The phrase "attempts at performing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or endeavors to carry out a specific action or task.
Example: "Despite several attempts at performing the complex dance routine, she still struggled to master it."
Alternatives: "efforts to perform" or "tries at executing".
Frayn is perhaps best known for his long-running, internationally successful stage farce Noises Off (1982; film 1992), a frenetic play-within-a-play about the antics of an English theatrical company touring the provinces and its inept attempts at performing a typically English sex farce.
In the sweetly silly production of "The Hound of the Baskervilles," which has just opened Penguin Rep Theater's 35th season, there is a goofy butler with a tray of plastic food and an obviously fake beard; silly flirtations by an unusually tall, deep-voiced señorita; anachronistic attempts at performing CPR on a dummy; and Londoners who wear towels over their business suits in a steam room.
There have also been a number of attempts at performing 3D surface reconstruction without using a deformation model.
Results show that participants' first attempt at performing these sequences (performance on Day 1) did not correlate with the magnitude of neural responses when they watched these same sequences for the first time in the scanner (Fig. 6; data points plotted with blue diamonds).
The frantic drumming on the song's outro is Reznor's only attempt at performing drums on the record, and one of the few "live" drum performances on the album.
Their attempt at performing a short musical skit has the air of three men who have only ever read about the concept of music, but never actually heard it.
As far as we know, this is the first attempt at performing peak signal regression based on candidate motif models.
Furthermore, we have made an initial attempt at performing a red cell count of a blood sample imaged by the cell phone microscope.
Recent attempts in this field are directed at performing it in a systematic fashion ("where to look"), but did not inform sufficiently on the actual assessment of the organs ("how to look").
A total of 178 individual gene deletion attempts were performed (at least 4 per gene; Table S1), resulting in successful deletion of 14 PPs (47%) as determined by detailed genotype analysis.
My attempts at making her perform simple tasks are met with bafflement and tail flicking.
