Blindsolving Failure Thread

Decided to do BLD avg5 even though i still only have one success. Here were the results.
DNF(4:34.94)[3C 3E], DNF(3:56.28)[3E], 4:28.11[2E], DNF(3:24.16)[3E], DNF(4:31.06)[2C 2E]
I really don't get how i can be missing by so much every time. Is there something that i'm likely to be doing to miss by that little on every cube?
 
cincyaviation said:
Decided to do BLD avg5 even though i still only have one success. Here were the results.
DNF(4:34.94)[3C 3E], DNF(3:56.28)[3E], 4:28.11[2E], DNF(3:24.16)[3E], DNF(4:31.06)[2C 2E]
I really don't get how i can be missing by so much every time. Is there something that i'm likely to be doing to miss by that little on every cube?
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Video tape yourself, or go slower on memo, or go slower on execution to make sure you aren't doing anything wrong.
 
cincyaviation said:
Decided to do BLD avg5 even though i still only have one success. Here were the results.
DNF(4:34.94)[3C 3E], DNF(3:56.28)[3E], 4:28.11[2E], DNF(3:24.16)[3E], DNF(4:31.06)[2C 2E]
I really don't get how i can be missing by so much every time. Is there something that i'm likely to be doing to miss by that little on every cube?
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Using the same scramble go back and execute the solve, checking it against your memo.
 
@CO2010, i finally did an attempt at MBLD (Thanks, Chuck!) with 2 cubes. Okay. First cube solved. Second cube, well i forgot how i orient the cube. I opened the blindfold (I borrowed Chuck's Mindfold). My judge said that when i finished my 1st cube, he stopped the timer and it shows 20:06.xx!!!

DNF :fp

And my single BLD attemts, well they're all DNF's.
 
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RyanReese09 said:
Video tape yourself, or go slower on memo, or go slower on execution to make sure you aren't doing anything wrong.
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riffz said:
Using the same scramble go back and execute the solve, checking it against your memo.
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This is kind of hard because i usually don't remember my memo around a minute after i finish the solve. I'm almost positive i'm not messing up execution, so i'll recheck my memo on my next solves. Although usually if i go through my memo more than once, i forget it all.
 
Back to my obsessive attempts at getting a 5x5 blindfolded. About 2.5 years ago I went on a 2-week binge of 2-3 attempts per day. I've still yet to get a success.

This was my 4th try this week. 32:18, which is about as fast as I ever got back then (maybe I had a 27 DNF or something). This one was off by 2 +centers. Nothing's worse than putting down the cube, taking off the blindfold, seeing what appears to be a solved cube, and then looking closer and seeing the two pieces that aren't solved.
 
Tim Reynolds said:
Back to my obsessive attempts at getting a 5x5 blindfolded. About 2.5 years ago I went on a 2-week binge of 2-3 attempts per day. I've still yet to get a success.

This was my 4th try this week. 32:18, which is about as fast as I ever got back then (maybe I had a 27 DNF or something). This one was off by 2 +centers. Nothing's worse than putting down the cube, taking off the blindfold, seeing what appears to be a solved cube, and then looking closer and seeing the two pieces that aren't solved.
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Damn :(, this is exactly what happened to me yesterday. Do you know what it is that you mostly do wrong?
 
Mike Hughey said:
You still haven't done sub-10 yet? I assumed you were averaging sub-10 by now, what with your crazy 4x4x4 BLD times. But I see your signature says otherwise. Do you even own a 5x5x5?
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Sorry I'm quoting from a few pages back but I read this^, and instantly thought this
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Tim Reynolds said:
Nothing's worse than putting down the cube, taking off the blindfold, seeing what appears to be a solved cube, and then looking closer and seeing the two pieces that aren't solved.
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I almost agree. The one thing that's worse is doing that in competition. :)

Please don't give up - you're so close! It's just unbelievably bad luck that you haven't gotten one already. Emphasis on the word "luck".
 
3:51.04 3x3 bld DNF.

Hold orange top, blue front and do F2 R2 D2 L2 B' L2 D2 R2 F, that's what my cube looked like at the end.

Did my first 3bld attempt today since UK open on 6th November, was a 5:10 dnf by about 6 edges and 3 corners :p
 
Thanks for the support. I've done at least 8 attempts in the last 3 days, averaging around 32 minutes. I suppose these solves all belong here. One was a 3-wing cycle off. Most others were much worse. On one I decided to wait on the wing parity since I hadn't done centers yet. I said to myself "DON'T FORGET BLu<-> DBr. DON'T FORGET. NO REALLY DON'T FORGET". Guess what I forgot to do ("fortunately" I messed up some other stuff too).

Bleh. I'm doing at least 2 more attempts tonight.
 
Tim Reynolds said:
On one I decided to wait on the wing parity since I hadn't done centers yet. I said to myself "DON'T FORGET BLu<-> DBr. DON'T FORGET. NO REALLY DON'T FORGET". Guess what I forgot to do ("fortunately" I messed up some other stuff too).
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I laughed in sympathy. I hate when that happens.
 
Tried another 5x5 bli.....oh wait, wrong thread. Sorry, just got used to posting my 5x5 attempts here. To keep in the spirit of this thread, I'll mention that I was 0/4 yesterday and 0/5+ the day before, and have over 60 DNFs.
 
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