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Blindsolving Failure Thread

I tried my first 30 cubes MBLD. After i solved cube 21, i realized, that i picked up the wrong cube after cube 10. So i had to stop.
First 10 cubes were perfect. I think the worst thing is, that you memorize all those cubes and you are so curious what the result (time/points) will be and THEN..you dont know it -.-

Greetings, Dennis
 
DennisStrehlau said:
I tried my first 30 cubes MBLD. After i solved cube 21, i realized, that i picked up the wrong cube after cube 10. So i had to stop.
First 10 cubes were perfect. I think the worst thing is, that you memorize all those cubes and you are so curious what the result (time/points) will be and THEN..you dont know it -.-

Greetings, Dennis
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Wow that's unfortunate :( how long did the attempt take?
 
I ended up triple-DNFing 3BLD at Melbourne Cube Day. On the 1st and 3rd solves, I forgot to check that the amount of targets on the edges and corners were both even/odd and I ended up having one even and the other odd on both cubes (probably meaning I missed on a cycle or something). Both of the screw-ups also happened only on the M-slice which was pretty odd. As for the 2nd solve, I accidentally mistook a white/orange edge for a yellow/orange edge and since it was my first target, it meant that I wasted a whole minute of memo time, and I ended up just calling it a DNF before I even began the execution...which I kinda regretted as even if I ended up finishing that solve in ~4 minutes, I probably would've still had enough time to finish my 3rd solve (which I messed up anyway) under the 10 minute total time limit
 
Last night I did very first 4MBLD attempt.

1/4 30:48.56[20:20.89]. Not very good. However: Considering it only took me 4 attempts to get 3/3, I don't think it will take me that long.

1st Cube: Execution Mistake (Very Close)
2nd Cube: Missed Flip Edge (I've learned my lesson about this now, I'm check every cube for flipped edges from now on haha)
3rd Cube: Execution Mistake
4th Cube: Solved

I don't know why I have so many execution mistakes. I should reconstruct my solve and see were I go wrong.

I also change my memo system.

3 Cubes: Memo 1, Review 1, Memo 2, Review 1-2, Memo 3, Review 1-3. Solve 3,2,1.
4 Cubes: Memo 1, Review 1, Memo 2, Review 1-2, Memo 3, Review 3, Memo 4, Review 1-4. Solve 4,3,2,1.
 
I just had to get a horrible 12th solve and miss PB by 0.23 seconds

Average of 12: 1:07.01
1. 59.60[19.57] D F2 D B2 R2 F2 L2 F2 U R2 D B D U F L2 F2 L D' B2 U2
2. (52.17[16.54]) F' L D R L U B' U2 R2 U L2 D2 F2 B2 L' F2 L U2 R B2
3. 1:08.32[21.58] L2 F2 D2 L2 F D2 B' L2 U2 R2 F' U' F' L' D F2 D2 L2 B2 F' R'
4. 59.80[20.61] F2 U' B2 R2 B2 R2 D U R2 D' F2 R B2 D L2 B U' R' D2 F
5. 1:05.67[18.96] L2 U2 B2 U2 R D2 B2 L2 R D' F' U R B D' F2 R' F2 U2 F'
6. 1:11.42[27.69] D L2 F' B' U2 R D2 L2 B' L2 D B2 D L2 U B2 L2 D' R2 D2
7. 1:02.12[17.80] F' D' R2 U' F2 B' U D2 F' L2 B2 R2 D2 R B2 D2 L F2 D2 F2
8. (DNF(1:16.00)[25.58]) L F B2 U' L' F' L' B' U D' B2 U2 R B2 U2 R F2 U2 F2 U2 R2
9. 53.10[15.06] U' F2 L2 D F2 L2 U' R2 F2 D B R D F2 D' U R' D' L' B'
10. 1:15.97[30.65] L B2 U2 F2 D L2 U F' R' U' F2 B2 U' R2 D R2 U' R2 L2 F2
11. 1:06.11[22.29] U R2 D U L2 F2 U' B2 U' R2 U2 B' L' U' F L2 F D2 R F'
12. 1:28.03[20.63] U2 L2 D L D' R' D' L' F' U' B D2 R2 F D2 B2 U2 D2 L2 B2 R2

Also I DNF'd the next one because memo was too slow.
 
10:10.xy 5BLD DNF by 3 midges... Executed S instead of C :/

Also I had at least 30 second pause during midges (which I do last)...

Good thing is that I had my first sub-4 memo and that the new aochuang is *******ing AMAZING. At least compared to my old unmodded SS :D
 
I'm so frustrated right now.

I've done over 10 attempts with 4 cubes. Only 4 2/4's and 1 3/4's.

This attempt should have been 3/4 but I completely screwed it:

1 cube: Twisted corner (Only 1)
1 cube: Did 1 wrong move
1 cube: Missed unsolved corners in a new cycle.
1 cube: Solved

It's really annoying when you try something over and over again and you feel like you're not going any were with it.

Time to watch Maskow's MBLD video to get me motivated again :p
 
21 cubes is hard :P

I think it is right at the limit for my capabilities right now...

I have done a few attempts now:
1st attempt: 15/21 1:01:26 bad accuracy. don't know why. probably just mostly execution mistakes...
2nd attempt: 18/21 in 1:00:24 so 17/21 in an hour.
3rd attempt: 16/21 in 59:03 forgot memo on few cubes because I was trying to go faster...
4th attempt: 19/21 in 1:04:00 which was 18/21 in an hour. I had 18 cubes @ 59:34 and the 7th cube I tried to solve was put to side because I couldn't remember it right away and knew I couldn't waste time on that. After doing all the rest of the cubes I came back to that and it took me over 4mins to remember that memo but I finally recalled it correctly...

I would say 21/21 is possible but really really unlikely with my current skills...
 
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So, I did a successful 4BLD about a month ago but it wasn't really a 4BLD because I wrote down my memo (I was still learning). So now I wanted to try again. Memo was somewhat slow, but recall was stellar. I slowly executed (I wasn't timing myself) and finished the cube with high hopes. But when I lifted the blindfold I had 3 wings out of place. Oh, well maybe next time!
 
I've been learning to do Megaminx bld. Memo was no problem in principle, I just
reused my Multi memo path and used a whole letter pair for each P / A / O.

The commutatotors for corners were easy, but it took a while to understand the
edge comms. Thanks Matthew :). Then I had to rethink the handling for buffer
pieces orientation, it also took a while. But now I think this is doable (for me)

First try (3 Dec), 13E and 10C off. Time 1:10.00, memo 40:55, it was real hard memo (I think)
because of five edge and four corner cycles and also both flipped and twisted single
pieces. I spent more than ten minutes just checking that I had all the pieces in memo.
(I am not used to look for that many pieces all over, even with 7x7 bld you never have
more than 24 places to look). The counting for big bld does not apply :(.

Edit: One attempt each on the following two days (4&5 Dec), both bad (1:01:02 and 1:01:15) :( :(
I will not give up yet.
Edit 2: 6 Dec another bad one. Memo took over an hour because I had thought wrongly about where
the slave buffer piece would end up, I thought it was twisted and rememoed and rememoed but
came to the same ending every time. Total time 1:22:55, solving time ca 21 minutes.
Edit 3: 7 Dec. Some sort of progress. 22 edges and 10 corners solved, did not lose orientation. 59:14.
Edit 4: 8 Dec. 50:11 / 27:30 but totally messed up.
Edit 5: 10 Dec. Tenth attempt. Scrambled, lost ori. Times getting better 39:30 / 18:55.
Best so far is 25E+12C.
 
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6x6 blindfolded 3rd ever attempt- dnf by just 2 swapped x centers :( exec was 31 min and memo wasnt timed.
my first attempt was many months ago and hardly anything was solved. 2nd was a couple of weeks ago and about 60 % was solved. 3rd attempt over 98 % is solved. hopefully i get a success soon
 
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