Blindsolving Failure Thread

[riffz]

using my new ultra-mega-super-special-secret memo method.

Send me a PM and I'll send you my DF buffer algs list ;D

 

[tim]

14/17 in 55 minutes (37 minutes memo). I was finished memorizing after 30 minutes, but decided to go through my whole memo again. So the result is pretty disappointing for a safe attempt :/. My mistakes were all execution mistakes btw. (messed up Y-Perm, messed up M-slice alg, cycled in the wrong direction)

 

[joey]

I think you can fit 20 in sub-hour.

 

[Faz]

4:29 4BLD DNF, off by 4 centers. The worst part is I know exactly what I did wrong

Did [r2, U' l2 U] instead of [r2, U l2 U'] to do a 2 swap during centers :fp

 

[AndyK]

4:29 4BLD DNF, off by 4 centers. The worst part is I know exactly what I did wrong

Did [r2, U' l2 U] instead of [r2, U l2 U'] to do a 2 swap during centers :fp

Incredible, you are a freaking genius. Would that have been a PB?

 

[Mike Hughey]

4:29 4BLD DNF, off by 4 centers. The worst part is I know exactly what I did wrong

Did [r2, U' l2 U] instead of [r2, U l2 U'] to do a 2 swap during centers :fp

Wow - you got good so fazt!

I love your .sig!

 

[Tim Major]

Just wanted to post a failure, and a question.
At Melbourne Cube Day, I had a 3x3 DNF, that was off by 6 edges. I thought I might've made the mistake at the time, but it was about 50/50 in my mind, so I decided to go with it and hope, as if I undid the last few targets, redid them correctly, it would be a bad bad time for good memo anyway (this was up there with my pb).
My corners had GEM and edges had JEM as the first 3 targets. Both as audio, are "gem". I executed the corners as GEM, then went to the edges, and also executed as GEM, thinking that it was JEM for the corners, and GEM for the edges. After I few cycles I wasn't sure, continued anyway, and the only edges I got right were the buffer, and the edge I flipped along with the buffer (which makes sense with this mistake.)
I was just viewing http://www.speedcubing.com/chris/memo-words.html again, and realised that Chris had chosen predetermined words/sounds for every letter pair. I thought, wow, this would be much faster, and even more reliable too. However, this seems to restrict it to letter pairs. I use letters on their own, letter pairs, letter triplets, even letter quadruplets and higher (I once had all 6 corner targets, as one word, or which, all letters made me think of).
Does anyone good (and by good I don't mean anyone fast, I mean anyone who does a lot of practice) not have predetermined words/images for letter pairs? I'm wondering if I really need to learn something similar to Chris, if I want a higher, and faster success rate. I know for one, Faz doesn't use predetermined words/images, as at a meetup once, while memoing for 4bld, he asked me for an image using the letters GC (I gave him glacier).
Do you guys recommend me switching to predetermined words?

 

[MrMoney]

I also use audible sounds and visual memo for the usual 3bld. But for MBLD i use everything from 2-7 targes an image, and I know I do not have any predetermined words for pairs. After a while the same word starts popping in to your head (AC - =AC/DC, AD = Adnan, AE = Aeroflot, AF = Aftenposten, AG = AG3 rifle, AH = Ahl, AI = Ailin, AJ = Ajran, AK = Anne-Kristine, AL = Allah ETC).

At the start it will be hard to make up images from letters, but it will get easier. If you put some effort in to it you will also understand what type of words you are using. Also, do not think of how words are WRITTEN, but how they are PRONOUNCED. Very importent, as english is quite silly in that aspect.

 

[Zane_C]

I was just viewing http://www.speedcubing.com/chris/memo-words.html again, and realised that Chris had chosen predetermined words/sounds for every letter pair. I thought, wow, this would be much faster, and even more reliable too. However, this seems to restrict it to letter pairs. I use letters on their own, letter pairs, letter triplets, even letter quadruplets and higher (I once had all 6 corner targets, as one word, or which, all letters made me think of).
Does anyone good (and by good I don't mean anyone fast, I mean anyone who does a lot of practice) not have predetermined words/images for letter pairs? I'm wondering if I really need to learn something similar to Chris, if I want a higher, and faster success rate. I know for one, Faz doesn't use predetermined words/images, as at a meetup once, while memoing for 4bld, he asked me for an image using the letters GC (I gave him glacier).
Do you guys recommend me switching to predetermined words?

Aron makes them up afaik, although he has had much experience and has probably developed his own predetermined pairs through practice.

 

[amostay2004]

I don't use predetermined pairs (I group letters into groups of 4 btw) but yea I've stuck to the same memo for common letter pairs, but also when it's easier to memo 4 letters together I just do that. The main point is to just memo using the first things that come to your mind really, and for audio memo that can be confusing, it's better if you also visualise the letters in your head to not get confused during execution.

 

[aronpm]

Okay, so like, 5bld dnf 9:37.

Slow, I know, but 3:18 memo. I messed up exec, I forgot which buffers I was using after solving the first two buffers for x centers, and I guessed the order of the last wings.

Off by 2+2 x centers, and 2+3+2 wings.

 

[LarsN]

7x7x7bld megafail

Memo felt safe (as safe as it can get with visual) and during execution I only once doubted if I had made a wrong move. I take of my blindfold just to find the cube more scrambled than when I began. No corners or any type of edges where in place, and there were only slightly more correct centers than on a regular scramble. Even middle centers were wrong, which leads me to think that I might have rotated the cube very early in the solve. Sad...

 

[Zane_C]

Okay, so like, 5bld dnf 9:37.

Slow, I know, but 3:18 memo. I messed up exec, I forgot which buffers I was using after solving the first two buffers for x centers, and I guessed the order of the last wings.

Off by 2+2 x centers, and 2+3+2 wings.

Yes very slow, I know. Seriously though, that is extremely good memo.

7x7x7bld megafail

Memo felt safe (as safe as it can get with visual) and during execution I only once doubted if I had made a wrong move. I take of my blindfold just to find the cube more scrambled than when I began. No corners or any type of edges where in place, and there were only slightly more correct centers than on a regular scramble. Even middle centers were wrong, which leads me to think that I might have rotated the cube very early in the solve. Sad...

Bad luck, I know I've said this before; but the ability to visually memorise a 7x7 amazes me.

 

[rock1313]

7x7x7bld megafail

Memo felt safe (as safe as it can get with visual) and during execution I only once doubted if I had made a wrong move. I take of my blindfold just to find the cube more scrambled than when I began. No corners or any type of edges where in place, and there were only slightly more correct centers than on a regular scramble. Even middle centers were wrong, which leads me to think that I might have rotated the cube very early in the solve. Sad...

you must be spewing all that work for nothing

 

[LarsN]

you must be spewing all that work for nothing

It was a very strange feeling to do the last commutator (actually a T-perm because of corner-edge parity), sit for a while with the blindfold on to check my memory for things that I might have forgotten, decide that I had done everything and think that there was a big chance of my first success, then take the blindfold of and BAM!

That was my fifth attempt. It will take me some time to get motivated again, but since I love bigbld I will likely try again within this year

 

[rock1313]

3 cubes in a row dnf by one cube because I memorised the letter H instead of G

 

[Mike Hughey]

It was a very strange feeling to do the last commutator (actually a T-perm because of corner-edge parity), sit for a while with the blindfold on to check my memory for things that I might have forgotten, decide that I had done everything and think that there was a big chance of my first success, then take the blindfold of and BAM!

That was my fifth attempt. It will take me some time to get motivated again, but since I love bigbld I will likely try again within this year

I feel for you - those are so demotivating. But in my experience, often a disaster like this is followed by a full-on success. Good luck with your next try - I'm sure you'll get one soon!

 

[cmhardw]

7x7x7bld megafail

Lars those happen, no worries man. Just remember the golden rule for big cube BLD, especially for 6x6 and 7x7: Any practice is good practice, no matter the outcome.

 

[LarsN]

I feel for you - those are so demotivating. But in my experience, often a disaster like this is followed by a full-on success. Good luck with your next try - I'm sure you'll get one soon!

Lars those happen, no worries man. Just remember the golden rule for big cube BLD, especially for 6x6 and 7x7: Any practice is good practice, no matter the outcome.

Thank you for your encouragements Chris and Mike. I think I'll reserve a few hours for my next attempt this thursday. I feel motivated already

 

[LarsN]

I feel for you - those are so demotivating. But in my experience, often a disaster like this is followed by a full-on success. Good luck with your next try - I'm sure you'll get one soon!

Lars those happen, no worries man. Just remember the golden rule for big cube BLD, especially for 6x6 and 7x7: Any practice is good practice, no matter the outcome.

Thank you for your encouragements Chris and Mike. I think I'll reserve a few hours for my next attempt this thursday. I feel motivated already