Blindsolving Failure Thread

[masterofthebass]

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

In that case, just do a R'. It'll give you a +2 no matter what you have

 

[blah]

Neat trick Dan but does the +2 rule apply for BLD solves as well?

 

[ConnorCuber]

It is clever, but I thought that there werent +2's in BLD, ill look into it.
EDIT, after looking into it it seems that there isnt anything contradicting +2's in BLD and something that points to +2's is this:
B1) Standard procedure is followed as described in Article A (Speed Solving).
Additional/special regulations for Blindfolded Solving are described below.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

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

In that case, just do a R'. It'll give you a +2 no matter what you have

Alex Yu always got DNFs because of an M2 away. I told him to do R2 at the end.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Yes, +2's are allowed in BLD. Some people don't agree with it, and I think there was a thread on the issue in the WCA Forum a while back. But since it is possible for someone to drop the cube after solving BLD and have a face turn in the drop, just like with speedsolving, it is still allowed. So Dan's (and Tim's) suggestion makes a lot of sense.

 

[fanwuq]

That's awesome! I think that's the only thing that saves me from DNF!

 

[HelloiamChow]

US Nationals. Failed every single one.

 

[uXs]

I'm just learning to solve it blindfolded, and I had what was my best DNF yet.

At the very end I only had parity to solve, so I executed a T-permutation, which left both a corner and edge 3-cycle. (It seemed easier to just do that than to use set-up moves with pieces going all over the place.) Then I solved those, or at least tried to: for some reason I was thinking that the T-permutation swapped the edges front to back, while it swaps them left to right. Result: I'm off the solved state by just 1 Z-permutation.

Argh. It was a really fast one too, for me anyway. Even though I was thinking the entire time that I had messed up in the beginning somewhere. (I also started with edge orientation instead of corners, as I normally do. I caught it in time though.)

 

[Faz]

I'm just learning to solve it blindfolded, and I had what was my best DNF yet.

At the very end I only had parity to solve, so I executed a T-permutation, which left both a corner and edge 3-cycle. (It seemed easier to just do that than to use set-up moves with pieces going all over the place.) Then I solved those, or at least tried to: for some reason I was thinking that the T-permutation swapped the edges front to back, while it swaps them left to right. Result: I'm off the solved state by just 1 Z-permutation.

Argh. It was a really fast one too, for me anyway. Even though I was thinking the entire time that I had messed up in the beginning somewhere. (I also started with edge orientation instead of corners, as I normally do. I caught it in time though.)

what was the time?

Still having trouble with 2x2 blind, 1 falied attempt w/ old pochmann.

 

[uXs]

I have no idea, I wasn't timing it. It just felt really fast.

 

[philkt731]

1/3 multi in 15:22

fail! I was pretty confident, but the first one was off by two fliipped edges, the second was off by a 3 cycle of edges

 

[ajmorgan25]

My first real BLD speedsolve attempt. 10:06:xx...2 misoriented edges. I use a really slow method though.

 

[ooveehoo]

5:51.14 off by two misoriented edges. I've got better at memo, but still the execution takes waaay too long (that memo was around 2:20 and the execution using Old Pochmann was ~3:30. For example my last succesful BLD was 8:00.33, using 3:04 for memo).

 

[AvGalen]

I got my first sub 4 solve (3x3x3) and got 6 DNF's afterwards that were all just a 3-cycle in the wrong direction

 

[FredM]

I broke my Personal Best by minute and realised I didn't do the edges flips. It was 2"55. I never blinded again. ^^ Except in competition.

 

[Zava]

today I had at about 10+ (maybe 20+? I'm not sure) small DNFs (3cycles on edges, wrong resetup. 2 flipped edges), times from 1:05 to (at about) 1:15, they would be good times for me (after this long DNF streak, I finally managed an 1:05 though )

 

[Rawn]

Didn't time myself and was my second blindsolve attempt. I had two Flipped edges.

 

[Brett]

Same as above, only it was 2 flipped edges and a t-perm away.

 

[Mike Hughey]

7x7x7 multi-BLD: DNF (0/2, 3:39:43.95, 1:50:00 memorization)

Well, I finally tried it. And it wasn't a bad attempt, I guess. The first cube was off by just 6 pieces: 3 centrals and 3 inner + centers. The second one was off by 23 pieces: 3 centrals, 4 inner wings, 6 obliques, 3 inner +, and 7 inner X centers.

I made so many silly errors along the way. I actually solved all the corners on the first cube completely before I realized I was using the wrong cube's memorization. I had to undo all the corners and then do them the right way. Amazingly, I got all the corners right! Then when I started doing the inner X centers, I forgot I was supposed to do inner X and did outer X with the inner X memorization for about 10 pieces, then realized I had messed up and had to backtrack them all. I didn't make any mistakes on the outer X or + centers, so obviously I backtracked those correctly as well! And then, at the end of the first cube, I did all the centrals wrong - again I used the memorization from the other cube. And this time I didn't even realize it until I was done with the second cube (I do centrals last; as I was doing them, I realized, "I've already done all of these - I remember doing them before!"). So I put the second cube down and grabbed the first one again, and then undid all the centrals and redid them with the correct memorization. I got centrals wrong on both cubes, but obviously I got close on it.

I was just too tired to do a post-mortem when I was done, so I really don't know where my mistakes were. But I did learn the importance of really getting straight what order to do things, so I won't make the mistake of applying the wrong memorization. Hopefully I'll do better with that next time. (Proof that I'm certifiable - I actually used the words "next time". Please don't have me committed! )

 

[joey]

Mike, I don't care you got 0/2. You're the best.