Blindsolving Failure Thread

Mike Hughey said:
I had a rather epic fail on megaminx BLD a couple of days ago. First scramble in this week's weekly competition.

DNF [1:21.58.90, 42:45]
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Mike, that is truly epic that you stuck with it. I know that feeling of having to force yourself to continue after more than one memo error. It almost becomes a challenge of just straight endurance at that point :)

Hey, look at it this way, all the difficult stuff like the solving you got correct. It was just a 50-50 shot for the edge, you had just as much a chance of opening your eyes to a solved puzzle. That's pretty intense! :tu
 
5x5x5BLD: 12:10,xx (6:05,xx) DNF

It's likely that I would have DNF'ed anyway, but I'm in the middle of execution after doing my fastest memo ever, then the guy on the train wants to see my ticket. Most of them know me after using the train to work for 6 years and let me be if I'm in the middle of a solve, but this guy thought I was intentionally ignoring him because I had no ticket (which I had). That threw me of alot. [intended meme use]
 
Just did a blindsolve with a scramble from cubetimer.com It was the easiest memo I ever had. 7 edges and 5 corners, (plus two flipped edges and two flipped corners) and I failed it. Why? Two flipped edges and two flipped corners. And not even the ones I memo'd at the beginning
 

"I undid a setup move wrong at about 13:45. Memo was about 12 min, total time was 27 :42.22. First try in a couple of months, and only 3 minutes slower than my PB, probably because I'm still getting used to my new word list."

Frustrating, but good practice. I'm still really slow at comms.

Edit: A second try. It was terrible. As I executed centers, I realized I had three letters twice... I tried to correct my memo based on visual memo, but it was hopeless. Then I got to the corners, and I had forgotten the first 4 numbers. Half by reasoning it wouldn't be certain cases because they were memorable, and half by guessing, I actually ended up getting the corners completely correct. :) For the edges I couldn't remember 1 image. After several minutes I give up. When I see the cube I immediately remember. Result: corners correct, centers messed up from trying to fix them, and edges 4 comms away from being done.

At least I'm getting faster...
 
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16:09.69 DNF. Wasn't close because a few letters in during edge execution I had realized I forgot to do parity. Tried undoing those moves. Did parity. Restarted over, forgot my last 2 edge letters. Corners were terribly difficult, had to break into 2 cycles which really messes me up :/

Might attempt later tonight. Learning BH corners and gonna start memo'ing my LPL tonight.

*sigh*
 
I'm not using letter pairs yet. I haven't memo'd them yet. Im using single letters for each. My memo that solve for edges were:

BNOWJRLKG

In each part of the room:
Bulbasaur smashing a ******s head on my hamper
Octopus raping a Whale over my dresser
J(ordan Jeffries) watching porn on my computer while Riachu stands over him giving him a shoulder massage
Lapras pulling a Kangaroo out from the bottom of my bed
Random Gorilla walks in my room (signaling end of Edges and do parity)

Then I do auditory loop for corners which I don't remmeber anymore. Something like Sernxlx I believe or something

New cycles mess me up on corners because I don't know how to approach it. Do I track where the buffer piece is? And I solve with yellow on top so that buffer piece I don't know how to tell which sticker on that buffer piece is the "yellow" piece so I know for sure when I approach the end of my corner memo that the last piece shoots to the "yellow" piece, signalling to me that I did indeed memo correct. I feel like I explained this terribly.
 
EricReese said:
I'm not using letter pairs yet. I haven't memo'd them yet. Im using single letters for each. My memo that solve for edges were:

BNOWJRLKG

In each part of the room:
Bulbasaur smashing a ******s head on my hamper
Octopus raping a Whale over my dresser
J(ordan Jeffries) watching porn on my computer while Riachu stands over him giving him a shoulder massage
Lapras pulling a Kangaroo out from the bottom of my bed
Random Gorilla walks in my room (signaling end of Edges and do parity)

Then I do auditory loop for corners which I don't remmeber anymore. Something like Sernxlx I believe or something

New cycles mess me up on corners because I don't know how to approach it. Do I track where the buffer piece is? And I solve with yellow on top so that buffer piece I don't know how to tell which sticker on that buffer piece is the "yellow" piece so I know for sure when I approach the end of my corner memo that the last piece shoots to the "yellow" piece, signalling to me that I did indeed memo correct. I feel like I explained this terribly.
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I think I understand.

First of all, I recommend you make up letter pairs on the fly until you finish your LPL.

Regarding cycles, you should track where you store your buffer on the cube. This generally isn't very hard, because I store at my first lettre that isn't already solved. However you shouldn't track your buffer's orientation. Once everything is solved and you fix twisted/flipped pieces the buffer will orient itself. Thanks to Chris for this helpful tip, saves me a lot of time that I would otherwise be using to track buffer orientation.

Hope this helps.
 
15/17 (47:55.68), for weekly comp 12.
Memo was 29:59. (I wanted it to be sub-30 :p)

-On the corners of the very first cube, an edge popped. Those that use Guhongs should know how annoying the edges can be to put back in. While trying to pop it back in place, a couple of pieces fell out, I rage quitted on that cube and threw it away.

-The last one was scrambled, I memorised it correctly so my error had to be the execution.
 
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EricReese said:
I'm not using letter pairs yet. I haven't memo'd them yet. Im using single letters for each. My memo that solve for edges were:

BNOWJRLKG

In each part of the room:
Bulbasaur smashing a ******s head on my hamper
Octopus raping a Whale over my dresser
J(ordan Jeffries) watching porn on my computer while Riachu stands over him giving him a shoulder massage
Lapras pulling a Kangaroo out from the bottom of my bed
Random Gorilla walks in my room (signaling end of Edges and do parity)

Then I do auditory loop for corners which I don't remmeber anymore. Something like Sernxlx I believe or something

New cycles mess me up on corners because I don't know how to approach it. Do I track where the buffer piece is? And I solve with yellow on top so that buffer piece I don't know how to tell which sticker on that buffer piece is the "yellow" piece so I know for sure when I approach the end of my corner memo that the last piece shoots to the "yellow" piece, signalling to me that I did indeed memo correct. I feel like I explained this terribly.
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Why don't you group the letters into a smaller phrase? :P - BNOWJRLKG -> But NOW J ReLooKinG . I don't have a list for either pairs. I make them up as I go, which actually helps build a list for very inconvenient cycles over time.
 
I did sort of. Like in the beginning I thought the beginning was liek SEXMA (ended here because realized I messed up and had to restart at SE part) So I was planning on making words like Sex Man etcetc. I try to make somewhat understandable words out of my auditory loop to try and help me remember, seeing as I am not very fast at memo'ing right now.

I assume you're talking about corners.
 
Zane_C said:
15/17 (47:55.68), for weekly comp 12.
Memo was 29:59. (I wanted it to be sub-30 :p)

-On the corners of the very first cube, an edge popped. Those that use Guhongs should know how annoying the edges can be to put back in. While trying to pop it back in place, a couple of pieces fell out, I rage quitted on that cube and threw it away.

-The last one was scrambled, I memorised it correctly so my error had to be the execution.
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Wow, great time.
On the VERY FIRST cube, that sucks! xD

Dennis
 
I'm pretty sure I posted that a while back, but for those who were watching the bld event at ToF2010,

right near the end of my solve, 3x3x3 bld, as I was doing my last corner Y-perm, my BU edge popped.... would've been my first try and first success in a bld event. ended up being my first failure.
 
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