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Dec 1st 2003 at 07:42:29 PM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

Do all you guys use mouse pads?
I dont ;\

Dec 1st 2003 at 07:22:55 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

83

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Lasse is absolutely incredible. I don't understand how the heck he can go through it so fast. and Matt McGinley? oh my word 10 seconds??? how

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Dec 1st 2003 at 06:40:46 PM
Name:  

Tim B.

Best expert:  

192

Best intermediate:  

35

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Looking at the top scores reminds me of when I joined a Scrabble club and lost nine straight games!

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Dec 1st 2003 at 05:21:33 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Ok, got a 66 and two 67s during my first session with the repaired mouse. Not bad after not finishing a single exp all of november. Also kept an 3bv/s of 3.16 for 47s aiming for 63.

Dec 1st 2003 at 03:17:54 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Glückwunsch Steffen! I don't think I will ever get there considering that I don't really play much anymore.
But I just fixed my mouse and it works a little better now. At least good enough to switch back to flagging, so who knows...

Dec 1st 2003 at 03:12:27 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Congratulations Steffen. 51 is far away for my crappy non-flagging playing style...

Dec 1st 2003 at 02:56:21 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Well, maybe not. It seems like I'm going about 25% slower than I was 4 days ago. My mouse handling sucks. It almost feels like I've gotten rheumatism in my right hand

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Dec 1st 2003 at 10:53:20 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

55

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

3BV: http://stephan-bechtel.de/3bv.htm

Congratulations Steffen
Hope you've gotten over your DB trip

Btw, I haven't been playing for the last couple of days because I've been ill, so I still haven't got any decent AR score on exp yet... Hope that comes soon

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Dec 1st 2003 at 10:04:47 AM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

80

Best intermediate:  

27

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

I always see the game in my mind
It's a little scary.
Anyway, I am still wondering what you mean with 3bv

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Dec 1st 2003 at 09:24:59 AM
Name:  

Steffen Stachna

Comments:  

just forgot to write that it could also have been a 49 - but i didnt find the last mine...

Dec 1st 2003 at 09:21:49 AM
Name:  

Steffen Stachna

Best expert:  

53 ->> 51

Comments:  

Hi folks!
Came back yesterday from a long trip in africa and started playing ~30 minutes ago with the result of a new personal recored in expert. Hopefully there will come 2 more seconds!
dont have a vid but the screenshot. 3bv is 117...

Dec 1st 2003 at 08:31:24 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Stevan,
The 57 video, could be 54, not 51 and the board was easy one (129 3bv)...
I do believe that you can score 1(beg) and 12(int), even sub-50(exp). But it was useless to fake the screenshots. I do not want to discuss that anymore. Record videos and prove your class. Nothing personal, but our society is based on trust and even a small scent of doubt has repulsion effect.
Lady D - site really shows masterity - impressive..

Dec 1st 2003 at 08:17:33 AM
Name:  

Timothy Weerts

Comments:  

If someone were capable of getting 8 3bv/second, their expert score should be around 20, I really don't think anyone is that fast.

Dec 1st 2003 at 07:31:58 AM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

80

Best intermediate:  

27

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Do you all play the microsoft version of minesweeper?
btw.. what is 3bv
And what equipment do you guys use (mouse & mousepad)
I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer and a Funcpad 1030

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Dec 1st 2003 at 07:19:40 AM
Name:  

Michelle

Comments:  

Elmar, i completely agree it is techincally impossible to click 8 times in a second.
do you use gripper gloves to support plays??please respond to me!!

Dec 1st 2003 at 07:05:55 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

57

Best intermediate:  

14x2

Best beginner:  

1x2

Comments:  

I agree with Manu, 8 clicks in less than a second sounds impossible. I think the most anyone got so far is 3 3bv board in one second.
I also think Damien finished a 8 3bv board in 2 secs, but Stevan's would still have to be about twice as fast. I haven't seen the screenshot though.

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Dec 1st 2003 at 06:46:31 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Manu you only need fast 8 clicks which is possible, and again I proved 48s time to Georgi so why would I cheat?!?

No offence man...but I think I had over 100 2s beginner times so it's not strange that I finish at least one in 1s.

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Dec 1st 2003 at 04:57:55 AM
Name:  

Manu

Comments:  

Georgi : Why are you wasting your time with someone who sends a "1sec" on a 8 3BV board ? He cheated at least for this level, no need to have a look to the other levels.

Dec 1st 2003 at 04:41:19 AM
Name:  

michelle

Best expert:  

192

Best intermediate:  

73

Best beginner:  

9

Comments:  

I just wanted to update my best scores
MAA anyone?

Dec 1st 2003 at 02:34:02 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

For Georgi :

http://minesweeper.org/~diana/2003/

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Dec 1st 2003 at 02:04:16 AM
Name:  

Kimmo

Comments:  

54, 55, 4*57, 10*58, 11*59
15, 5*16, 4*17, 12*18, 16*19
3*2, 41*3

Blaaaah!

Dec 1st 2003 at 12:26:01 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Georgi, look at 57s opening. It's practically 51s because I spent 6 seconds searching for last mine.

And if for a one hour I can solve it for 51s than it's sure that I can solve it for 48, if I can solve Expert for 48 then I can solve Interm. for 12 and beginner for 1s, isnt it so?!?

Now explain me why for the sake of god would I cheat?!?

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Dec 1st 2003 at 12:06:07 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Talking about my sub-60s ... they are about 200-300 and all of them are still to come
Maybe taking some rest will give me the chance to make the first one

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Nov 30th 2003 at 11:10:30 PM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Stevan,

I watched your 55 and 57 videos, but I still can not accept that without any timer problem you can make:
beginner: 1 sec on 8 3bv board
intermediate: 12 sec on 49 3bv board
expert: 48 on 178 3bv board (the 55 video proves nothing as it was on a much easier board - 119 3bv)
Those boards are too suspicious to be your record ones as they are not easy boards, but most likely average...

In fact I believe that you may score all of those scores, but hardly on the boards that i saw (the above mentioned)
I will wait for some other videos. To accept your nice scores, will need some more proofs.
Thanks!

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Nov 30th 2003 at 10:29:44 PM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

I have no clue how many sub-60s I've gotten, as I've never kept track. Obviously, I know I've gotten one 47 and that my best times after that are probably about 4 or 5 51s. Other than that, not sure. A couple of hundred at least. Also a couple of hundred sub-20s.

I nearly got a 50 a few days ago, by the way. One missed square along the way....

Nov 30th 2003 at 08:39:37 PM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

And also, 10 December will mark 18 months since I got a sub-60.

Well done Lukasz and Stubbe. And of course Lanyje. I can remember when Lanyje's best expert time was 55 or so, and I was only a second or two behind him. Little did we expect him or indeed anyone to scale the giddying heights that he has created.

Nov 30th 2003 at 08:33:38 PM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

Because I started counting my sub-60's a while after I started getting any, my list isn't complete. What I am sure of are:
3x50, 3x51, 2x52, 5x53, 2x54, 6x55, 5x56, 11x57, 21x58, 25x59.

I have about at least 50 sub-60's, whose precise times I don't know. Presumably there would be a few 54's.

I also have at LEAST 12 sub-20's on int, maybe as high as 16.

Nov 30th 2003 at 07:10:10 PM
Name:  

Michelle

Best expert:  

229

Best intermediate:  

88

Best beginner:  

10

Comments:  

I LOVE TO SWEEP.
I am a member of a four person team known as the MAP (minesweepers assosciation of America) does anyone want to join?? congratulations to all ofyou record holders, you are my role models.

keep sweeping guys

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Nov 30th 2003 at 07:07:51 PM
Name:  

Christina

Best expert:  

252

Best intermediate:  

65

Best beginner:  

8

Comments:  

Hey, I know im not up to the standards of most of you sweeping legends in here, but me and my friends love to sweep! we were just wondering if when youre not playing minesweeper, do you sometimes see the game in your mind? We were all really shocked to find out each other does it, especially when you have your eyes closed/are trying to sleep (sleep not sweep) lol. well tell us what you think! TTYL

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Nov 30th 2003 at 02:40:54 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

What's up Georgi am I still a cheater you didn't answer me?!?

Hehe, greetings man.

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Nov 30th 2003 at 01:38:45 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Gustaf,
I am 23 years old, and have been playing minesweeper since I was 14 or 15, but have been playing "seriously" since I found this website when I was 20. Since then I have lowered my times from 6-33-101 to 1-13-56 - I have cut my total score in half! Just keep playing and asking questions and learning and you can do the same! good luck, and happy sweeping!

Lance

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Nov 29th 2003 at 12:44:11 PM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

80

Best intermediate:  

29

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

How old are you guys.
I am 18 years old and thought my 80 s on exp was really good.
43 s is unbelivable, great job.

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Nov 29th 2003 at 12:42:30 PM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

Somebody better answer Mel. He's lost.
Anyway, congratulations to you maniacs with your great archives. My recordings folder is so small . Only txt videos here. Saves a lot of space, you know?
OK, bye! I have to watch some . I'm into that right now. Maybe it will go away. It's scary that I laugh all by myself in front of the monitor. See ya.

Nov 29th 2003 at 11:27:08 AM
Name:  

Matt

Comments:  

Digging back into the archives here...my best scores.

1x2, 2x42, 3x425, 4x1663
10, 11, 12x5, 13x8, 14x24, 15x42 (1227 sub 20s)
51, 52, 54, 55x3, 56x4, 57x5, 58x14, 59x12

Nov 29th 2003 at 05:19:36 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Congratulations Lukasz and Stubbe

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Nov 29th 2003 at 03:36:16 AM
Name:  

Manu

Best expert:  

53

Comments:  

Congrats Lukasz, you're a star !

Nov 28th 2003 at 09:44:27 PM
Name:  

mel jordan

Best expert:  

199

Best intermediate:  

39

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

hi, i got 6 seconds on beginner, so i get my name on world records, right? how do i take a picture of it?

Nov 28th 2003 at 01:16:18 PM
Name:  

Sorin

Comments:  

Congrats Lukasz!

My best 199 scores
49 2x50 51 3x52 9x53 8x54 10x55 27x56 31x57 47x58 60x59

Nov 28th 2003 at 01:02:26 PM
Name:  

Lasse Nyholm

Comments:  

Congrats Lukasz, nice job. And you too Stubbe - both of them. Reminds me of myself when I came close to sub-50. Breaking from 52 to 50 in 14 days or something. And of course to 47 just a few days later.

good luck - Lanyjé

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Nov 28th 2003 at 12:53:30 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

On Georgi's image i saw that one of the most scored times is 83...which is my expert time obtained more times...uhm...

Nov 28th 2003 at 12:35:33 PM
Name:  

Stubbe

Comments:  

Here are my 128 best times:

50|*
51|*
52|***
53|***
54|******
55|***********
56|***********
57|****************
58|******************************
59|**********************************************


Nov 28th 2003 at 07:50:53 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Nice job, Lukasz.

Nov 28th 2003 at 06:54:25 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Wow! Congratulations, Lukasz!
That means you passed me on the best players list. Of course, the only reason you hadn't already was because you've been a slacker on int .
Just kidding. Great achievement, man. Shared second place on expert. That must feel good!

Nov 28th 2003 at 06:12:12 AM
Name:  

lukasz malinowski

Comments:  

****, i copied the screenshot to server but i forgot to give the link. that's it:http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~lmalino1/44.gif.

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Nov 28th 2003 at 05:54:42 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

That's pity
Screenshot at least?

Nov 28th 2003 at 05:50:11 AM
Name:  

lukasz malinowski

Comments:  

georgi, unfortunately i didn't record it. i did't expect i break my record .

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Nov 28th 2003 at 05:47:20 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Wow Lukasz,
You are the man
Send me if you have video recorded - I would love to see it!

Nov 28th 2003 at 05:28:27 AM
Name:  

lukasz malinowski

Best expert:  

44!!

Comments:  

yeah, **** i'm good . at last i broke my record, just about half hour ago. after over one year and 60 sub50 scores. i didn't feel i'm in such good shape so i was quite susprised. it's great.

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Nov 28th 2003 at 12:56:05 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

I made a distribution chart of all known (66 to me best expert times - interesting to be seen:

http://www.geocities.com/joro100/expdistribution.png

Nov 28th 2003 at 12:28:12 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

I remember the first time when I visited The Authoritative Minesweeper site ...
On the main page there was a story about a guy who have just scored 47 seconds (his second sub-50) and who was so excited that we ran out the street enjoying the feeling to be the best player ever ...
It was somewhere in year 2000 ... and the guy was Lasse ...
I was very impressed ... took the decision to go under 100 seconds in expert
Would be nice to read again those historic moments ...

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Nov 28th 2003 at 12:11:41 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

61,64,64,64
13,14,14,15

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Nov 27th 2003 at 11:17:39 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Mine are:
65,67,70,70
18,19,19,19
2,2,2,2

Fantastic post Lasse!

Nov 27th 2003 at 02:30:06 PM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

74, 75, 78, 78, 79.
18, 18, 18, 18, 18.

Just on my way back to Ireland from viewing the total solar eclipse over Antarctica. Sublime.

Nov 27th 2003 at 10:10:34 AM
Name:  

Detrusor

Best expert:  

81 > 75 !!

Best intermediate:  

22

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Ahem... I dare post just after such huge stats... I finally broke my f*cking expert record, after making several 81, which is really annoying... I made this on a 161 3BV board

I am soooo happy ... But unfortunately, i am at 100... So the sub100 will be for next time :p

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Nov 27th 2003 at 09:49:15 AM
Name:  

Lasse Nyholm

Comments:  

My 1227 best scores:

41 1
42 3
43 12
44 30
45 46
46 121
47 219
48 304
49 491

- Lanyjé

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Nov 27th 2003 at 09:14:00 AM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Here are my best times

56, 56, 57, 58, 58...
13, 14, 14, 15, 15...
1, 1, 2, 2, 2...

Happy sweeping (and Thanksgiving, for all the Americans!), all!

Lance

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Nov 27th 2003 at 07:07:30 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

My best expert scores: 55, 56x3, 57, 58

Nov 27th 2003 at 06:11:35 AM
Name:  

Stubbe

Comments:  

Here is my 126 best times:

51|*
52|***
53|***
54|******
55|***********
56|***********
57|***************
58|******************************
59|**********************************************

Nov 27th 2003 at 03:14:16 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

I was visiting my sister last weekend, and I met a minesweeper genious with about 95 on expert. So I decided to be really,really mean to him. I downloaded sweeper from this site to one of the lousy computers at my sister's school. After a couple of hours of play with the crappiest mouse I've ever touched, I finished a game in 88 seconds. Then I signed up with my sister's name. Now I guess the "genius" will soon be shocked. I just hope my sister will show the scoreboard soon, because she was afraid to crush his illution of being the best minesweeper ever. Am I evil, or what? If I could just find one of those devil-smilies anywhere. Anyway, someone will soon look like this:

if not worse...

Nov 26th 2003 at 09:00:27 PM
Name:  

Kevin

Best expert:  

99

Best intermediate:  

31

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Like many others, I thought I was good. Surprise.. lol

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Nov 26th 2003 at 01:29:09 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

And one more thing:

The 65 sec I made today was my new record in fastest clicking on exp with 3.70 clicks/sec

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Nov 26th 2003 at 01:26:09 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Actually I only have one 16. I have 9x17 and a lot of 18's and 19's. I haven't played int very much the last couple of months. I maybe play around 1-2 hours int each AR period compared to maybe around 10 hours of exp
I think I play more exp because I can play even if I'm a bit exhausted or tired since it doesn't require as fast mouse handling as int.

I just played some int tonight and got a 17 and I could see that I haven't played int the last 10 days
I play exp around 28 days a month

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Nov 26th 2003 at 12:32:40 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Mine are 77,78,80,81 for expert
and 15,16,16,17 for intermediate!

Martin, your 15 might have been half a second faster but I bet mine had a better 3bv per second ratio! You're probably still better than me... you've got two 15s and probably quite a few 16s as well!? I just don't get how you can only be at 15 NF on int when you're at 55 NF on expert! I mean I can't even finish a NF game on expert! The only NF expert game I've ever finished was a 176 3bv board which I finished in 223 seconds and that was way back (June-14) when my expert record was only 137! I've improved my expert record by a whole MINUTE since then and I can't even finish a game when playing NF now... How pathetic is that?

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Nov 26th 2003 at 12:15:47 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

I don't know if this was meant for the general audience of this forum but mine are:
57,58,58,59

Nov 26th 2003 at 12:01:49 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Well, I better congratulate you with that 15 Dennis. That was afterall a really nice game you played there
Now we are 3 Danes sharing the Danish nf record on int
(but I think mine is about 0.5 seconds faster than yours )

I made two good games today: 67.63 sec @ 191 3BV and 65.37 sec @ 180 3BV, so two games with 2.8-2.9 3BV/s

Btw, I would like to know what your best times are. What are your 2nd, 3rd and 4th best time compared to your record?
I have 55, 56, 57, 58 as my best

Happy sweeping

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Nov 26th 2003 at 07:51:21 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

77

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

This guestbook is really 'quiet' today so I thought I'd find something to post! Well, I played a lot of expert but didn't beat my record! However, I also played some intermediate and I managed to get another 16 on a 35 3bv board! I'll send it to anyone who might be interested!

Good luck and happy sweeping everyone!

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Nov 25th 2003 at 03:36:20 PM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

Check email Georgi

Nov 25th 2003 at 05:00:24 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

May I see them Dion

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Nov 25th 2003 at 02:44:23 AM
Name:  

DIon

Best expert:  

49

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Finally got this Sorin recorder to work. Goto start cracking on recording now I have none of my best times on video, only screenshots

Nov 25th 2003 at 01:16:04 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@max: try to learn some patterns (i.e. 2-3-2, 1-2-1), and try to play without thinking too much...listen to music.
When i started playing seriously, my best times were 108-30-6...
@Dennis: GRRRRRRRRR!!!

Nov 24th 2003 at 11:23:38 PM
Name:  

max

Best expert:  

142

Best intermediate:  

34

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Nice site, except now I realize I'm as good at this game as I thought I was.

Any advice on the expert level? I can't seem to improve my time.

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Nov 24th 2003 at 02:37:36 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

77

Best intermediate:  

16 --> 15!!!

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I just beat my intermediate record AGAIN!

I got this unbelievable 15,90 on a board with a rather high 3bv of 49, at the same time getting a new 3bv per sec record!!! I clicked just once and saw that it was a beautiful opening, so I knew this might be a chance of breaking my record if I went fast. I guess I did go fast since I managed to score a 15 on a 49 3bv board! I still can't believe it but something that makes it a little easier to believe is that there was only ONE opening!

Martin, now you kind of HAVE to improve your int record if you want to be better than me! ... And I just wanted a sub-20 for the AR!

I've got this game (my best int game ever) on video for anyone who's interested!

Good luck everyone and happy sweeping!

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Nov 24th 2003 at 04:20:43 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Last night played 7 hours...went 17 times under minute (fastest 54s).

Bye

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Nov 24th 2003 at 04:06:10 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

You probably have a version not supported by the counter... send it to sorin, explaining your problem

Nov 24th 2003 at 03:53:08 AM
Name:  

Roman Gammel

Best expert:  

60

Best intermediate:  

17

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hi, everybody!
Apparently I have the same problem with Sorin's recoder as Dion. This program record some games, but then when I use player it shows that few games are normal and there is one on a board with 0 mines 0 3BV 0 time then record stops (but number of played games is more than showed). Because of this I lost some records of good games.
This situation frequently occured when I played on expert. On beginner it occured rarely.
How can I solve this problem?

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Nov 24th 2003 at 12:12:25 AM
Name:  

J Laughlin

Best expert:  

59

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Hey, this is my first time checking out any sort of minesweeper related site. I started playing minesweeper about 6 years ago, and shortly thereafter began staying up for hours on end playing it obsessively. I still play it to this day, and just a few days ago I beat expert in under one minute. Also, I now have carpal-tunnel syndrome or some sort of continuous motion syndrome, and have to wear a therapeutic support glove when on the computer. I was just wondering if any one else out there has encountered such wrist problems and/or have cursed the game developer. I can't stop playing!

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Nov 23rd 2003 at 07:41:32 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

77

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Angela, with that expert score you should be able to improve your intermediate and beginner records quite a bit with a rather small effort! Go for it!

I just got a new 3bv per sec record on int as I finished a 63 3bv board in 20 seconds! Not long after that I had something strange happen to me. I got a board which I realised seemed familiar to the board on which I almost got a 14 a while back. However, that board was a 36 3bv board and this one was a 45 3bv board. By examining the board I find that FOUR mines had shifted position and NOT to the top left corner as usual!!! If all boards are cycled then I find this very strange! I found my missed possible 14 and looked at the boards afterwards and the then when I clicked and hit a mine in the Minesweeper window I compared and found that very often several mines had changed position although it was the same board. The suddenly the cycle stopped being the same and I started getting totally different boards... This was SO strange! Has anyone else had something like this happen??? I also seemed to get a lot more nice boards (in the 30s) than usually and I got three boards with a 3bv above 100 so I think this was a very unusual session! Perhaps I've gotten some kind of weird Minesweeper virus which changes the cycles...

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Nov 23rd 2003 at 06:24:40 PM
Name:  

Angela

Best expert:  

76

Best intermediate:  

29

Best beginner:  

7

Comments:  

I'm totally obsessed with minesweeper! I can't get enough of it!

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Nov 23rd 2003 at 11:12:16 AM
Name:  

Zhidong Zhu

Best expert:  

82

Best intermediate:  

26

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hello everyone!
I just downloaded MineSaver from this home page.
but when I tried it said "MineSaver Error:99".
why?
Could someone tell me how to use it please?

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Nov 23rd 2003 at 05:25:33 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

You can use the finished only and filter games options to find the one you want, or click the down arrow at the end of the bar giving you information about the game to search for it

Nov 23rd 2003 at 05:15:40 AM
Name:  

Manu

Comments:  

Hello everybody !
Maybe I'm not dead... yet ! Just made a 56 ( 3BV = 133 )
Sorin : Would it be easy to add another stat to your recorder : the number of flags used in a game ?? I ask that because at the end of each good game, I always have to stop the video and watch the end of it to know whether I flagged too much or not...
On this 56, I flagged 51 mines.
Bye everybody.

Nov 23rd 2003 at 04:52:16 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Yes, Sorin's recorder stores entire sessions to one file. I don't know what you guys are doing wrong, but maybe you just have to take a closer look at the saved files....

Nov 22nd 2003 at 09:35:22 PM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

Is this the Sorin recorder? Because whenever i start the recorder up, it only records one game whether or not its finished. Is this the only recorder program. hmm

Nov 22nd 2003 at 08:44:39 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

78 --> 77!

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hmmmm.... Slow improvement but I guess that's okay too sometimes. This wasn't really a good game at all. I had been playing for HOURS and it's 5:30 am so I'm exhausted. I shut down Camtasia and the counter thing and was going to shut down Minesweeper but as always I just couldn't do it until I had finished ONE more game... Well, I did get to finish one more game and was indeed very surprised when the sign popped up because I didn't expect that at all. I was playing really slowly and it also turned out to only be a 124 3bv board so I guess that explains it. I hope I'll soon be able to improve my expert time some more - perhaps when I'm a little less tired - as I hate not having my record on video! Well, at least I got my sum down to 94, slowly working my way up on the list! Good luck everyone and happy sweeping!

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Nov 22nd 2003 at 10:51:48 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Active Ranking has been updated.

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Nov 22nd 2003 at 09:29:01 AM
Name:  

Turkey

Best expert:  

98 -> 88

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I just beat my expert score by 10 seconds! I find that the best way to play is when thoroughly distracted (ie. listening to music, on the phone)

Nov 22nd 2003 at 07:09:36 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

You don't have to restart everytime you restart the game. The recorder saves entire sessions to one file.

Nov 21st 2003 at 06:24:32 PM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

This recording program seems complicated, to record a game i have to reopen the recorder.exe
It seems like such a hassle
Am i doing something wrong? :\
I notice that most of the minesweeper videos are in .avi
Is there another program that can do this?
bah please help

Nov 21st 2003 at 05:21:18 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

99

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

You're right, those aren't my records but I just wanted to share something with you guys. The friend of mine who got me hooked on Minesweeper has now gooten hooked herself! When she showed me how to play she got a 45 on int and she told me that she hadn't hardly played... Well, I guess it's because I kept talking about Minesweeper that she finally decided to play it some more and now she's addicted just like me and most of you guys out there probably. She's only played for a very short time but she's very talented, I think as she's already gotten a sub-100 expert score! 24 on int is quite good as well! She's a flagger! I wonder why there are so few female players... Maybe there are quite a few but they just don't post here because they don't have the same need to share their scores with everyone else... Anyway, I just wanted you guys to know that there's now a Danish GIRL who's gotten the Minesweeper bug and if she keeps playing I bet she'll 'soon' beat my expert score!

Nov 21st 2003 at 03:40:56 PM
Name:  

Kósa Dávid

Best expert:  

100

Best intermediate:  

38

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

Hi! Until now I thought that I'm a quite good player...
Then I found this place...
So I have an intensive motivation

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Nov 21st 2003 at 11:48:39 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

Try recording in 256 colour mode then...

Nov 21st 2003 at 05:23:02 AM
Name:  

Bryan Hayden

Best expert:  

76

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I don't have a video because my computer can't really handle running the program as I play without everything becoming really slow and my mouse becoming jumpy, but I'll send you the screenshot. If you want, I can send you the 76 as well, but earlier this year my computer crashed on me, so I sadly lost the screenshot of my 1, which was one of, it not the most, my most proud moments of minesweeper. Hopefully I'll catch a stroke of luck again.

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Nov 21st 2003 at 03:51:58 AM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

Thanks alot Georgi

Nov 21st 2003 at 03:31:39 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Dion

http://www.geocities.com/joro100/Sorin_Recorder.zip

Nov 21st 2003 at 02:24:43 AM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

I did a 200-mine 24x30 board the other day (in only 703 seconds!). Not quite 220, but I haven't been playing much of late, and this is my first 24x30x200.

Nov 21st 2003 at 02:02:56 AM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

anyone

Nov 21st 2003 at 01:21:28 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

78

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Bryan, congratulations! I know what that must feel like because we've got the excact same sum now! Still you're going to range higher than me because of my lousy expert score! 18 on int is really good!!! Can you send me that video (if you recorded it) or the screenshot? Thanks and good luck!

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Nov 20th 2003 at 09:58:52 PM
Name:  

Bryan Hayden

Best expert:  

76

Best intermediate:  

22 -> 18

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I knew there was a reason that I played minesweeper before I go to bed. I just happened to, yet again, break my intermediate record, this time by four seconds. I guess that I am starting to get fairly decent at this game. Man, I am so happy now.

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Nov 20th 2003 at 04:23:26 PM
Name:  

Bryan Hayden

Best expert:  

79 -> 76

Best intermediate:  

24 -> 22

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Wowee zowee. In a matter of about 30 minutes, I went from a sum of 104 to 99. I finally, after over a year, managed to beat my 24 intermediate score. I can die a happy man now. I would go into the whole spiel about 3BV/s and all that, but I have only recently been using that. It was a 153 board for expert and a 42 for intermediate, if any of you were so curious to know. So hopefully sometime I will get a really good board and actually finish it. Happy sweeping all!

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Nov 20th 2003 at 03:53:00 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

78

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Today I had a terrific chance to break the world record on int.... or at least the best chance I'm ever going to get probably! I just didn't really want to take it AND I screwed up anyway! I solved the 23 3bv board mystery. It's a shift of a 30 3bv board. I realised that by pure coincidence. I had gotten a 29 3bv board which I screwed up but recognized and I managed to find the file with that session. I remembered that there was another good board not long after that so I watched the video to find out how good and how long after. I really just wanted to check out if all of the boards were just cyckled like Jon claimed. I checked the 3bv of each board and yes they are cyckled. I then found that 30 3bv board not long after the 29 3bv board and I didn't recognize it at once because I hadn't solved very much of it and because I didn't really think of 23 in connection with a 30 3bv board! I tried to use the Minesweeper Reader to get a better look at the board but as usual it didn't work so I sat down and 'remade' (copy & paste) the board myself as it would have looked like if I had finished it. I then recognized the board and checked. Yes, it was the 23 3bv board in it's unshifted version. So now I knew where to click to make it a 23 3bv board. My original idea was to try to see how fast I could go if I knew the board layout in advance. Not because I wanted to cheat but because I thought it might a fun experiment and I wasn't going to count it for anything. I now thought! WOW, with a 23 3bv board I should be able to get a really nice score... WRONG! I somehow missed the square I was supposed to hit so it was a 30 3bv board and I couldn't use my tactic because an opening was now missing and I had to play differently than I had planned. I finished in TERRIBLE 17.87 seconds! This only shows how terrible I would be at cheating even if I wanted to! *LOL* Still it was fun to solve the 23 3bv board mystery and I got a nice clumsy 17 video that I'm not going to count in my statistics! Btw the Dreamboard is in that same cyckle! I got it but didn't realise it and screwed up pretty fast once I did realise it! I wonder if everyone is as honest as me and that probably why Georgi won't make an all times best intermediate list as well! When will we get a REAL randomised Minesweeper version?

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