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09/25/02 02:54:05 PM  
Name: Manu
Best expert: 59
Best intermediate: 12
Best beginner: 1
Comments: I'm HAPPY ! My 71st sub-70 is a sub-60. It could have been a 58 if I had played 0.01 sec faster but... The board was a 134 3BV, and I had just 1 or 2 guesses to make. I've noticed a difference of 2 sec ( on my 60 sec game ) between the real time and the timer.
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09/25/02 02:50:42 PM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: I now did a 5 minute test. Finally after 300 sec, the minesweeper timer was at 289 -> So it was even 11 sec too slow!
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09/25/02 02:43:12 PM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: I have been testing on my Athlon 1,4 working with Windows98SE. After 2 seconds on my watch my Minetimer was at 4. But eventually the watch was at 60 and the Timer was also. 2nd Try: After 120 sec on my watch, mineTimer was at 118. So the effect cant be denied.
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09/25/02 01:06:24 PM  
Name: Dan
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Comments: I just tested the minesweeper timer on my 300 MHz computer with Windows XP. The timer was perfect while running winamp in the background and also while Camtasia was recording at a less than 5 frames/sec rate. I tried cranking up the recording rate to 30 frames/sec and even then the minesweeper timer was less than a half second slow after 60 seconds. From what I've seen so far it appears that while computer speed has some impact on the timer, whether you are running Windows XP(probably 2000, too) or an earlier version of Windows has a much larger impact on the timer. It would be great if everyone could test their own timers and post the results in the guestbook along with their computer cpu type/speed and operating system.
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09/25/02 08:08:42 AM  
Name: Dan
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Comments: Lukasz, I don't mean I think you cheated, I mean your timer could very well be a few seconds slow. Also, the difference between the playing styles of you, me, Damien, and Lasse is minimal and really has nothing to do with why you would be able to get a 46 on a higher 3BV board. I used a stopwatch to time your 51 video you have on your site and your timer was 3.5 seconds slow.
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09/25/02 07:19:38 AM  
Name: lukasz malinowski
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Comments: i forgot to write it: my computer is celeron 266, but usually i run only winamp and nothing more significant when i play.
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09/25/02 07:09:51 AM  
Name: lukasz malinowski
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Comments: thanks for congratulations and congrats to roelof . dan, your and damien's style of playing differs from mine. i left averagely up to 10 mines unflagged and that's the main diffrence. i think that lasse used to play this way - or maybe i'm wrong. anyway, with such style there are more important things than number of 3bv, like i said, for example arrangment(?) of mines. if i cheated, i would certainly prepare lower 3bv board.
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09/24/02 10:17:35 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: Nice one Roelof
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09/24/02 08:14:03 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Best expert: 56
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Thanks guys! Lance - I thought the same I must admit. But I'm glad I catched you. Hopefully this new situation will inspire both of us to get new records. It did inspire me. Looking at my expert and beginner score, I decided my intermediate is far too low indeed. Today I got 3 more 19's, which makes my total sub-20's 10. I have good hope one of these days I'll get a 16 or even a 15. Good luck everyone, Roelof
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09/24/02 06:42:52 AM  
Name: Dan
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Comments: I checked a couple of my old videos from back when I ran windows 98 on a 300 MHz computer and I found my timer to be 2-3 seconds slow on a 57 game and a 58 game. I have winXP installed on that old computer now so I'm going to get it set up and test the timer again.
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09/24/02 02:14:53 AM  
Name: lloigor
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Comments: i think the win-xp version has solved this problem... i have a slow computer (pII 400 MHz) and even with camtasia running at 20 frames/s + winamp + other apps my timer has no noticeable (is this an english word?) slowdown at all, but maybe thats jut me. not enough that i am the slowest player around, my timer doesnt help me either
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09/24/02 12:49:51 AM  
Name: Marc Schouten
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Comments: Dan: The timer slowdown thing has been discussed before, hasn't it? I remember, because I was -at that time- just about the only one that didn't have any noticable slowdown. Now, with fast computers becoming more widespread, the playing field is becoming more and more unbalanced. This will probably last for a few years, until everyone has a computer that's fast enough to handle a heavy application such as minesweeper I really don't know what to do about it. I'm certainly not going to artificially slow down my computer by running many applications while I'm playing... On the other hand, I don't like that I'm still at 51, while others get better times because of their slower computers. Of course, I'm not blaming anyone with a slow computer, nor denying them their records. It would be nice, though, if a solution to this problem were found.
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09/23/02 07:00:01 PM  
Name: James
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Comments: One day, when I have enough money and time, I would definetly like to meet up with you all; especially if it was in Europe.
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09/23/02 01:29:36 PM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: 1. I would enjoy a meeting. ---------- 2. But i think: Some dont want, some cant, some even mustnt. -------------3. If you want to learn more about some, --> icq?
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09/23/02 01:08:39 PM  
Name: Lance Votroubek
Best expert: 58
Best intermediate: 16
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Roelof! Congratulations! I thought I had you beat for good, but a jump from 62-56 was NOT expected! Now you're one second better than me in total time... I need to catch up!! Happy sweeping! Lance
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09/23/02 11:20:05 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: As I sit here and sip my pint of Guiness, I dwell on the days happenings..... I sunbathed; nice I dwelled with my home-boys; grand I played Minesweeper for the second time in over two weeks and after 10 minutes I got the Board of Woe for the second time ever. FuCkEd it up and got 14. Rusty I was and the timer whispered to me " 12 " when I thought I was finished. But then I glanced around again and saw that I had misclicked on a square that I thought was cleared. ; FUcK thAt. Chilled with my home-boys in there dwelling as they wear Debs atire - They have finished school and are off on a great night out with their female friends to celebrate over 3 years of misery in school at last over and a new life to begin where boundaries are set withing thous own mind. I also wish to congratulate Luckasz and the newcomer who beat his record. Also anyone else I can't think about right now. Dan, you're a clever dude and need to beat 46; you deserve it man. Nice findings on your behalf I have a thought - We should hold an annual Minesweeper meeting where all us individuals meet and dwell in close proximity. That'd be class. Do it in Europe and make it a cheap flight. I'd be right there no matter what. Think about it. Frank, Eoin, Scott, Dude Funk - I'll talk to you tommorrow. P.S Throughout the weekend I went to a pretty shitty party on Friday, chilled Saturday, watched plenty of Boxing on Sunday, and today I told you what I did basically. Owen.
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09/23/02 07:22:46 AM  
Name: Chris
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Comments: Well, I guess I'm still one sec. ahead. I better hurry up before you catch me!
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09/23/02 07:21:34 AM  
Name: Chris
Best expert: 80
Best intermediate: 22
Best beginner: 2
Comments: James, congrats. It looks like you have the lead now. I didn't play much this weekend, but I had a 69 with about ten mines left that resulted in a missed guess. Hopefully I'll break my reocrds again soon.
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09/23/02 06:17:32 AM  
Name: Dan
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Comments: Congrats to all the record breakers. I'd really like to get an idea on how widespread the slow timer problem is. Lukasz, I know you are very fast, but neither Damien nor myself have even come close to getting a 46 on any board above ~140 3BV. Neither of us have even gotten a 49 on a 160 3BV board. When you wrote in the guestbook about getting a 46, and breaking your record by 2, on a 160 3BV board something just doesn't sound right about that.
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09/23/02 04:43:56 AM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: At camtasia i can only save .cam-files. How do i cut the videos there and how can i save them as avi´s? Would be great to get an answer. Thx, Steffen
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09/23/02 03:19:28 AM  
Name: Ben
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Comments: Hey Roelof and Manu, great scores! One day (I'm afraid it'll be quite soon), you'll beat me in total sum. About football Roelof: I guess Utrecht and Anderlecht reached about the same performance level in their UEFA-cup game -> as low as you can go
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09/23/02 02:56:27 AM  
Name: damien
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Comments: congrats to both! hey steffan, most use camtasia producer which comes with camtasia when you download it.
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09/23/02 02:25:42 AM  
Name: Kimmo
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Comments: Roelof, that's really great! But now you have again lower sum than me.
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09/22/02 05:12:29 PM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: 1.The only thing i can see , Dan , is the difference the timer jump makes... the rest seemingly is all right. 2. How do you all cut your camtasia video?
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09/22/02 11:52:01 AM  
Name: James
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Comments: That is interesting Dan. I did not really beleive you so I tried it myself and you are right. I have a fast computer too (all my vids were correct), so that sucks. Should I start playing with dozens of programs running? I suppose it would be cheating to do it on purpose. Maybe we need to devise some timing device seperate from the game for a true time. Chris: I tied my 81 (3 now), got an 89 on a 193 3BV board, and missed a 79 with two clicks left. I sence a big jump soon.
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09/22/02 09:04:53 AM  
Name: Dan
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Comments: I have been checking out some videos this morning and I've ran into something into something interesting that has been discussed before but I'd like to hear from everyone again, especially with all the new people we have reading the guestbook. I used my stopwatch to time some of the available videos from players and here is what I found. Lasse's 43: Timer is 2 seconds slow. Damien's 53: Timer is 3 seconds slow. Matt's 55: Timer is 2.5 seconds slow. Owen's 57: Timer is 2.5 seconds slow. Dan's 46: Timer is perfectly in sync with stopwatch. It is clear that anyone with a very fast computer, such as myself, has a significant disadvantage when playing minesweeper, at least with the Camtasia recorder playing. No doubt running other apps in the background, such as winamp, will also slow down the timer on slower computers. I guess if I want to beat Lasse's record of 43, I'll have to get a 40 on his scale.
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09/22/02 07:50:59 AM  
Name: Manu
Best expert: 60
Best intermediate: 12
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Woooww Roelof ! And you wanted to retire ? Congrats ! My last improvements on expert were always by one sec... 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60... The good thing is that I see the congrats-box more often, but I'm still waiting for a jump like yours or Stephan's !
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09/22/02 07:34:37 AM  
Name: AJ
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Comments: Wow well done Roelof !!! That is such an amazing jump , Sorin style ! Wish I could join the sub-60 club anytime soon because I am off to uni soon , so I will not be playing at all because I dont have my own PC to take ! Blessing in disguise really cos i dont want to fail uni cos of a computer game ! That's why I'm weaning myself off this game !
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09/22/02 05:04:27 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Best expert: 56!!!!!
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Did I just say awesome? I didn't notice I was playing as fast as I was... the 56 was quite a shock. I knew I was on the edge of breaking the 1 minute barrier, but I wasn't expecting to take 6 seconds of my best time. Makes my sum 74!
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09/22/02 04:36:43 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Best expert: 62
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 1
Comments: That's awesome Lukasz! Don't forget to send in scores this period.
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09/22/02 04:13:08 AM  
Name: lukasz malinowski
Best expert: 46
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Comments: breaking two sub50 records in several days sounds unbelievable, but i did it. i start first year of studies in febrauary, so i have a lot of time recently. before i could have for example several sub55 in a row, but it's only my fourth score below 50s. screen is here: www.republika.pl/albert_i_gg/msweeper/46.zip. the board is 160 3bv, but it has a lot of easy to flag groups of mines, like rows. anyway this score is great . damien now i will slow down certainly. and sorin, it's well known in poland "kazik na zywo", based on riffs and so on.
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09/21/02 10:49:46 AM  
Name: Jan
Best expert: 72
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 2
Comments: I just got 17 on Intermediate. (have sent u the video already) Dan had 16 on the same board.
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09/21/02 10:36:22 AM  
Name: Kimmo
Best expert: 58
Best intermediate: 18
Best beginner: 2
Comments: I'm not doing very well. Got not much time to play minesweeper. But I wish good luck to all of you!
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09/21/02 08:11:43 AM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: You´re right with the viedeos Damien , but they are bigger than the videos from other players. I dont know why myself. Camtasia works quiet good. But after using my vid edit program they get bigger caused by "frame data rat" or something like that. So they are 22kb, ~200kb and ~700kb in exp. Who can help?
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09/21/02 07:54:30 AM  
Name: Manu
Best expert: 60
Best intermediate: 12
Best beginner: 1
Comments: On a lucky game ( 5 or 6 random clicks in total ), I got my first sub-70 of the day : a 60. It's a 127 3BV board. I think I must be the last player in the TOP-20 with nothing under 60.
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09/20/02 10:41:42 PM  
Name: James
Best expert: 81
Best intermediate: 21
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Damien: Nice to see that you finally have some leisure time. Do you think that you could update my scores? I have the dates and screen shots if you want them.
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09/20/02 04:25:30 PM  
Name: damien
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Comments: i'm working on the site right now...in particular the video section and scorelists. steffan s: i think you mentioned some videos you had? i'd like to post a couple if sub-20 sub-65ish. i've got dan, lasse, matt, stephan, gerogi, paul, michael s., david covered but that's it and i know a lot of vids have been made over the summer by the rest of you guys who've been breaking records. marc? 48 and 49 last night. congrats lukasc...time to slow down
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09/20/02 02:18:49 PM  
Name: Sorin
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Comments: Welcome to the 66 club Lukasz ! What type of rock do you like?
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09/20/02 11:11:09 AM  
Name: Chris
Best expert: 80
Best intermediate: 22
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Sounds good James, it's on. I really should post here more often, I do check it just about everyday. I can just feel some new records coming. Sometimes I'll play at sub-70 speed and just get too excited and nervous and then screw it all up.
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09/20/02 07:47:44 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
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Comments: Congrats to all record breakers! Damn, I feel like shit. I'm visiting FC Utrecht since 1994 and I've never seen them play as bad as yesterday against Legia Warsaw.
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09/20/02 07:14:27 AM  
Name: lukasz malinowski
Best expert: 48!
Best intermediate: 16
Best beginner: 2
Comments: so i broke my 48s record yesterday. screen is here: www.republika.pl/albert_i_gg/msweeper/48.gif. the board is 148 3bv. at the momment there was being played quite fast rock song, i focused on it, certainly it helped me. btw, recently i have downloaded this 3bv programm. if it read cropped screens, then it will be great.
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09/20/02 07:01:26 AM  
Name: Elmar Zimmermann
Best expert: 66
Best intermediate: 19
Best beginner: 2
Comments: congrats ryan. you just passed me in the rankings. Elmar
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09/19/02 10:05:22 PM  
Name: James
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Comments: Congrats Ryan. That is a great improvement. Chris: I wish that you would post more often, as I had no idea that there was anybody out there at the same level as me. I'll race you to sub-100. What do you say?
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09/19/02 07:32:02 PM  
Name: Ryan Mann
Best expert: 65!
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Comments: Hey again already, just beat my expert by 4 seconds. Not that big of a surprise, it was a long time coming. That makes 7 seconds off my overall just today. What a day. Just wanted to share my excitement. -Ryan
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09/19/02 05:46:39 PM  
Name: Ryan Mann
Best expert: 69
Best intermediate: 19
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Hey everyone, this is my first entry. I still don't consider myself an addict(secretly denying it), which is probably why I have never posted before. I am on a real high, however, after breaking into the sub-20 mark tonight. I figure what better time than now to post. I still haven't submitted my scores, one because I am lazy, and two I tried to last spring and it didn't work. Someday I will get around to sending in the screenshots. Until then I will just keep on crackin away at those records. -Ryan
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09/19/02 05:38:02 PM  
Name: damien
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Comments: congrats brian and lasse...lasse and matt each have 2 world records...it sickens me lasse. just played some int after ignoring it for a while....41 sub-20's in 23 minutes including three 15's a 14 and a 13. i've never accumulated that fast...that day last year when i did 113 in 6 hours is quite a contrast. have to go do a chemistry lab now. later.
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09/19/02 04:00:19 PM  
Name: Brian Cornell
Best expert: 61
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 3
Comments: New intermediate record: 17. I was stuck at 19 for a long time. I think my problem was trying to flag too much. I also tied my expert record of 61. I play way too much though.
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09/19/02 11:43:36 AM  
Name: AJ
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Comments: Stephan , my e-mail is superman@ukgateway.net Nice 1 Lasse - looks like you have finally set a record that can't be broken !
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09/19/02 10:59:29 AM  
Name: Marc Schouten
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Comments: Jon: Most of us freaks that are able to get such fast times have been playing for a few years at least. I would say that to get sub-60, you'd need at least a year of dedicated playing. I have been playing for about 5 years.
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09/19/02 10:48:34 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: I didn't realise that Ben ; that you used to imatiate me that is. Sorry bout the 12 As for myself ; I'm giving up Minesweeper at the end of the year and I'm only going to play a bit just to get active ranking scores. Such unfulfilled potentilal. I so should have gotten a 1 by now and beaten 12 on int. There were times when I could have rewritten the record bok on int but it just didn't happen.
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09/19/02 09:39:33 AM  
Name: Jon
Best expert: 152
Best intermediate: 38
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Wow, i just started watching the videos at this site and some of them are just incredible, i dont understand how anyone could play so fast. Its probably been asked before but im curious to know how long some of the best players have been playing for. I just want to know how long it might take to be anywhere near that good.
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09/19/02 08:31:59 AM  
Name: Lasse Nyholm
Best expert: 43
Best intermediate: 12
Best beginner: 1
Comments: As you probably know I use most of my time on expert, but every period I play a few hours on intermediate and 15-20 minutes of beginner, and I did that today to get scores for the active ranking. I spent 2 hours on inter with nothing better than two 15s, but fortunately I only had to use 22 secs on beginner before I could stop playing. A two-click 1sec game - that was kinda funny to try. It's probably a known board but I haven't checked if other people got their record on it. The video is on my site. I'll go back to expert now. one on beginner - hehe - Lanyjé
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09/19/02 08:00:03 AM  
Name: Chris
Best expert: 80
Best intermediate: 22
Best beginner: 2
Comments: James, I know exactly how you feel. I think we started playing seriously about the same time so I've always kind of kept an eye on your times. I am extremely anxious to sub 20 and 80. I know it will eventually come, I just have to be patient and stop clicking the wrong squares!
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09/19/02 03:58:00 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Jon, the url is still http://www.active-ranking.de.vu I'll take a vacation break at Mallorca from today until 26/09. Happy Sweeping and don't break too much records in that week .
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09/18/02 10:18:20 PM  
Name: James
Best expert: 81
Best intermediate: 21
Best beginner: 3
Comments: AHHHHHHHHHH! I am so damm close to finally getting a sub-80. All of my games are at that pace but I just can't finish any!
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09/18/02 06:42:04 AM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: Ok, but what´s then your email-adress?
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09/18/02 05:48:27 AM  
Name: Jon
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Comments: Hmmm. There's something weird with the active ranking-homesite right now. It get redirected to http://http2.de (maybe it's only temorary?) Please tell me if that's the case.
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09/17/02 09:53:26 PM  
Name: Luke Gardiner
Best expert: 71
Best intermediate: 21 --> 20
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Aha! Down to 20.. should make sub-20 and sub-70 soon
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09/17/02 02:16:28 PM  
Name: AJ
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Comments: You can probably see it on Matt's website any time soon because I dont have a website of my own. Alternatively you could e-mail me and I'll send it to you. Thanks for the congrats guys ! Makes it all seem worthwhile.....
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09/17/02 01:11:15 PM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: AJ, congrats to your 14, where can i become an witness of your new record?
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09/17/02 08:29:00 AM  
Name: Yoni Roll
Best expert: 64
Best intermediate: 16
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Hi everyone My computer broke up so I wasn't here for the last 2-3 weeks (I usually checked this guestbook daily) It still don't work (It will work in about a week) so I now use an old 100 Mhz computer. (It wasn't connected to the internet until now) I hope I'll be able to get normal scores to the next period because I didn't send scores for the last two- but I don't think I will because it is very hard for me to get good times on this computer. I also can't do anything with the minesweeper reader because it's source code is on the hard disk of my normal computer (I should backup it when the computer will work again!) A few things about messages I just saw: First, Georgi- congratulations for your marridge (it's pretty silly to say the same thing for broken minesweeper records and marridge- but i don't know a better word.. I'm not sure I spelled marridge right too...) Congrats AJ and Manu for your records, (and anyone else who broke his record recently) And two things which I saw in the oldest messages (that is- from about 2-3 weeks ago): Use only Alt+PrintScreen to get pictures to work with the reader (they can be made by removing the background too but only if you remove it just as it is removed by pressing Alt+PrintScreen) Don't use JPG to save pictures- Gif or Png are much better
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09/17/02 05:50:57 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Congrats to AJ, James and Luke. Damien, thanks for your appreciation. Do you mean my latest videos? Neither my 15 or 16 nor my 66 are anything extraordinary. At least, the videos are kind of proof that I am able to play quite fast (if a proof has still been necessary after 1600 sub-25 and 250 sub-90 screenshots ).
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09/17/02 03:12:05 AM  
Name: AJ
Best expert: 62
Best intermediate: 14 !
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Yes my long standing record of 16 has finally been broken with my 93rd sub-20. About time too ! For some strange reason i was videoing my games that day (hardly ever do that) so I got the hard proof !
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09/16/02 09:44:44 PM  
Name: Lance Votroubek
Best expert: 58
Best intermediate: 16
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Congrats James! You'll get that sub-100 total before you know it. Ben - you can imitate me now if you'd like... that way maybe I'll get a 12 next!! Happy sweeping, all! Lance
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09/16/02 07:47:51 PM  
Name: James
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Comments: After just missing a 20 I got a 21 on a 39 3BV board. This is only my 5 sub-30 of September as the new school year has kept me busy. This is really nice as my goal of sub-100 by Oct 1 looked to be slipping away. Now i just need to finnish an expert game, something which I have not done in 3 weeks. Fucking rights!
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09/16/02 01:55:25 PM  
Name: Ben
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Comments: That's right Manu, I always imitate you. But I used to imitate Owen until he got his 12...
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09/16/02 01:17:40 PM  
Name: damien
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Comments: great job stephan....sorry paul...while i don't really care about the nature of posts in this guestbook (i generaly only delete accidentally repeated postings and those that solely link to porn sites about me which some of you may remember) i removed that particular one on request and i didn't want 20 people to write in yelling at frank just clogging things up. if frank had presented a clear arguement i'd had left it regardless. last night i got a 47 and 49.
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09/16/02 12:33:57 PM  
Name: Manu
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Comments: Ben, don't worry for your sweeping, you should beat your inter record soon, as you always imitate me !
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09/16/02 11:27:02 AM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: Does anyone know how to solve the problem with the timer bug in win3.1 version. What about just take the windows 2000 version. Will it work allright then? ThX so far , Steffen
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09/16/02 05:56:21 AM  
Name: Luke Gardiner
Best expert: 71
Best intermediate: 21
Best beginner: 3 --- is now ---> 2 !!
Comments: well whattaya know.. I was chatting to a friend, and the new record screen popped up.. show's what you can do when not paying attention.. +getting some good luck.
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09/16/02 01:53:18 AM  
Name: Ben
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Comments: Hi guys, minesweeper is not going as I want it to lately, but on the other side: I bought a house... man buying such a thing is expensive, and I didn't even buy something fancy. Phew
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09/16/02 01:04:39 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Additional to my latest int videos, I can now present three lately achieved exp videos on my homepage, best of them a 66.
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09/15/02 06:55:51 PM  
Name: James
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Comments: Damien surely has the right to remove items from this guestbook, but I do not see the logic. If he truly disagreed with the presented view then perhaps an entry proposing his view would have been more efective. I aften find that a poorly presented argument is more efective than a expertly written deisagreement anyway. Whatever, I don't respect a person any less for not wanting something they disagree with on their site. btw, if anyone whats to present contraversial views in my guestbook, feel free. (Try and keep it clean though, my parents and grand-parents read it too).
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09/15/02 06:24:49 PM  
Name: Paul
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Comments: First, I think it is fair to say that a great, great number of things other than Minesweeper have been discussed here, (and there is only one theme that gets posts deleted - and the theme is not related to any particular topic :-p). Second I believe the first four words underneath the guestbook title might be of significance here. Though I'd say the time spent taken writing a message that later gets obliterated makes that time far from free. Third. That crazy poet is tolerated...
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09/15/02 08:07:45 AM  
Name: Marc Schouten
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Comments: Perhaps because the owner felt this was no place for such a discussion? This is not a newspaper. Damien owns this page. He can do what he wants. Don't like it? Start your own guestbook.
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09/15/02 04:23:05 AM  
Name: A friend of Frank!
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Comments: Why has this guestbook been censored, points where made on this book and several people agreed with them and hey presto they where removed! Why? Why? Why?
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09/15/02 02:15:28 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Exactly one year ago, it was the first time that I broke a record since starting to play more "professionally". It was from 96 to 95 . Today, I got the dreamboard the 2nd time, realized it, got too nervous and finished in 15 seconds with 43 clicks. No new record ! But with a 16 of yesterday, I now have two fast int videos on my homepage (The Videos are recorded with Sorin's recorder program).
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09/14/02 12:45:56 PM  
Name: Dan
Best expert: 46
Best intermediate: 11
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Comments: Keith, most minesweeper players make several random clicks to start games. If you don't get a decent opening, press F2. Some games start at 2 seconds because of a bug and there is nothing you can do about it. The Windows 2000 and XP versions do not have the timer bug.
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09/14/02 12:38:05 PM  
Name: Keith Whitener
Best expert: 95
Best intermediate: 26
Best beginner: 3
Comments: hey guys, i was just wondering if you guys have a strategy for openings. do you use f2 for restarts? when i do, it tends to start the clock at 2 seconds. this may just be my computer too, but i figured i'd ask to see if anyone had similar problems and if they had any suggestions for fixing it as well. peace kids
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09/14/02 06:34:03 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: I only had about 40 sub 20s when I got a 12. I was wondering -Is Jon Edwards on the Active Ranking THE Jonathan Edwards? as in the Triple Jumper.
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09/14/02 04:46:31 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Active Ranking Statistics updated as well.
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09/13/02 05:29:56 PM  
Name: Dan
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Comments: Active Ranking has been updated.
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09/13/02 04:26:26 PM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
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Comments: Manu , this is on the hand no daily soap, nor is it on the other hand a quiz like the who is who of the minesweeper addicts or else. Dont you wont his personal pass number too?
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09/13/02 07:58:25 AM  
Name: Georgi
Best expert: 73
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Raid's videos: http://www.geocities.com/joro100/almost52.avi http://www.geocities.com/joro100/57.avi http://www.geocities.com/joro100/58.avi and his expert record screenshot : http://www.geocities.com/joro100/50_sinclair.PNG
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09/13/02 07:39:50 AM  
Name: Manu
Best expert: 61
Best intermediate: 12
Best beginner: 1
Comments: OK Georgi, you've made a serious job ! Thanks for that ! What do we know exactly about Reid Sinclair ? Where is he from ? What time did he show on video ? What is his style ? I just find it strange that someone like him who must have played for hours and hours to reach such a nice level isn't interested in coming here and talk with us ! But maybe does he check the guestbook everyday and simply never post any message ! Hi Reid ! Can you give us further information about you please ?
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09/13/02 05:58:12 AM  
Name: Georgi
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Comments: Manu, Reid Sinclair sent me some videos to prove his scores. I found them right and asked Matt and Dan for their opinion. They also found Raid's videos acceptable. That's why I put Reid on the ranglist at 'minesweeper-addicts'. I'll upload his videos on the net to watch them.
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09/13/02 04:17:29 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Manu, I have to disagree: I have low problems to do 1 sub-20 each day by playing int 10-20 minutes, but in order to get sub-17 times, I have to play fast, pay less attention and then, I finish only few games. I'm only at 250 sub-20s total. And I agree to implement a proving mechanism. A player who claims to have sub-15 or sub-55 times should offer some videos of fast games or show 500 screenshots of acceptable times. If a player doesn't try to fake, he won't have problems to record at least some sub-20/60 games.
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09/13/02 04:11:30 AM  
Name: Steffen Stachna
Best expert: 61
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Comments: Xiaohu, 1.seems we have the same problem, gettin´ under the 60 seconds. 2.my begining is similar to yours,about 4-5 clicks, and then restart new (F2), you should see, what the f2 button looks like *g. If i play Minesweeper in the internet, i still realize my hand upon the f2 although i cant use it there. Its crazy somehow. 3.i m curious, what your statistical analysis result is like Steffen
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09/13/02 03:14:16 AM  
Name: Manu
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Comments: In response to Damien : I don't know how people like you , Matt, Stephan and others do to sub-20 50 or 100 times in a day. I'll never be able to do so. I just try to play faster and faster, so I finish fewer and fewer boards ! But when I finish a board, it is in a better time on average. That's why my first sub-20 was a 19, the 2d one a 16, the ~30th a 15, the ~60th a 14 and the 80th a 12. It can seem to be a quick improvement but I got my first 19 about 18 months ago ! I hope I'll NEVER have to make 700 sub-20 to improve this 12 ! It would take me ages ! I also wanted to ask Geogi : why did you put Reid Sinclair ( 2 - 14 - 50 ) on your ranking but not people like Christian Monro who recently claimed 1 - 11 - 41, or even Ralph Rath who claimed 2 - 14 - 55 ? Do we have any proof that Reid can make this 50 ( vid or smthg... ) ? Maybe should we ask people under 15 and 55 for exemple to send a video to proof that they can play that fast before to put their name on the lists...
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09/13/02 02:07:55 AM  
Name: joe
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Comments: frank, i would have had no problem with your statement if you had just said what you said in your second post. i can't totally agre becuase i simply don't know that much about the middle east / isreal / iraq, so on. but your originally statment was ignorant as fuck. surely there will be innocent iraqis killed, and that will suck. but saying that their deaths would somehow be "realer" or make them the "real victims" of 9/11 is ridiculous. i hate getting into these kind of debates so i'm through now, just had to say something originally, blah.
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09/12/02 09:59:05 PM  
Name: Lance Votroubek
Best expert: 58
Best intermediate: 16
Best beginner: 1
Comments: This topic (and its relation to another) has already been discussed to its deathbed in the Minesweeper Addicts group. If you care to find other opinions regarding this topic, read posts ~650 and following that are related. My opinion is in message #663 (titled "Re: Digest Number 261"), and a few others, including a couple I agree with, follow. Thank you. Lance
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09/12/02 06:17:12 PM  
Name: Matt
Best expert: 51...
Best intermediate: 10...
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Frank is truly a smart man. I couldnt agree more.
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09/12/02 06:16:01 PM  
Name: Cesar Garcia
Best expert: 188
Best intermediate: 55
Best beginner: 5
Comments: damn............. i thought i wooped ass on minesweeper......... i am nowhere near..... but the best competitors are born when competed against.......... now that i know i have competition...... and now that i know my enemies....... watch out........ i must be the only one in Fullerton CA to play cuz i dont know anyone else that plays.....
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09/12/02 03:58:22 PM  
Name: Michael Berger
Best expert: i dont know
Best intermediate: 71
Best beginner: 9
Comments: i play minesweeper for about 1 month now, and i cant stop. i found this page at www.google.de. i never thought that it is possible to complete the intermediate in less then 50 seconds. i love this page as much as i love minesweeper.
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09/12/02 01:56:09 PM  
Name: damien
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Comments: congrats manu...it still makes me green though. i didn't sub13 until i had well over 1300 sub20's and i had 700+ before i subbed 14. some people have the knack for burst of speed...it's like the crazy way matt gained on int.
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09/12/02 12:46:05 PM  
Name: Xiaohu
Best expert: 60
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Comments: Three issues: 1. What is "bv" you talked about? 2. My major is statistics. I think there's a lot of statistics in the game. First, different boards are very much different. I guess there could be a quantitative measure of it, conceptually -- the expecting time of a certain level player will spend on it. It's very hard to model this. I may spend some time on this in the following week of vacation. Hopefully I can come up with a reasonable analysis. 3. I tried very very hard but still can't break the 1-minute barrier. There're abour 25 people recorded on this website have achieved this. I really hope there should be some more hints by these experts. Like, how many random clicks do you make at the start? What kind of board you will start to solve? For me, I make 4 clicks and see if it opens big areas, if not, I'll simply restart. I put my left hand on "F2" and sometimes I miss some very good startings by mistakenly press "F2".
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09/12/02 12:31:15 PM  
Name: Marc Schouten
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Comments: 2-14-55(71) for this period. It's really too bad I went on holiday; my last six sums were 69, 74, 70, 73, 72, 71. Those holiday penalties really broke a nice streak. Oh well, at least I had fun in Scandinavia
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09/12/02 12:12:26 PM  
Name: Elmar
Best expert: 66
Best intermediate: 19
Best beginner: 2
Comments: hi guys. my computer has been broken for two weeks, but i'm not gonna fix it. i have a bunch of exams coming up at uni and i don't want to waste my valuable time on minesweeper. and i know i would. i almost havn't play at all this period except for a few games on a friends computer. first time i played with an optical mouse too. i don't get how you people do that. those things are so damn heavy. i couldn't get anthing below an 84. so i guess i'll have to take the penalty this time. the worst thing is, my last exam is still a whole month from now! let's see if i can keep up the disciplin. i hope it'll be worth the suffering. happy sweeping!
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09/12/02 12:12:09 PM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: my best for this period is 2-15-57. My mail won't work so I will have to tell you here.
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09/12/02 12:11:05 PM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: I've gotten 57, 59, 4 60s, 3 61s, 2 62s this period. They are composed of a mixture of styles which some of you may be of interest in seeing. It is interesting actually. I'm glad I can play with a multitude of ways! Manu, just another remark on your 12. The first time I got that board was over a year ago when I made of record of 16 on it. I got it a while ago and misclicked on a square but It probably wouldn't have been as low as 12. I'm impressed
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