Blindsolving Failure Thread

[cuboy63]

47.xx DNF by two flipped edges and 50.xx DNF by two twisted corners. PB is 52.xx. NR is 1:03.46

 

[MrMoney]

Weekly forum competition, week 19.

5BLD = DNF, DNF, DNF

First two my hands slipped and I could not make the scramble work again. I hate it when I scramble wrong. The third one had a strange pattern I´m hoping you guys recognise. All the pieces were correctly solves, except for 5 sides which each had TWO +-centers wrong. These +-centers were all "opposite" of eachother and not "adjecent". They came in pairs with the same colours (green side had two orange +-centers, orange side had two red +-centers, red side had two green +centers, yellow side had two blue +-centers and blue side had two yellow +-centers). Is this a +-center comm gone wrong or what? It really cannot be my memory doing this

 

[MrMoney]

m´ D´ l D m D´ l´ D is a centersafe commutator right?

 

[LarsN]

m´ D´ l D m D´ l´ D is a centersafe commutator right?

It is.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Weekly forum competition, week 19.

5BLD = DNF, DNF, DNF

Me too. I just did the third one. It's so sad when that happens.

First two my hands slipped and I could not make the scramble work again. I hate it when I scramble wrong. The third one had a strange pattern I´m hoping you guys recognise. All the pieces were correctly solves, except for 5 sides which each had TWO +-centers wrong. These +-centers were all "opposite" of eachother and not "adjecent". They came in pairs with the same colours (green side had two orange +-centers, orange side had two red +-centers, red side had two green +centers, yellow side had two blue +-centers and blue side had two yellow +-centers). Is this a +-center comm gone wrong or what? It really cannot be my memory doing this

I was going to suggest that it sounds like you might have miscalculated how algs like m´ D´ l D m D´ l´ D work. Then I saw your second post. I wonder if it has something to do with that? If you got confused as to which piece was being affected, it might result in something like that.

I admit I've never had a pattern like that when finishing before.

 

[MrMoney]

I had two cases like that where the cycle included my buffer-face. I was confused while doing them, so that might have been it. Now that I look back, it might have been that. Too bad, would have been my first actual 5BLD solve (all others = 5-10 pieces wrong).

I love bigbld!

 

[Sebastien]

m´ D´ l D m D´ l´ D is a centersafe commutator right?

how could a 3-piece commutator not be center-safe? :S

 

[MrMoney]

how could a 3-piece commutator not be center-safe? :S

Sorry Sebastien I was unsure of what the correct term was. I was trying to ask if that type of commutator would influence X-centers as I as still abit unsure about some of them

 

[cuboy63]

4x4 Blindfolded: 4:44.83 DNF by two centres

The time is Sub NAR but the cube wasn't solved.

 

[theace]

I just can't get M2 right :| I'm having MAJOR issues keeping track of the M slice. I've tried a lot of things (feet, Rw R, etc) I mess up at some point or the other. I need some MAJOR practice :|

 

[Xishem]

I just can't get M2 right :| I'm having MAJOR issues keeping track of the M slice. I've tried a lot of things (feet, Rw R, etc) I mess up at some point or the other. I need some MAJOR practice :|

What memory method are you using?

 

[theace]

Letters. Not really pairs. It's more of a hybrid. I may form a word if the sequence is "phonetic" enough or memo in pairs or even just associate a word or object with a single letter. Corners are visual (tap tappity tap tap tap).

 

[RyanReese09]

From Park Ridge thread.

Absolutely attrotious competition for me all around. Multi was the worst. Nothing was sticking and memo was going slow. Started review around 33 or something and ended up finishing review at like 53. When I originally memod I just put the cubes down without taking note of their particular order (such a nub mistake) and finding hte order was relaly hard. I must have screwed up hte order to begin with or something because there was hardly anything solved when I went over the time limit. Felt pretty terrible wasting peoples time like that. Pretty fail for my first multi.

From FB chat
"i set the cubes down in wrong order after memo so i had to waste time figuring out which cube went to which room, and get the order set up. and i think i still ****ed that up because like nothin was solved when i ipened my blindfold
i kept setting cubes down cuz i couldnt recall and i knew i was strained for time so i just set them down and wanted to continue on another cube til i remembered"

TO ADD TO THE AMAZING FAIL. 3 DNFs. 2 solves would have won me the competition (crappy 1:40 and 1:50) and then an lolrecalldelay 2:47 or whatever.

I suck so bad.

 

[RyanReese09]

Oh, and here is a picture for alll you lovely folks. Just as I take blindfold off

Spoiler

 

[amostay2004]

ouch...what happened?

 

[RyanReese09]

ouch...what happened?

A combined effort of the strains of competition day (tiring) along with 5 hours sleep, along with me having to drive up there, it being at the end of the competition, and along with about 6 other bld solves that day. I'm not sure how much that contributed but whatever. At Nationals I'll be able to avoid just about all these factors...

 

[tim]

13/15 in 45:35 (28min memo). Meh memo, meh execution, meh everything. I did some random moves on both unsolved cubes when i lost focus... Execution is way too braindead.

 

[Robert-Y]

My second proper 4BLD attempt:

30:17, I was off by 2 centres.

First attempt was 33 mins, off by 4 edges and 9 centres.

 

[Mollerz]

Just had my first proper attempt at 3BLD after only 3 or 4 hours practice at actual execution. Old Pochmann method with story memo. 8 min memo, 1:30 execution. Missed by 2 edges and 4 corners. I need to work on my corner memory.

EDIT: Failed again. I changed my method to journey method with sticker pairing. Forgot my 2nd corner one but remembered the last so I was off by 6 corners.

3rd attempt, remembered my memo this time which took 5 minutes or so. Thought I had a clean solve but swapped 2 edges and missed 2 corners in a cycle.

NEXT TIME!

 

[MrMoney]

You are close Yttrium, hang in there and soon you will have to post in the BLD accomplishment thread

Try to reason with your brain and say: Hey, really now, it is roughly 7 corners and 11 edges to remember. Not hard. Cmon brain, memo!

You are on the right path!