Blindsolving Failure Thread

DNF(2:54.49)[1:46.60 (2 rotated corners, 2 2edge swaps)]
DNF(2:18.24)[1:06.05 (2 corners 4 edges right)
DNF(3:43.36)[1:47.31 (parity, 2edge swap)]
DNF(1:58.28)[1:12.56 (messed up 3rd y-perm and DNFd)]
DNF(2:47.81)[1:22.00 (2 edges and 2 corners)]
DNF(3:12.00)[1:43.67 (2 rotated corners)]

Grrr
1st 2 and 5th were pretty fast. Especially the second, but that one was almost completely scrambled lol
Tried to rush memo on every one, and each one had a strong memo even though I only reviewed 1x if at all.
 
Got This scramble: L' U2 F2 R' F2 L F2 R2 B2 R B D2 L U L B D' B F D
Popped at 40 seconds with 6 corners left to solve. Would have easily been a sub-1 if it hadn't. Scramble wasn't that lucky either. First time this cube has popped for me during a blindsolve. Poopy.
 
4x4 Blind attempt 4
32:18.66[22:44]

R' B' U Fw U F2 R2 U' Rw2 D' Rw F Fw2 B2 U' L2 R Fw2 R' Uw2 L2 F2 B2 D' Fw2 R' U' F2 Uw L U2 L Uw D' L U' F2 Fw2 B' R
^^ Scramble with BLD D-face on D and it's easy as heck. D face has 3 solved centers on it. Still, not too difficult for me even though that face ended up being on F.

Fastest attempt yet, also closest.

Memo:
Edges:
Whoa!! Look at the Star Destroyer made out of OAtmeal!! Ew, this Hi-C tastes like JaM. Now that thar is a TeXan. He's got this weird Knee Jerk thing goin' on. And next to 'im is a VolksWagen car. (Texan talking) The weird part is that it's a QJ brand... And it's driving over some APples. *gasp* No, no, they aren' G.E. apples, don't worry. Oh, one las' story. At Niagara Falls there's this Aardvark. *pause* That's it. Tha's the whole story.

Centers:
That's the NIle river! No, wait... it's just an Optical Effect... But that is definitely a UFo! And that's a SeaL on the inside!!
And there's TJ (that's what we virginians call Thomas Jefferson). He's standing on some GraVel.

Corners:
There's a JeDi in my room. He's going "OmNom!!!" as he eats a map of the U.S.

Mistakes:
Memo:
Missed the memo of LBu and DBr. Realized this during execution but figured that they were just solved.
Also memo'd L as J twice, but solved it correctly because I remembered that Edge Pair. It was already matching edges, so I realized the error and fixed that. J was already solved.
Execution:
Not too sure what happened. My centers should have been correct (already checked over memo and scramble again), but I have a 3-cycle left on it (Luf>Dlf>Bld).
Also I seem to have messed up on edge parity. I have to rotate my U center (OLL parity rotates it 180*), but I'm did that during execution, and I don't think I managed to solve my centers wrong like that. Anyway, if I rotate U center 180 (R L U2 R' L' U R L U2 R' L' U) and do an r2, then parity is fixed.
I wouldn't have had parity if I memo'd edges right. (See above)
 
Ickathu said:
4x4 Blind attempt 4
32:18.66[22:44]

R' B' U Fw U F2 R2 U' Rw2 D' Rw F Fw2 B2 U' L2 R Fw2 R' Uw2 L2 F2 B2 D' Fw2 R' U' F2 Uw L U2 L Uw D' L U' F2 Fw2 B' R
^^ Scramble with BLD D-face on D and it's easy as heck. D face has 3 solved centers on it. Still, not too difficult for me even though that face ended up being on F.
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Not sure in which thread to post this :)
29:07.60 succes

Scrambled in WCA orientatio; this gives 3 centers solved on U, nothing on D.
Reoriented to solve some more centers so had to start with solved buffer.

Pretty happy with this one as I had to redo almost my complete edge memo after finding an error near the end; only the very first letter pair remained the same...
Then I forgot the start of my corner memo but managed to find it back by elimination and some visual memory.
I think I will tap my first two corners (in addition to the story) from now on.

Ickathu, being pretty new to 4BLD myself I'm looking forward to your first succes!


Memo in the spoiler
Translated to English, where letters do not match in english or are not even actually present in the Dutch word I added them between brackets)

Centers
I trade the GuHong from ELlen for five (VijF) citroen CX and drive my SUbaru into a TiPi in OMan to have it WaXed

Edges
SM with Weck-jars (WQ) in LeuVen with HEman> FiDo dido and the OC drive their GTX to the TU but have to get gas at BP first unfortunately they get a flat on a stingray (RoG)

Corners
ODin and Geike (GQ) have SeX with LeX
 
Cubenovice said:
Scrambled in WCA orientatio; this gives 3 centers solved on U, nothing on D.
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Nice! I scrambled Yellow top, Green front because I have a black side instead of white.
I had 3 solved black centers, and those ended up going on F. They weren't actually on D once the scramble finished, but since D face is annoying with comms you can scramble D on D and have 3 of those solved.

Edit:
Scrambled again, black top, green front. L face has 3 black stickers. F has 2 blue, R has 2 orange and 2 red.
I did a x' y' I think to get orientation. That put's 3 black on F, 2 yellow on D, 2 Blue on R, 2 orange on B.
 
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So I learned 72 corner comms in 4 days, 18 a day. Then I lost stable internet connection for 3 days, and I keep my list of comms on Google. (http://tinyurl.com/jc3cycles) I took that time to practice the comms I already knew. After the final test of those 72 that I just did, I definitely know 64 of them. ;_; Looks like instead of learning all comms in 3 weeks, I'll be taking it slowly over the whole summer. xD
 
Maskow said:
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 ;)
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Why is your result officially listed as DNF?
 
Just did an Ao12 of corners execution only:

Average of 12: 17.715
1. 15.303 F2 U' L2 F2 D' B2 D2 L2 R2 D' L2 B D' U2 B' D U2 B U2
2. (12.106) U' R' F2 R' F2 D2 R U F2 D2 B2 L U2 B2 R2 L' U2 L U2
3. 15.507 R2 F' D2 U2 L2 D2 U2 B D2 F' D F D B' F U' R2 U
4. 18.142 R B' R' F2 R B R' L2 U2 D' L2 F2 L2 F2 U2 D F2 L2
5. 17.191 B2 F2 U L2 D' L2 U F2 L2 R2 U F' L2 R2 D B2 D U2 B
6. (DNF(24.710)) D' L2 F2 D L2 D2 B2 D' B2 R2 U' R' F2 R B2 D' R' F2 R' U'
7. 20.904 B2 D2 F2 D' L2 U F2 D' F2 L2 F2 R U' B2 U' R' D' B2 R D
8. 18.423 U2 B2 D F2 D' L2 B2 D F2 U2 R2 F' U R2 U' R2 F D'
9. 17.690 F2 L2 D L2 B2 U' R2 U2 R2 B2 U F U2 F U F' U F U'
10. 21.528 D2 F2 L2 B' U2 B2 L2 U2 R2 D2 B' R F U2 R F' L2 D2 R F
11. 16.005 L' D2 L B2 R D2 B2 D2 B2 R2 B2 D' B2 R B2 R' D B2 R
12. 16.458 R2 D F2 D' R2 D' B2 D B2 R' B2 D' L' U2 L B2 D R

Turns out I suck. I would be sub-1 on average easily if I could get my corners down to 12ish seconds. I guess I'm going to have to go through and make all my cycles good.
 
Noahaha said:
Just did an Ao12 of corners execution only:

Average of 12: 17.715
1. 15.303 F2 U' L2 F2 D' B2 D2 L2 R2 D' L2 B D' U2 B' D U2 B U2
2. (12.106) U' R' F2 R' F2 D2 R U F2 D2 B2 L U2 B2 R2 L' U2 L U2
3. 15.507 R2 F' D2 U2 L2 D2 U2 B D2 F' D F D B' F U' R2 U
4. 18.142 R B' R' F2 R B R' L2 U2 D' L2 F2 L2 F2 U2 D F2 L2
5. 17.191 B2 F2 U L2 D' L2 U F2 L2 R2 U F' L2 R2 D B2 D U2 B
6. (DNF(24.710)) D' L2 F2 D L2 D2 B2 D' B2 R2 U' R' F2 R B2 D' R' F2 R' U'
7. 20.904 B2 D2 F2 D' L2 U F2 D' F2 L2 F2 R U' B2 U' R' D' B2 R D
8. 18.423 U2 B2 D F2 D' L2 B2 D F2 U2 R2 F' U R2 U' R2 F D'
9. 17.690 F2 L2 D L2 B2 U' R2 U2 R2 B2 U F U2 F U F' U F U'
10. 21.528 D2 F2 L2 B' U2 B2 L2 U2 R2 D2 B' R F U2 R F' L2 D2 R F
11. 16.005 L' D2 L B2 R D2 B2 D2 B2 R2 B2 D' B2 R B2 R' D B2 R
12. 16.458 R2 D F2 D' R2 D' B2 D B2 R' B2 D' L' U2 L B2 D R

Turns out I suck. I would be sub-1 on average easily if I could get my corners down to 12ish seconds. I guess I'm going to have to go through and make all my cycles good.
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You have a lot of work to do if I can do this with Op:

Current Average of 12: 14.91
σ: 3.93
Best Time: 9.04
Worst Time: 21.28
Individual Times:
11.09, (21.28), 21.28, 17.70, (9.04), 14.11, 15.51, 12.76, 16.42, 13.90, 14.01, 12.34
 
Rubiks560 said:
You have a lot of work to do if I can do this with Op:

Current Average of 12: 14.91
σ: 3.93
Best Time: 9.04
Worst Time: 21.28
Individual Times:
11.09, (21.28), 21.28, 17.70, (9.04), 14.11, 15.51, 12.76, 16.42, 13.90, 14.01, 12.34
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Yeah...

I get that kind of average if I use OP for any cycle I'm shaky on, but that's cheating. I think I once had like a 15.5 Ao12 for corner execution with 3-cycles, but meh. In the next week I'm overhauling my corners by going through and learning cycles for all the cases where I currently use complicated setup moves, since those are slowing me down the most. I like practicing memo too much, and it's hurting my corners.
 
Noahaha said:
Yeah...

I get that kind of average if I use OP for any cycle I'm shaky on, but that's cheating. I think I once had like a 15.5 Ao12 for corner execution with 3-cycles, but meh. In the next week I'm overhauling my corners by going through and learning cycles for all the cases where I currently use complicated setup moves, since those are slowing me down the most. I like practicing memo too much, and it's hurting my corners.
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It'll be so awesome to watch you do BLD at Dixon. Can't wait to meet you :D
 
oh, stop it you. :D

My failure:

in 20ish seconds of my memo time, 11 seconds or less goes for edges, and 13-14ish for corners. (?!?!)

in execution, edges are up to 20 seconds time, and corners 20-30. 0_0 (!?!?)

change corner memo and learn BH? sir, yes, sir!
 
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