Blindsolving Failure Thread

Yep, 7:59 for me, new PB and nes French NR :)
On-topic now: 5BLD: 1st attempt I popped in the middle of an alg, tried to finish my solve anyway but got a completely scambled cube as a result. 2nd attempt safety solve in 30:xx, DNF by 2 3-cycles of midges (not sure of what happened) and a few centers as usual.
 
Multi 0/2 from weekly competition (19:xx). Messed up the parity alg on the first after having done the corners, then I must have mis-memorized 1 small edge part because I had 2 edges and 2 corners switched on the 2nd. Too bad, since my memo was perfect and I never had to pause for recall.
 
Euro 2010 BLD:

I chose to do the 5x5x5 before the 4x4x4 because 5x5x5 is my main event. But before that was multiBLD:

Multi:
0/5 DNF - don't do visual memo for multi. My worst attempt ever.

5x5x5BLD:
1st attempt was 14:48 DNF. Oriented centers. A lot of the corners where in place so I did 3OP instead of BH, sadly that left me with 3 twisted corners. Also 2 wrong x-centers for some reason.
2nd attempt was 18:xx DNF. Memo was killing me for some reason, so I went slow to get it right. Started the solve fixing the centerorientation by doing 2 slice moves, freezing in mid alg, thinking: "okay, the last move was wrong, but what about the first move? Guess or give up?" I guessed right :) but DNF'ed by a cycle of x-centers that I cycled the wrong way :(

4x4x4bld:
1st attempt: easy memo, felt really good during execution, pulled of the blindfold at 8:xx and the cube was a mess :(
2nd attempt: DNS, I was so thrown of by my dnf's that I didn't have the heart to continue.
 
Failed another couple 3BLD solves which were both around seven minutes, i'm thinking about doing visual for everything, since i just memorize a string of words and i have trouble getting images into my head. Anyone have any ideas on what i should do?
 
cincyaviation said:
Failed another couple 3BLD solves which were both around seven minutes, i'm thinking about doing visual for everything, since i just memorize a string of words and i have trouble getting images into my head. Anyone have any ideas on what i should do?
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Are you forming a sentence with those words? Memorizing a string of random words isn't as easy as forming a sentence.
 
Last eveneing: Weekly 40, 1st scramble: total mess...
2nd go at same scramble: decided to take a sneak peek after finishing edges, total mess already...

Will try to sort it out this evening (still know the memo) with open eye solve.

EDIT:
Have not sorted it it out BUT did the following:
I rebuild the scrambled cube from my memo, with eyes open I admit, and got it right the first time.

So now i'm sure it's not the memo, it's in the exectution.

Fun exercise!
 
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7:51.84, off by 3 edges and 2 corners, both corners were twisted, did images for edges for the first time ever and it worked amazingly, visual for corners was fairly easy to remember. I should also point out that while i do not use BH edges, near optimal or optimal 3 edge cycles come very easily to me, but corners do not.
 
My first 4x4x4 BLD attempt: DNF in 1:16:43.12 (Memo: about 56 min) lol

The centers were all right but 2, and a couple of edges were right, but the rest was a mess. I did the corners first, and I'm pretty sure I got them right, so I'm guessing it was my set-up moves where I made mistakes. I was making up a memo system for the centers as I was doing the memo, and I had a system for the edges already (Thanks to Chris for the suggestions). Then I started the solve and realized I hadn't figured out the set-up moves yet, so I was doing some pretty awkward ones.

Later: I watched the video and saw that I completely forgot that when I was solving the corners that the centers would change orientation. That explains the 2 wrong centres. Plus I forgot a U2 at the end of the last corner, which explains why 8 of the edges were wrong. Later I did a set-up move, paused for memo, then undid it in a different way :fp which explains the corners and the rest of the edges. So its not as bad as I first thought.

At least I know that my system works, if I do the set-up moves right and corners last. Oh and I was doing it on white cube with black stickers, which I am not used to.
 
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