Blindsolving Failure Thread

[CyanSandwich]

5th 4BLD DNF. I heard my camera (iPod) fall off of my tripod (stack of items) so I put it back blindfolded. (1:15)
Turns out I've been doing a center algorithm wrong.

Also 6th 4BLD DNF - 27:02.88[17:00.03]
4 centers and 8 wings (4 wings if you do an r2). I forgot to do an r2 before wing parity, which might have made it closer.

 

[RageCuber]

3x3 BLD attempt... 6... maybe?
All correct except: 2 corners permuted correctly & oriented incorrectly
2 edges permuted correctly & oriented incorrectly

soooooo close... I'll try again later.

 

[CyanSandwich]

Failed my first 4BLD avg of 5 by 3 wings

 

[AmazingCuber]

noooo!
8:16.92[5:45.35] DNF 3BLD one twisted corner

 

[TDM]

noooo!
8:16.92[5:45.35] DNF 3BLD one twisted corner

Unlucky which cube?

 

[AmazingCuber]

Unlucky which cube?

Oh no, not like that. My last target was the wrong one on the right piece, so I actually had 2 twisted corners. Cube was a weilong.

 

[TDM]

Oh no, not like that. My last target was the wrong one on the right piece, so I actually had 2 twisted corners. Cube was a weilong.

Ah. With practise, you'll eventually know all your setup moves easily, and won't do things like that. Just remember to do sighted solves to make sure they're right in the first place. For example, when I learned M2 (from myself), I started using R U' R' U as a setup to UR. The problem is that the UR edge is supposed to go to UB, not UF. I didn't know why all my solves were off by an edge 3-cycle :fp I DNFed half my solves by this until I started doing some sighted solves. So if you're always off by the same thing each time (e.g. flipped edge/twisted corner/edge 3-cycle/corner 3-cycle), do some sighted solves and look where something goes wrong.

 

[AmazingCuber]

Thanks for the advice! My main problem is not my execution, but my memo phase where I make silly mistakes in finding out my targets

 

[TDM]

Thanks for the advice! My main problem is not my execution, but my memo phase where I make silly mistakes in finding out my targets

Well I thought the same too... even if you just do a few sighted solves with your BLD method when you're not near a timer, for example at school, you could find something you otherwise wouldn't have found. Even if it's just 5 solves, you'll probably have done every target at least once.

 

[AmazingCuber]

Well I thought the same too... even if you just do a few sighted solves with your BLD method when you're not near a timer, for example at school, you could find something you otherwise wouldn't have found. Even if it's just 5 solves, you'll probably have done every target at least once.

Thanks, I'll try this! What do you average on BLD?

 

[cubenut99]

0/3 MBLD in 22:28 seconds
such a failure

 

[TDM]

Thanks, I'll try this! What do you average on BLD?

I don't do it much. I used to average ~4, now I think I average 5, but can average sub-4 if I push memo.
Also, just to be clear: you should only need to do those five or so solves ever to see the problem, until you change method. For now, just that should be enough to see the problem.

 

[Roman]

7BLD DNF(26:13.74[12:38.62]) by 3 wings

This is just offensively
Got DNF because forgot to undo the setup at the very end of the solve.
Should do UFl->RUb->URf that way: (x' Uw' R [U l' U', R2]) but because of the size of the cube I decided to do it this way: (Bw F' z' [U r U', L2]) - like (Bw <U-perm>) which seemed easier for me at that moment (but now I see it's not better than the previous alg). Eventually forgot to undo F'.
I was slow and accurate during the execution, that's why it took so long.

[video=youtube_share;0il8_3NclrE]http://youtu.be/0il8_3NclrE[/video]

 

[mande]

4BLD 6:41 DNF in comp by 2 twisted corners
Also 7:0x off by 3 wings

 

[RageCuber]

3BLD - Failed Attempt - 2 Flipped Edges - W/ video

Closest solve yet! I'm pretty optimistic for later solves

 

[Roman]

6BLD DNF (12:57.17[5:56.37])

Spoiler

 

[szalejot]

3BLD failed by 2 twisted corners (error in inspection phase, memo and execution was ok).
Time: 1:59.72, first sub2 :-(

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

I forgot to post, but I did a sleep-delayed 3BLD a couple of weeks ago. I memorised wrong, not even sure how I managed that (I had two fewer corner targets than I should have). Interestingly, since I didn't want to use any normal locations for the memo it was my first time using loci from IRL and not a computer game, I used places I frequently sat before my shift at work, usually doing cube practice.

 

[Iggy]

8:15.25 5BLD DNF, 3 wings. Closest I've gotten to a success ever since I started reviewing less (stopped reviewing wing memo). I think I'm getting more used to this.

 

[rock1313]

7x7 blindfolded attempt no 6: DNF (1:37:40.91) off by 17 pieces

First 7bld attempt in about 8 months O.0. This is by far the closest I've gotten to a success. Nothing else to say other than it was a close one :/.