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Don't worry, you're not. This guy had few 0/16, so you're obviously much better
Exactly what Zane said :tu
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My blds at Breizh Open 2011: 4bld = big fail, 5bld = big fail, multi = big fail (1/7) 
At least single 3bld was decent (1:59 in the finals and 2nd place).
At least single 3bld was decent (1:59 in the finals and 2nd place).
cmhardw
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Yeah Aron, as others have said there are good days and bad days in BLD 
As painful as competition DNFs are for me, they motivate me to improve more than a nice, fast solve does. Definitely don't take a break from BLD because of having a bad day. Taking a break from BLD/cubing is fine, but make sure you do it for the right reasons. We all know that you are one of the best blindsolvers in the world, and we also know that everyone has a bad day sometimes. One thing that always helps me is the mantra "Any practice is good practice." I think this holds especially true for competition solves.
As painful as competition DNFs are for me, they motivate me to improve more than a nice, fast solve does. Definitely don't take a break from BLD because of having a bad day. Taking a break from BLD/cubing is fine, but make sure you do it for the right reasons. We all know that you are one of the best blindsolvers in the world, and we also know that everyone has a bad day sometimes. One thing that always helps me is the mantra "Any practice is good practice." I think this holds especially true for competition solves.
toastman
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(Noob here, gotta start somewhere).
Am currently practicing edges using Old Pochmann. I scramble the cube, solve the corners sighted then go BLD on the edges.
Succeeded solving 6 then 8 edges earlier. First attempt at BLD solving all 12 edges - Fail.
1) Started memorizing edges, thought "this is way harder than I should be", realized I'd memorized 17 letters O_o. Started again. FML.
2) Remembered all letter-pairs. Most I had prepped, then hit CT-XQ. FML. Took like 60 seconds to think of a damn image for XQ. I went "eXQuisite". So the image was Charlize Theron with peacock feathers sticking out her butt.
3) Execution: Recall was fine (especially CTXQ), looked down, cube was a complete and utter mess. I think the reason was I stuffed a Jb Perm and got confused and finished it like a T-Perm (i.e. I did R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F'). FML.
Will try again tonight. My brain was fried after this. Felt like I just took a 3 hour calculus exam. Memo ~7:00, Execution ~5:00. Slowly, slowly catchy monkey. Not disappointed, was surprised at how easy memo and recall actually are. Tough work but very do-able.
Must go now. Going to go and look at pictures of Charlize Theron on Google Image Search.
Am currently practicing edges using Old Pochmann. I scramble the cube, solve the corners sighted then go BLD on the edges.
Succeeded solving 6 then 8 edges earlier. First attempt at BLD solving all 12 edges - Fail.
1) Started memorizing edges, thought "this is way harder than I should be", realized I'd memorized 17 letters O_o. Started again. FML.
2) Remembered all letter-pairs. Most I had prepped, then hit CT-XQ. FML. Took like 60 seconds to think of a damn image for XQ. I went "eXQuisite". So the image was Charlize Theron with peacock feathers sticking out her butt.
3) Execution: Recall was fine (especially CTXQ), looked down, cube was a complete and utter mess. I think the reason was I stuffed a Jb Perm and got confused and finished it like a T-Perm (i.e. I did R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F'). FML.
Will try again tonight. My brain was fried after this. Felt like I just took a 3 hour calculus exam. Memo ~7:00, Execution ~5:00. Slowly, slowly catchy monkey. Not disappointed, was surprised at how easy memo and recall actually are. Tough work but very do-able.
Must go now. Going to go and look at pictures of Charlize Theron on Google Image Search.
We've all been there!
You have no idea how many times I've done that. I really have to focus on my T-perms and J-perms, or I mess them up. It's ridiculous.
BLD is the most rewarding type of cubing. It takes serious mental ability to even get a full solve! Keep at it - it's worth it in the end. I went through about 6 or 7 DNFs on full attempts before I had a success. Keep it up!
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Multi: 6/7 in 48:10, one cube off by a 3-cycle of corners. Getting closer...
toastman
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Oh F my Effinf Life 
OK, another couple of shots at doing an "edges only" solve using Old Pochmann. Memo is getting easier and I really should set up an image list:
5:05 memo: AKIUPQMXDGRF. an AK47 shoots an IUd at a ParQuetry floor. an MX newspaper is thrown at a DoG who's walking around on the RooF. Easy.
I go twisty-twisty-twist and I hit the "Q". For me Q is Right-Up. The buffer position, but flipped.
With blindfold on, sat there for 5 minutes thinking "What the hell? What do I do now?". Do I skip it? My best guess was break it into a new cycle, but the first piece of the cycle you should solve flipped and then do some sort of parity fix/2 edge flipper at the end. Which I now know is WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG FAIL!!!!!!
Gave up. Took blindfold off and looked OK. Spent AN HOUR AND A HALF reading everything I could find on Old Pochman. Watching a bunch of youtube vids (God loves you BadMephisto ) and doing simple 2, 3, 4 edge piece sighted solves to see how this damn method worked (many times I popped out a edge pieces and re-arranged them).
The answer: and n00bs take note:
IF YOU HAVE TO SOLVE YOUR BUFFER PIECE AND IT'S FLIPPED ***JUST IGNORE IT*** AND MOVE ON AND BREAK INTO A NEW CYCLE AS NORMAL. IT WILL ALL END UP OK.
"Ah, but TOASTMAN", I can here you ask, "What happens if the last edge on the last cycle solves the buffer and it's flipped?". The answer is "THIS CANNOT HAPPEN YA JABRONI, UNLESS YOUR BUTT-HATT ORANGINA-DRINKING TURKEY HEAD FRIENDS HAVE FLIPPED AN EDGE PIECE." Also, when they tell you to peel the stickers off. Tell them that you peeled the stickers off their Mom's buttcheeks. And stickers doesn't mean stickers, it means something rude.
TL;DR? If you have to solve your buffer edge flipped. Don't worry.
I was very very angry and said I'd give up for the night. 20 minutes later after my rant, I feel much better and want to give it another shot! Hopefully my next post will be in the BLD Successes thread. Thank you for your pity.
OK, another couple of shots at doing an "edges only" solve using Old Pochmann. Memo is getting easier and I really should set up an image list:
5:05 memo: AKIUPQMXDGRF. an AK47 shoots an IUd at a ParQuetry floor. an MX newspaper is thrown at a DoG who's walking around on the RooF. Easy.
I go twisty-twisty-twist and I hit the "Q". For me Q is Right-Up. The buffer position, but flipped.
With blindfold on, sat there for 5 minutes thinking "What the hell? What do I do now?". Do I skip it? My best guess was break it into a new cycle, but the first piece of the cycle you should solve flipped and then do some sort of parity fix/2 edge flipper at the end. Which I now know is WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG FAIL!!!!!!
Gave up. Took blindfold off and looked OK. Spent AN HOUR AND A HALF reading everything I could find on Old Pochman. Watching a bunch of youtube vids (God loves you BadMephisto
) and doing simple 2, 3, 4 edge piece sighted solves to see how this damn method worked (many times I popped out a edge pieces and re-arranged them).The answer: and n00bs take note:
IF YOU HAVE TO SOLVE YOUR BUFFER PIECE AND IT'S FLIPPED ***JUST IGNORE IT*** AND MOVE ON AND BREAK INTO A NEW CYCLE AS NORMAL. IT WILL ALL END UP OK.
"Ah, but TOASTMAN", I can here you ask, "What happens if the last edge on the last cycle solves the buffer and it's flipped?". The answer is "THIS CANNOT HAPPEN YA JABRONI, UNLESS YOUR BUTT-HATT ORANGINA-DRINKING TURKEY HEAD FRIENDS HAVE FLIPPED AN EDGE PIECE." Also, when they tell you to peel the stickers off. Tell them that you peeled the stickers off their Mom's buttcheeks. And stickers doesn't mean stickers, it means something rude.
TL;DR? If you have to solve your buffer edge flipped. Don't worry.
I was very very angry and said I'd give up for the night. 20 minutes later after my rant, I feel much better and want to give it another shot! Hopefully my next post will be in the BLD Successes thread. Thank you for your pity.
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ben1996123
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k. cool.
Cubenovice
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Thx for sharing Toastman! Don't worry about it too much.
Experiences like this are the best way of learning!
You gain a lot of understanding from analysing mistakes.
I had something very similar yesterday:
- I always start inspection checking for solved / flipped edges.
- I see the buffer edge is already placed but find no flipped edges
- looks like a straight forward solve
- solve
- open up eyes
- WTF, two flipped edges, incl the buffer piece?
- :fp at the start the buffer edge was flipped in place and didn' think anything about it so I did not take this into account in my memo.
This was the first time with the buffer edge flipped in place so I did not even "recognize" it.
Experiences like this are the best way of learning!
You gain a lot of understanding from analysing mistakes.
I had something very similar yesterday:
- I always start inspection checking for solved / flipped edges.
- I see the buffer edge is already placed but find no flipped edges
- looks like a straight forward solve
- solve
- open up eyes
- WTF, two flipped edges, incl the buffer piece?
- :fp at the start the buffer edge was flipped in place and didn' think anything about it so I did not take this into account in my memo.
This was the first time with the buffer edge flipped in place so I did not even "recognize" it.
Stefan
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And you shouldn't. Like Toasty kind of already said, just ignore the buffer edge. Don't ever care about it, just solve all others. Like I've said a few times before, the deal is: Solve 11, get 1 free!
Cubenovice
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Oops, double facepalm on me...
Probably missed an edge then
Probably missed an edge then
cmhardw
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There was that one time that I got 5 sides of my cube, but just couldn't get the 6th side
Ok bad joke
On a much more serious note Stefan makes an excellent point here. This is one HUGE pro to breaking new cycles, that you get the buffer for free as long as you solve everything else.TMOY
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Another 6/7 multi, in 44:13 this time. The unsolved cube was off by a H-perm.
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Just tried some 2 cube multi attempts, best was a lousy 1/2. But the thing that makes me angry is this attempt:
I had memorised both cubes and had just finished executing the corners of the first cube, I began to execute the first edge cycle... Pop, an edge falls out. I desperately tried to put it back in, but had already wasted valuable seconds and had probably lost my place in the algorithm. I rage quitted at 1:07.
I had memorised both cubes and had just finished executing the corners of the first cube, I began to execute the first edge cycle... Pop, an edge falls out. I desperately tried to put it back in, but had already wasted valuable seconds and had probably lost my place in the algorithm. I rage quitted at 1:07.
toastman
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Holy carp dude! You can memo 2 cubes and solve the corners on one in 1:07?? Sheeeeeeeee!
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