Blindsolving Failure Thread

[MatsBergsten]

eh, I saw Péter and István posted some blind accomplishments, so I decided to try a 4x4 bld to make this day a "nice hungarian accomplishments day"
so ok, I start, scramble was good, 9 center pieces and 1 edge, 2:59 memo, I put it down at 6:21, and see that I did everything but the last edge :/ the cube only missed this: U'LU r2 U'L'U
grr

Wow, you are so fast! And soon you'll make it in comp too

 

[King Koopa]

i just did my first BLD attempt. I am using old pochmann. I thought i needed to do parity. Turns out i didn't and if i didn't do parity then I would have solved it.

 

[Chuck]

My first attempt on 5x5x5 BLD last night (8/9/2009).

7 + centers and 2 x centers were wrong. Few tredges were also misplaced, but somehow they're paired. Could have been wrong setups. Unfortunately the cube was randomly scrambled by my friend, so I can't do 2nd attempt on this same scramble. Memorization took me about 45 minutes, it's still hard to plan the + centers. Now I realized that 5x5x5 BLD has almost the same amount of items to memorize like two 4x4x4 cubes.

This video didn't really worth watching, even I didn't enjoyed watching this. My friends in this video have more entertaining value than me.

But I'm sure that a failure is merely a delayed success.
Next time I'll do BETTER!

 

[King Koopa]

i keep missing edges. i have the corners down pretty good though

 

[Sa967St]

I usually take around a minute to memo, but just for fun, I tried doing a 3x3x3 bld solve, memo-ing as fast as I can rather than taking my time to make sure I memo correctly.
It was fun , the memo was around 39 seconds, but I DNF'd by 2 flipped edges and 2 misoriented corners. The time was 1:42.59 O_o.

 

[Am1n-]

I just did my first BLD attempt, i memo'ed the whole solve in about 10 mins, put on a blindfold (t-shirt) and start solving. When I pu off the blindfold I notice I started with Blue in front, it had to be Green.

Big Failure, but I'll do another later

mvg

 

[Kev43]

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

MultiBLD: 2/3, 22:18.57, 15 minutes memo.

On the second cube I've memorized White/Green instead of Green/White. During the solve I knew I've memorized Green/White but I wasn't sure there was no mistake.
And I trusted my memorization, which was wrong :fp Two misoriented edges.
The time is very good, 3 weeks ago, when I started multiBLD, I spend around 20 minutes to memorize and solve two cubes

Tomorow I will try again

 

[Slash]

damnit!!!!

4x4 BLD: 17:26.xx
but DNF, because I missed something during execution (dunno what), so there were two edges and two centers swapped. I couldve been my PB by 20 secs:S

 

[Slash]

and again...
13:03.xx solve with 9:10 memo, and 3:53 exec. But I missed up a lot centers, and almost all of the edges. But I dont know what did I wrong. But I hope I can get a time like this sometimes.

 

[LarsN]

5x5BLD DNF(27:35,xx)

I can't figure out what I did to DNF. All the corners and edges were correct, but centers looked like I'd done a r2 U'. Can someone recognise this mistake?

I use r2 for wing edges, freestyle coms for all centers and middle edges and CO for corners. I solve in this order: + centers, x centers, middle edges, corners, wing edges, parity (but no parity in this solve).

 

[MatsBergsten]

5x5BLD DNF(27:35,xx)

I can't figure out what I did to DNF. All the corners and edges were correct, but centers looked like I'd done a r2 U'. Can someone recognise this mistake?

I use r2 for wing edges, freestyle coms for all centers and middle edges and CO for corners. I solve in this order: + centers, x centers, middle edges, corners, wing edges, parity (but no parity in this solve).

I have had something like this and did not understand fully either. But as edges and corners are correct you cannot have missed a setup move or the like. You must have done a faulty middle slice (freestyle) commutator? But still a commutator. I think.

 

[LarsN]

5x5BLD DNF(27:35,xx)

I can't figure out what I did to DNF. All the corners and edges were correct, but centers looked like I'd done a r2 U'. Can someone recognise this mistake?

I use r2 for wing edges, freestyle coms for all centers and middle edges and CO for corners. I solve in this order: + centers, x centers, middle edges, corners, wing edges, parity (but no parity in this solve).

I have had something like this and did not understand fully either. But as edges and corners are correct you cannot have missed a setup move or the like. You must have done a faulty middle slice (freestyle) commutator? But still a commutator. I think.

Hmm, I'm thinking that it must have been something during wing edges because I use r2, but I just don't get it. It would be great to understand what happened to avoid the same mistake again. I'm going to have my first official attempt in october.

 

[martijn_cube]

3x3: 2:07.xx dnf. made a wrong turn somewhere. Sub 2 is getting close.

 

[Kian]

I decided to learn 4x4 BLD about 3 months ago. I have done literally nothing to ameliorate my ignorance on it. I consider this quite a failure. Hopefully I can post in the BLD successes one day soon!

Edit: That's it, I'm starting to learn it TODAY.

 

[Slash]

f***!!!
multi BLD: 1/5, 44:43.28
1st cube: I forgot to orient 2 edges at the end of the solve(I memorized it a million times), so two flipped edges
2nd cube: 2 misoriented corners, I did wrong setup...:S
3rd cube: solved!
4th cube: 3 misoriented corners(dunno what I messed up)
5th cube: (last memorized, first solved), two flipped edges

I cant be that noob!!!

 

[Carson]

Started trying to learn BLD again... I never really figured it out the last time.

Edges only: 7:02 with NO edges correct.... that is about as bad as it gets.

Edit: Followed by a 5:36 with all corners placed correctly but two misoriented.

Edit: GRRRRR!!!! Followed by 6:47 with all corners placed correctly but two misoriented.

 

[cookingfat]

I just attempted a 7 day delay 3x3 blind solve. I memorised the cube on 22nd August and have not looked at the cube for a week. I just solved it and ended up with just 2 corners twisted. execution was 1:29.77. As soon as I took off the blindfold I kicked myself because I knew I had memoed a corner twist and simply forgot to do it. I'm pretty annoyed as I was so sure I would be able to do it. I may try this again but for an entire month this time and I will not use my main cube either.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

5x5BLD: First try.

Off by: 4 edge-centers, 4 4x4-centers, 6 centrals, 8 wing edges and 4 corners.

Not bad, for a first try... :rolleyes:

P.S. Time was 45:09.84

 

[Novriil]

So I failed two times on BLD at a comp. They were so good times when I stopped the timer. These were like my PB-s And the third time I had to triple-check everything while memo, because I needed some time not-a-DNF it was something 7:40.. -.- silver medal but still.. I messed up two PB times. and the last one with this time.. the memo was the easiest of all those before. 2 edges were already okay and so good letter pairs. MI FA CO KX QHX parity P FE GJ UX.. the best one I've ever had!! so good combinations! only letters what weren't so good were QHX and GJ but they were in my head so good that I still remember the whole solve.

 

[martijn_cube]

3x3 dnf: 2:01.16.
I flipped the last 2 corners the wrong way. I didn't remember it correctly, so i choose the wrong way . If i had remembered it correct it would have been 1:58.xx i think.