Blindsolving Failure Thread

6/7 = 5 points in 16:52.17

The 7th cube (first I solved) was off by 2 flipped edges. I didn't see DB flipped when I memorized :/ I should have noticed when I got back to the buffer.

Memo was about low 9.

; w;
 
Mike Hughey said:
Maybe I should try again - I did a couple of attempts a while ago and then decided I was too slow and didn't bother anymore.
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Yeah, give it a try. You might've become faster thanks to all your bld practice.
btw. I mapped all my 48 cube images onto the cards and created 4 new images. So for me memorizing a deck of cards is basically the same as memorizing 2.6 cubes.

Mike Hughey said:
And I am looking forward to the 24/24 someday. I know you can do it. The biggest question is whether someone else will beat you to it or not.
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I was kinda afraid of Stefan who promised to practice a lot. But apparently he didn't:

Stefan said:
Do you have to beat me at everything I thought my 6:22 was good and now that ok I'm gonna practice grummel grummel grummel...
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aronpm said:
6/7 = 5 points in 16:52.17
Memo was about low 9.
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Alright, let's race for 20/20 in an hour? :)
 
Whoa, 9:50 dnf, memo'd edges in 4 minutes flat (last attempt for pure edges took me 8:30 memo lol)
was off by 2 corners that I forgot to memo, and 2 corners misoriented

this is an accomplishment but failure at the same time

side question, is it safe to reuse rooms everyday? or should i cycle between rooms? i almost had a wrong image pop in my head during edges
 
That depends. Yes, the picture is probably clearer if you haven't used that route, but give it a try. I have only three routes which I used every day for half a year, and it almost never happened that old pictures came up. The slower you are, the better you're picture have to be (mostly) and maybe that means bigger risk they'll come up next time on the same place.
 
Today is my first day doing blindfolded solves and I almost succeeded at one:

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The RY and BR edges are switched. It's not a completed solve but it makes me pretty happy! For some reason memorizing when you have to go into a new cycle is messing me up (which happened in the solve above). I'm using the story method (words/images mix) and so far I like it a lot better than trying to memorize letters/numbers, which is the method I was trying to do at first.
 
25 minute DNF (went over memo a lot), 3cycle of corners and 2 of which were twisted
memo edge was solid though,
UP, JG, QK, RA, SB (very lucky scramble, 3 edges done, but i had to break into 2 new cycles D:
corners were..
GWMLPE (i use auditory and solve corners first)
but yet the corner memo was wrong even though I don't know how, oh well <_<
 
FUUUUUUU
10:37 DNF (had parity
ugh <_< 2 corners are switched (though oriented correctly)2 flipped edges, 2 of which were part of a 3 cycle edges, so altogether 5 peices off
damnit :fp

damnit I realized what went wrong, I didn't need to do parity (but that still leaves me with 2 flipped edges, i forgot to do a new cycle of edges for it, because i didn't account for a flipped edge in plaec, bah..getting closer
 
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Today I attempted my first blindfold solves. I made 5 attempts.

1: 15 minute memo, 7:41 execution 2 misoriented edges and 2 misoriented corners.
2: 22 minute memo, 6:38 execution 3 swapped edges and 2 misoriented corners.
3-5: All memos less than 20 minutes and all executions under 6 minutes. (I can't remember the exact times.) Those three were all way off. haha

Hopefully I get a success soon. Even though I got it wrong it's so addicting. :)
 
4/20 m2/freestyle.. :(
Individual Times:
1. 1:29.52 U' B2 D' B2 U2 L F U R2 F' B2 L2 D' B2 U2 D
2. 1:44.58 R' L' F2 B L2 U' L D2 L F' R' F2 U2 D' L2 F2 U2 B2 U' F2 U
3. DNF U' L D L2 U' R2 B' U' L2 U' R B2 D B2 L2 U' F2 D2 F2 U' B2
4. DNF R' B2 L' B R2 B U' R' B' R' F' L2 D2 B2 L2 U' L2 D F2 U' F2
5. DNF U R' F2 L' F' R' F D' L D2 L F' D L2 B2 U2 L2 D B2 L2 D2
6. DNF R' U R L B2 L2 U F' D2 B' L' F L2 U' B2 L2 U' L2 U2 R2 U'
7. DNF F2 D R2 B U2 L U2 F L D R L2 U' B2 U' F2 U B2 U' D' B2
8. 1:12.39 F' R B U' F' R2 U' B L' U' B R' B2 D2 R2 D F2 U2 F2 D2 R2
9. DNF U' F' R2 L U' R D2 B D F D R2 F2 D' F2 U2 D L2 U2 B2
10. DNF R2 D R F2 D L U L2 U' R B' R2 D F2 B2 D' F2 D B2 D F2
11. DNF F' U2 B' R2 B2 U R' D F R L2 U R2 F2 D F2 R2 F2 L2 D2
12. DNF L2 B' D' F' R2 B' R2 L' B U F U2 L2 U2 R2 D F2 R2 F2 B2 R2
13. DNF U' F2 U2 B U' L U2 F' L D' R F2 R2 F2 B2 D L2 D' B2 U' D2
14. DNF D' F2 U2 R F U' L U B2 L' B U' B2 D R2 F2 D' F2 R2 L2 B2
15. DNF U L F U' B L D L F D L' F2 B2 U B2 U L2 U2 F2 B2 U2
16. DNF D2 F' U R' B' D' L' B2 D L2 B' R2 F2 R2 D2 B2 L2 F2 D' F2 U'
17. DNF D' F2 D B2 R' U' L' B' D' R2 L' D F2 U' R2 L2 D L2 U2 L2
18. DNF B' R F R2 F' D' F2 U' L F U R2 F2 U' L2 D B2 U F2 D
19. DNF R2 F D2 B' L D B' D2 L2 F L' B2 D2 R2 F2 D R2 B2 R2 F2 D
20. 1:26.16 D2 R2 U2 R2 B' R F' D2 B U B' R2 D' R2 D' L2 D2 R2 U B2 L2
Dnf only on edges
I think I should change edges memo method, when I do freestyle corners it's ridiculous
 
5:12 3BLD on my crappy storebought: 2:25 memo, about half a minute faster than last attempt! I can see improvement coming!
 
So this evening I was down for some multi (unofficial style). I gathered all my 3x3's which totalled 18. It took 1h 20m to memo, the cycles were sure to have been memorised perfectly as I very carefully double checked them. After the fourth cube I thought I had been flipping and twisting the wrong pieces, I back-tracked it and couldn't remember if I applied the mistakes I thought I may have done. So I assumed those first cubes probably were a DNF. A lot of other crap happened up to the 7th cube where I gave up. I got very confused. There were no problems with the cycles, I just got my journey for memorising permuted but non oriented pieces confused with my journey for the cylces.

The time typing this has made me realise the problem. I memorise the twisted and flipped pieces of the first cube visually, so I thought I had to substitute that into my journey. For example; twisted pieces of the third cube were in the second location of my other journey. But I forgot to take into account I don't use routes to memorise my first cube. Anyway, the end result isn't a failure to memorise but a failure to interpret the memo. Sorry for you going to the effort of reading this and probably not understanding it much, it's worded very badly.
Over the weekend I'll probably attempt this again. So only the cubes with no flipped pieces of the first 7 were solved, which gives a total of 2/18 (yes many twisted pieces)
 
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