Worst feeling ever while solving?

[ElderKingpin]

when i "hit" the timer and solve the cube with probably my best time and look up and see that i never actually started the timer :/

 

[Ton]

In my opinion its when your getting a really good solve and the adrenaline is insane and then you miss the timer button and get a second or two added on.

worst for magic solving

A pop during a parity algorithm on a 6x6. On on 4x4 , 5x5 this never happens to me. On a 6x6 this means a DNF for me , alternative is to turn very slow on a 6x6 during parity , but heck it is called speedcubing

So I suck at 6x6 mainly because of the physical aspects of the puzzle , it just pop to much , where my times on a 4x4 is 1:17 , 5x5 2:30 , 6x6 is bad mainly because it is impossible to get no pops in a mean of 3

 

[Erik]

Mod it better? I have done many averages of 5 without a single pop. Tobias Christlieb is a master at modding them though ;-)

 

[Owen]

I don't think this counts, but a few days ago I was assembling a megaminx, in my pajamas outside, in 30 degree weather, holding my breath because of the silicone in the air. The megaminx didn't even work any better after that anyway.

 

[LNZ]

The three attempts to solve a 3x3 cube before solving it for the very first time.

Actually my very first cube solve ever was a 2x2 cube brought on Ebay if Feburary 2009. I did this to test the effect of the two possible directions of D and D' and the fact the 2x2 only has corner pieces.

Then I tried three solves on a Rubik's storebrought 3x3 (brought Oct 2007). All three failed. My fourth attempt came after that 2x2 solve and the rest is history.

 

[TioMario]

When you did a perfect cross, your F2L fast as hell, you get OLL skip and you see instantlt that the PLL you got is known by you. You start that PLL algorithm you have practised a lot and you do fingertricks and everything...

THEN YOUR CUBE LOCKS UP LIKE 3 SECONDS WHEN YOU DO THE LAST MOVEMENT.

 

[mande]

When you did a perfect cross, your F2L fast as hell, you get OLL skip and you see instantlt that the PLL you got is known by you. You start that PLL algorithm you have practised a lot and you do fingertricks and everything...

THEN YOUR CUBE LOCKS UP LIKE 3 SECONDS WHEN YOU DO THE LAST MOVEMENT.

You know that's close to what happened to me at my last comp. I had a good cross and F2L, sexy move T OLL, and a clockwise A perm (my favourite), and the cube locked up ever so slightly on the last three moves. I guess that cost me a sub 12 The time was 12.81 btw (really good for me), so I had more good feelings in me than bad feelings.

 

[Cool Frog]

when i am getting really good or the solve and throw the cube down hit the spacebar and look at the timer and it just started

 

[Muesli]

Double X-cross, Pi OLL, J perm

SLAMS CUBE DOWN

"click to focus".

 

[capoboy]

I think when I am working on the LL, and I see the cross pieces are flipped.

Another thing, when we are having a great solve, but the cube locks up... It always add 2-3 seconds...

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

1)*solve solve solve*
DONE. CUBE SLAM and Spacebar hit.
I hit the SpaceBar AND Alt. So the Timer continues. People like Nakajima have the instinct to just use one hand to hit the SpaceBar...
2)LOCK UPS. Nuff said.
3)Mess Up on Parity

 

[rubiknewbie]

- Find that cross was wrong halfway through the F2L
- Pop, especially on T and R perm
- Super smooth solve then lock for 3 seconds on PLL

 

[Parity]

Well um.....
one time I missed the timer on a 16 second 3x3x3 solve so I flailed? IDK how to spell that word.
...So I flaied my knees into the desk (the desk broke) and then there was giant splinters in my right knee.

 

[iasimp1997]

great solve with a diansheng, good f2l, good oll, then i get confident and i start locking up and i end up with a 30+

 

[miniGOINGS]

Well um.....
one time I missed the timer on a 16 second 3x3x3 solve so I flailed? IDK how to spell that word.
...So I flaied my knees into the desk (the desk broke) and then there was giant splinters in my right knee.

No you didn't flail, at least I hope you didn't, I think you failed.

 

[waffle=ijm]

missing the spacebar.
spacebar is jammed
spacebar gets double tapped before solve
stopping on the stackmat instead of the spacebar (where you were doing your solves)

skips! and then turning on the timer
skips! and then focus on timer
skips! and cube slips
skips! and still a bad solve

looking for pieces that are already in the right place.

I'm sure there are more...

 

[Carson]

I used to play a lot of first person shooters, and was pretty aggressive about it... I ended up breaking my keyboard tray from the bottom of my desk a few times. I repaired it, but once while cubing, I had a particularly good solve (for me) and when I put the cube down, the keyboard tray fell off before I could hit the timer.

My ES 2x2 doesn't cut corners worth crap... but it turns extremely freely. It is not all that difficult to do a U4 with one flick (if your into that kind of thing). I have, on occasion, done U2's in competition with one flick just for fun... since I'm not very fast at 2x2 anyway. During a competitive solve, I dropped the cube and hit the timer, and watched the U layer slowly turn by 1/4 turn... +2.

I have a tendency to forget PLL's spontaneously. I'm not just talking about N's or other less commonly used one's. I will, on occasion, completely forget how to do a T or Y for seemingly no reason at all. Fortunately, this is yet to happen to me in competition, but I figure that it is only a matter of time.

Having to scramble Sam Roach's 3x3... grrr!!! I hate that cube!!!

When you are doing OH at a comp. and you suddenly realize that, "HEY, I don't know how to do OH, CRAP".... DNF, DNS, DNS!

 

[JL58]

Can't find the cross solve in less than 9 moves. End the cross with the wrong color in front. Now the orientation is gone. Solve 5 pairs (where is this one coming from...). Two look OLL with Bruno. And the cherry on the cake: finding 2 adjacent 2x1 blocks, hoping for a J- perm, where is the 3x side, here, no here -sigh- N-Perm. And this time the timer worked and I got no pop, the time has to be valid...

 

[Carrot]

When you are having a good solve and suddenly during the solves you get the "instant-tiredness-head-slams-down-in-table" and then realize your fingers got tired too and can't really move faster than 0.5 tps -.- (Yeah it happens )

 

[Zubon]

When you get a FULL last layer skip (including last layer adjustment) but it was during one of your metronome solves which means that the time was over 40 seconds. X-(