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Blindsolving Failure Thread

2x2x2 - 6x6x6 relay (for the weekly competition): DNF (2:02:46.42, 1:12:25 memorization).

Shaden Smith was visiting colleges and he and his mom spent the night with us. So I thought I'd try something big. 2x2x2 and 3x3x3 were correct; 4x4x4 was off by 2 corners (forgot to do parity at the end) and 3 centers; 5x5x5 was off by 2 centers (forgot to flip them) and 3 wings; 6x6x6 was off by just 3 inner X centers. Shaden watched most of the solving phase.

I started at about 1 AM, so maybe part of the problem was that I was too tired. Memory was pretty secure, though.
 
Mike Hughey said:
2x2x2 - 6x6x6 relay (for the weekly competition): DNF (2:02:46.42, 1:12:25 memorization).

Shaden Smith was visiting colleges and he and his mom spent the night with us. So I thought I'd try something big. 2x2x2 and 3x3x3 were correct; 4x4x4 was off by 2 corners (forgot to do parity at the end) and 3 centers; 5x5x5 was off by 2 centers (forgot to flip them) and 3 wings; 6x6x6 was off by just 3 inner X centers. Shaden watched most of the solving phase.

I started at about 1 AM, so maybe part of the problem was that I was too tired. Memory was pretty secure, though.
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woah, great attempt mike, you will deffinately get it next time. have you gotten a successful 7x7 multi BLD yet? srry i haven't kept up with your progress
 
4x4x4 BLD 23:51.09 DNF

It was my first try. The cube was off by 4 centers (cycled them in the wrong direction) and 2 wings. I think the wings were just a memo mistake or execution mistake. I was also off by an r2 but that doesn't count because they would have been solved.
 
McWizzle94 said:
4x4x4 BLD 23:51.09 DNF

It was my first try. The cube was off by 4 centers (cycled them in the wrong direction) and 2 wings. I think the wings were just a memo mistake or execution mistake. I was also off by an r2 but that doesn't count because they would have been solved.
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That was a great first try though! That was almost exactly what my first try was, and mine was about that level of accuracy. Just give it a few more tries, you can't be far from getting one!
 
ShadenSmith said:
McWizzle94 said:
4x4x4 BLD 23:51.09 DNF

It was my first try. The cube was off by 4 centers (cycled them in the wrong direction) and 2 wings. I think the wings were just a memo mistake or execution mistake. I was also off by an r2 but that doesn't count because they would have been solved.
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That was a great first try though! That was almost exactly what my first try was, and mine was about that level of accuracy. Just give it a few more tries, you can't be far from getting one!
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lol thanks :)
 
A 4x4x4 BLD DNF 24:xx.xx yet again xD.

This time I was off by maybe 6 centers and 2 wings. Does anyone here that uses r2 have a better way of memorizing because I keep getting mixed up with the wings, like distinguishing between DR and RD. That shoots up my memo time a lot! About 8 minutes to memo edges when I could be at around 5-6.

EDIT: 4x4x4 BLD DNF 14:xx.xx

This was even worse than the last one. First, the phone rang 3 minutes into memo. That wasted about a minute or so. I finished memorizing at around 12 minutes or so, and then started solving the centers. As I was solving, I was doing a really slow commutator. I wasn't going that fast, but all of a sudden, the pieces just popped. I am getting a ES 4x4x4 soon so hopefully I won't have to deal with pops again.
 
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shafiqdms1 said:
ajmorgan25 said:
Noooo! I just did a 2 cube Multi BLD (my first one) and I was 1/2. My second cube was correct but my first cube had 2 FLIPPED CORNERS!!!!
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dang...that must've sucked... were you mad?
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lol, not really. I took off the blindfold and looked at the first cube and saw the two misoriented corners and just laughed and put my head down on my desk in disbelief.

I think I was really just relieved that I was only off by two corners. Now, if I looked down and saw two scrambled cubes that would have been a different story. But 1/2 with 2 flipped corners for my first multi blind is satisfying for me.
 
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I tried 5x5 bld for the first time yesterday: DNF

It was 35 min memo and 35 min execution, but I was going for safe instead of speed. Corners and centeredges were good, even after dealing with parity for my first try. Edgewings were of by 5 edges. + centers were of by 3. Biggest problem was the x-centers which were only half solved, but that was mainly caused by an error in memorising, which I realised while solving.

I'm happy with the result because I used commutators for everything and the cube wasn't totally messed up in the end, which must mean that I have some control of the commutators :)
 
ajmorgan25 said:
Noooo! I just did a 2 cube Multi BLD (my first one) and I was 1/2. My second cube was correct but my first cube had 2 FLIPPED CORNERS!!!!
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Well, I don't do multi, but figured out why it once happened to me... I remembered a pair of corners oriented as "headlights", but because they were on the side rather than top or bottom, I forgot the twists were opposite of what I expected.
 
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