[Gunnar]

I went for a speed multi to improve my memo speed. Got 1/3 in 9:52.16. Happy with sub-10, but I think I can reach sub-9 (and solve all ).