Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Yes We Can!]

maybe you accidentally did a y' before solving midges (assuming you solve those last)...

 

[cmhardw]

After doing S2 only the middle edges are wrong. How can this happen?
I use M2 for edges, there´s no S2 in the hole execution.

I would say to figure out what cycles you actually did during the solve, and see if you see similarities to what you memorized. If you have the same shapes of which pieces cycle where, this could be evidence toward the cube rotation theory.

Sorry for the DNF Try to analyze it as much as you can before you forget what you executed, as this will help to prevent it happening again in the future.

 

[RyanReese09]

1:26.92 DNF off by a pure 2flip edge which I forgot to do. 2 edges solved to begin with.

 

[ilikecubing]

1:26.92 DNF off by a pure 2flip edge which I forgot to do. 2 edges solved to begin with.

Nice time:tu

 

[toastman]

Here's a couple for ya.

I've been failing a lot at singles recently, but seem to have better success at multi's (well, my failures are closer). Been on holidays. Note that my single PB is still a shocking ~7min (old pochmann, it's "piece recognition" that's killing me). Here's a couple:

Attempted 2 cubes on holiday. NOISY environment, interrupted by 2 phone calls (which I just had to let ring out).
First cube: Off by 3 corners
Second cube: SOLVED!

Tonight, attempt 3 cubes. New memo method. Tried sentences instead of "images", and tried hard to incorporate "rooms" in my flat. THIS HELPED A LOT. Not as strong as "pure images", but for *singles*, probably good enough and way faster. I remembered that Ashlee Simpson was lifting a CoW with a UFo in my kitchen, and that Michael Jackson was cracking a SaFe in my bedroom. But:

1st cube: Corners first. MY DAMN FINGER SLIPPED during a Y-perm... Because I'd JUST LUBED MY MAIN SPEED CUBE AND MY HAND WAS COVERED IN CRAP. Couldn't tell if I'd done a U2 or a U. Guessed... wrongly. Cube a mess.
2nd cube: Edges=cool. FORGOT MY DAMN CORNER MEMO. Seriously, I forgot it. The whole thing. Decided to leave it and try cycling through the alphabet to try and job my memory (try this you MultiBLDers, it helps), but RAGEquitted before I got back to it after the 3rd cube. (Result: solved edges, untouched corners.
3rd cube: Edges=cool. Thought I did a corner wrong. Undid it. Realised I didn't. Re-did it. Un did it. Realised it was another corner. Did it. Got confused. Remembered the rest but RAGE QUITTED.

But... I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

Hey Zane, Puddy, Tim, you do realise that technically speaking the Australian Multi-BLD record is only 3 cubes, right? *ducks*.
Hope to see y'all at the next big meet in Melbourne

Now I'm gonna get dronk. I have the scrambles but can't be bothered doing a post-mortem.

I think I'll go back to the basics for a while, particularly doing corners-only solves, which seems to be my weakness.

 

[ilikecubing]

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

My first ever sub-1 attempt at 3x3 BLD. I was doing the 1st scramble of weekly competition 22 and it was really easy for me. After I got really nice edge memo I decided to go for it and memo the corners very quickly (it worked).

Sorry for replying to a very old post,but even i wanna try this scramble,but somehow i'm not able to find it,can someone please find it for me?

 

[Zane_C]

But... I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

This is the main thing.

Hey Zane, Puddy, Tim, you do realise that technically speaking the Australian Multi-BLD record is only 3 cubes, right? *ducks*.

You should go for the Australian record then.

Hope to see y'all at the next big meet in Melbourne

By "big meet in Melbourne", I assume you mean next competition?

Sorry for replying to a very old post,but even i wanna try this scramble,but somehow i'm not able to find it,can someone please find it for me?

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?21416-Weekly-competition-2010-22

 

[Jakube]

4x4x4 BLD DNF: 7:45.89

After stopping the timer I look at the cube, it looked solved, I looked at the timer and jumped for joy (PB is 8:55.90 <-> More than 1 Minute better)
But than I saw, that 2 edges on the back had to be switched. You can see them on the pics: The edges are LB and RB

 

[NeedReality]

For some reason, I figured I would try to do my first multi blind earlier today. My time (14:27.38) was pretty bad because I was having trouble with my corner memo since I use tapping. When I lifted my blindfold, all that was off was a flipped edge on the second cube from me memorizing O instead of P - dang, so close! I think I'll stick to regular BLD solves until I get faster and then I'll work on doing more cubes.

 

[Gaétan Guimond]

Failure live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp4hhGLyt6s

 

[Tim Major]

Hey Zane, Puddy, Tim, you do realise that technically speaking the Australian Multi-BLD record is only 3 cubes, right? *ducks*.
Hope to see y'all at the next big meet in Melbourne

Tim?!?! As in me? I'm not good at multi, my pb is 3/3
Perhaps you meant Faz. But IMO 0 points in 54 minutes is way cooler than Faz's rubbish OcR

 

[JonnyWhoopes]

Epic pop during a fast BLD solve. 9 pieces... Probably upload the vid tomorrow. Was trying for a sub 1:20 on vid, just so I have incentive to stay ahead of Ryan for 3BLD.

 

[EricReese]

Don't know how, but tried a BLD at work with M2 (first try) and was off by a 2flip, the last 2 edges in my memo somehow were flipped ??????? so confused as to how it happened. But im happy to know that I at least got it down, its pretty easy if M slice is off just shoot it to the place where it is if you do an M2

 

[pappas]

44.97 3bld off by a U perm on the U face. No idea where I went wrong. L2 R' D2 U B2 F' D F' L2 B' L' B2 F D B L2 B D B' F L D F' D U'

 

[Rpotts]

Don't know how, but tried a BLD at work with M2 (first try) and was off by a 2flip, the last 2 edges in my memo somehow were flipped ??????? so confused as to how it happened. But im happy to know that I at least got it down, its pretty easy if M slice is off just shoot it to the place where it is if you do an M2

do you shoot to either sticker on M slice targets or do you do Pochmann was of just doing the easy targets and maybe flipping a few edges at the end. Cause if you only shoot to the easy targets you memo from UB/UF/DB and not where the sticker actually belongs, otherwise all edges after it will be flipped. Happened to me on my first few attempts.

 

[EricReese]

I think I shoot to the correct sticker, I don't shoot it to a "piece". Unfortunately I can't reconstruct the solve because it was a hand scramble at work.

 

[Rpotts]

right, but for BU do you use a different alg or just M2 and flip it later? You need to memo from where you shoot to for the M slice, regardless of where the sticker belongs (if it will be flipped at the end)

 

[EricReese]

If M slice is off, If the piece needs to go to say..FU (lol) I would shoot it to BD while still using the memo letter from the original FU sticker, right?

 

[Rpotts]

right, but to shoot to FU you're not using U2 M' U2 M' right? Cause if you are you'll DNF.

 

[EricReese]

I thought UF was U2 M' U2 M' ?? my alg sheet says FU is the F E R U R' E' one?