Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Slash]

4/6 multi BLD in 58 minutes.
3rd cube was off by 2 flipped edges,
5th was off by a forgotten parity(so 2 edges and two corners swapped)
after solving the last cube, I realized that I forgot a parity somewhere. I started thinking, then I found out that I forgot to do it on the 3rd cube (which had no parity by the way), so I swapped two edges and two corners on it.
45 min memo, but it could've been so much better, if I hadn't been falling asleep during this event.

 

[aronpm]

I failed again at 4x4x4 BLD. The time was 53:00, with about 39 minutes memorization. Memorizing the wings took a ridiculous amount of time because I kept memorizing the wrong pieces. The cube wasn't anywhere near solved! I seemed to be holding it in the right orientation, at least At the end of the solve, I forgot what the last 4 wings were, but I don't think that really mattered in the end.

It was a good scrambles, I think. The orange centres were fully solved and the green centres were 75% solved. I think about 11 centres were solved, and 2 wings were solved. The scramble was F' L2 B2 U B L Rw2 R2 F2 R' B2 Uw Rw Uw Fw' U2 Fw2 D2 Uw R D U Rw R2 B D2 Uw' R2 B2 F R Uw R2 U2 Fw' L2 Rw2 Uw' U' B2, if anyone wants to see it.

I really hope I get it right next time. I'll probably try again tomorrow.

 

[Zane_C]

I was doing my first Speed BLD today, well not freestyle or anything just Pochmann as fast as I could (not very).
When just about 2 corners needed to be solved I realised I forgot to fix the parity!
I finished what I memorised, even though I knew it was no longer a cube being solved but rather being scrambled.
I applied the parity algorithm and stopped the timer and it was something like 1:30.
Yeah it's slow, but for me if it was solved I would be happy, because some beginners can't do it that fast with their eyes open.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Memorizing the wings took a ridiculous amount of time because I kept memorizing the wrong pieces.

This still happens to me way too often (especially with wings). Whenever I find myself memorizing the wrong pieces, I know it's going to be a disastrous solve. So don't let those get you down - if you're memorizing the wrong pieces, realize it's just an anomalous bad solve and move on.

To help with this, you can practice tracing through the pieces without bothering to memorize - just scramble the cube and trace through the pieces. Also, when I was starting out, I would often go through and name the letters for each piece as I pointed to them before scrambling for the solve, just to make it a little more likely I wouldn't choose the wrong letter for a piece.

 

[blah]

11/12 multiBLD in 1:01:08 Mis-memorized one cube - didn't notice a locally flipped edge 40 minutes memo.

 

[Micael]

11/12 multiBLD in 1:01:08 Mis-memorized one cube - didn't notice a locally flipped edge 40 minutes memo.

Still very good Chester!

 

[Zane_C]

11/12 multiBLD in 1:01:08 Mis-memorized one cube - didn't notice a locally flipped edge 40 minutes memo.

11/12, you suck!
Joking, that's a very good multi BLD score.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

11/12 multiBLD in 1:01:08 Mis-memorized one cube - didn't notice a locally flipped edge 40 minutes memo.

11/12, you suck!
Joking, that's a very good multi BLD score.

Though under the new regulations that would probably be a 10/12.

 

[blah]

Yeah personally I consider it a 10/12.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

12:57.23 (6:03) 5x5BLD DNF... off by four centers (2-2cycle) and a three-cycle of midges. Closest DNF so far, considering my other DNFs had pieces I didn't memo or I went "f*** it" in the middle of execution.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Yesterday I tried to get a successfull BLD avg5...
I got 3 successes and 1 DNF (twice 2 flipped corners, once 2 flipped edges) 3 times.
The 5th attempts always failed (once 2 flipped corners, once just bad solve).

But then I got to attemt my 3rd try for avg5. I remembered everything correctly and was confident to get it.
When I took off my blindfold, I had 2 flipped corners. -.-
I memoed, which corner was flipped. I also memoed, in which direction it had to be flipped (cw). While execution though, I forgot that. So I had to guess (50%-50% chance). And of course (like 7 more times this day) I hit the wrong one :'-(

I am sad.

Nevertheless – I will get it! Today!

 

[xXzaKerXx]

TERRIBLE failure. top all solved but bottom two layers was hell. time was 3.16.96. would have been a new PB. oh well...

 

[aronpm]

0/3 MultiBLD, 23:52.48. One cube had two edges flipped, one was off by a three cycle of edges, and two were off by corner cycles.

2-3 BLD Relay: DNF(5:56.85) Two corners swapped on 2x2x2, 3x3x3 almost solved. This is pretty good practice for corners, my weakness. I want to get a 2-4 relay by the end of January.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Oh nooo!
1:51.86 2 flipped edges..
Would have destroyed my old PB of 2:20.00!

 

[ManasijV]

3:49.45 (2 flipped edges)
First ever M2 attempt. Memo took a long time because I just tried to remember where the flipped pieces go and wasted a lot of time thinking about parity I think I'm going to get really fast with this method!

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

10:33.31 (5:24.57) 5x5BLD two midges flipped. Memo mistake urgh.

 

[xXzaKerXx]

NOOOOOO... 2 misoriented edges, time was 02.26.38. could have beaten old PB by a minute!!

 

[powershotman]

Oh nooo!
1:51.86 2 flipped edges..
Would have destroyed my old PB of 2:20.00!

you are getting better !

 

[V-te]

Gah! 10:17 DNF. I thought I performed a wrong algorithm but it was right, but I wasn't sure so I just didn't finish. I haven't had a sucessful solve in 3 weeks. =/

 

[powershotman]

2.52 two corners flipped , arh :C