Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Lucas Garron]

7:xx 4x4x4 BLD DNF. Yet another solve where I have no idea what went wrong...

 

[Ville Seppänen]

2 corners unoriented in a 4x4x4 BLD in competition.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

9:32 4x4 DNF... in competition. Stupid parity.

 

[mrbiggs]

0/3 multiblind, my first attempt at 3. One of them I'm convinced I did a setup move wrong (nearly all the corners were off), another I got one of the stickers wrong (so three corners off), and on the third I'm not sure what happened.

It was really disappointing when I removed the blindfold because I had memorized it super slow for accuracy. Guess I have to just try again tomorrow.

 

[Pedro]

4x4 dnf...in competition...by 3 edges!
time was about 13 minutes, since I was trying to go carefully (and was kinda tired)

I just forgot those 2 edges, and they were still to be solved at the end with the cycle starting one

oh, and 2/4 and 2/3 multi, also in comp...

2/3 was even worse, since I had just 3 corners out of place, in 13:27

 

[Mike Hughey]

Wow - so many near-miss 4x4x4 BLD solves in competition this weekend. My prediction for the US Open (that it would take sub-10 to get on the podium) was very nearly true - third place wasn't quite sub-10, it was 10:07. But I think there were more people there besides Lucas and Tim with sub-10 DNFs - I hope anyone else with one will post theirs as well. Alex finally was the first after Chris Hardwick to crack the 10 minute barrier - hopefully that will open the floodgates for others to do it as well. (Alex is so amazing!)

 

[masterofthebass]

I might as well start my list :

4x4 BLD:
1st solve: 15:xx DNF... off by a cycle of centers. I cycled them the wrong way
2nd solve: 13:xx DNF... off by 2 centers because I memorized XJ instead of JX
3rd solve: BAD

Multi BLD
3/4: I cycled 1 cycle of corners the wrong direction. Also forgot to flip 2 edges

5x5 BLD
First attempt ever: off by 2 x centers and a few + centers. Not really sure what I did wrong, but I memo'd everything, so that's a plus

3x3 BLD
1st solve: 1:15.xx DNF ridiculously easy scramble. I slipped during a 2 flip and missed a M'
2nd solve: 1:05.xx DNF I forgot the orientation of 1 edge!!!!
3rd solve: 1:34.xx DNF Can't remember what I did, it wasn't really too good though.

My next goal is to actually do somewhat OK in BLD at a competition. This competition could've been really good for me (putting me 5th for 3x3 BLD and 5-6 for 4x4), but alas, I made my usual tiny little mistakes.

 

[alexc]

At US Nationals:

3x3 blind:
1:12 DNF (Forgot to memo a flipped edge.)
54 DNF (OMFG!!!!! This scramble was sooooooo easy, and memo seemed right.)
1:51 DNF (Recall delay)

4x4 blind:
8:19 success
7:49 DNF (Off by 4 or 5 centers)
3:48 DNF (Too tired and couldn't focus. Kept messing up on memo too.)

5x5 blind:
DNF (24:xx off by 3 x centers)
DNF (21:xx off by a couple x and + centers.)

multi blind:
13/14 (Off by 3 corners on the tenth cube.)

I really should have gotten these rankings:
3x3bld: 2 (Actual rank now is 25 I think, terrible )
4x4bld: 2 (Which I did get )
5x5bld: 2 (Not even ranked )
multibld: 3 (Got 4th instead, so not bad, but I really wanted a perfect attempt.)

 

[hawkmp4]

I got a scramble on 2x2 BLD with all orientation correct and three corners permuted correctly...
and memo'd permutation wrong.

I know its nothing compared to multiBLD and 7x7 BLD but you gotta start somewhere, yeah?

 

[Jude]

Used to average about 5 minutes on 3x3x3 BLD, with a PB of 4:00.xx, then didn't try it for a couple of months. First try after the break and got a 2:30.32 DNF, just off by 2 flipped edges! Very frustrating!

 

[Jack]

After trying only edges and then only centers on 4x4 (both successful), I decided to go for a 4x4 blindfold for the first time in several months. I was really happy with the time (just under 15:00 for memo, 28:46 total) which was amazing considering my other two attempts from several months ago were over 1 hour 30 minutes, but it wasn't even close to solved. 4 centers, 7 corners, and 13 wings were wrong. I think at my last center commutator I did some wrong turns, which I was why so many pieces were out of place.

 

[Zava]

yesterday I tried a 3 multibld. the memo was quite fast, and I didn't have pauses during the solves. then I took off the blindfold, and i saw that the second cube's corners are messed up, I started thinking, and I recognised that I forgot to solve the corners, and not messed them up :confused: and if I would have solved them, the total time would have been around 9:00 - 9:10

 

[ROOT]

1/5 multiblind with M2

i have now switched to letter pairs for edges, as well as M2 to help with memory. But, the only mistakes were with the corners, which i memoed with visual still. For some reason i cannot remember corner permutation nearly as strongly as when i use letter pairs for edges

 

[NoahE]

2/4 Multiblind in 47min
one cube had 2 flipped edges, the other was off by 3corners. Im using 3OP but im thinking of switching to M2 for multiblnd

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

18:32 5x5 BLD DNF.

Stupid + centers... I need to be more careful.

 

[ShadenSmith]

0/2 Multi-bld attempt. This is my second, completely unsuccessful try. First cube was off by 2 corners and 2 edges, the second one I dropped. Memo was about 10 minutes.

 

[alexc]

7x7 blind DNF for the weekly contest. Pretty much nothing was right on it, not even central edges or corners. I must have messed up setups and stuff a lot on the centers to have it so scrambled. Total time was 2:18:31.

 

[ccchips296]

0/3 multi bld.....first try ever (ive never tried 2 either).

cube 1 : off by 2 corners misoriented.
cube 2 : off by 4 corners misoriented.
cube 3 : did edge cycle the wrong way...

its a funny story, basically the first cube went ok but i guess i must have misoriented the 2 corners the wrong way. second and third cube, i forgot to orient corners and only realised on the third cube after i had permuted the corners. so, i went back to my second cube and tried to find the pieces needing to be oriented by thinking where i permuted them... i failed. the third cube, i did manage to somehow find where the pieces went and reorient them but i did the edge cycle the wrong way

overall, i may have failed but im still very satisfied for my first go...next time ill remember to orient everything and THEN permute

 

[joey]

1/4 19:53.83
#1 two flipped edges
#2 3 flipped edges. The cube was a D' away, if I do a D move it corrects the corners, and also makes it a 2 2-cycles away.
#3 2 flipped edges. 3-cycle of edges away. It was a D2 off, so I must have missed a D2 somewhere, if I hadn't, the only mistake would ahve been two flipped edges.
#4 correct
better than my 0/4, but still around the same speed, but I'm ok with that. I thought I was going to be over 25mins or so.

 

[ConnorCuber]

NO! My closest to succesful BLD 3x3 solve ever an M' slice away, as I was undoing an M2 setup move my finger slipped and i didnt know if I did M' or M2, so I assumed I did M2 and it was a DNF