Blindsolving Failure Thread

8x8x8 BLD twelfth attempt: DNF [1:22:20.10, 40:45, 2mO].
Closest try yet - off by just 2 pieces! Apparently I cycled them the wrong direction; I can remember attempting to solve those pieces, but I don't remember exactly how I solved them. Actually, the time was closer to 1:20:00, but when I saw how close to solved it was, I forgot to make sure I properly stopped the stopwatch; I looked at it after I tried to figure out what I had done wrong, and realized it was still running. :)
 
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Mike Hughey said:
8x8x8 BLD twelfth attempt: DNF [1:22:20.10, 40:45, 2mO].
Closest try yet - off by just 2 pieces! Apparently I cycled them the wrong direction; I can remember attempting to solve those pieces, but I don't remember exactly how I solved them. Actually, the time was closer to 1:20:00, but when I saw how close to solved it was, I forgot to make sure I properly stopped the stopwatch; I looked at it after I tried to figure out what I had done wrong, and realized it was still running. :)
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So close.

Hope you can do it very soon!
 
Mike Hughey said:
8x8x8 BLD twelfth attempt: DNF [1:22:20.10, 40:45, 2mO].
Closest try yet - off by just 2 pieces! Apparently I cycled them the wrong direction; I can remember attempting to solve those pieces, but I don't remember exactly how I solved them. Actually, the time was closer to 1:20:00, but when I saw how close to solved it was, I forgot to make sure I properly stopped the stopwatch; I looked at it after I tried to figure out what I had done wrong, and realized it was still running. :)
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So close! Next time though! Meanwhile I'm struggling to get a 3Bld success - haven't gotten one in over 1 month (and 30+ attempts)
 
First 4x4 BLD attempt (excluding corners) - off by 3 edges! :fp Didn't time myself.

Happy tho that I got the centers right! :) I'll prolly be doing more specialized practice for centers and edges and by this weekend I'll hopefully attempt a full 4BLD and get a success!
 
1st official 4BLD attempt at Zune Open 2012: DNF in 29:something
Off by a lot even though memo felt quite good...

Apart from corners that is:
I solve corners last and during execution I found my memo had two consecutive targets on the same cornerpiece.
Didn't notice during memo as they were last and first letter in two letter-pairs.
So I put the cube down knowing it was a DNF but had expeced better centers and edges :(
Could not figure out where the error was...

EDIT:
just reviewed the solve (THX Lars for the scramble)
Center and Edge memo correct, don't know what happened in execution
Corners: oh my...
1st error: started from the wrong sticker?????? BLU instead of ULB
2nd error: in solving I interpreted one of the regular words in my memo as two targets
Note to self: never use words from the letter-pair to fill the sentences
 
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DNF(24.21)[7.30] F2 L' B2 R2 D L U2 B' D R2 B' D2 F' B2 D2 F2 L2 B U2 R2
Very easy scramble. I don't know what went wrong during execution, here's a reconstruction of what I tried to do:

x' L D2 L' U2 L D2 L' U2 x (8/8)
R U' L' U R' U' L U (8/16)
z2 y R2 U2 R D R' U2 R D' R y' z2 (9/25) (so many rotations to get an A-perm)

B' Lw R2 U' R' U' R U R U R U' R Lw' B (15/40) (no, I didn't cancel the last moves)
B' M' U M U2 M' U M B (9/49)
L2 U' M U' R2 U M' U' R2 U2 L2 (11/60)
x U2 R' U' M U R U' M' U' (9/69)

EDIT: yay, another fail! Two edges flipped away from a sub-40 avg12:
Average of 12: DNF
1. 33.55 D' L2 R2 D2 F2 U L2 F2 R2 F2 D B R B2 U2 L2 F D' B2 U2 R'
2. 48.61 L2 R2 F2 D' B2 F2 L2 D B2 F2 D' L' F2 R B' L' D' F2 U2 F R2
3. 40.67 D2 U2 F D2 B R2 B' D2 F2 L2 R2 U' R D2 F D L' B2 U B2 L
4. 33.91 F2 D' B2 R2 U L2 F2 L2 R2 U' L2 R' B' D' F' D' R' D2 R' B' U'
5. 36.58 F2 R2 B2 R' D2 F2 R D2 L U2 L' B L U' R' D F L2 B F' U
6. 33.19 R F2 D2 R F2 L D2 U2 L' D2 F2 U' F R B2 L U' B' U B' R'
7. 30.32 D' L2 B2 L2 U' R2 D U B2 R2 D' B' L' D2 F D2 R' F' L B F
8. 42.96 B R' L B' D2 R' B R D' F U' L2 D' B2 U' L2 U' D' R2 F2
9. DNF(41.77) L2 B2 D2 B U2 B' L2 U2 F' U2 B' R' F D2 U' B2 F R B U2
10. 45.10 F2 L2 U L2 D L2 R2 F2 R2 U F2 R' D2 L D F D' F U R D'
11. (30.10) D' U' R2 F2 D' L2 R2 B2 R2 U R2 B D R U' L2 B2 F D2 U' B2
12. (DNF(48.90)) B2 U2 R' D2 R2 U2 F2 D2 F2 U2 L U F' D' L' R D L2 F R
 
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My BLD at Zune Open:
3BLD: 1:10.81, not a bad time for me but just slow enough to make me miss the podium (Vivi got 3rd place with 1:10.47)
4BLD: three DNFs, one of them off by a flipped dedge because I memoed those two wings wrong
5BLD: three DNFs, one of them off by 3 centers
Multi: DNF (5/12 in 55 minutes, at least it's the first time I didn't have to rush the memo while attempting 12).
 
DNF(4:08.27), DNF(5:54.40), DNF(4:24.53), DNF(5:46.84)

Last solve was a rage quit during edge memo (i memo edges first...). Everyone kept trying to talk to me, the TV was on (and really loud for unknown reasons), there were like 3 edge cycles and no solved pieces. The corners (looking back at cube now) had 2 cycles, but looked relatively easy...

2 of the other solves was close (2 edges flipped on 1, and a 3cycle of edges on the other), 1 was... weird. At the end I had to flip 2 edges and then do a simple 3 cycle for the last 3 pieces (U2 M' U2 M). but somehow ended up being off by M' U M. I'm still not sure how...
 
Dammit.

Multibld: 0/2 in 19:53.39[10:25.60].

Both off by at least two three-cycles. I'LL DO IT, I PROMISE (hopefully before i get the square-1)
 
Yesterday, I made my tenth or so 3x3 blindfold attempt (still old pochmann) at around 13 minutes. Yet to have a success, I was desperately hoping for my first successful solve. Memorization felt solid and so did execution. When I took off the blindfold, I found the cube to be in peculiar stage. Two set of corners needed to be switched. These two corners were exactly were I used my Y perm buffer and T perm buffer. There were also two pairs of edges that needed to be swapped. I tried to find out what went wrong and went to sleep without an answer. I woke up, next thing in the morning to realize that I only made one mistake, which was to restore the new corner after I broke into a new cycle. So close!
 
Czery said:
So close!
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Don't give up.
I practiced 3 moths edges/corners only, and my first success was at the competition, like 20ishth try, so yeah. ;)

Also, my failure:
Memo went to 40ish again. Huge lack of practice. Execution went to disasterous 2mins or so. Should be fun, mine first official competition is on Saturday (in 4 days). xD Poor me. :|
 
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Second 4BLD attempt 25:40 7 minutes faster than my first one... If only I'd known that the 2-swap I use for edge parity rotated the top layer by 180°. Oh well. Now I know.
 
I had a lot of fails today.

-During study hall I did my first attempt in about a month and was a DNF by a 3-cycle with a time of 5:16.

-Two periods later during the day I did an attempt with a bunch of people watching and the attempt time was 4:06 but was off by 2 flipped edges.

-I also messed up a potential PB by forgetting to flip the two edges and I failed to notice the twisted corners in the back. It would have been sub 4.

-I also tried my first multi-blind attempt today and got a 0/2 because there was two flipped edges on the first cube and a 3-cycle on the second.

Ugg... so much fail but there was still success and as long as they are close DNF's, they're good DNF's.
 
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