Blindsolving Failure Thread

[TMOY]

Memorizing edges without mixing up the ones with the same colors is the most difficult part of big BLD memo. Just practice and it will become more natural.

 

[MrMoney]

Memorizing edges without mixing up the ones with the same colors is the most difficult part of big BLD memo. Just practice and it will become more natural.

Thanks for the advice! Is there any other "rule of thumb" you guys use, or any other logic to faster determine where the piece needs to go?

 

[Cubenovice]

Another epic failure for the weekly 39 comp: DNF the 2nd solve, then wanted to try again with same scramble and WTF?
Found out I scrambled it wrong the 1st time... Now trying to MTS via my memo...

 

[TMOY]

Thanks for the advice! Is there any other "rule of thumb" you guys use, or any other logic to faster determine where the piece needs to go?

You can try to "solve" mentally your edge and see in which one of the two spots it will land.

 

[kinch2002]

DNF with 5:03 memo. 2nd weekly comp 2010-39 scramble. Got lost in an A perm right at the beginning due to slight lack of concentration. It was a memo PB and I recalled it all after I had stopped.

5bld of course

 

[aronpm]

Ouch.

 

[adfoote]

just finished like my 4th or 5th ever bld attempt like an hour ago. i didnt time it,and i kinda cheated by writing down my memo on a piece of paper then memorizing from that.

DNF, two edges were flipped. thats it. just a R U (M' U M' U M' U2 M U M U M U2) U' R' away. grrr
i can do just the edges or just the corners fairly easily, but both at the same time always messes me up for some reason :|

 

[That70sShowDude]

I haven't practiced BLD for the longest time, but I decided to today.

Scramble had 1 edge and 1 corner correct
2:15.30 DNF (Instead of rotating a corner CCW, I rotated it CW) Would've been PB by ~14-15sec.

EDIT:
ahh 2:16.93 DNF w/ 2 flipped edges ...
2:11.62 DNF (forgot about parity and slow executuion)

 

[RyanReese09]

F2 B' D L B' R D2 U' F R2 L' U F2 L2 F R2 D U2 R' U2 D' F D B2 L

scramble white top green front

rotate yellow top orange front
using lettering, what letters would u use?

I have LIAr VF and then i just stopped memo'ingi t to use this scramble as a chance for others to give me input on ideas of making sentences. i blow at making sentences, that's my major flaw. i can't memo stuff thats easy to forget

 

[Cubenovice]

Here' goes: notice I use one word per piece so memo seems very long but I KNOW all the words instaed of having to make up words and then try to decipher them again.
Using Old Pochmann as described by Joel van Noorts page.

edges
speedy chef - carrot - flowers -tomato - red smurf - foodmill - vomiting - reflectorpole - bench - spaetzle maker puts buffer back (apple already in place)
10 no parity

corners
move buffer to 2nd target (D') - vomit - spaetzle maker - flowers - superman puts spanish buffer back - place buffer in 4th target (D) - apple - parrot returns spanish buffer back in place.
fix two twisted corners buffer and 1st target

So I just imagine a story with these words and I find they are quite easy to recall.
in this method the difficulty is to recall the story, not recalling what the words mean.
As mentioned before, the crazier the story the easier to remember...

What a fun scramble for corners with buffer already in place and 1st target occupied and twisted in its place

0ffcourse some of these words may be silly or meaningless to you because these are MY code words.
For example food mill, speedy chef and spaetzle maker are all items we produce at Tupperware and have a two-colorscheme.

I plan on switching to "assigned letters per sticker" in the future but first I want to get conficent in the whole BLD process.
The longer stories I have to remember now can only get easier in the future ;-)

Even with the letters you may find it usefull to work with a fixed set of words.
Take a look at Chris' list of letter / letterpairs for inspiration but words will stick better if you come up with your own.
http://www.speedcubing.com/chris/memo-images.html

 

[ben1996123]

place buffer in 4rd target

Lol.

 

[Cubenovice]

@ Ben, if you want to play the grammarnazi game; please do a better job or do not comment at all.

Weekly 39 3rd scramble: off by buffer and last piece twisted in place.
I cannot believe I twisted them the wrong way when actually trying to fix them as very last step of the solve.
The memo was right but I just didn't think straight in bringing the final piece to the target position; I feel so dumb right now...

 

[Faz]

7:47 DNF off by 2 centers, 8:05 DNF off by 3 corners. I'll get it next time. My new memo method really helps.

EDIT: 7:35 DNF - 2 centers.

6:58 DNF - 2 centers......

6:45 DNF 3 corners...............................

7:12 DNF 2 wings...

6:54 DNF 3 centers

7:50 DNF 2 centers.

 

[Faz]

5x5BLD DNF in 30:57, my first attempt ever. It felt fairly secure, but as you'll see in the pictures the r2 slice is weird, and a few edges, and a couple of centers aren't solved

 

[TMOY]

4BLD: 6:58.25, off by 4 edges. First sub-7 close DNF though.

 

[That70sShowDude]

1:50.94
B' F2 R U' L2 U R U R2 F' D' R2 F' R' D U2 R2 F2 D L R B U2 B F'

Scramble had:
1. parity
2. 0 corners correct
3. 0 edges correct

Memo was ~50sec O_O

Off by 2 rotated corners ...... *%$*%^$#%^%

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1:46.93 DNF
had parity, off by 3 edges

 

[amostay2004]

4BLD at Euro:
1st attempt 6 centres off (21mins)
2nd attempt some centres and many edges off (22mins)

Two 4BLD in a row is crazy

 

[blah]

Now try three 5BLDs in a row.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I was going to say that I rather enjoyed my successful 4BLD average 10/12 that I did over a total period of 2 hours. But even that's nothing compared to blah's 19 5BLD attempts in one day. (Isn't that what you said you did before? I thought it was.)

 

[Slash]

Two 4BLD in a row is crazy

no. multiblind, 2 4BLDs and 2 5BLDs in a row is soooo bad.