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12/26/02 10:07:11 AM | |
Name: | Dan |
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Comments: | Awesome, Marc. I just hope you don't finish between Damien and me in the last active ranking period(2. Damien 3. Marc 4. Dan) because then Damien will win 2nd place for the year. I've been pretty slow for the past week and my best expert game this period is only 52. |
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12/26/02 08:05:02 AM | |
Name: | Elmar Zimmermann |
Best expert: | 64->63 |
Best intermediate: | 17*3 |
Best beginner: | 2*3 |
Comments: | i'm starting to like my brother's pc. i just broke my exp best. i told i would break it before new year's but i didn't think it would go that fast. ![]() ![]() |
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12/26/02 07:53:42 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: | Happy Christmas all!
Marc - you played that beautifully. Well done. Very well played throughout...![]() |
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12/26/02 05:53:27 AM | |
Name: | Stephan |
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Comments: | Nice video Marc and lots of congratulations. You really deserve that (of course, congrats to roli, berg etc. who broke their records). Marc, maybe you'll be involved in the AR 2002 overall ranking competition between Dan und Damien if you're getting a total of about 63. |
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12/26/02 12:59:42 AM | |
Name: | Steffen |
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Comments: | Minesweeper is a dangerous job berg!![]() |
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12/25/02 10:14:59 PM | |
Name: | berg |
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Comments: | 21>>18!! 2(beg), 81(exp) just broke my record by 3 seconds, which is alot to mee, but i have been hovering around 21 for awhile, getting it 6 times, i got a 30 3bv board, and it was easy, neway, i still need to dl a good 3bv reading thing/program to analyze things more, cuz i have to count manually, and my expert just sucks!!, p.s. earlier in the night, walking to my car from the porn store(turned 18 a bit ago, so i needed to use my new freedom) i took a slip and fell hard, tearing off 2 layers of skin on my right hand on the right side, looks like a circle with about a 1.5 inch diameter, lots of blood, for some reason i just wrapped it up and played some minesweeper, i better not have ne long term damage because it hurt to get that record,lol! |
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12/25/02 04:05:20 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
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Comments: | 120 3bv, Steffen |
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12/25/02 04:03:41 PM | |
Name: | Steffen |
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Comments: | Btw, what was the boardsī 3bv? |
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12/25/02 03:58:56 PM | |
Name: | Steffen |
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Comments: | Nice developments passinī on by recently. And above all many people are breaking their records these days. So congrats to Roli and especially to marc who made himself a present for his work on the new ms-gate. ![]() |
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12/25/02 03:50:37 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
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Comments: | Yeah. I wouldn't have expected to pass you, Matt, Sriram and Lukasz all at once. I'm not complaining, though ![]() |
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12/25/02 02:30:31 PM | |
Name: | Sorin |
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Comments: | Nice Marc! Now your number 4!
Yoni, I don't use a separate timer. Whenever a mouse event is captured, T read the time of the event form the minesweeper window(it comes with the message). I noticed a little bug here: the millisecond timer sometimes shows something like 1002(above 999) between two WM_TIMER messages, which occur whenever the minesweeper board timer changes. I truncated that value to 999(99 tens of milliseconds in fact). This is the reason why times like xx.99 appear more often than others.
second: Click chart-> the big squares mean seconds(black numbers below). Blue lines mean left click, red- right, grey-double click. The nubmer above a click line(red ..) shows the time when the button was pressed (ex: 46 means 0.460 sec). The nubmer below shows the release time.
third: I was thinking to add an edit box to allow the user to choose what games to hide. You could write 10 and you will see only games that lasted more than 10 seconds.
four: I won't fix that 'estimated time bug'. I don't think somone can play that slow? Let's take a 200 3BV game for
example. If you make one 3BV every 5 seconds then the estimated time is 1000. I hope that all the players that use this program are faster than that. If not...quit ![]() |
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12/25/02 02:27:18 PM | |
Name: | case |
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Comments: | wow marc. hell of a game you won there! |
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12/25/02 01:41:58 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
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Comments: | Woohoo and, might I add: YES! ---> www.marcschouten.com/vid.avi <--- By the way, did I say "YES!!" yet? |
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12/25/02 11:34:25 AM | |
Name: | Matt |
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Comments: | sorry yoni, misunderstood you. but still, why do you need a thousands digit? My yahoo account is fine |
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12/25/02 10:14:18 AM | |
Name: | case |
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Comments: | sorin, i love your program, but it causes my mouse to lag a little. Do you know if this is due to the way it has to capture mouse movements or because it's recording data to a file? also, what language did you write the program in; java, c++, VB, other? |
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12/25/02 08:51:02 AM | |
Name: | Yoni Roll |
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Comments: | Does someone here have an yahoo e-mail account? in the last several days I cannot enter my e-mail and I don't know if the problem is only with me or if it a general problem. |
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12/25/02 08:46:02 AM | |
Name: | Yoni Roll |
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Comments: | There is no need for accuracy when you get to more then 999- that's why I sayed 999.99 (or 999.0) can be written instead of the full number. Now, however, if your estimated time is 1104.52- it writes 104.52 |
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12/25/02 08:15:51 AM | |
Name: | Matt |
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Comments: | Yoni, when would you honestly need that much accuracy when your time is over 999? |
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12/25/02 06:23:55 AM | |
Name: | Yoni Roll |
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Comments: | Sorin, I noticed a small bug in your program- when the estimated time is above 999 it does not show the thousands digit, you should either enlarge the square's space or write 999.99 instead of the full number |
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12/25/02 06:10:34 AM | |
Name: | Mikael Jonker |
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Comments: | Tim, you can find the addicts site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minesweeper-addicts. Mikael |
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12/24/02 04:50:31 PM | |
Name: | Steffen |
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Comments: | Seems like the program doesnt work at my big calculator. ![]() |
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12/24/02 03:14:34 PM | |
Name: | Yoni Roll |
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Comments: | Sorin- you have a great program, I think I will start using it constantly now as camtasia does me problems. Anyway, I have a question about your program- Does your program count the miliseconds separately from the minesweeper timer but updates itself to match the minesweeper time when the timer change? Another question- in the click chart- does every square mean a second and what does all the numbers near the lines mean? And a small improvement suggestion: make the hide 1 and 2 times option hide 1,2 games on beginner 1,2,3 on intermediate and 1,2,3,4 times on expert. |
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12/24/02 01:52:11 PM | |
Name: | Tim |
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Comments: | David, wow, small internet indeed. seems ages since i had that site. i let the program try to find a cycle for expert boards, and it ran though just over 300000 boards without having a single one repeat, so that's good news. i guess that's the reason a dream board for expert doesn't exist like it does for intermediate. Sorin, where's the addicts site? I'm sure it's posted somewhere and I'm just not finding it, but thanks. |
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12/24/02 07:10:57 AM | |
Name: | Charles Walker |
Best expert: | 93 |
Best intermediate: | 21 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Hi everyone. It's nice to know I'm not the only addict out there. I know I've got nothing on you guys, but I'm working on my expert time. Happy sweeping and Happy holidays![]() |
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12/24/02 06:39:02 AM | |
Name: | Sorin |
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Comments: | I updated the programs on the addicts site. The old ones are still there. Look for Count_rec.exe |
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12/23/02 12:39:47 PM | |
Name: | case |
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Comments: | so, what is the whole deal with roland's 9? i've only seen a picture i think. it went the longest time before anyone even acknowledged that it happened.... |
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12/23/02 11:28:50 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | Elmar, I didn't get your e-mail. I also checked junk mail, but it wasn't in there either. Ehm...well, I guess the best thing you can do is send them to my regular e-mailadress in the future. |
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12/23/02 08:23:34 AM | |
Name: | Elmar Zimmermann |
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Comments: | roelof: i just sent that test mail to active_ranking@hotmail.com. james: i like that guestmap feature. damien, it would be really nice to have that on this site too. i'm at my parent's place for the holidays. i don't like my brother's computer setup, so i don't think i will play much this week. |
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12/23/02 06:38:20 AM | |
Name: | Traian |
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Comments: | I just got a 110 3BV on expert and I wonder... can it get any lower than this? If you're interested in that board, mail me. Unfortunately I messed up on my second click![]() |
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12/22/02 05:30:46 PM | |
Name: | James |
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Comments: | Good job Roli.![]() |
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12/22/02 04:12:35 PM | |
Name: | damien |
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Comments: | hey yoni...the256 colour thing isn't an option in the camtasia program, it's just changing your display properties. |
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12/22/02 03:09:39 PM | |
Name: | Roli |
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Comments: | A pretty good day. Iīve retained my old speed. Shortly after I got the 63, I hit my old record 66 again twice with a higher 3BV every time! Sub-60 will be possible soon. ![]() |
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12/22/02 02:39:20 PM | |
Name: | Steffen Stachna |
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Comments: | @ berg :
When i last got the DB it came up 3 or 4 days later again. And i know about some people here to wohm this had happened before. So if the cycle should do so and you are prepared then do what a sweeper has to do! ![]() |
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12/22/02 02:01:36 PM | |
Name: | berg |
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Comments: | sorry for yappin alot, can someone, email me or direct me to a really good 3bv reader/program to monitor things during game, and help me set it up,pretend im like 3 years old, cuz i dl ones from yonis and i get it up but have no clue how to get pics/save them and get them to the reader, plus its really basic the one i dl--its christmas |
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12/22/02 01:47:09 PM | |
Name: | berg |
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Comments: | lol, thx matt, also i dont have it memorized, but i know the formation, so i knew which spots would be open after the first |
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12/22/02 12:59:51 PM | |
Name: | Matt |
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Comments: | Ok, Berg, heres what you do. Download Roli's 9 video from wherever you can find it and watch what he did and memorize it and play it over in your mind over and over and over. then make strategic first clicks that would end up in the openings of the dreamboard if you got it for as long as you play int. Pretty soon, youll get the dreamboard and get a 9, 8...whatever. Good luck! WARNING: That post was in no way meant to be taken seriously and was merely a jest at a current situation. Please do not do that, Berg! |
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12/22/02 12:43:33 PM | |
Name: | berg |
Best expert: | 81 |
Best intermediate: | should be 14 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | I FUCKING SUCK, DAMN 3 HOURS OF SLEEP, TALKING TO FRIENDS, AND IM ON INTERMEDIATE, AND FIRST HIT, AND I REALIZE IM ON DREAM BOARD!!, I PANIC AND SLOW DOWN, ITS AN EASY 12-14 WITH MY SPEED, I MEAN IVE MADE PRACTICE RUNS ON THIS BOARD IN MY MIND, IM TOTALLY UNPREPARED, NEWAY I GET DOWN TO LIKE 5 SPOTS LEFT,RUSH, AND BLOW NE CHANCE AT A 15, WHY AM I SO UNLUCKY, SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT ME!!!!!!!WELL, IT'LL BE ANOTHER 6 MONTHS BEFORE I GET THAT BOARD AGAIN, IF NEONE CAN TELL ME HOW LONG IT TAKES TO GET THE DREAM BOARD AGAIN PLZZ DO TELL, .,, sorry for the caps, im very emotional right now thx for the support, -sadly berg |
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12/22/02 11:31:48 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | I'm sure I didn't get your e-mail Elmar. Can you send a test mail and tell in the guestbook that you sent it? |
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12/22/02 08:55:10 AM | |
Name: | Yoni Roll |
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Comments: | I noticed that techsmith have released a new version for camtasia: camtasia studio which replace the old camtasia. Have someone tried it? In the meantime I have problems with my current old version of camtasia which slows the computer too much while recording- how can I tell it to use 256 colors ? I didn't see an option for this in the options menu. |
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12/22/02 08:17:48 AM | |
Name: | Dan |
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Comments: | Don't know, Elmar. Try sending your times on Thursday next time. I updated the active ranking list with your new times. |
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12/22/02 07:22:03 AM | |
Name: | Elmar |
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Comments: | my AR times weren't updated once again.![]() |
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12/22/02 07:12:24 AM | |
Name: | Elmar |
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Comments: | congrats roli... and i thought i had good chances of passing you and moving up in the national rankings. by the way who's that gernot guy? doesn't sound very german to me and i've never seen him post here.
frohe weihnachten!! ![]() |
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12/22/02 05:24:13 AM | |
Name: | David Barry |
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Comments: | Tim, I just went to your website... I used to go to your QBasic site, many years ago. I think I still have a couple of very primitive programs on some of the archives somewhere. A sphere-drawing program, and a Frogger clone I think. It's a small internet! |
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12/22/02 05:17:32 AM | |
Name: | David Barry |
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Comments: | Tim, it looks as though you have a more precise program than one I whipped up for intermediate a while ago... I found that the cycles were about 14000 boards long, but I'm not sure how many different cycles there were, or how long it took to settle into a cycle. Dangerous times ahead.... |
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12/22/02 02:40:59 AM | |
Name: | Roli |
Best expert: | 66 - -> 63 |
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Comments: | Yiihaa! Finished my last exam this year on Monday, returned home yesterday, switched my mouse from serial to USB again today and broke my expert with a 63. At last! I think this is a good start for my period and a good motivation for Elmar again. Greetings and good luck to all!
Roli ![]() |
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12/21/02 06:25:47 PM | |
Name: | Paul |
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Comments: | No doubt there are a large number of great sweepers who've never stopped by Damiens site. In Damiens sites early days my sister, for one, would have been way up near the top but never passed by (I'd guess if she passed by here, and got drawn into this community, and had kept playing, she'd probably be in the top half a dozen players listed... she improved far faster than I did). And, of course, there is also the fact that there could be people here who have inaccurate records listed making the lists not entirely accurate. |
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12/21/02 05:36:54 PM | |
Name: | Dexter Yu |
Best expert: | 79 |
Best intermediate: | 29 |
Best beginner: | 5 |
Comments: | I'm addicted to minesweeper, I started playing last year. Hopefully I'll be able to get to the level a lot of you guys are in. |
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12/21/02 05:00:14 PM | |
Name: | James Yeh |
Best expert: | 64 |
Best intermediate: | 20 |
Best beginner: | 4 |
Comments: | I was wondering if the top 100 was still being updated cause it'd be fun to show my friends this site, and maybe show my name ![]() |
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12/21/02 03:52:16 PM | |
Name: | Yoni Roll |
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Comments: | Berg, you should send the picture to Matt- he collect pictures of finished boards with 8 on his site. I met today for the first time another sweeper (face to face and not by the internet)- an american friend of my brother who came Israel to a visit (she once lived here). She told my that her records are 3-11-74 (and there is not reason to question her honesty so this must be her true records unless she herself made a mistake). I talked with her only a short time so I don't know whether the 11 was unique or not. This only shows that there might be many "elite" players who never visited our site and that our known world records might be wrong. |
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12/21/02 01:33:17 PM | |
Name: | berg |
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Comments: | got a 124 on exp, with a 8 space on it, i slowed down drastically once i got it, email me if you wanna see it, |
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12/21/02 11:58:22 AM | |
Name: | Dan |
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Comments: | Active Ranking has been updated. We are currently in the last active ranking period of 2002, so everyone get sweeping and finish strong. |
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12/21/02 06:39:30 AM | |
Name: | Elmar Zimmermann |
Best expert: | 64 |
Best intermediate: | 17*3 |
Best beginner: | 2*3 |
Comments: | just got my 20th sub70. a 65 on a 1503BV board! so that adds up to:
64(1),65(1),66(6),67(3),68(1),69(8)![]() |
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12/20/02 10:03:55 PM | |
Name: | Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: | 58x2 |
Best intermediate: | 16x5 |
Best beginner: | 1x2 |
Comments: | Well, the new AR period is starting off well for me. I just got ANOTHER 16, my fifth, with a 3BV of 40, and got a 2 sec beginner (4 3BV, I did it in 6 clicks...oops!) So now I have 2 full weeks to get a good expert score... and maybe bring that intermediate down, since it's gotta fall sometime soon, right?! Happy sweeping, all! Lance |
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12/20/02 09:40:01 PM | |
Name: | berg |
Best expert: | 90>>>81!!! |
Best intermediate: | 21 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | SOMEONE EMAIL ME A LINK TO A 3BV READER, and i got my new record by flagging every mine, and i double clicking, so im getting better with the new style and now i got to mix it in with my regular clicking.ill be sub 80 soon and 20, but its taken more and more time to improve each time i move up a level. well gl to all of you sweepers out there, im done for the night i can sleep peacefully!!![]() |
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12/20/02 07:32:59 PM | |
Name: | damien |
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Comments: | been having my own frustration lately...here's some examples from my last dozen games: 54(190), 53(193), 50(167), 51(181), 52(184), 53(196). i lose every game with an easy click or just play horribly...the best i've gotten on a sub-150 3bv is a 55. |
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12/20/02 07:19:39 PM | |
Name: | berg |
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Comments: | i dl 3bv player from yolls site, but i dont know how to work it, neone got one thats easy to use?? or can help me get it set up |
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12/20/02 07:40:01 AM | |
Name: | Active Ranking |
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Comments: | *** Deadline Friday @ 20:00 GMT/3PM EST *** Sorry for the late warning. |
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12/19/02 01:48:41 PM | |
Name: | Jarad Kevorkian |
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Comments: | Thanks dan. First game right after I wrote that I tied my record again, argh. But anyway, thanks for the vote of confidence. |
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12/19/02 11:21:12 AM | |
Name: | Dan |
Best expert: | 44 |
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Comments: | Jarad, I was stuck on 59 for three or four months. I got about seven 59s before I was able to get a 58. Just keep playing. I kept playing and look where I'm at now. It took me two years to go from 59 to 44, but I'm certainly not going to complain. |
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12/19/02 10:26:54 AM | |
Name: | Jarad Kevorkian |
Best expert: | 63 |
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Comments: | I am damn fed up with this stupid game. I have tied my record 8 times, 64 about 10 times and so on. I have been trying to break 60 for about 4 months now and just cant do it. I needed to vent. Thanks. |
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12/19/02 10:16:01 AM | |
Name: | Steffen |
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Comments: | Iīm not interested in that. |
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12/19/02 06:12:09 AM | |
Name: | Traian |
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Comments: | Lance, sorry if i was too rough on Jess. I meant to say everything that you did, but, not being that good in English, I guess I didn't pick up my words just right... Anyway Jess, play on! OK, Sorin mersi |
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12/18/02 07:29:09 PM | |
Name: | Tim |
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Comments: | I became extremely interested in how Minesweeper generated board so I researched it. Here's how it works. This was all researched on Beginner mode, not any others. When you start minesweeper, it picks a random board according to some seed value. When you hit F2, it picks the next board according to the board directly before it. So if you get the same board twice, the board after that will be the same as well. After about 20-100 boards, it settles into a "board cycle" that is, it repeats itself after so many boards. There's exactly two "board cycles" that minesweeper settles into. One is exactly 24172 boards long and the other is 23953. So if you're in the cycle, and you hit "new game" that many times, you'll end up at the same board. There's some other subtleties, like if the first space you click on was supposed to be a bomb, then the game moves that bomb to the top-right corner, or the one next to it if the corner already has a bomb. This accounts for games that have exactly one bomb in a different place. I know this because I let my computer play a few hundred thousand games and had it save them. So now I can predict the next board if I wanted to (only on beginner). |
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12/18/02 04:02:39 PM | |
Name: | Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: | 58x2 |
Best intermediate: | 16x4 |
Best beginner: | 1x2 |
Comments: | Wow, what a warm welcome for Jess ![]() ![]() |
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12/18/02 03:12:08 PM | |
Name: | Sorin |
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Comments: | Traian, du-te la www.groups.yahoo.com/group/minesweeper-addicts fa-ti cont(daca nu ai deja) si cauta la sectiunea Files fisierele Movie Recorder.exe si Movie Player.exe ; Cam in 2 zile o sa pun altele mai noi. Sau da-mi un mail... |
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12/18/02 02:50:58 PM | |
Name: | Traian |
Best expert: | 93->92 |
Best intermediate: | 26->21 yes! |
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Comments: | Jess, I understant you're obsessed, but you better improve on those scores, because you are way below decent playing...
But if you try hard enough you'll get better. You have passion, which is great. Keep it up dude! ![]() ![]() |
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12/18/02 01:08:18 PM | |
Name: | Jess |
Best expert: | 165 |
Best intermediate: | 55 |
Best beginner: | 10 |
Comments: | I'm am obsessed with minesweeper, I made everyone I know obsessed with it too. Gotta love it!!![]() |
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12/18/02 12:46:21 PM | |
Name: | Sorin |
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Comments: | Thanks for the idea, it's great. I managed to do it but I'll do some more tests for a couple of days... or less. |
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12/17/02 06:47:25 PM | |
Name: | Case |
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Comments: | that's why the score has to be calculated with respect to the 3bv left on the board. i've started games faster than lasse, but that's because they had extremely low 3bv ratings for what i cleared before dying. after using the remaining 3bv to calculate the final score, it usually ends up being the same as my average games. Case in point, one game if you go by # of mines left, i was on track for a 55. Going by 3bv left, i was on track for 72. |
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12/17/02 05:14:15 PM | |
Name: | Steffen |
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Comments: | I think this would mean nothing, Manu. In my best games i already was at the same speed as Lasse, but then there is the problem. One cant compare our games anymore, because i get too slow. No one can deny, that its possible, that iīm the fastest after 10 seconds , but after 20 or 30 seconds iīll be behind. These "InBetweenTimes" dont seem very important to me... |
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12/17/02 05:05:18 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
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Comments: | I suggested some time ago that we put up a forum to prevent annoying people to post rubbish. I got a little carried away and this is the result: www.marcschouten.com/tumf Check it out! |
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12/17/02 04:40:33 PM | |
Name: | Yoni Roll |
Best expert: | 64 |
Best intermediate: | 16 |
Best beginner: | 1 |
Comments: | I think The current method for scores is the best as expert is already the most important because it has the highest time (in my case 64/16=4 - 4 time more important). Beginner already has very little influense on the final score as it is usually lower then the intermediate very much. |
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12/17/02 03:32:22 PM | |
Name: | Paul |
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Comments: | Yes, the debate has been had before. I wonder though, how "healthy" it was? At the moment, someone with a 2 on a several-click board is a worse than a player with a one on a one click board (if there int and expert sums are the same). This is true in both Damiens rankings (pre discussion IIRC) and the AR (well after several discussions). Honestly, it always felt to me like politics. The only decent case that ever seemed to present itself (to me) for including intermediate (and beginner) times was the fact that it would keep people happy who devote(d) a great deal of time to those levels. |
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12/17/02 02:53:14 PM | |
Name: | Elmar Zimmermann |
Best expert: | 64 |
Best intermediate: | 17x3 |
Best beginner: | 2x3 |
Comments: | just got another 17 on a 43 3bv board (the highest of my 3). plus i'd almost beat my expert earlier today. the timer was at 63 when i thought i was done, but i had missed a field and finished at 67. at 143 again a relativ high 3bv. i feel like i can beat my exp and int before new year's. ![]() |
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12/17/02 02:28:32 PM | |
Name: | Marc Schouten |
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Comments: | Floeren: We actually had this discussion some time ago. It was quite a heated and lengthy debate. Check the Guestbook archive. It's in a zip file on the front page. |
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12/17/02 01:31:40 PM | |
Name: | James |
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Comments: | calculation of speed for unfinnished *games* |
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12/17/02 01:30:42 PM | |
Name: | James |
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Comments: | It would be nice to have a real calculation of speed for unfinnished speed, because, like most sweepers of my skill, I finnish no more than an expert game every 20 minutes. I really think that we should begin to phase Beginer scores out. We all agree that Beginer is so dependant on luck that it is not a good indicator of skill. That being said, the ability to to get a 2 on an above-five-3bv board is something that I cannot do, and more skilled players can; however, those players are at least 20 seconds ahead of me in total score ot begin with, so who cares about the extra second? What does everybody thin? Maybe the Congress/Council (what do we call it?) could create a discusion of their own. |
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12/17/02 01:22:55 PM | |
Name: | Manu |
Best expert: | 58 |
Best intermediate: | 12 |
Best beginner: | 1 |
Comments: | Sorin, If you can make what Georgi just said, i think it would be easy ( and very intersting ) to add something else too : the time that you would have got if you had finished the board with the same BV/sec. In a 150 BV game for exemple, if you hit a mine after 30 sec, and we know that 100 "BV clicks" were left to do, then you were on the way to get a 90 sec 30*150/(150-100). What do you think guys ? |
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12/17/02 12:59:21 PM | |
Name: | Floeren |
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Comments: | I would like to say something about the 'who's the best minesweeper'-discussion: It's obvious that I am that person (I just have some bad luck with my boards![]() |
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12/17/02 09:33:16 AM | |
Name: | Yoni Roll |
Best expert: | 64 |
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Comments: | I'm pretty much retired from minesweeper- that's why I was very surprised today when I got a 66! only 2 seconds from my record when the best score I got in the last months except this is, I think, 81. The board was 115 3BV. Unfortunatly I stopped recording my games so I can't see exatcly how it happened.. |
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12/17/02 08:56:59 AM | |
Name: | traian |
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Comments: | Salut Sorin, Despre ce counter vorbesc totzi? Vreau si eu (daca se poate). Hey everyone, where can I get Sorin's counter that everybody's talking about? |
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12/17/02 03:02:36 AM | |
Name: | Elmar |
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Comments: | Sorin: another thing, i've noticed that your movie recorder works fine on my winxp when i switch to a screen resolution of 800*600. but usually play at 1024*768, since i like to watch tv in another window while playing. maybe that helps you fix that bug. |
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12/17/02 02:55:14 AM | |
Name: | Elmar |
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Comments: | Georgi: 6-7 clicks/sec?! and i thought i placed to many unnecessary clicks. i got another 67 yesterday with only 2.7(l) + 1.55(r) clicks. i usually only mark half as many mines as you though. Sorin: i like Georgi's idea, because i usually calculate my 3bv/sec on games i haven't finished. since i don't finsh many games (1-3/hour), that's the only way to messure my speed. Elmar |
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12/17/02 12:58:40 AM | |
Name: | Georgi Kermekchiev |
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Comments: | Sorin,
Can you make in your counter when hit a mine to show the number of remaining optimal clicks to finish it (for completed boards it should show zero of course) ![]() |
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12/17/02 12:32:55 AM | |
Name: | berg |
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Comments: | just beat my expert, i got a 90 but its still no 75, im clearly capable of faster times, but i dont think i have the technique with double clicking to get down below 60, cuz that takes hours of practice(upon hours) that would drive me crazy |
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12/16/02 11:19:17 PM | |
Name: | Georgi Kermekchiev |
Best expert: | 66 |
Best intermediate: | 16 |
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Comments: | Lasse,
How many clicks (right and left) per second you average when finish games?
I am asking you because you mark as many mines as I do (70 to 85).
My average clicks/sec (left and right) is 6-7 and my best is about 8 (3.70 left, 4.25 right).
Thanks to Sorin for his counter ![]() |
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12/16/02 08:42:47 PM | |
Name: | Lasse Nyholm |
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Comments: | Matt: the screenshot is on your site, it's Mark Peters' 17-board. |
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12/16/02 04:05:18 PM | |
Name: | Matt |
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Comments: | Georgi, My 11 at the AR site is like yours except there is a different mine out of place. That makes it a 26 3bv instead of the 29 or 30 (?) that it usually is. Also, I have a screenshot somewhere of a board that is the dreamboard, but there are at least 10 mines diferent. Ill post it when I find it. |
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12/16/02 12:58:42 PM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: |
COME ON DAVE - YOU CAN DO IT! Represent Ireland in fine style!!
My first sub 60 was my 98th sub 70. You're well overdue. I'm sure you'll do it soon. You have it in you![]() |
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12/16/02 08:59:27 AM | |
Name: | Jon S |
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Comments: | I think minesweeper starts at a totally random place in the cycle every time you open it. I also noticed that sometimes you get into a cycle that looks pretty much like another, but a few mines (normally about 10 for intermediate) is out of place. I think that can explain the look of some boards (like Matt's DB with two mines shifted, and some other boards I've seen around). I don't know what causes this to happen. |
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12/16/02 06:22:43 AM | |
Name: | Dave McBryan |
Best expert: | 61 |
Best intermediate: | 17 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Anyone who doesn't want to hear me bitching about my inability to break records should skip this post - you have been warned! It's 6 months since I broke a record, but in the last 2 weeks I've tied my records on all 3 levels not once, but twice (each). I now have 152 sub70s without getting sub60. They are: 61x3,62x2,63x4,64x9,65x13,66x18,67x19,68x35,69x49 At intermediate I have 17x3,18x2,19x17. (Matt, you may want to update my profile with that...) There have been so many games where I've come close, including a 57 missed on the last click, a 16 missed on the last click, and one just yesterday lost at 14 with 3 clicks to go. I know now that I'm capable of breaking the minute barrier, but it's just not happening... |
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12/15/02 06:14:09 PM | |
Name: | Tim Kostka |
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Comments: | Hi all! Obviously not a regular here, but if anyone is interested I made a minesweeper clone for the Palm Pilot (PalmOS). There's also a solver on the page if anyone's interested. Just follow the links on the left. They're both freeware.
Minesweeper clone for PalmOS
http://www.nuprograms.com/minefield.html
Minesweeper solver
http://www.nuprograms.com/minedefuser.html
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12/15/02 01:42:00 PM | |
Name: | Georgi Kermekchiev |
Best expert: | 66 |
Best intermediate: | 16x2 |
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Comments: | I've just got a intermediate board that differs from DB by 1 mine. I played very slow and score only 16 (tied my record) and it could be new record ![]() ![]() |
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12/15/02 12:57:06 PM | |
Name: | case |
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Comments: | nicely done brian. pretty ingenius idea to start videoing with the record board still up and play into another round so that you can obviously see that it's legit. i dont see any reason why noone would believe you anyway, you have the scores to back up a 12. |
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12/15/02 12:32:25 PM | |
Name: | Dan |
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Comments: | Nice job, Brian. Has anyone heard from Lukasz lately? I haven't seen any posts by him since he got his 46 some time ago. |
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12/15/02 11:46:34 AM | |
Name: | Brian Cornell |
Best expert: | 53 |
Best intermediate: | 12(14) |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Just got a 12 on the dream board. I wasn't expecting it at all because I thought the boards went in order, and I just got the dream board last week, which I lost on the second click. My computer has been especially slow lately, so unfortunately there is no video. But so that it won't look like I just took someone else's screenshot to pass off as my own, I took video of the completed board and then me playing the next couple boards. I'm not sure what to think, since I have obviously seen this board before. The fact that I have gotten a 14 on an unknown board makes it more credible(at least in my mind). |
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12/14/02 05:45:24 AM | |
Name: | Floeren |
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Comments: | EVEN MORE IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!!!
I'M A STUPID FUCK.
Don't worry about the "virus" (you certainly didn't) it's just a stupid standard file of windows.![]() |
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12/14/02 05:10:02 AM | |
Name: | Floeren |
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Comments: | IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR GEORGI AND DAMIEN!! I had a sleeping virus on my computer not detectable by Norton virusscan. It sends itself to all of the adresses in your email adressbook. You were in mine. So look for a little file 'jdbgmgr.exe' (there's a bear in front of it). DON'T OPEN IT and remove it from your computer. I hope it isn't on your computer but if you find this file, allert everybody in your adressbook!!! The virus sleeps for two weeks. |
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12/13/02 11:08:09 PM | |
Name: | berg |
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Comments: | 2,21,93(should be 75!)im going crazy i cant finish expert, i just have silly silly mistakes or distractions!!, i was at 69 seconds, with only like 20 spaces to click open, one was a gap that would of cleared like 8 squares and the rest predictable solutions..!!!!! BANG BANG..plop (jk) |
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12/13/02 10:37:02 PM | |
Name: | Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: | 58x2 |
Best intermediate: | 16x4 |
Best beginner: | 1x2 |
Comments: | Nice job, Yoni! Now I can no longer claim the world record on that (I think someone else also beat me within the last month). My old record was 202, which I had solved twice, and it took me forever, so I don't know if I can beat more than 210, especially if I want to keep playing in the Active Rankings. Well, it's still nice to be 2nd or 3rd, although no one will ever know it. ![]() |
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