Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Mike Hughey]

7:19 5x5BLD dnf, 3 +centers off. I cycled them the wrong way. Don't know the memo time, probably 3min.

And to think, qqwref thinks 5x5x5 BLD takes too much time. I wish I were as fast at 4x4x4 BLD as you are at 5x5x5 BLD. Amazing - I can't wait until you actually get one of these!

 

[Rubixcubematt]

7:19 5x5BLD dnf, 3 +centers off. I cycled them the wrong way. Don't know the memo time, probably 3min.

 

[McWizzle94]

7:19 5x5BLD dnf, 3 +centers off. I cycled them the wrong way. Don't know the memo time, probably 3min.

DUDE HOW DO YOU MEMO A 5X5X5 IN 3 MINUTES?!?!?!?!?

 

[puzzlemaster]

lol that shouldn't be allowed.... seriously....that's insane

 

[dChan]

Bunch of attempts only off by some stupid trivial mistakes. My last one just now was a 3-Cycle in the wrong direction(which I do a lot for some reason). I feel stupid. Tyler is getting to fast and too accurate.

EDIT: Darnit, I did another 3-cycle in the wrong direction and then I did one where I though I did the wrong reverse set-up move towards the end so I just didn't bother finishing. Actually, I did do the reverse set-up move correctly which left me with a parity.

 

[happa95]

Bunch of attempts only off by some stupid trivial mistakes. My last one just now was a 3-Cycle in the wrong direction(which I do a lot for some reason). I feel stupid. Tyler is getting to fast and too accurate.

EDIT: Darnit, I did another 3-cycle in the wrong direction and then I did one where I though I did the wrong reverse set-up move towards the end so I just didn't bother finishing. Actually, I did do the reverse set-up move correctly which left me with a parity.

muhahahahaha! Glad your starting BLD practice again! I should too...

 

[blah]

1 sub-2 DNF, 1 sup-2 success in competition. Ridiculous. I need to start practicing again

 

[cmhardw]

Stupid cell phone. I've been trying to learn to text on my cell phone without looking, and to be able to do this quickly. I've had some success at this, and I do not have a QWERTY keyboard on my phone. The downside is that the 7 key has the letters PQRS together. My lettering scheme for BLD has QRST together on the same face. I just got a DNF on 5x5x5 BLD because I had the cycle RW and when trying to get to the R location I thought in my head PQRS to get to the R letter being the 3rd piece on that face. However, it's actually QRST, the second letter on the face. That's the only thing that was off on that solve. :-S

Stupid cell phones lol, messing with my cubing.

Chris

 

[Gparker]

Ever since my very first 2 blindsolves, 10 straight DNF's. I need to finish my letter pair image list.

EDIT: i got one today, but 2 more dnfs, 1 by 2 flipped edges, other by 2 twisted corners

 

[Mike Hughey]

This was just so bad, I had to put it in here. For this week's competition, I got:
3 4x4x4 DNFs
3 5x5x5 DNFs
1 6x6x6 DNF
1 7x7x7 DNF

My worst week ever for big cubes BLD.

The best thing that happened for me for BLD this week was an 8/10 multi that was done in a fairly comfortable time (53:42). It still wasn't 10/10, though.

 

[McWizzle94]

After reading about Mike's sub-8 4x4x4, I was inspired to try 4x4x4 BLD again. I ended up with one of my fastest times, and it was also one of my closest. Sadly, I was off by 2 edges and an r2. The time was 10:42.3. It might have been lucky because 11 centers were solved.

I still haven't had a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve, even after over 20 tries =/

 

[Rubixcubematt]

After reading about Mike's sub-8 4x4x4, I was inspired to try 4x4x4 BLD again. I ended up with one of my fastest times, and it was also one of my closest. Sadly, I was off by 2 edges and an r2. The time was 10:42.3. It might have been lucky because 11 centers were solved.

I still haven't had a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve, even after over 20 tries =/

dam that sucks, i still havent got a success either. do u still have the scramble???

 

[McWizzle94]

After reading about Mike's sub-8 4x4x4, I was inspired to try 4x4x4 BLD again. I ended up with one of my fastest times, and it was also one of my closest. Sadly, I was off by 2 edges and an r2. The time was 10:42.3. It might have been lucky because 11 centers were solved.

I still haven't had a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve, even after over 20 tries =/

dam that sucks, i still havent got a success either. do u still have the scramble???

I hand scrambled it so I don't have a scramble, sorry =/

 

[Rubixcubematt]

After reading about Mike's sub-8 4x4x4, I was inspired to try 4x4x4 BLD again. I ended up with one of my fastest times, and it was also one of my closest. Sadly, I was off by 2 edges and an r2. The time was 10:42.3. It might have been lucky because 11 centers were solved.

I still haven't had a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve, even after over 20 tries =/

dam that sucks, i still havent got a success either. do u still have the scramble???

I hand scrambled it so I don't have a scramble, sorry =/

thats ok, ill probably have 2-3 attempts 2day

 

[McWizzle94]

After reading about Mike's sub-8 4x4x4, I was inspired to try 4x4x4 BLD again. I ended up with one of my fastest times, and it was also one of my closest. Sadly, I was off by 2 edges and an r2. The time was 10:42.3. It might have been lucky because 11 centers were solved.

I still haven't had a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve, even after over 20 tries =/

dam that sucks, i still havent got a success either. do u still have the scramble???

I hand scrambled it so I don't have a scramble, sorry =/

thats ok, ill probably have 2-3 attempts 2day

Good Luck! =]

 

[Gparker]

DNFed a PB almost sub 5

heres the scramble:L2 R2 D R' U2 L B' F2 D' B' F' R' D B' F' L R' D U R' B' F D2 U2 B'

 

[SimonWestlund]

DNF 2:29.54

Freakin' fast for me and only 4 corners were wrong.

My record is a little over 3 minutes. And I usually get more than 4 minutes.

 

[MatsBergsten]

After reading about Mike's sub-8 4x4x4, I was inspired to try 4x4x4 BLD again. I ended up with one of my fastest times, and it was also one of my closest. Sadly, I was off by 2 edges and an r2. The time was 10:42.3. It might have been lucky because 11 centers were solved.

I still haven't had a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve, even after over 20 tries =/

dam that sucks, i still havent got a success either. do u still have the scramble???

Good luck to you both, it's a glorious feeling to see a big BLD cube solved.

11 centers are a lot but not fantastic. On the 4x4 you have to "work them out" to,
i.e. decide how to turn the cube before starting.

Is there a sort of "rule of thumb" on what is considered lucky on blind solves? Like a maximum of three solved pieces on the 3x3 and say 10 solved centers on the 4x4 or so?

 

[Ville Seppänen]

Often when 20% or more is solved it's lucky, but I don't know if that should apply on the 4x4x4 since you can always have some solved before starting.

 

[04mucklowd]

I thought i could sole a 3x3 bld, with only knowing a little bit of old pochmann and no M2