Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Derrick Eide17]

Mike i really want you to get it REALLY bad.
I can't wait until you eventually do
and btw sub 3 is awesome!

 

[Genie1048]

bleh, I DNF'ed a 3x3 in front of 30 people, very embarrassing. I knew I had two corners and two edges that needed to switch, but I messed up the set-up (damn freestyle) and as a result am now "that kid who lied about being able to do a rubik's cube blindfolded"

 

[shelley]

bleh, I DNF'ed a 3x3 in front of 30 people, very embarrassing. I knew I had two corners and two edges that needed to switch, but I messed up the set-up (damn freestyle) and as a result am now "that kid who lied about being able to do a rubik's cube blindfolded"

DNFs happen to the best of us. You're not "that kid who lied about being able to do a cube blindfolded." That title belongs to the guy at Worlds '05 who sat onstage for 10 minutes pretending to memorize when he actually had no idea what he was doing.

 

[Mike Hughey]

bleh, I DNF'ed a 3x3 in front of 30 people, very embarrassing. I knew I had two corners and two edges that needed to switch, but I messed up the set-up (damn freestyle) and as a result am now "that kid who lied about being able to do a rubik's cube blindfolded"

Hey, it's tough to get a BLD solve under that kind of pressure. Don't feel bad about it, and don't be afraid to try again the next chance you get. Then you can be "that kid who actually could do a Rubik's cube blindfolded after all".

 

[blah]

bleh, I DNF'ed a 3x3 in front of 30 people, very embarrassing. I knew I had two corners and two edges that needed to switch, but I messed up the set-up (damn freestyle) and as a result am now "that kid who lied about being able to do a rubik's cube blindfolded"

I used to do it in public demonstrations for 6 hours straight per demo. Of course, I do speedsolves mainly, but I manage to do about 20 BLD solves in those 6 hours.

I got so used to DNFs that I didn't feel embarrassed anymore, I just smiled at them (random members of the general public) and asked them to rescramble my cube and I'd get it right on the second try because I would just go slow on memo and execution to make sure nothing goes wrong. Besides, they can tell that you're the real deal if you have a pair of flipped edges or a 3-cycle away or something. Laymen just say stuff like "Oh you only solved 3 colors!" when you only have 2 edges flipped.

Moral of the story: Smile and ask for a second chance Geez (I'm quoting someone...), don't these people you perform to give second chances?

 

[fanwuq]

I had such a nice edge memo, it was 38 seconds, then the bus arrived so I had to put cube away and rememorize. Also it was loud on the bus, with annoying people saying, "He can't solve this, WTF, He'll solving in 2 seconds, etc." So I couldn't concentrate on corner memo. Made bad execution mistakes and ended up with a horrible 3:50 DNF. If it was quiet and nice, I think sub-3 min should be easily possible.
Before this, as I was walking to the bus, I did have a successful solve. It wasn't so fast and I didn't time it, but I estimate it to be about 3-4 min. 3BLD isn't too much information for me anymore, at least! I'm going to practice edges more, and hopefully sub-60 on that, then I'll learn U2 corners...

 

[fanwuq]

Casual 3x3 BLD DNF, probably 4-5 min.
Off by 3 edges I forgot to permute and 1 edge that was flipped wrong. Also, because I did the Parity fix without doing the 3 edges, M slice was also off.
I'm getting more comfortable with memo, probably about 1:30.

 

[Faz]

Casual 3x3 BLD DNF, probably 4-5 min.
Off by 3 edges I forgot to permute and 1 edge that was flipped wrong. Also, because I did the Parity fix without doing the 3 edges, M slice was also off.
I'm getting more comfortable with memo, probably about 1:30.

Whats you're pb?

catching up to me....

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

0/3 at Guangdong. It was too hot and I was too tired.

 

[Faz]

2:10 3x3 bld DNF

 

[mrbiggs]

Two fairly bad failures in front of people:

the first I messed up two edges. Generally I don't mind that, but I forgot to orient corners entirely, so two of those were off two. (Oops). Not great. I offered to get it right the second time.

Second scrable all corners were oriented, so I tried visual memorization. End result is that I forgot whether or not I had parity, guessed wrong, and wound up with a fairly scrambled cube. All the edges in a 5-cycle were off by one, and the corners had a 3-cycle wrong.

More practice.

 

[Zava]

multi 3/4 in 11:27, off by 2 edges orientation :/ UL was in its place but flipped, I didn't see it during memo.
I never thought I can do a 4 cube multi this fast - I even had a 30-60 seconds pause at the last cube, but after remembering, it turned out to be good.
I'll try more cubes in the next few days-weeks

 

[Fusty]

3x3
5 minute memo
3 minute execution
5 attempts
All dnf with no edges off but a few corners off.
I'm pretty bad at consistently executing correctly.
But its week #1 so I think that's normalish.

 

[Mike Hughey]

multi 3/4 in 11:27, off by 2 edges orientation :/ UL was in its place but flipped, I didn't see it during memo.
I never thought I can do a 4 cube multi this fast - I even had a 30-60 seconds pause at the last cube, but after remembering, it turned out to be good.
I'll try more cubes in the next few days-weeks

Wow, that's fast! Good job!!!

 

[Karthik]

4/10 at the Shaastra Cube Open.
I forgot to fix parity on 3 of the cubes, another cube had 2 flipped edges and ran out of time on the last cube. Damn the 10 min rule

 

[Mike Hughey]

4/10 at the Shaastra Cube Open.
I forgot to fix parity on 3 of the cubes, another cube had 2 flipped edges and ran out of time on the last cube. Damn the 10 min rule

Ah - I was looking at the Shaastra Open results a couple of days ago, and was disappointed at your 2/3 result. Not so much because of missing the cube, but because you only tried 3. It's good to know you tried a real number on your first attempt - it's awesome that you tried 10.

You haven't been practicing BLD at all lately, have you? I've caught up to you now - you were once so much better than me! It looks like you've gotten a bit faster at speedcubing, though.

Anyway, nice to see you back here, Karthik!

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

4/10 at the Shaastra Cube Open.
I forgot to fix parity on 3 of the cubes, another cube had 2 flipped edges and ran out of time on the last cube. Damn the 10 min rule

10 minute rule? Wasn't there a stopwatch available in case the stackmat competition timer hit its limit?

 

[joey]

4/10 at the Shaastra Cube Open.
I forgot to fix parity on 3 of the cubes, another cube had 2 flipped edges and ran out of time on the last cube. Damn the 10 min rule

10 minute rule? Wasn't there a stopwatch available in case the stackmat competition timer hit its limit?

10 minutes per cube.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

4/10 at the Shaastra Cube Open.
I forgot to fix parity on 3 of the cubes, another cube had 2 flipped edges and ran out of time on the last cube. Damn the 10 min rule

10 minute rule? Wasn't there a stopwatch available in case the stackmat competition timer hit its limit?

10 minutes per cube.

I still don't understand. It was multi-blind right? Do you mean they imposed a limit of 10 times 10 minutes? (1 hour 40 minutes)? Does that mean I should not compete in 3x3 BLD if I cannot do memo and execution within 10 minutes? Or was it just a limit imposed by Shaastra Cube Open?

 

[tim]

4/10 at the Shaastra Cube Open.
I forgot to fix parity on 3 of the cubes, another cube had 2 flipped edges and ran out of time on the last cube. Damn the 10 min rule

10 minute rule? Wasn't there a stopwatch available in case the stackmat competition timer hit its limit?

10 minutes per cube.

I still don't understand. It was multi-blind right? Do you mean they imposed a limit of 10 times 10 minutes? (1 hour 40 minutes)? Does that mean I should not compete in 3x3 BLD if I cannot do memo and execution within 10 minutes? Or was it just a limit imposed by Shaastra Cube Open?

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#multipleblindfoldedsolving