Blindsolving Failure Thread

Mikel said:
5x5 BLD DNF

[11:41.58, 4:48]

3 Wings, 2 + centers

I had the wing memo right, so I must have messed up the execution. I memorized VK instead of VJ for the + centers.

Wicked fast for me. The scramble was pretty nice though.
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No. You're getting entirely too good. Just stop. :)

Ollie said:
fuuuuu
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No, Fxuuux'y'. :)

Seriously, that's sad.
 
I don't know if I posted this yet, but first solve for 5x5 BLD at Carnegie Mellon Fall 2013, was a 15:24 DNF. I was off by 3 corners. I swapped two of my letter pairs during execution.

Mike Hughey said:
No. You're getting entirely too good. Just stop. :)
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It was on the first scramble of the weekly competition 2013-47. The scramble was very nice. I see you fudged it up too. :(
 
Mikel said:
It was on the first scramble of the weekly competition 2013-47. The scramble was very nice. I see you fudged it up too. :(
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Yeah, I was unfortunately slow on it too. I don't know why I was so slow on it - it really was a nice scramble. But I have a feeling you're going to be threatening me on time in competitions from now on. You got better. :)

And considering your memo time is so much faster than mine, I suspect that means you're going to pass me by (and probably be sub-10) very soon! There's no reason for your execution to be taking that long, other than lack of practice - with some extra practice your execution time will be at least as fast as your memo time.

I'm still trying to get (somewhat consistently) sub-10. I won't give up on 5BLD until I do. But my memo needs to speed up.
 
I just hand scrambled my cube to try my First Ever 3BLD solve. After a long time I was ready to execute, I had checked and recheck my memo. I use M2 edges/OP corners.

I pull off the blindfold to find a cube off by 4 edges, two of which needed to swap with a setup M2 undo setup, the other two off because of an odd number of Yperms. The cube also had 2 twisted corners, one was the buffer, not solved at the start, the other was me screwing up setup moves.

So yeah, a great first attempt IMHO, really motivates me to try for a success (later when I rest up of course).

Overall I believe that it was breaking into a 2-cycle that screwed me up. Darn 2-cycle :mad:. Also forgetting I had parity, despite doing memo in letter pairs and maybe doing the wrong setup move for the last corner also contributed to the DNF.

-IQubic
 
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Mike Hughey said:
Yeah, I was unfortunately slow on it too. I don't know why I was so slow on it - it really was a nice scramble. But I have a feeling you're going to be threatening me on time in competitions from now on. You got better. :)

And considering your memo time is so much faster than mine, I suspect that means you're going to pass me by (and probably be sub-10) very soon! There's no reason for your execution to be taking that long, other than lack of practice - with some extra practice your execution time will be at least as fast as your memo time.

I'm still trying to get (somewhat consistently) sub-10. I won't give up on 5BLD until I do. But my memo needs to speed up.
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I think doing the 2x2-7x7 BLD relays helped my memo immensely for 5x5 BLD. Maybe you could give it another go? :p

I have to admit I'm still using U2 for centers, r2 for wings, M2 for midges and Old Pochmann for corners. That might be the reason for my slow execution...
 
3BLD
DNF(30.61) U2 R B' U L' U' F2 U2 B' R B D2 F' R2 B R2 B2 L2 U2 L2 Two twisted corners. Memo mistake.
DNF(31.82) B D2 B L2 B' R2 F D2 R2 B U2 R' B F' D' U2 B R D2 R' Edge 3 cycle. Did it the wrong way :(

So close :/
 
First 3 cube MBLD attempt. 0/3. Knew I'd done something wrong with the second cube when I realised I'd memoed S (which is by BLU and my buffer is UBL). Lost my confidence for the third cube, and the first cube was off by a 3-cycle. Time was 23:39.36 [16:56.96].
I should probably get a 2/2 before doing this more.
 
Another 0/3. Really easy 2nd and 3rd scrambles.
1) B2 L F2 U2 R D2 F2 D2 B2 L2 D2 F D' B U' L' D F' D U R
2) U L U2 R' D L' D2 B' L U2 L2 F2 L2 U R2 U2 R2 D' L2
3) D' L2 B' L2 D L F' L' F' B' L2 B' D2 F' L2 D2 F' U2 R2
First cube: two twisted corners, one flipped edge and an edge 3-cycle. I knew I'd done something wrong because I had the letter O twice, and I'd never choose that as a new cycle.
Second cube: two twisted corners and an edge 3-cycle.
Third cube: edge 3-cycle.

Memo always feels like it's good (except when I've memo'ed a letter I shouldn't have done), but then it never is :( But the time was a lot faster; DNF(17:50.37)[12:59.88] compared to DNF(23:39.36)[16:56.96]. My memo on my last one was nearly the same as the total time for this one. Then again, the scrambles were a lot easier.

EDIT: lol another 0/3
First cube: 2 flipped edges
Second cube: edge 4-cycle, corner 4-cycle
Third cube: edge 2-cycle, edge 3-cycle, corner 2-cycle (executed the wrong parity alg)
 
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0/3 18:07.47
First cube: 3 flipped edges, edge 3-cycle, corner 3-cycle
Second cube: 2 flipped edges, 2 twisted corners
Third cube: 2 edge 2-cycles, corner 3-cycle

Why can't I even get one solved :(
 
Mikel said:
I think doing the 2x2-7x7 BLD relays helped my memo immensely for 5x5 BLD. Maybe you could give it another go? :p
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I've been tempted to try, but I'd feel guilty if I got a success. After all your attempts, you really should be the first to get a success.

Mikel said:
I have to admit I'm still using U2 for centers, r2 for wings, M2 for midges and Old Pochmann for corners. That might be the reason for my slow execution...
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I guess that must explain it. Still, I'm surprised you're THAT much slower than me on execution.

My 5BLD attempts for the weekly this week were terribly slow because my memory didn't stick, and since then I've had 3 DNFs in a row. I hope I can do better this weekend.
 
Mike Hughey said:
I've been tempted to try, but I'd feel guilty if I got a success. After all your attempts, you really should be the first to get a success.
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Well, I haven't tried in over a month. I might do some more this winter when I have a break from work.

Mike Hughey said:
I guess that must explain it. Still, I'm surprised you're THAT much slower than me on execution.
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I really don't know. Maybe you just have incredible turn speed compared to me.
 
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