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05/04/01 05:28:28 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
Best expert: | 58 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Yep, Dan's right. The more you play, the more you'll start recognizing certain situations and soon you won't even think about it anymore. That's when you start to really impress your friends :) You asked how long it took to get sub-60? For me, it took a couple of years (3 or 4) to get from 96 (which was my first sub-100) to 59. Of course, I didn't play for well over a year when I'd gotten to 65, due to RSI and when I got back into it, I needed to get back to my former level first. I think it's possible to go from 100 to 60 within a year, if you play daily for at least an hour, preferably more. |
05/04/01 04:23:23 PM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Best expert: | 54 |
Best intermediate: | 16 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Dean, you will get much faster if you keep playing. When I was in the 90's, I didn't think a score in the 50's was possible. When I made the 80's and then 70's, I was thinking that 60's would be my limit. Once I got into the 60's I knew the low 50's posted on the world records list was possible, but then I just couldn't seem to break below 60. The point is that, as I and many others have demonstrated, if you keep playing you will get better and better. Your reaction time and pattern recognition will eventually lead you to the point where you no longer need to pause to study the board and you just click without thinking. |
05/04/01 04:10:12 PM | |
Name: | Dean Smith |
Best expert: | 92 |
Best intermediate: | 28 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Hey, I managed to shave off 7 seconds from my old record in one weekend! I never thought I'd beat that 99 again but I did . It won't seem like much to you guys, but it is a systematic progression, in which I think my ultimate aim is sub-60. Dunno if I'll get that fast though. I mean how long did it take you guys to do sub 60? Cos I've only been playing 6 months and feel I can get a lot faster. Later anyways. |
05/04/01 01:55:41 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | Hey Stubbe, You want to be in the Intermediate Hall of Fame? Send in that profile! |
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05/04/01 11:23:13 AM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Comments: | Good to hear from you, Lanyje. The slump I was in about a month ago is gone and then some. Last week I got my 54, and I've had several games in which I've almost broken below that. In fact, a couple days ago I was at 37 seconds with a very friendly mine layout remaining. I had a 50/50 guess I had to make and I guessed wrong. I am very confident I could have finished in the mid 40's. Again, this morning, I was at 41 with a small section left. I made a bonehead click and messed up a likely upper 40's score. My average is down to about 60, and I'm up to 30 games of 60 or below. |
05/04/01 06:36:28 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Comments: | Thanks Stubbe! |
05/04/01 06:05:49 AM | |
Name: | Stubbe Bak Rasmussen |
Best expert: | 60 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Hi Roelof. Go look in your windows folder, open the winmine.ini file, in which you can edit your scores... |
05/04/01 04:12:22 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Best expert: | 84 |
Best intermediate: | 25 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | My sister has deleted my scores, because she was jealous she couldn't get my scores. Of course these scores are still my personal records, but it's a shame I can't look at them. Well, I'm extra motivated to get good scores now, you might be surprised in a couple of days... |
05/04/01 03:47:25 AM | |
Name: | Lasse Nyholm |
Best expert: | 47 |
Best intermediate: | 15 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Hello everybody Congratulations Stubbe (godt gået), Dan and Matt, well done guys. I'm not going fast these days - my old mouse is not working so I've changed to an optical wheel mouse, and I don't have the "feeling" with it quite yet - I haven't been under 51 with the new mouse - I just need to play some more to get it adjusted properly and so. Matt: I'll try to find some time and make a profile for your page - I guess I need to make an update for my profile on this page as well - I was on 53 when I wrote it. Have fun everybody - Lanyje |
05/04/01 03:06:44 AM | |
Name: | Stubbe Bak Rasmussen |
Best expert: | 60 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Not bad... Just broke my expert record by four sec's. Just as I thought I never would improve my best score. After purchasing a PlayStation 2 I've somewhat neglected my sweeping, but now it seems I'm back to full strength... |
05/03/01 02:29:51 PM | |
Name: | Owen |
Comments: | There's something wrong with my mail at the moment- it means i cannot send back mail... but i have a yahoo one which i can use to send... |
05/03/01 01:18:28 PM | |
Name: | Asser Vuola |
Best expert: | 88 |
Best intermediate: | 28 |
Best beginner: | 4 |
Comments: | Nice page |
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05/02/01 06:36:17 PM | |
Name: | Joe Nuss |
Comments: | wow, the page is nearing 20,000 hits. cool. |
05/02/01 04:02:12 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Best expert: | 80 |
Best intermediate: | 14 |
Best beginner: | 1 |
Comments: | Send that profile in Owen! Ive actually tried to contact you twice by email but you havent responded.... |
E-mail Website |
05/02/01 11:31:06 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Comments: | Hello Ben, I really like Belgians, honestly. But in Holland we have much jokes about Belgians. In these jokes the keyword is dumb. Think about it (if you can, ha ha). I'd like to know jokes about Dutchmen in Belgium. Can you tell me any? Thanks. Good luck sweeping. |
05/02/01 11:26:21 AM | |
Name: | Ben Van Calster |
Comments: | dan ben je 'ns aardig tegen Nederlanders en dan krijg je dit.......(grapje). Ik wil wel weten hoe (sommigen) bij jullie over ons denken! Last time I write in Dutch in this guestbook. |
05/02/01 10:43:47 AM | |
Name: | Owen Fox |
Best expert: | 69 |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Yo! Matt - i should have my profile ready v soon..... no sweepig recently for me Owen |
05/02/01 08:32:55 AM | |
Name: | Michael Chai |
Best expert: | 77 |
Best intermediate: | 22 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | After 2 full months stuck at 81 seconds, finally I had made it below 80 seconds. I'm now at 77 secs. Sub 70s is currently impossible for me. I know my speed. I think I should now concentrate on improving my intermediate scores. I don't know how to get near Matt's speed on intermediate level... Anyway, lets move on .... |
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05/02/01 06:58:56 AM | |
Name: | Georgi Kermekchiev |
Best expert: | 102 |
Best intermediate: | 30 |
Best beginner: | 5 |
Comments: | I do not know what is happening, but I can not sub 100 ... May be it is good to rest for a couple of days ... or weeks ? |
05/02/01 06:49:32 AM | |
Name: | Georgi Kermekchiev |
Comments: | For the last month by sweeping almost every day, I have made more than 600 000 clicks :-) It is a real mouse crash test ... I have been using a small shareware called 'MouseCount' - http://home.pacbell.net/slish/MouseCount.zip |
05/01/01 12:07:41 PM | |
Name: | Miika Toukola |
Best expert: | 91 |
Best intermediate: | 24 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | It's nice to see that there still are others who like Minesweeper. Keep at it! (Jos Suomen kieli luistaa yhtä hyvin kuin Miinaharava, mailailkaapa thourne@hotmail.com:iin.) |
04/30/01 11:56:48 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Best expert: | 84 |
Best intermediate: | 25 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | (no comment) |
04/30/01 06:15:45 AM | |
Name: | BRUNELLIERE Emmanuel |
Best expert: | 74 |
Best intermediate: | 21 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | (no comment) |
04/30/01 01:35:42 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Comments: | Ben jij wel een echte Nederlander Marc? Ik heb niets tegen Belgen en zeker niet tegen Ben, hij speelt tenslotte mijnenveger. Maar toch... |
04/29/01 08:08:23 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
Comments: | Errmm... Pardon? Ben: voor alle duidelijkheid: Roelof spreekt niet namens mij. |
04/29/01 02:32:03 PM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Comments: | I just tried to put a text in Dutch for Ben between these things (<>), but it didn't work. So here it is: Ben, niets ten nadele van jou hoor, maar ik weet niet of je op de hoogte bent van hoe Nederlanders over Belgen denken... |
04/29/01 02:29:42 PM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Comments: | Thanks Marc, I'm so delighted. I don't know if you have ever been worse than a Belgian in whatever, but it's horrible. I've spent this whole evening trying to make my scores better.
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04/29/01 01:35:44 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
Best expert: | 58 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Hey Roelof, Don't worry. I'll defend the Dutch honour ;) |
04/29/01 12:23:55 PM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Comments: | Hallo Ben, Ik weet dat ze in België ook Nederlands praten, maar niet zo goed als in Nederland natuurlijk. Verder maar in Engels: Great scores! You all know Dutchmen are better than Belgians in every sport, but he is better than I am, I have to say. I f*cked up a very low 20-er or sub-20-er today, I hated myself for a while. But I'm happy again. See you all later. |
04/29/01 11:43:24 AM | |
Name: | Ben Van Calster |
Comments: | wow when you submit, this thing does start new lines! |
04/29/01 11:41:58 AM | |
Name: | Ben Van Calster |
Best expert: | 71 |
Best intermediate: | 20 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Hello all, congratulations to everybody with great new scores (like dan & matt). I got a 71 today! I'm ready for sub-70-ing and sub-20-ing (20x4: makes me mad). To the two Dutchmen: in belgië praten ze ook wat Nederlands... see you later and keep going faster! BTW, why can't I start a new line when I write in this guestbook??? |
04/29/01 10:17:03 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 69 :( |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Yo everyone! i'm nearly quitting minesweeper- i just don't have enough time to play anymore.... i can't get any good scores.... :( but i suppose i'm happy with my improvement but not happy about how i messed up my 61 would be on exp Oh ye WELL DONE MaTT |
04/29/01 08:25:45 AM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Comments: | Does someone have a theory as to why my 54 video is real jerky compared to the rest of the videos listed on this site? I played the video file from my computer and it is the same, very jerky. I don't think I did anything different when I produced the 54 movie. |
04/29/01 08:02:19 AM | |
Name: | David Barry |
Best expert: | 51 |
Best intermediate: | 15 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Got a 2 yesterday... I think I might dedicate a little bit more time to Intermediate for a few days, hopefully I will get a sub-15. I've been a bit slower on Expert these past few days, but I've been finishing more games - 3 sub-60's in an hour (which is something I've not done before), albeit 2 59's and a 58. |
04/29/01 06:46:40 AM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Comments: | Marc, the two second bug can certainly be annoying. If you watch the video from my 54 game, the clock actually STARTS on 2. Congrats, Matt. Hopefully I will be fortunate enough to get that board. |
04/29/01 02:16:08 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Best expert: | 84! |
Best intermediate: | 25 |
Best beginner: | 4 |
Comments: | Finally under 90!!! I know 84 isn't a brilliant score, but I'm very proud. Damien, I'm sending you an e-mail at this very moment (with screenshot). I hope you put me on the list soon. Great score, Matt! |
04/28/01 07:27:16 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
Comments: | Congrats, Matt! Did you notice that the timer in that game of yours jumped to two almost immediately? It could have been a 13. Although the timer did stay at 14 for an awfully long time... |
04/28/01 07:14:27 PM | |
Name: | Joe Nuss |
Best expert: | 83 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | holy sweet jesus, matt. awesome. i checked on here to see if youd beaten your expert score, actually, after i got your email, and instead you obiderated your intermediate. damn. hard-core stud. |
04/28/01 05:51:50 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Best expert: | 80 |
Best intermediate: | 14 |
Best beginner: | 1 |
Comments: | Okay, I have now, the world's most lopsided minesweeper records. In beg. and int. Im faster than Sriram and Lanyje, but I stil have thast good ole' 80. I was struggling with sub-20ing when all of a suddenI got it. A freakin' 14! It's on the same board that everyone's getting too....the one that I almost killed myself a month ago because I missed. I have the video...just email me. Or visit my site. |
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04/28/01 05:38:00 AM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | Hey Roelof, Im the main one who is presecuting Joao, so Ill tell you what happened. He suddenly appeared in the record books a couple months ago with a 12 in intermediate on a very slow board. Most people thought it was a fake, and now, I think, it has been finalized that it was. If you want alonger version, go to my site and read "Fake??" in the rants section. Good luck sub-20-ing! |
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04/28/01 05:05:35 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Best expert: | 93 |
Best intermediate: | 25 |
Best beginner: | 4 |
Comments: | What's the problem with joao? I took a look at the guestbook and you don't seem to like him. |
04/27/01 05:31:08 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | My website is fully up and functionable. Take a visit... |
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04/27/01 02:25:05 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
Comments: | Hoi Roelof, Eindelijk eens een Nederlander hier! Ik had de hoop al opgegeven ooit nog eens een andere Nederlandse mijnenveger aan te treffen. Voel ik me wat minder alleen ;) Ok, back to English. Don't worry, guys, I won't bother the rest of you with that weird sounding language of ours any longer :) I just thought I'd give Roelof a warm welcome in his own language. |
04/27/01 11:22:15 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Best expert: | 93 |
Best intermediate: | 25 |
Best beginner: | 4 |
Comments: | The scores I saw on this site are absolutely fantastic. I thought I did well. Actually, I'm not very bad of course. Well, you should all go to Holland, to see the most beautiful country in the world. CU, Roelof |
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04/26/01 01:51:59 PM | |
Name: | Cian |
Best expert: | 78 |
Best intermediate: | 24 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Hello everybody. Im new to the guestbook. But ive been on the mailing list for a while. Just thought id say hello. I'll add when I can, maybe it wont be very often, but hopefully it'll be now and again. Im trying to think of an interesting question to mark my first post. Hmmm...do you guys think that the guy who made minesweeper realised how complex it was when he was making it? By complex I mean all the different rules, scenarios etc. Have a nice evening -Cian Good luck. |
04/26/01 09:25:55 AM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Comments: | David, I don't know where the heck I got 21. I think I need to go back and learn the basics of subtraction. |
04/25/01 08:48:04 PM | |
Name: | David Barry |
Comments: | Thanks Dan... Actually I was 17 yesterday, not 21. |
04/25/01 04:28:19 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | Hmm.... Damien forgot to put Joao's 12 in the fakes section....Oh well. I have a rant on it, but I guess it's not really pertinent now, that he's gone, but it's still nice to look at, eh? I guess you guys can start visiting my site now. A ll I have is 9 profiles, but IM working on copying everything from my old site to this one. Adding another rant or two. Speaking of that, I lost David's retort to my "Preferences" essay. Sorry David, but do you think you could resend that to me if you have it saved? Just email me, thanks.... |
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04/25/01 04:22:58 PM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Comments: | BTW, it is the big 21 for David. |
04/25/01 04:22:00 PM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Comments: | I was just reading the profiles and I noticed something in one of them... Today is David Barry's birthday. *Happy Birthday David* |
04/25/01 04:01:32 PM | |
Name: | Joe Nuss |
Comments: | haha, exactly, Dan :) |
04/25/01 04:00:11 PM | |
Name: | TFM |
Comments: | A new profile was put up, one updated, several new things on the misc page, a totally new video page with 30 new videos and the ranked player list was updated...with a few mistakes, sorry. Bit by bit it's coming. |
04/25/01 03:58:50 PM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Comments: | I think the main requirement for playing minesweeper is the ability to sit at a computer for long periods of time without getting bored stiff. |
04/25/01 12:14:30 PM | |
Name: | Ryan Peckyno |
Comments: | We are all geniuses according to our own definitions...whether it be by the I.Q > 140 definition, or the I am a member of mensa definition, or the 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration definition. You see...we are all geniuses. |
04/25/01 10:48:02 AM | |
Name: | Owen Fox |
Comments: | I was wondering what people meant by us sweepers being geniuses... who with what times would be in that catagory and what IQ means you are a "genius"? do you mean simply cleverer than most people or do you mean we have exceptional IQ my own view would say that we are generally cleverer but not geniuses.. |
04/25/01 10:43:17 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 69 :( |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | HI all.... My 18 wasn't put down but i don't mind - i'm glad i've made the top players list. The reason why i'm here is to tell you all that i wrecked the game of my life :( the clock was on 54 and i had 10 undug mines left... i'd say i would have got 62 or less... so close. i can't believe i could be attacking the minute barrier - less than a month and a half ago my record was at 83 as it was for months.... weird...! good though! |
04/25/01 10:33:53 AM | |
Name: | Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: | 75 |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Yeah, I noticed that the best players list was sort of updated. Only a couple of very minor changes were made (ie: top 5 people had scores updated). I was not in the list, even though I "qualify", and matt's 81 second expert score wasn't modified on the list either to be 80 sec. Also, there is no "last updated Feb. 22" anymore. Maybe he's doing a little at a time, that'd be nice. Anyway, happy sweeping all, and good luck with the last few weeks of classes and finals, everyone who is in college right now! Remember that class should come before sweeping... I sure haven't forgotten. But Minesweeper sure does make for a good study break! Lance |
04/25/01 08:25:09 AM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
Best expert: | 58 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Hi Georgi, I only found out about that method when my score was well below 70. By then it had become very hard to incorporate it into my play. I might give it a try again some time, as I know I would be at least a few seconds faster on average. But right now, when I try to use it I'm many seconds slower than normal. |
04/25/01 07:18:44 AM | |
Name: | Georgi Kermekchiev |
Best expert: | 102 |
Best intermediate: | 31 |
Best beginner: | 5 |
Comments: | I just wonder, how many of the sweepers with sub 90's Expert use HOLDING CLICKS trick while sweeping ... ? |
04/25/01 01:03:54 AM | |
Name: | Joe Nuss |
Comments: | anyone else catch that the new best players list is updated? well, it is. yes. joao is gone. me thinks it good. |
04/25/01 12:58:21 AM | |
Name: | Joe Nuss |
Comments: | heh. i justed wanted to show off my SAT score, i just got it and was happy. call me a prick! :) |
04/24/01 05:33:53 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | HAHAHA...man I post here too much.... Im just following on what Ryan said about everyone thinking they're smarter than everyone else. It's so unbeliveably true! Like this one girl I know who thinks there are 12 weeks in a year, and thinks that eating grass in good for you claims to be a genius. Ha, people are funny. |
04/24/01 02:51:09 PM | |
Name: | Ryan Peckyno |
Comments: | Ok, I'm not going to stroke myself here or anything but I'll make some personal comments on minsweeper. As far as being "smart"...according to my relative definition I was not smart a couple of years ago but I am today. On the same note (again according to my definition) I had "mediocre" SAT scores. But I attribute some of becoming smart to playing minesweeper. Personally, it made me realize that I could do things infinitely times faster and has helped me "check" stuff less..and become less of a perfectionist. I used this game along with several other things to "make myself smart". As far as GRE scores (essentially the same scale as SAT) I believe that when I do take these that I will receive "good" scores (again by my relative definition) and based on practice tests could conceivably/easily get perfect scores on the analytical and mathematical sections. Then again, these tests do not really test "tough concepts" so there meaning is open to interpretation. I think that these scores can change exponentially with more "exposure" to books, games,etc. Finally, we are all smart at some stuff and stupid at other things. And of course...we all think that we are smarter than everybody else. Later, Ryan |
04/24/01 02:05:18 PM | |
Name: | Owen |
Comments: | Well done man! just when i was warmed uop and playing well after an hour today my bro told me to leave his room.... :( DAMN IT i hate when that happens....! |
04/24/01 09:26:23 AM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
Comments: | Damn, Dan.... Looks like you've really shaken me off this time ;) Congratulations and I'd really like to see that video. |
04/24/01 07:28:40 AM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Best expert: | 54 |
Best intermediate: | 16 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | 54!!! Yeah, baby! After trying to complete a sub-55 expert game for several months and coming very close countless times, I just got a 54. I'm confident I can beat that eventually, but if I never play another game of minesweeper again, I will feel satisfied. I do have the game on video, so anyone who wants it can email me. |
04/23/01 11:58:10 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 69 |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Thanks for your help Lance :) Hard luck Dan :( |
04/23/01 09:25:43 AM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Best expert: | 57 |
Best intermediate: | 16 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | I was at 54 seconds during an expert game yesterday when I thought I clicked the final square. Unfortunately, there were 2 squares on the other side of the board I forgot to clear, and it took me about 6 seconds to find them. On a brighter note, I did get another 58. |
04/23/01 05:49:47 AM | |
Name: | June Cutright |
Comments: | I am glad you didn't hesitate too much!! (And I am not a Calvinist.) |
04/22/01 06:18:14 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
Comments: | I'm a little hesitant to write this, because I don't want to step on any toes, but... Is it really necessary to bring up that "minesweepers are geniuses"-issue all the time? We already had that whole IQ discussion a while back... I doubt that telling each other our SAT's contributes anything new. Do we really have to tell ourselves how intelligent we are? It would seem to me that a truly intelligent person doesn't feel the need to have his intelligence confirmed all the time. But maybe that's just the Calvinist nature of my people speaking, I don't know... |
04/22/01 04:43:16 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | Wow, Joe thats pretty high. Most minesweepers ARE geniuses, so Im pretty sure that we could all get 1400+. I took the PSAT at 1360 |
04/22/01 04:16:29 PM | |
Name: | Joe Nuss |
Best expert: | 1480 |
Comments: | oh hold up....you meant best minesweeper scores, not SAT scores :) lets see if there's a common trend of high SAT scores and low minesweeper scores. what are everybody's? |
04/22/01 03:34:06 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Best intermediate: | 17 (4 times!) |
Comments: | ARGH! Got my 4th 17 today. I missed one square right off the bat and spent the last second searching for it. Agonizing video.... That's wierd because I have four 17's, nine 19's, but only one lonely 18. Seems odd. |
04/22/01 02:38:34 PM | |
Name: | Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: | 75 |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Owen, It's probably your computer that's not fast enough. I have a compaq PII 300mHz w/ 128 meg RAM, and a high end video card, and Camtasia runs pretty slowly. However, I do suggest going to the "Camtasia Help Page" on the front page of this site. It includes a pretty helpful response that I got from the Camtasia help guys. Take a look. It didn't make mine run perfect, but it made it work a lot better. Hope that helps! Lance |
04/22/01 01:33:07 PM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 69 |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Just a quickie to let you all know that i just beat my Intermediate record a few mins ago ... i was playing for around an hour.... I got screen shot. my pc is too slow i think for camatasia - its a 300 processor and 64 ram... maybe i just set it up wrong. does anyone know if its me or my pc that's wrong? |
04/22/01 01:21:36 PM | |
Name: | Erin |
Best expert: | 84 |
Best intermediate: | 28 |
Best beginner: | 1 |
Comments: | MineSweeper RULES! |
04/22/01 11:41:44 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 69 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Hi all... Matt... what do you want me to say in my profile for sub 20 people? Whatever I want?! When i came to this site over a month ago.. around 2 months ago my scores added up to 104 and i strived to get on the scoreboard of Top 45 PLayers. Since then i have managed to lower it down to 90. it's pretty unlucky i came at the time of Damien's kidnapping cause i haven't seen the page been updated yet! i know it's not his fault...... a bit disappointing though after i did so well in beating my scores... ah well... what can I say? :( |
04/22/01 08:32:08 AM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | I started a new account for the intermediate hall of fame site I'll be putting up in the next month or two. Dont send anything to my old account, and if you do, it's not my fault if you get a nasty letter back (hacker). If you go to my site now, you'll see an error message that is really stupid, because if you couldnt connect to the server, then why does the banner still pop up? Luckily, I copied all the profiles I had up there into text documents for easy copying onto another site. Im not sure if I had any profiles sent to me that I didnt copy. So if your name isn't Cros, Votroubek, Schouten, Kerry, Klein, Peters, or Nuss, and you sent a profile to me, re-send it to to: inthalloffame@yahoo.com I know Im not going to be able to get profiles from all the people on the list that have sub-20'd, but I would like to get ones from all the web-active people. This includes Damien, Dan C., David B., Lanyje, Pascal de G., Stubbe, and anyone who sub-20's from now on. Come on people, send me your profiles and a screenshot of your best int. game. |
04/21/01 01:49:42 PM | |
Name: | Dean Smith |
Best expert: | 99 |
Best intermediate: | 28 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Cheers David. Much appreciated.Can't believe I never saw that before though! |
04/21/01 01:33:50 PM | |
Name: | T. F. M. |
Comments: | Damien's account filled up but he fixed that by sending his old mails to some extra accounts he created to fix the problem, so thefinerminer@hotmail.com works now...keep sending them in. |
04/21/01 12:18:21 PM | |
Name: | Paul Kerry |
Comments: | As Damien can't get to his computer, he can't check his mail, and as he can't check it, he can't clear it out. I dare say that his hotmail account is full, thus causing all messages sent to it, to bounce. So, mailing him is going to be difficult (unless you have another address for him - however, he'd still not reply). Your best bet, is just to wait until he's back on the scene. |
04/21/01 11:44:00 AM | |
Name: | patrick klein |
Best expert: | 61 |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Hey, what is Damean's email page, because I tried emailing him at thefinerminer@hotmail.com and it wasn't working. I got an automatic email back saying that my email wasn't sent. |
04/21/01 10:09:36 AM | |
Name: | David Barry |
Comments: | Dean, go to Game, click on Marks (?). The tick beside it should disappear, and you are left with no question marks. |
04/21/01 09:20:19 AM | |
Name: | Dean Smith |
Best expert: | 99 |
Best intermediate: | 28 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Hi y'all, I have a problem with Minesweeper and since this is the main minesweeper site, surely one of you guys can help me. Well the problem is, does anyone know how to disable the question mark function? Because it always hampers me in my bid to get low times as I often convert a flag into a question mark by mistake. Hence I then have to click 2 more times to get back to the flag and loses many seconds. A solution to this would be much appreciated. Thanks. |
04/21/01 04:37:16 AM | |
Name: | Paul Kerry |
Comments: | Owen, Damien doesn't have much/any access to a computer right now, so things like updating the site and reading his own emails are rather hard! |
04/20/01 06:38:33 AM | |
Name: | Anonymous Surfer |
Comments: | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
04/20/01 03:56:21 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 69 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | HI all. I just got an 8 square for the first time ever in my expert game yesterday. i was playing in cian and corm's house at the time... i can't play anymore really cause my brother is home more oftan these days. ... when is damien updating the page? |
04/19/01 10:20:44 PM | |
Name: | David Barry |
Comments: | Lance: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minesweeper-addicts The URL has changed since it first started... you will probably have to go through a conversion process with your e-groups ID to a Yahoo one if you want to post anything. |
04/19/01 07:19:25 PM | |
Name: | Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: | 75 |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Hello everyone. I seem to have forgotten what the address of that minesweeper addicts site is. I would like to see some of the things people post there, since the last time I checked it. If someone could post it here, that'd be great! Thanks so much! Lance |
04/19/01 06:00:19 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | Thanks dan, that little bit about "first-person shooters" gave away who it was to me. I am still probably going to relocate the site to another more secure domain. Ill let you know. |
04/19/01 03:01:57 PM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Comments: | Hey Matt, the guy controlling your Yahoo account is making posts to the minesweeper-addicts group site. I left a post telling everyone to ignore that person. |
04/19/01 12:10:01 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | And yeah, Joe,..."Intermediate Hall of Fame" sounds much better than "Intermediate Profiles" I'll change it whenever. |
04/19/01 11:44:10 AM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | Sorry joe, someone has taken over my webpage and my email so I am busy trying to get them back. Send your profile to maginl@lycos.com and I'll post it as soon as I get my damn site back. Please ignore everything on my website. However the videos, playing essay and the rants are still there, but ignore everything else, and dont visit it, please. |
04/18/01 08:44:54 PM | |
Name: | Joe Nuss |
Best expert: | 83 |
Best intermediate: | 19!!!!!!!!! |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | matt, im ready for my profile on the inermediate hall of fame :) |
04/18/01 03:23:55 PM | |
Name: | Jo-Han |
Comments: | I thought I was good in minesweeper until I visited this site. Now I feel like a total beginner! Any help I can get? |
04/18/01 09:17:57 AM | |
Name: | Lance Votroubek |
Comments: | I'm ready for an update. |
04/18/01 12:17:22 AM | |
Name: | Khor Eng Tat |
Comments: | Geniuses seem to be too generous a word to describe us sad people, though i do kind of like the sound of it, hehe. But it is kind of funny that many (if not most) of us are mathematicians, computer scientists/programmers, engineers, etc. Perhaps more than a coincidence, but then, come to think of it, maybe the reason is because we are the people that use the computer almost everyday of our lives and therefore having a higher chance to fiddling around with the games Windows provide and eventually stumbling upon the all-so-famous minesweeper |
04/17/01 04:28:37 PM | |
Name: | matt mcginley |
Comments: | I thinkintelligence has a pretty good deal to do with playing, not necesarrily the actusal playing, but getting into it in the first place. I have some frineds who are are of, well let's say, "below-average" intelligence who tried to play the game and they just didn't get it, they thought that it was stupid because they couldnt figure out what all those damn numbers mean!!!! I tried to explain it to them but they just said, "Well, that's stupid, who would take the time to figure that out?" So yes, I think that intelligence and how quickly you can grasp and deal with numbers has a great deal to do with whther or not you get involved in minesweeper...and have you noticed that most of the web-active, probably the other minesweepers are all geniuses? Some are members of Mensa and whatnot....this is a smart group here. |
04/17/01 12:06:57 PM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 69 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Hello again! cormac my friend got and captured on video his record beating 79 on vid today. him and cian are brothers and share the computer for records..... i jussed messed up my first game of today game - going on one mine a second for the rest of the game - that's how i usually get my approxinmations of how i would have done - it added up to 80.. but i would have continued to go quicker than that.. could have beaten my record possily? that's all folks! |
04/16/01 02:06:43 PM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 69 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | My friend Cian bea his expert by 7 seconds today - he is also Irish by the way.... I think we are the first Irish at this site! his records are 3-27-78 His bro corm's are 2-24-85 Mine are 2-19-69 We're all Irish!! And finally to that female miner... who are you? why don't you have your name down? Intelligence has little to do with it i think... but what i said i true i also think! Bye all. have fun sweeping but don't go overboard and play all night or anything like that.. only if you are enjoying it should u play..... |