Blindsolving Failure Thread

[Noahaha]

8 days ago it was also my first official bld cubing.
First cube - forgot to do U' move in the very first corner commutator and that screwed the whole cube, well cycles.
Second - two flipped edge. 0_0
Third - required at least one not DNF to have third attempt, so DNS.

Bad luck.

At my first competition, Harvard Spring:
First cube - totally wrong
Second cube - two flipped edges
Third cube - two twisted corners

And the worst part was that there were two rounds of BLD. I wonder when I'll be at another competition like that...

 

[AbstractAlg]

At my first competition, Harvard Spring:
First cube - totally wrong
Second cube - two flipped edges
Third cube - two twisted corners

Can you see the pattern? 0_0
That's actually freakin' awkward.

 

[Noahaha]

Can you see the pattern? 0_0
That's actually freakin' awkward.

What pattern?

EDIT: OH WAIT I SEE IT

Would have been way weirder if I had forgotten my memo for the third cube.

 

[antoineccantin]

I don't see the pattern...

Yesterday at NCR, the cutoff was that it had to be success and sub-6, so on my first solve I got sub-6, but a 3 cycle of edges off

 

[Noahaha]

I don't see the pattern...

Yesterday at NCR, the cutoff was that it had to be success and sub-6, so on my first solve I got sub-6, but a 3 cycle of edges off

For all three of us the second solve was off by 2 flipped edges.

 

[Ickathu]

Been neglecting BLD recently to practice pyra and 5x5 for River Hill. Did 3 attempts tonight and only got one success.
One of them I messed up because I a) forgot an image in my edge memo, b) did U' F2 U M2 U' F2 U after corners to fix parity instead of R-perm. :fp c) shot to the wrong corner on my last piece.
The other I just DNF'd because I spent 3 minutes checking my corners because I kept ending with just 1 twisted corner. Even after I stopped the timer I couldn't figure it out, so I did one corner and checked again, and they were all solvable... :fp


Failure 2:
This one is worse...
I was attempting 4x4 centers bld today, so I spent all day memo-ing (it was a really strong memo) and then attempted it tonight. When I pulled the blindfold off, I was still completely scrambled. So I open up the recording and watch, checking execution. I go through it once and everything should have been right, so I start over. Then I realized my mistake...

I picked up the freakin' cube in the wrong orientation! How STUPID is that?!?! I had it with L on F... :fp

 

[Noahaha]

4 4BLD DNFs in a row. One of them had 4 minute memo which was a PB by a whole minute.

 

[AbstractAlg]

My memo is 15-20 seconds slower than it use to be!!! Now around 30-45 seconds.
Huge lack of practice.
The good news is that my average is still the same ~1:20, meaning that after practicing memo and lowering it down to 17-23 as before I might be able to sub1 finally.
So goal of mine - get sub1 until 15th July. >

 

[Ollie]

345BLD relay first attempt:

43:09.55 [around 26:00, I got hungry and went for a wee in between. Also spent 2 mins setting up a camera, so ~22:00]
3x3x3 - DNF - forgot to change buffers for my last corner cycle
4x4x4 - DNF - not sure went wrong, 6 wings out. This felt the nicest
5x5x5 - Complete

Day off work tomorrow, will try again then.

 

[Ninja Storm]

5 BLD solves in a row, and DNFs on all of them >__<

I'm now completely mentally drained; it took me nearly 2 hours to finish a project that typically would take me about 20 minutes to do.

 

[Rubiks560]

8/11 MBLD in 54:32.80.

One cube off by 2 twisted corners

Second cube off by two twisted corners and 2 flipped edges

Third cube off by 3 edges.

 

[Schmidt]

How to fail at 3BLD without knowing!

Inspired by Mike's 8BLD and Maskow's 42/44 I wanted to learn how to solve a 3BLD. I know how to solve a 2BLD. I do this by using UFR as buffer, setting up, Y to UBL or T to UBR, setting down. So I did the same to the 3. In the start I would memo corners, solve with Y & T, open my eyes and memo edges and solve them with T & J. I had some successful attempts, so I tried to memo it all. The corners were all solved and the edges were 1/2 solved, so I thought I had just made a wrong setdown somewhere. I did this for a few tries with the same result. So I tried to memo it all, solve corners and open my eyes, wondering where that R/G piece that was supposed to be at UR had gone. At that point i realised that even though UL and UR changes place during a Tperm Corner swap, if you place another piece by a setup move, that piece will be swapped
( a FP is in place here, so here it is):fp
So I checked a website about Old P. and now I have had a few completed solves (3 tries today: 2 solved and 1 scrambled cube)
At some point I might change memo system. Right now I just do "This O has to go here and that W needs to go here" So far that takes way too long. Maybe because I go over it 10 times before I execute.
To put it in a quote form:

Don't think you know what you're doing, know what you're doing!

 

[AbstractAlg]

8 DNFs in a row!! D:
Twisted edges are killing me!!

 

[Maskow]

I'm master in failing xD

Polish Open 2012: MBLD 19/29, 60:00
It was 21/29, 61:04. Why so long? I was too stressed and I solved corners with OP, not BH (my hands are terribly shaking in the stress; I didn't have any problem in memorization). 5 DNFs with two twisted edges/corners. My judge said me that in one moment I did 4 DNFs in a row ; O
I deleted the video 3 minutes after the attempt

 

[Ickenicke]

I'm master in failing xD

Polish Open 2012: MBLD 19/29, 60:00
It was 21/29, 61:04. Why so long? I was too stressed and I solved corners with OP, not BH (my hands are terribly shaking in the stress; I didn't have any problem in memorization). 5 DNFs with two twisted edges/corners. My judge said me that in one moment I did 4 DNFs in a row ; O
I deleted the video 3 minutes after the attempt

Hope you can get it next time!

Any good 3bld singles?

 

[Ickathu]

I'm master in failing xD

Polish Open 2012: MBLD 19/29, 60:00
It was 21/29, 61:04. Why so long? I was too stressed and I solved corners with OP, not BH (my hands are terribly shaking in the stress; I didn't have any problem in memorization). 5 DNFs with two twisted edges/corners. My judge said me that in one moment I did 4 DNFs in a row ; O
I deleted the video 3 minutes after the attempt

Agh!
You'll get it next time!

 

[Maskow]

Hope you can get it next time!

Don't say anything like that!
My official declaration: I won't beat the WR!

Any good 3bld singles?

No. 48.58 in first round and 50.09 in final. And 4 DNFs with best time 41.80.
I'm not happy because I don't beat my official 48.02 (my average is ~44 seconds, when I did 48.02 it was ~50 seconds)

 

[drewsopchak]

I'm master in failing xD

Polish Open 2012: MBLD 19/29, 60:00
It was 21/29, 61:04. Why so long? I was too stressed and I solved corners with OP, not BH (my hands are terribly shaking in the stress; I didn't have any problem in memorization). 5 DNFs with two twisted edges/corners. My judge said me that in one moment I did 4 DNFs in a row ; O
I deleted the video 3 minutes after the attempt

Man.... when is your next comp?

 

[Maskow]

Man.... when is your next comp?

There is no official expected competitions in Poland (before Euro) so I'm not sure when. Closest are supposed to be in June but far from me.

 

[Ollie]

Denied a sub-15 5BLD PB time (and for memo, sub-7) by a pop.