Blindsolving Failure Thread

[not_kevin]

Had something like 7 consecutive DNF's... so crap

 

[Ville Seppänen]

4x4 DNF: 4:48 off by 4 corners and 8 wings = 1 quarter turn too much after centers. I know where I did that extra turn, I'll try to trace back to that place and see if it's just an exec mistake.
EDIT: yep, one stupid turn ruined it.

EDIT2: Tried 5x5BLD (on video): DNF by 5 middle edges, time was 10:07. I don't know what happened, I never miss middle edges.

 

[KConny]

I tried 5x5 BLD for the first time. Ville showed me an easy way to do the +-centers.

It was a DNF, two centerwings and three X-centers off. I was supposed to shoot to FU when M2 was off, so BD. But that's not the case for the +-centers and I had put a lot of effort into not shooting the to BD instead of FU. So I forgot to switch back to normal M2 solving.
The X-centers I just forgot to memo. I even had parity but manage to fix that. The time was 54 minutes with memo done at 30 min. This was the most tiresome cubing endeavour I've ever tried.

 

[DavidWoner]

Sounds for corner memo + people screaming endlessly in the hallway= DNF

 

[joey]

"joey: I cant even do sub-20 memo anymore
ville: don't be foolish boy, of course you can" (paraphrased )
After that -> 41.56 DNF, forgot parity.
Ville got a 47.xx on the scramble, so if I had done parity, i would have beaten him by like 4s.

My next 'solve' was 54.84 dnf, off by 2 edges, and 2 flipped corners.

Come on joey, get back into shape.

 

[ShadenSmith]

5x5x5 BLD DNF: 47:33.09 (23:00 memo)


First try! Off by 24 pieces (6 +-centers, 3 X-centers, 11 wings, 4 midges).


Memo was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Hopefully doing some more 5x5x5 will help with my 4x4x4. Hopefully.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

"joey: I cant even do sub-20 memo anymore
ville: don't be foolish boy, of course you can" (paraphrased )
After that -> 41.56 DNF, forgot parity.
Ville got a 47.xx on the scramble because he was a bit messed up after looking at the timer to see how fast the memo was which he rarely does and the memo was 11.xx, so if I had done parity, i would have beaten him by like 4s.

My next 'solve' was 54.84 dnf, off by 2 edges, and 2 flipped corners.

Come on joey, get back into shape.

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

Just got my PR yesterday, 3:00. Today I beat that with 2:50, then beat it again with 2:47...looks like I'm beating my PRs everyday

EDIT: this should actually be in accomplishments...oh well.

 

[fanwuq]

6:05 3x3 DNF, off by 2 flipped edges.
Why do I always switch methods the day before a competition?

 

[ShadenSmith]

5x5x5 BLD DNF (42:04.69, 13:xx memo), second try.

My memo really sped up this attempt! No memo mistakes that I can think of, once again I believe I know where I messed up. This time I was off by 34 pieces. The execution was much longer this attempt due to many cycles from odd angles (I don't do cube rotations with center comms) and having to deal with wing and midge parity.

 

[Mike Hughey]

6:05 3x3 DNF, off by 2 flipped edges.
Why do I always switch methods the day before a competition?

LOL - I have the same problem, except that usually I finally convince myself to go back to the old method for the competition itself. But it's funny how I'll go months with one method, and then suddenly have the irresistible urge to try a new method a week before a competition.

5x5x5 BLD DNF (42:04.69, 13:xx memo), second try.

My memo really sped up this attempt! No memo mistakes that I can think of, once again I believe I know where I messed up. This time I was off by 34 pieces. The execution was much longer this attempt due to many cycles from odd angles (I don't do cube rotations with center comms) and having to deal with wing and midge parity.

Keep at it - they'll start to get better soon! Very nice memo speed!

 

[fanwuq]

3 DNFs at Drexel today, the last 2 solves were very close.

 

[NoahE]

2:20 DNF at Drexel today...3 flipped corners
This was the fourth attempt i had done in two months because i got my cast off yesterday

 

[Lucas Garron]

1:04 DNF at Berkeley. Very silly error on a relaxed solve; I know what I did wrong, but no idea how it happened. Missed a turn on the setup-undo-cancellation on the 2nd-to-last EP alg. If it had been on the last alg, it would have been 1:06+ :rolleyes:

After that, nothing mattered anymore. And I go for singles, not podium. I don't think I'll get under 1:10 again, even for DNF...

 

[McWizzle94]

4x4x4 BLD DNF 19:xx.xx

Off by 6 edges, 3 which I cycled wrong and I don't know what happened with the other 3 xD I still have never gotten a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve

 

[Jacco]

Lol why do I DNF this scramble?!

U' L F2 U2 D' F' B2 D R U2 D2 F D U B2 F U2 R2 L2 F2 B2 L' U2 R L'

 

[Mike Hughey]

Lol why do I DNF this scramble?!

U' L F2 U2 D' F' B2 D R U2 D2 F D U B2 F U2 R2 L2 F2 B2 L' U2 R L'

Wow, that was a nice scramble. I had terrible memory recall delays, and still got 1:56.72. (I consider that time a failure on this scramble, so I think it still belongs here. )

 

[Pedro]

Lol why do I DNF this scramble?!

U' L F2 U2 D' F' B2 D R U2 D2 F D U B2 F U2 R2 L2 F2 B2 L' U2 R L'

haha
nice one! got 56.52
but I'm not going to count it, since I knew it was easy

 

[McWizzle94]

4x4x4 DNF 24:xx.xx

This was a lot worse than my other ones. Mainly because I had a lot of delay in trying to remember the edges and centers. Still, I got a lot wrong, but I still got about half of it right.

 

[VirKill]

My personal Best is 5 minutes (3x3x3, yes, i'm a noob)
Today I get 04:47.50 but it's a DNF!

4 edges flipped, At the last time, i flip the wrong pair of edge

aargh...