Blindsolving Failure Thread

Thanks for the complement AJ Blair.

From the goals thread:
Zane_C said:
5BLD avg5 - Deadline: Monday 27th June, 12:00am.
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It's now 11:55 on Sunday, failed, even while going extremely safe.

12:30.59, 16:46.20, DNF(12:38.76)[Skipped the execution of an image], 17:19.10, DNF(15:36.96)

The last attempt failed the most by far:

I had a corner A9, and didn't want to risk screwing it up, so I decided to just solve the cycle with OP.
So what happened? Yes, I screwed up the Y-perm. :fp
When I took off the blindfold at the end, it was off by outer layer turners. NOOOOOOOOO.

I came across a lot of errors with the centers that I had to fix, center memo times were at least doubled.
 
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It's now 11:55 on Sunday, failed, even while going extremely safe.

12:30.59, 16:46.20, DNF(12:38.76)[Skipped the execution of an image], 17:19.10, DNF(15:36.96)

The last attempt failed the most by far:

I had an A9, and didn't want to risk screwing it up, so I decided to just solve the cycle with OP.
So what happened? Yes, I screwed up the Y-perm.
When I took off the BLD fold at the end, it was off by outer layer turners. NOOOOOOOOO.
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Nice accuracy but I wanna see some sub-9 attempts.
 
cuboy63 said:
Nice accuracy but I wanna see some sub-9 attempts.
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That accuracy is terrible considering the extent of safety involved.

Because I was going over everything to such detail, I en-counted a lot of mistakes that I wouldn't normally fix, thus making my memo times barely sub-9. (On the 4th it was actually >10)
 
That accuracy is terrible considering the extent of safety involved.

Because I was going over everything to such detail, I en-counted a lot of mistakes that I wouldn't normally fix, thus making my memo times barely sub-9. (On the 4th it was actually >10)
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If you think that kind of accuracy is terrible than what is my 5BLD accuracy?
 
Zane_C said:
I had a corner A9, and didn't want to risk screwing it up, so I decided to just solve the cycle with OP.
So what happened? Yes, I screwed up the Y-perm. :fp
d.
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These are some awesome attempts BTW.

On a recent solve I also screwed up a Y-Perm. It was during distraction. Did my head in. Even though I'd been practicing Y-Perm over and over and over, my mind went blank. I wonder if it's related to how "I can do an alg quickly, but I can't do it slowly".

Haven't quite yet resorted to Hug-hey's old method of counting out 1 to 17 during each turn just yet :P~
 
my first ever full BLD attempt memo was around the 22 minute mar ad full solve was 27:57.23
2 flipped edges 3 corners in wrong place and 2 twisted but overall im happy because i overcame my main problem thanks to chris and mike:)

much more confident about my next attempt:)
 
My third close 4BLD success: 32:53 (memo was about 17 mins)

I was off by 3 corners this time. I use 3OP corners but I haven't used it in a while and made a few errors which I noticed, so I had to undo a few cycles. At least *only* 3 corners were wrong.

Centres: Really good for me. First time I've solved all the centres in an attempt :)

Edges: Really annoying at times.

Memo was: UN RA HJ KE BX WF LI CG CD TM OD SV S.

When I reached W, I realised I made a mistake at A. I completely forgot about the special cases where if you are an r2 out, the target is also out by an r2. Thank god I managed to undo "HJ KE BX" correctly XD and solved the rest of the edges including parity :)
 
At my first competition:
Solve 1: No memo recall problems, but when I took off the blindfold 2 edges were flipped. Not sure if setup was wrong, or if memo was wrong.
Solve 2: When solving the first corner, thought I did the alg wrong. Tried to fix it. Then realized I didn't do the alg wrong. Failed to fix my fix, so DNFd right there.
Solve 3: Forgot a single letter of my memo, so had to guess. Luckily guessed correctly and got my first ever success.
 
[23:22] <Piecez> 3:11 bld
[23:22] <Piecez> wtf
[23:22] <Piecez> <__<
[23:22] <Piecez> ,3
[23:22] <+Nibblr> 3x3 Scramble #19609: D' B D F2 L2 B2 F R2 B D2 L2 D2 L' R2 F2 B' R L' F2 U' F' L2 F U' R
[23:24] <Piecez> 1:25 off by a perm
[23:24] <Piecez> ;_;
[23:25] <danszr> 12.62 2h
[23:25] <Piecez> ,3
[23:25] <+Nibblr> 3x3 Scramble #19610: R U' B2 L' R F' D' U' R B' L' D L2 F2 R2 U2 B' D B' D2 F U' R2 F B2
[23:26] <cuboy63> bye
[23:26] <Julian> bye
[23:27] <Piecez>**** ****
[23:27] <Piecez> 1:13.09 dnf off by 2 flip
[23:27] <Piecez> corner were so easy ;_;
 
7BLD DNF(1:40:34.09). Off by... a LOT.

Memo was smooth except for the obliques, I have difficulty with them. All up the memo was 55 minutes, the obliques alone took about 25 minutes. :fp

Although I had to fix some memo errors, in the end I made sure my memo was perfect, so I'm certain that the cause was multiple execution errors. What I do know is I kept on finding myself turning the wrong slices, for both centers and wings.
 
Stupid V-Cube 7... my god big cubes turn horribly! Hate this. Practising obliques before doing an actual attempt. HATE IT.

5BLD: 28:10 2 X-centres wrong. Did a wrong "a9" comm.
 
4BLD DNF off by two centers.

Overall was quite a bit faster than my success. The total time was around the same, though, because it took me the longest time to remember what it was that Sarah was beating. Turned out to be an ewok.

EDIT: Just did a postmortem and found that it was a memo error. It was nothing difficult, I just memo'd the wrong letter >.>
 
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First ever attempt at multibld: 0/2 in 12:21.25 :(

1. L' F' L U2 L B' L2 U2 R2 F' U B' R2 B2 R2 L' B2 F U2 L2 R F2 B' R2 B
2. F D2 F D2 B2 D B' L' D B' R2 U' F2 U' L2 F' U F2 B2 R U' L' F' B U2

Off by 2 flipped edges on each cube :fp
 
First official competition for me, one round, 3 attempts:
1. DNF
2. DNF
3. DNF
:fp
Anyway, it's been a good experience, I placed 2nd in OH (21.80 single, 25.43 avg), 3rd in multi (5/7) and I got good times in 3x3 and 2x2.
 
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