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| 06/25/01 11:32:49 PM | |
| Name: | Georgi Kermekchiev |
| Best expert: | 93 |
| Best intermediate: | 26 |
| Best beginner: | 4 |
| Comments: | Once again the 'MouseCount' link - http://home.pacbell.net/slish/MouseCount.zip I make now average of 150 000 clicks a week ... but I because I work, I have no more than 1-2 hours a day for sweeping :-) |
| 06/25/01 10:19:11 PM | |
| Name: | David Barry |
| Comments: | I'm only averaging about 800 000 clicks per month... I guess that is reinforcing the notion that I'm not playing enough. Although I have got 9 sub 60's in the past two days; not quite Lanyje, but a turn for the better nonetheless. |
| 06/25/01 07:06:05 PM | |
| Name: | Marc Schouten |
| Comments: | On its way |
| 06/25/01 06:57:24 PM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Comments: | Can you send that to me marc? That click-counter? |
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| 06/25/01 06:49:51 PM | |
| Name: | Marc Schouten |
| Comments: | The truly fast are truly obsessed with this game. I've installed that mouseclick-count program that someone mentioned a while back and I've found out that I have almost 1 million clicks per month... Getting really fast times is all about conditioning yourself for the times really great boards come along. And the only way to this is by playing a *lot* of games. |
| 06/25/01 05:08:43 PM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Best expert: | 72 |
| Best intermediate: | 14 On a very fast board |
| Best beginner: | 1 Well, yeah, fast board...... |
| Comments: | Not at all Dean, The truely fast have been playing for a long time and therefore have ample opportunities to get good boards. The more you play, the better boards you get, the faster you become....Keep with it. |
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| 06/25/01 03:06:41 PM | |
| Name: | Dean Smith |
| Best expert: | 76 |
| Best intermediate: | 25 still |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | Well I have managed to screw up 3 golden sub sub-25 opportunities in recent times and it's beginning to get at me now. Just when will I get a half decent inter score?! Oh you probably know this already Matt but did you notice that your video of that missed 13 board is exactly the same as Marc Schouten's missed 15 ? Weird huh how the truly fast seem to get the nice boards. Suppose you make your own luck! |
| 06/25/01 12:53:47 PM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | Yeah you're right Kimmo, I'm sorry to say my Finnish isn't very good, although my Uzbekish and Polish is getting better and better. |
| 06/25/01 10:47:43 AM | |
| Name: | Kimmo |
| Best expert: | 88 |
| Best intermediate: | 26 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | Roelof, are you saying that you don't speak Finnish? I got another 88 today. |
| 06/25/01 09:50:22 AM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | Yes Sami, you can say that again! |
| 06/25/01 01:33:01 AM | |
| Name: | Sami Silto |
| Best expert: | 81 |
| Best intermediate: | 22 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | Way to go Kimmo. Mullakin on ollut kauhea putki päällä. Tuntuu, että alle 80 vaativa on niiiiiiiin lähellä, että heikottaa. Tein juuri uuden ennätyksen keskitasolle 22 ja siinäkin uskon pystyväni alle 20:een jos vain töiltä kerkeäisi pelaamaan piru vie... |
| 06/24/01 04:20:42 PM | |
| Name: | Marc Schouten |
| Comments: | Cool link, that click-like-a-madman-game. I've got all my friends playing ;) Got 62. But how about a few variations: 98 (One enter-button) 164 (two enter-buttons) 251 (holding one enter-button depressed ;)) |
| 06/24/01 01:53:26 PM | |
| Name: | Kimmo |
| Best expert: | 88 |
| Comments: | Damn! I got 89, 90 and 2x91. I Have to play more...I must get a new record! |
| 06/24/01 11:00:45 AM | |
| Name: | Matt McGinley |
| Best expert: | 72 |
| Best intermediate: | 14 |
| Best beginner: | 1 |
| Comments: | I think that opticals are really the best buy in mice today. However, my dad screwed something up on my computer so now the cursor is just as jerky as a regular roller-ball. Do you guys think that has something to do with the f/s on my PC? Do you know of any way to change it? My Intellimouse used to be perfectly smooth across the screen with absolutely no interference from the screens refreshing or whatever, but now it's jerky and hard to see. |
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| 06/24/01 10:38:01 AM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | You're right Stubbe, just got 50. I don't use an optical mouse Neil, I'm quite happy with my rollerball-mouse. |
| 06/24/01 10:01:54 AM | |
| Name: | Neil Collins |
| Best expert: | 52 |
| Best intermediate: | 18 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | just wondered how many players are using optical mice. might have to change the acceleration a little, but it stops you from having to clean |
| 06/24/01 09:07:32 AM | |
| Name: | Stubbe Bak Rasmussen |
| Comments: | Nice link Poul. The trick is to move the mouse pointer while clicking. I just got 65 clicks. I didn't use camtasia though ;) |
| 06/24/01 08:27:32 AM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | I got 35 clicks, but I agree with David that loads of them didn't get registered |
| 06/24/01 08:03:28 AM | |
| Name: | David Barry |
| Comments: | I got 40 clicks in 10 seconds, but lots of them didn't get registered... oh well. Perhaps not quite as addictive as Minesweeper :) . |
| 06/24/01 07:26:49 AM | |
| Name: | Paul Kerry |
| Comments: | An almost relavent link.... Its even more addictive than Minesweeper, let me tell you. |
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| 06/24/01 01:33:48 AM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Best expert: | still 82 |
| Comments: | so close... I have the time and facilities to play again and yesterday I got 82 three times. Today I fucked up a 75 or so with just a few clickes to go. good luck, Roelof |
| 06/23/01 10:55:46 PM | |
| Name: | David Barry |
| Comments: | On misclicking... I am very much out of form at the moment (mainly because I'm playing less than half an hour a day, though I hope to change that soon), I am misclicking more often than I can ever remember, mostly when I overrun squares while flagging, so I have to go back and right-click again... The funny thing is, every now and then I still get a good time (sub 57), so hopefully I will get more consistency soon. |
| 06/23/01 01:43:08 PM | |
| Name: | Dan Cerveny |
| Comments: | Owen, I misclick so much that I rarely finish any games. It seems to be a bit worse lately, but I think that is because I've been playing extra fast. If I can just finish some games I know I can break 50. I've had 5-10 good shots at sub 50, but I've messed them all up. All I can do is keep playing and I'll eventually finish one of the real fast games. |
| 06/23/01 12:45:25 PM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Best expert: | 69 |
| Best intermediate: | 17 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | I'm happy that my three scores add up to 88 but i'd really like to beat my expert soon. i've had so many close games to beating it and ones where i lost on 50-50s where i ould have beaten it too.... i feel hard done by! Dan - how much do you misclick though? i got 19 in int yesterday. my 8th sub 20 |
| 06/23/01 12:01:24 PM | |
| Name: | Paul Kerry |
| Comments: | Lasse, you realise that if you can find another two seconds, you'll be sub-60 in total ^_^ |
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| 06/23/01 10:58:57 AM | |
| Name: | Lasse Nyholm |
| Best expert: | 44 |
| Best intermediate: | 15 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | So, I've knocked off a second more of my total-time. I played an hour on beginner before I got my new record on 2secs - my old record on 3 had lasted 9 months. Have fun - Lanyje |
| 06/23/01 09:15:28 AM | |
| Name: | Dean Smith |
| Best expert: | was 85 |
| Best intermediate: | 25 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | Hey guys I'm so psyched up at the moment as I just beat my expert record. I've found that when I've gone beyond my record, I tend to smash it! Anyway in one fell swoop I've knocked 9 seconds off to 76 now. I can't believe I'm in the 70's now when a month or so ago, I wouldn't have believed it was possible. By the ways, congrats to Lasse on his world record. 44 seconds is literally unbelievable and he is now the undisputed best sweeper in the world. |
| 06/23/01 08:29:52 AM | |
| Name: | Neil Collins |
| Best expert: | 52 |
| Best intermediate: | 18 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | beat both my beginner and expert scores this week. equalled intermediate once, but can't seem to get any lower than 21 regularly. it's really bugging me. i can't believe 44. i suppose it's just the board, although to have almost 2000 sub-60's. i can't believe that ;P |
| 06/22/01 10:14:30 AM | |
| Name: | Dan Cerveny |
| Best expert: | 54 |
| Best intermediate: | 15 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | Owen, I misclick during almost every game. |
| 06/22/01 10:08:57 AM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Comments: | I can't beat 69 beacuse i keep misclicking alot. It's so frustrating cause your mind is aheah of you nearly all the time then. Just a while back i was doing great but now i've returned to my regualr misclicking. it's so hard to get out of. Well done Matt- i think you have overteken me in the top 45 players list now.. And well donw Khor and everyone else who beat their records.... especially the current and lasting WOrld Reord holder. i'm still astounded.... |
| 06/21/01 08:53:23 PM | |
| Name: | Annemarie |
| Best expert: | 169 |
| Best intermediate: | 49 |
| Best beginner: | 7 |
| Comments: | Wow!! I have been addicted to minesweeper for 7 years (at work). I have kept my addiction very secret, and don't know of anyone else who plays the game. I thought I was the only person in the world who did this, and thought I was very sick. However, I kept improving my scores and thought I was absolutely brilliant when I got below 200 in expert! Then I noticed this web site last week - well! My hopes and dreams are shattered - nah just kidding. This site is wonderful and it seems every other minesweeper thinks and plays similar to me. Keep up the good scores everyone! Nice to meet you all. |
| 06/21/01 02:28:48 PM | |
| Name: | Andrew Washburn |
| Comments: | oh yeah, forgot to say, i finished a game on wahnsinn mode on minesweeper league version or whatever its called |
| 06/21/01 02:25:38 PM | |
| Name: | Andrew Washburn |
| Best expert: | 74 |
| Best intermediate: | 18 |
| Best beginner: | 4 |
| Comments: | all right todd, but just how old are you? mind you, i've still got one more year of high school, with which to better my running. my 18th bday was yesterday |
| 06/21/01 12:57:38 PM | |
| Name: | Matt McGinley |
| Best expert: | 72 |
| Comments: | I was nervous and jumpy the whole time which probably slowed me down 3 seconds..... *sigh... |
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| 06/21/01 08:46:40 AM | |
| Name: | Khor Eng Tat |
| Best expert: | 66 |
| Best intermediate: | 19 |
| Best beginner: | 1 |
| Comments: | Yes! Finally managed to break 20! Gosh, it must've been like a year or so since I've
improved any of my records. My personal life objective in Minesweeper is to get a 1 or 2 in Beg, sub-20 for inter, and sub-60 for expert. So now only one more to go - Expert. Since I'm less dedicated as I was before, Lasse's record is definitely out of my league. Even if I do chase that record, by the time I get there, it's probably gone down to less than 40. It's too tiring. I'm so glad about this 19. For the past 1 year, I've hardly had a chance to play at all. And whenever I do, it's not at the comfort of my own favourite mouse and mouse pad at home. After that long layoff, recently I tried to play more, and I had to struggle to sub-30 and sub-100! It's so depressing misclicking all the time, or just not knowing how to click anymore. Now I'm averaging about 26 and 80's, so I'm getting back to my old form. But it's so difficult. I just hope to break 60, then that's it. I can retire peacefully. As for someone getting a 39, yes, it's definitely possible. Not to put down other sweepers, but statistically speaking, I think Lanye will be the first person to bring it below 40. Think about it, he's now gone further, even before we've had a chance to get closer! |
| 06/21/01 04:58:13 AM | |
| Name: | Lasse Nyholm |
| Best expert: | 44 |
| Best intermediate: | 15 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | Thanks everybody. About flagging: I try to flag less, and I think there was like 15-20 unmarked mines on my new record-board - there was a very nice corner upper-right that didn't need flags and some other areas aswell, as I recall. I think my flag-tecnique is what keeps me from a better inter-score - my flagging is just too irrational. About 39 on expert: It's probably not impossible, but I don't think I can do it anytime soon. It takes a lot of played games before the really friendly ones show up, and I don't know if I will try that hard - I feel it's time for a vacation - I think I've been playing for 4-6 hours/day the last few weeks, and I might relax a little now. Matt: The milestones-section would be nice - I will soon have reached a new - 2000 sub-60s (600 the last month). Thanks again guys (and female surfer?! - do you have a name?) - bye - Lasse |
| 06/21/01 04:39:01 AM | |
| Name: | Female Surfer |
| Comments: | 44!! is it true?? i finish less than quarter of a board when the time is 44. COngrats lasse!! Thx damien. I recd Sriram's mail. |
| 06/21/01 03:59:08 AM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Best expert: | 82 |
| Best intermediate: | 21 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | I started playing minesweeper in November 2000. When do you guys think I'll beat the world record? |
| 06/21/01 03:31:24 AM | |
| Name: | Dan Barnett |
| Best expert: | 170 |
| Best intermediate: | 57 |
| Best beginner: | 9 |
| Comments: | Hey everyone, I've just discovered this website, coz I've become totally addicted to minesweeper! As you can see my scores are pathetic compared to all of yours, but oh well! I'm only 17, so I have plenty of years left to get better! lol! Hopefully I'll be able to use some of the tips given on the website :-) Cheers |
| 06/20/01 11:14:57 PM | |
| Name: | Joe Nuss |
| Comments: | damn. 44. as matt said, do you think you can do 39? i think that would be truly amazing. wow. matt, i think 100+ 3's would be better than 1000+ 4's. everything else is down diggity. |
| 06/20/01 10:36:56 PM | |
| Name: | David Barry |
| Comments: | 44 is just unbelievable... I really don't know what to say, my prediction of 45 being the record in 2004 has already gone down the drain. Surely the record couldn't go any lower now, not for another year or two at least. Congrats, Lasse, and hopefully in five years or so I will almost have caught up with you. One question though, do you still mark 90+ mines on Expert? Having watched your videos, I reckon that you could perhaps get quicker by marking, say 5 less mines. Just my thoughts. |
| 06/20/01 06:06:29 PM | |
| Name: | Matt McGinley |
| Comments: | Im posting a lot here...but I have some good news. No new records or anything but I got 4 sub-20's tonight, a new best for me. My totals for today are 17x2, 19x2, 21x2, 22x3, 23x4 Yes, one of those 17's was changing from 16 just as I looked up at the timer. I think my post got nudged down after Lasse posted, but scroll down there anyway and read it, the one before Lasse's...comment please. |
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| 06/20/01 02:03:00 PM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Comments: | Heh heh, good luck Sriram, you're going to need it.... Do you think 39 is possible Lanyje? |
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| 06/20/01 01:39:30 PM | |
| Name: | Srirsm |
| Best expert: | 49 |
| Best intermediate: | 14 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | Wow, Lasse, This is the first time i am putting something up in the guestbook. Its just amazing!!! Are you gonna permit me to enjoy my holidays!!! you won't would you. As a safety measure, i have taken my mouse and pad with me to India. I am gonna play like hell now!! Good job lasse!!!! Your target is really really steep. But, yet all of us (miners) hope to achieve it soon. Regards P.S - good job damien on your 13. I have both Damien and Lasse now in my hands. Who should I target first???????? |
| 06/20/01 12:52:36 PM | |
| Name: | Manu |
| Comments: | How is it possible ??????????????? |
| 06/20/01 12:45:31 PM | |
| Name: | Dan Cerveny |
| Comments: | Holy cow, Lanyje! 44 is amazing. I think you might have just permanently inked your name as the world record holder. |
| 06/20/01 12:34:28 PM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | CONGRATS Lanyje! Just -as Owen said- amazing |
| 06/20/01 12:02:44 PM | |
| Name: | Owen Fox |
| Best expert: | 69 |
| Best intermediate: | 17 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | OH MY GOD!!!!! ARGHH 44! Ican't believe it Lasse. That is just AMAZING! That's a new world record..... And by 3 seconds. I thought that if you beat it it would probably be by 1 sec, 2 if very lucky... Well done. I can't really imagine how u feel but i'd say it's ..well.. ecstatic! I've failed to beat my record. the beast i managed today was an 80 :( |
| 06/20/01 11:09:01 AM | |
| Name: | Lasse Nyholm |
| Best expert: | 44 |
| Comments: | Finally a new record - and a big leap of 3 seconds again! After a nice bikeride I went home for some sweeping. After 30 minutes I was on sub-50-pace and 10 minutes later I got a beautiful board that played itself. After 25 secs I was sure I'd get a new record if I could just finish, and the last part of the board was easy and without any guessing - 44 seconds!!! I decided earlier today that I would either get my sub-60 number 2000 or I'd break my record. The first of them would force me to get 75 sub-60s in a day, so it was easier to break my expert-score and I feel ecstatic! Have a nice day everybody - I have - Lanyje |
| 06/20/01 05:59:50 AM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Comments: | What do you guys think about a milestones section for my page? Here's what Im looking at: Listing the sweepers who have reached significant milestones in minesweeper...These could be: Expert sub-50- 100+ sub-60's- 100+ sub-20's- 1,000+ 4's (maybe)- The exp. and int. suggestions are reasonable, but Im still debating whether 1,000 beginer 4's is a significant milestone... Well, e-mail me if you have any ideas, any more milestones I missed, or just post something here. Thanks for the input. |
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| 06/20/01 04:58:25 AM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Comments: | Yeah, seriously...Enough with those track times. |
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| 06/20/01 03:58:52 AM | |
| Name: | Marc Schouten |
| Comments: | Maybe he's too busy processing all the athletics times posted.... |
| 06/19/01 03:43:09 PM | |
| Name: | Todd Cesere |
| Comments: | By the way, the preview function doesn't really show me what my post will look like. The space above this one does not appear. Plus, why isn't Damien updating the freaking high score list! I want to be on it! |
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| 06/19/01 03:41:25 PM | |
| Name: | Todd Cesere |
| Best expert: | 96 |
| Comments: | I read that Andrew Washburn post and decided to list my best times, mostly since they are slightly better than his. 2:07 for the 800 5:00 for the 1600 (never ran a 1500) 17:30 for 5 kilometers cross country (never ran it on hard ground) also, that 400 time for the classmate is insane my best 400 is 53.something in fact, his 400 is at a faster average speed than my best 100 which is just under 12. Here are a couple others just for the heck of it. 38:15 for the 10k 1:01:30 for the 15k |
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| 06/19/01 10:13:57 AM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Comments: | Easily! My form in my first two days of sweeping in exp after my break has declined and now i struggle a little to get low 70s. STILL - I'm improving and am going to beat my record soon I'd say. :) I hope so. Bye all. Andrew, A guy at my old school came 3rd in Ireland at the 1500m.. He goes to my local athletics club which i'll be going to in less than an hour. |
| 06/19/01 10:07:20 AM | |
| Name: | Marc Schouten |
| Comments: | I'm guessing Michael Johnson might be able to beat that... |
| 06/19/01 10:04:58 AM | |
| Name: | Andrew Washburn |
| Best expert: | 72 |
| Best intermediate: | 18 |
| Best beginner: | 4 |
| Comments: | what the hell is an algorithm anyway? i can't sweep anymore until i get my comp back. this one doesn't have minesweeper. speaking of track, theres a guy at my school (who's a junior like me by the way...well now he's a senior since school got out)who did the 400 in 46.7 and that is not a typo, track runners among us. (46.7 seconds) A 16-year old guy at my school did that. anyone match that feat? |
| 06/19/01 08:52:39 AM | |
| Name: | Dan Cerveny |
| Best expert: | 54 |
| Best intermediate: | 15 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | It appears the world record pages have been partially updated. |
| 06/19/01 07:59:05 AM | |
| Name: | Stubbe Bak Rasmussen |
| Best expert: | 60 |
| Best intermediate: | 19 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | My sweeping hasn't been well the past couple of months and this morning it didn't look promising at all. But after ending a couple of games in the high 70's I took a break to clean my mouse. Nothing special about that, since I clean it at least twice a week. But after cleaning it I did go a lot faster, but for some reason I started to get unlucky when guessing. The worst case of this today was guessing wrong with two mines left in four corner-squares...the clock ended on 59 and would have been max. 60 had I completed it. Since then I've only finished two games, both 63 sec's. |
| 06/18/01 10:56:31 PM | |
| Name: | Female Surfer |
| Comments: | Sorry, i have been very late. Who is the best between Lasse, Sriram, Damien and David? All of them seen to be equally matched. Is Sriram the only competitive Indian in this sport? See ya guys |
| 06/18/01 01:24:04 AM | |
| Name: | Khor Eng Tat |
| Comments: | I've played on a Mac version of Minesweeper some few years ago. I remembered that it was quite good (not sure if it's the official Microsoft Minesweeper or not). But one major problem : Mac mouse (mice) have only one button. So to emulate a right-click, u need to hold down the Alt or Ctrl (can't remember which) button when u click. |
| 06/17/01 09:22:13 PM | |
| Name: | Lance Votroubek |
| Best expert: | 73 |
| Best intermediate: | 18 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | Hey Owen, I think you might hear some people tell you that they warm up for a few mins on intermediate before going to expert. Myself, (although you have better times than I - for the moment ;-)) I just play expert and keep plugging away. I get some of my best times within the first 5-10 mins of playing, and usually don't approach them again until the end of the night. Lance |
| 06/17/01 11:40:47 AM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Best expert: | 69 still |
| Best intermediate: | 17 now |
| Best beginner: | 2 as usual |
| Comments: | HI all. I just played 4 hours of tennis today after going for a nearly 6 mile run. Now I'm WRecKed! I know Sriram likes tennis and is deadly at it... Andrew, I have only begun to run. Here are my records so far. 800m : 2:19.9 1500 : 5 mins approx 5 mile : 37:45 And about minesweeper - I need advice... After a week of expert playing I have somehow managed to be wasy better than before. Yesterday i got 74 and 70 and 75. Today i got 77 and lost on a 50 50 on 66. Should i continue to play exp relentlessly or mix it in with int? I want to beat my exp record.. |
| 06/17/01 09:59:18 AM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | All that matters is that she's female |
| 06/17/01 05:27:48 AM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Comments: | No, it was her "name" was "Female Surfer"...It was a really bad pun.... |
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| 06/16/01 11:17:18 PM | |
| Name: | David Barry |
| Comments: | Matt, if it was that comment about surfing in India... I would say that is in pretty bad taste. Technology is expanding very rapidly in that country... take a look at Silicon Valley as well. |
| 06/16/01 05:19:10 PM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Best expert: | 77 |
| Best intermediate: | 14 |
| Best beginner: | 1 |
| Comments: | Yeah, Phil, I remember seeing a mac version on one of the german download sites. Other than that Im not sure. Ryan, I dont know if you got my letter, but Id love some contribution to my site. I beat my expert time at 8AM in the morning just after I woke up and not one minute into playing after a day-long break. This has fully convinced me that 69 will be quite easy for me. I try to play expert, but it's so boring...I guess I justhave a fetish for intermediate ;0 Oh, and about the "female surfer". it seemslike nobody got my joke, but Im not going to explain it.... |
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| 06/16/01 05:12:43 PM | |
| Name: | Phil McCanna |
| Best expert: | 1 |
| Best intermediate: | 1 |
| Best beginner: | 1 |
| Comments: | wuhoo, booyah 1 each ;). does anybody know if there is a mac version? I want to play! |
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| 06/16/01 04:58:53 PM | |
| Name: | Joe Nuss |
| Comments: | andrew's funny. i do the 100 in 11.4, to throw my hat into the ring. |
| 06/16/01 12:57:25 PM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | Well, I don't play minesweeper very much these days, but I'll keep on visiting this site... I like female surfers! |
| 06/16/01 09:14:57 AM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Comments: | So "mystery girl" you say you like surfing? How is that in India? |
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| 06/16/01 08:05:17 AM | |
| Name: | Female Surfer |
| Comments: | I am from Mumbai, a state in India. I play a bit of minesweeper but not regularly. I like dancing, playing tennis, watching cricket, playing chess. gtg now, shall come back later. mystery girl |
| 06/16/01 05:37:40 AM | |
| Name: | Andrew Washburn |
| Best expert: | 72 |
| Best intermediate: | 18 |
| Best beginner: | 4 |
| Comments: | My Computer (with my highscores and screenshots) got fried the other day. NOOOOO! I need my precious screenshots, they prove my accomplishments. Why, oh why, didn't I save them onto a disk?? Oh well. Owen, my athletics times are: 2:09 for the 800 4:45 for the 1500 17:47 for 5 kilometers. Sorry if I offended anyone who doesn't do any sports and likes a nonathletic sanctuary. Please forgive me if I'd rather go out for a run to reflect on the day's events and future possibilities than study complex mathematical algorithms that make minesweeper what it is for hours on end. Peace out |
| 06/15/01 11:07:07 PM | |
| Name: | David Barry |
| Comments: | Ryan, just a couple of things.... I would consider an "easy" board one that is solved with fewer clicks than a "difficult" board, nothing to do with conceptualising or whatever. Also, at the end of the female surfer's message was "PS These are not my scores" or something like that. (I think, anyway, I haven't bothered to check.) What sort of notes are you taking with regards to everything? You mentioned the first click... You have the best chance of getting a zero-square by clicking on the corners. I don't know if I will ever stop clicking from the middle though. |
| 06/15/01 07:05:29 PM | |
| Name: | Ryan Peckyno |
| Best expert: | low 80s |
| Best intermediate: | low 20s |
| Best beginner: | 2 s |
| Comments: | TOO LONG...GOT CUT OFF I'll eventually check the post section. Time is relative after all (ok, not funny). I haven't decided what I want to do with my NP/P complete notes yet though. Just let me know though because I'm not sure how bored I'm going to get here. Right now I've been on vacation for almost 2 weeks and now I'm almost bored. I've been golfing every day, exercised every day, read every day, watched several movies, gone out every weekend...I guess that I just get bored easy. Plus, there are about 15 hrs. in a day we could use to do stuff. I just like to try to do a lot in a day I guess (of stuff that I want to do that is). 3. "Female Surfer"...identify yourself chick. 3/14/50??? All have been done already (probably one of the reasons why I ain't that motivated to try to do it)...though I personally have not played minesweeper "a lot"...i.e. several people here probably have more 3 second games than I have games played. I'm just kidding here...actually I am really a "gentlemen"...sort of. It is just strange...i.e. right now I am actually sick of meeting dumb, hot females. I just can't seem to find many smart, intereting females. Just the hot, dumb ones. My friends tell me that it is a strange problem to have. Marc probably doesn't care about any of this...but I had to add some stuff so that I could beat Owen's record for the longest post. Bye, I am leaving the house now. |
| 06/15/01 07:03:29 PM | |
| Name: | Ryan Peckyno |
| Best expert: | low 80s |
| Best intermediate: | low 20s |
| Best beginner: | 2 s |
| Comments: | Ok, I haven't posted (or read posts) for quite some time....but for one reason or another I decided to check this page out again. On the same note, I haven't played this game for about 6 months...and don't really care to. The marginal gains are greater elsewhere. I was really interested in this game but I have since answered the majority of my questions. I'm going to make some random comments on some of the posts.... 1. Someone said something about "difficult" boards. This is ironic because often times the boards that are very easy to see (not conceptually difficult) are the boards that require the most clicks and yield the slowest times. Whereas, often times, the more conceptually difficult boards require fewer (or there is potential increase in efficiency at least) clicks. Often times it is "hard" to get a fast time on an "easy" board, while it is "easy" to get a fast time on a "hard" board. 2. One thing that I do remember is noticing this whole "timer" deal a while ago (months ago) and posting something about it. Well, I too ended up doing several experiments. I analyzed minesweeper inside and out. Actually, I was considering posting some of it on some web sites (I have about 40 pages of notes). I looked at...the applicability of minesweeper in development, relating the patterns to other mathematical patterns, the timer, the NP/P complete problem (majority of notes on), optimal strategies/strategies in general, the complex logic embedded in the game, the frequency of some boards, the significance of the initial clicks, why playing minesweeper is beneficial, and probably anything else that you can think of (though I didn't take notes on the "obvious stuff"). I guess that this was just more interesting than actually playing the game. Matt and anyone else who has a website...I might get motivated enough to want to contribute to your websites. Let me know if this is ok. I'll eventually check the post section. Time is relati |
| 06/15/01 01:52:01 PM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Best expert: | 69 |
| Best intermediate: | 17 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | OOPs! I forgot to tell you all what i got! 17 |
| 06/15/01 01:50:53 PM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Comments: | YES! Finally after nearly 2 months (It seems like so much longer ), I have beaten my int record of 18. I played it prefectly i'd say and i got the board on screenshot. I haven't seen it on any other screenshots or vids.... I just shouted out YES when i got it and as usual i started punhing the air for a few moments!! i now have 5 sub 20s. I got 19 previously today.. Matt - I'll e mail you screenshot and new profile. |
| 06/15/01 12:22:25 PM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Best expert: | 69 |
| Best intermediate: | 18 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | HI everyone - how are you all doing? I nearly beat my exp yesterday when i wrecked a game which would have led to about 68-70secs. As for int, i've gottne 3 20s yesterday too Paul - I wasn't begging.... I was just possibly expecting a congrats as many sweepers here at this site like athletics and are in inolved in running too as i am. Sorry guys if anyone took what i said in my last post as a complaint to you. I know loads of you aren't interested in athletics and that's ok. But it's still ok Paul to mention some other topic than purely minesweeper. No point in making a big deal about it actually..... What's Andrew Washburn's 1500m or 800m? record. My record is 1.40m in the long jump. 1.65 in deadly! I hope i can do better than that in the future!! |
| 06/15/01 05:44:05 AM | |
| Name: | Benny Benjamin |
| Best expert: | 80 |
| Best intermediate: | 23 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | Just broken my own Expert of 86s last week... by luck... still a long way to go...... |
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| 06/14/01 05:42:03 AM | |
| Name: | Paul Kerry |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | I'm perfectly calm. Also, at no point did I say people shouldn't discuss 'people'. However, anyone who chooses to do that has to realise that some (many?) people who come here could not care less. More than anything, I was hoping to explain why people didn't say/might not have said anything about Owens achievements, yes I was blunt, but begging for congratulations probably deserves that. Feel free to call me an insensitive jerk if you must ^_^ Incidently, I got 245 lines on Tetris the other day, which beats the record set by the creator of the particular clone... |
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| 06/14/01 02:13:26 AM | |
| Name: | Manu |
| Comments: | Well said ! |
| 06/14/01 12:04:51 AM | |
| Name: | Khor Eng Tat |
| Comments: | Aw, calm down mate. This IS a minesweeper site, but who says we can't talk a bit about PEOPLE who play minesweeper? Besides, it injects some "freshness" into our dead serious argument about the minesweeper timer. |
| 06/13/01 03:35:44 PM | |
| Name: | Paul Kerry |
| Best expert: | 63 |
| Comments: | Two points. Matt, I don't know how my post came across, but what I was talking about was minimizing a fresh game, and then maximising it to start the timer... the same thing you were looking at. I didn't know about the .5 second delay, I just noticed that there was never any timer skip. Incidently, I don't start all my games like that, practically none, its too much hassle. Owen, this is a guestbook on a Minesweeper site. I'll omit the obligatory rant, except to say that if I wanted to congratulate athletes, I'd send a letter to Jonathon Edwards, Denise Lewis, or maybe even Carl Lewis! |
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| 06/13/01 03:15:28 PM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Best intermediate: | 14 |
| Best beginner: | 1 |
| Comments: | Well, it seems on the dusk of my tedious essay on the flaws of the mines timer, another issue has been arisen. Paul Kerry mentioned that if you start a game that has been minimized after you pressed F2 or whatever, there is no timer jump....True, but the timer starts itself after you maximize. You can try for yourself. Press F2, minimize, then maximize and just let it sit there. You'll notice about a half-second delay before the clock starts...Intriguing, eh? This little experiment has led me to further deepen my beliefs in the mines clock running off the system clock. If you go through the procedure mentioned up there, then as soon as the window is maximized you click as fast as you can, you will probably sneak in before that 1 would have come up on its own and you will jump immediately to 2. This is some weird shee-ot, man... |
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| 06/13/01 12:29:43 PM | |
| Name: | Kimmo |
| Comments: | I mean I can't beat you YET. |
| 06/13/01 12:17:46 PM | |
| Name: | Kimmo |
| Best expert: | 88 |
| Best intermediate: | 29 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | I can't beat you in minesweeping, Owen, but my high jump record is 1.65m. So we both have to practice. |
| 06/13/01 12:00:11 PM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | OK Owen, I'm sorry. Congratulations! |
| 06/13/01 11:44:20 AM | |
| Name: | Manu |
| Best expert: | 68 |
| Best intermediate: | 16 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | Congratulations Owen ! ( Ask me if you want some more...;) ) Manu |
| 06/13/01 11:13:16 AM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Comments: | Isn't anyone else apart from ym friend Corm going to congratulate me on my Athletic achievement??! ;( Thanks for davids Lasse |
| 06/13/01 05:55:20 AM | |
| Name: | Dan Cerveny |
| Comments: | I am running Win2k. I ran Minesweeper 98 and 2k at the same time on my system and they ran in lockstep. The lag on my system is similar to many others, about 2-3 seconds per minute. |
| 06/12/01 01:04:42 PM | |
| Name: | Owen |
| Comments: | HI Lanjye - Could you send me any of your videos of 55 of less please so I can watch and learn.......! I'm only playing int nowadays as I couldn't beat my expert after weeks of trying. I know i should have more resilience and determinastion but i don't at the moment,. |
| 06/12/01 12:34:53 PM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Comments: | Has anyone tested the lag on Mines2000? |
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| 06/12/01 12:34:41 PM | |
| Name: | Anon |
| Best expert: | 33 |
| Best intermediate: | 8 |
| Best beginner: | 1 |
| Comments: | Just thought I'd post a message even though I have got absolutely nothing to say. |
| 06/12/01 12:39:27 AM | |
| Name: | Todd Cesere |
| Best expert: | 96 |
| Comments: | Read the last post by Casey Hanger. Interesting contrast here. Recently I broke my old 101 record with 100 and I had been playing for about three hours. The next day I got 99 after playing about two hours, and then, after an additional three hours of playing I broke it again with a 96. But, eh hem, at this time Damien has yet to add me... |
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| 06/11/01 10:32:02 PM | |
| Name: | Joe Nuss |
| Comments: | may damien's parents languish in hell. who cares about graduation? :) |
| 06/11/01 03:48:05 PM | |
| Name: | matt mcginley |
| Comments: | I talked to Damien for a little bit over email a couple weeks ago, and he mentioned something about re-doing the site this summer (implementing some java.script and sprucing up the page). I dont want to speak on his behalf, but...well, yeah. |
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| 06/11/01 02:57:49 PM | |
| Name: | Dan Cerveny |
| Best expert: | 54 |
| Best intermediate: | 15 |
| Best beginner: | 2 |
| Comments: | Damien, could we get a status report or something? Are you grounded for life? Is this site ever going to be updated again? |
| 06/11/01 10:20:01 AM | |
| Name: | Lasse Nyholm |
| Best expert: | 47 |
| Best intermediate: | 15 |
| Best beginner: | 3 |
| Comments: | Hello guys. While everybody is breaking their intermediate-records I'm still trying to break my expert-score, and today I came close. Got my fifth 47-game - the clock went from 46 to 47 on the last click! - well that's minesweeper! I had another chance to break my record, the start looked beautiful, but I made too many mistakes (slow clicks and useless flags) before I hit a mine (by mistake as well) with 42 on the clock and a semi-small corner left (10-12 mines to go). Well, I'll keep trying - good luck to everyone - Lanyje |
| 06/11/01 08:43:28 AM | |
| Name: | Roelof Smit |
| Comments: | Holy shit, my English really sucks |