Blindsolving Failure Thread

[PenguinsDontFly]

Hey penguins where did you learn BLD, I want to learn it.

On noahs video, but m2 is hard so I learned edges from the speedsolving forum bld tutorial

 

[SirWaffle]

You still using OP/OP ?!

If so then change already ~1min times with OP/OP is getting kind of ridiculous...

yup still op/op!! And no, I'd rather work on memo more, 20 isn't fast enough!


Edit:

WHY JUST WHY

Mean of 3: DNF
1. 1:07.04 F2 R2 U' R2 D' R2 D F2 U L2 U' L B' F' D2 L2 R' F L2 U L2
2. 1:06.00 R2 D2 F2 D R2 D2 U' F2 U R2 U2 R' B' L2 U B L R' F2 U
3. DNF(2:13.87) F U R' U D F' U2 R' B R B2 D2 L' B2 D2 R' D2 R' F2

 

[TDM]

The closest I get to a Mo3:

Prisma says I now have a Mo3, but I don't really...

 

[Berd]

The closest I get to a Mo3:
http://i.imgur.com/F0IqHEX.png
Prisma says I now have a Mo3, but I don't really...

M8 dat is l3git

 

[Ninja Storm]

The closest I get to a Mo3:
http://i.imgur.com/F0IqHEX.png
Prisma says I now have a Mo3, but I don't really...

Am I missing something? There are three solves in a row without a DNF, that should be a Mean of 3...

 

[TDM]

Am I missing something? There are three solves in a row without a DNF, that should be a Mean of 3...

Look at the dates.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Look at the dates.

I see nothing wrong with claiming it as a mean of 3. If those had been 10x10x10's BLD, you'd certainly consider them valid.

Anyway, I have confidence - you'll have 3 close together very soon now, and it won't matter.

 

[TDM]

I see nothing wrong with claiming it as a mean of 3. If those had been 10x10x10's BLD, you'd certainly consider them valid.

Anyway, I have confidence - you'll have 3 close together very soon now, and it won't matter.

Well personally I don't like counting things like that for events that don't take very long - it's alright to do it with events like 10BLD that take so long that you'd never do a Mo3 in one sitting (hopefully ) or very large averages, but for something as small as a 3BLD Mo3 I don't really think it counts, especially with over a week between the attempts.

I really don't have much confidence in my accuracy I always think that a MBLD attempt is going well, then I take off the blindfold and get 1/3. My last 9 MBLD attempts (seven 3 cubes, one 7 cube and one 10 cube) have all been DNFs.

 

[tseitsei]

Well personally I don't like counting things like that for events that don't take very long - it's alright to do it with events like 10BLD that take so long that you'd never do a Mo3 in one sitting (hopefully ) or very large averages, but for something as small as a 3BLD Mo3 I don't really think it counts, especially with over a week between the attempts.

I really don't have much confidence in my accuracy I always think that a MBLD attempt is going well, then I take off the blindfold and get 1/3. My last 9 MBLD attempts (seven 3 cubes, one 7 cube and one 10 cube) have all been DNFs.

I'd recommend doing some sighted solves so you can see where you go wrong.

For example is the problem in your memo being wrong or you executing wrong targets...

 

[TDM]

I'd recommend doing some sighted solves so you can see where you go wrong.

For example is the problem in your memo being wrong or you executing wrong targets...

I can't remember the last time I did a sighted solve... I'll try doing that a bit and see if it helps. Thanks.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Another thing is, do post-mortems. When you finish a DNF, reapply the scramble and figure out what you did wrong. Then, don't do that again. It really helps with accuracy.

 

[TDM]

Another thing is, do post-mortems. When you finish a DNF, reapply the scramble and figure out what you did wrong. Then, don't do that again. It really helps with accuracy.

I've thought of doing that a few times, but never remembered to do it until after I've scrambled my cube again I hadn't heard of people doing this before though. Do many people do it?

 

[Mike Hughey]

I know I've convinced some others to do it. When my accuracy is not very good, I'll go back to doing this regularly, and I can usually get my accuracy back up quite quickly. I had been very out of practice going into last week, and I was averaging about 60% accuracy on 3BLD at the beginning of the week, so I started doing post-mortems on every DNF I had, and this weekend I had successful solves at Another FMC for all six of my 3BLD attempts, two of my 3 4BLD attempts, two of my 3 5BLD attempts, and a 10/11 multi. So it seemed to work well for me.

And if you scramble your cube, just go ahead and solve it real quick, and then reapply the previous scramble. You'll probably remember most of the memo from the first time, and what you don't remember, you'll certainly recall when you look at it again. Then try solving two pieces at a time doing it the same way you did before, and see if it works correctly or if you made a mistake.

You'll find various different kinds of memorization mistakes (like memorizing the wrong sticker of a piece, for instance - that's a common one for me, or confusing two stickers by swapping their letters), or performing algs backwards sometimes, or messing up a parity solution, etc. Eliminate just the worst ones and you'll find your accuracy can go way up.

 

[tseitsei]

I do these but only for mbld dnfs since nowadays most of my 3bld dnfs are obvious to me why they went wrong just by looking at the unsolved cube at the end of the solve and going through the memo in my head again...

 

[timeless]

almost pb sub 14 3bld fail, didnt memo the twisted corner and forgot to execute flipped edge

 

[TDM]

I know I've convinced some others to do it. When my accuracy is not very good, I'll go back to doing this regularly, and I can usually get my accuracy back up quite quickly. I had been very out of practice going into last week, and I was averaging about 60% accuracy on 3BLD at the beginning of the week, so I started doing post-mortems on every DNF I had, and this weekend I had successful solves at Another FMC for all six of my 3BLD attempts, two of my 3 4BLD attempts, two of my 3 5BLD attempts, and a 10/11 multi. So it seemed to work well for me.

And if you scramble your cube, just go ahead and solve it real quick, and then reapply the previous scramble. You'll probably remember most of the memo from the first time, and what you don't remember, you'll certainly recall when you look at it again. Then try solving two pieces at a time doing it the same way you did before, and see if it works correctly or if you made a mistake.

You'll find various different kinds of memorization mistakes (like memorizing the wrong sticker of a piece, for instance - that's a common one for me, or confusing two stickers by swapping their letters), or performing algs backwards sometimes, or messing up a parity solution, etc. Eliminate just the worst ones and you'll find your accuracy can go way up.

It's hard to do this because I use audio (I think that's what it's called?) for corners, so I forget it almost instantly. I'll only really be able to check edges, except for MBLD.

performing algs backwards sometimes

That's not really a problem with M2/OP

E: 1:42.97 3BLD DNF. One twisted corner.
E2: 1:45.22 3BLD DNF. Forgot parity. I'm so close to sub-100...

 

[Berd]

1 twisted corner?

 

[Mike Hughey]

It's hard to do this because I use audio (I think that's what it's called?) for corners, so I forget it almost instantly. I'll only really be able to check edges, except for MBLD.

I suspect if you try it, you'll find that's less true than you think. Even though you may have forgotten it, if you apply the scramble and look at it again, it's likely you'll recognize it once you rememorize it. Or you won't, in which case maybe it indicates you got the memo wrong. I know that happens to me - I have no idea what the memo was on the corners, but when I go back and recheck it, I remember "that's familiar". At your speed, I'd think you're fast enough that there will still be some vague recollection of the corners if you go back and rememorize again as soon as you're done. Start with the corners when you check it afterwards, so memo will still be as recent as possible.

And I hate getting one twisted corner. I did that on two solves in a row last week on the weekly competition. It's due to having a V1 AoLong. And being too careless.

 

[TDM]

I suspect if you try it, you'll find that's less true than you think. Even though you may have forgotten it, if you apply the scramble and look at it again, it's likely you'll recognize it once you rememorize it. Or you won't, in which case maybe it indicates you got the memo wrong. I know that happens to me - I have no idea what the memo was on the corners, but when I go back and recheck it, I remember "that's familiar". At your speed, I'd think you're fast enough that there will still be some vague recollection of the corners if you go back and rememorize again as soon as you're done. Start with the corners when you check it afterwards, so memo will still be as recent as possible.

And I hate getting one twisted corner. I did that on two solves in a row last week on the weekly competition. It's due to having a V1 AoLong. And being too careless.

I've tried a bit and I can sometimes remember bits of it, but not that well. After I've done a letter I'll stop trying to remember it, so my list gradually gets shorter; I don't just remember one list of letters. My list changes. I think that confuses me a bit.

My two mains that I'm constantly changing between are an AoLong v1 and a ShuangRen v2. Neither are great for corner twists The AoLong is much worse though.

 

[tseitsei]

I suspect if you try it, you'll find that's less true than you think. Even though you may have forgotten it, if you apply the scramble and look at it again, it's likely you'll recognize it once you rememorize it. Or you won't, in which case maybe it indicates you got the memo wrong. I know that happens to me - I have no idea what the memo was on the corners, but when I go back and recheck it, I remember "that's familiar". At your speed, I'd think you're fast enough that there will still be some vague recollection of the corners if you go back and rememorize again as soon as you're done. Start with the corners when you check it afterwards, so memo will still be as recent as possible.

And I hate getting one twisted corner. I did that on two solves in a row last week on the weekly competition. It's due to having a V1 AoLong. And being too careless.

I mostly cannot recall corner memo again after a 3bld solve if I go fullspeed...