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Jan 20th 2004 at 08:47:03 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Fully agreed with Elmar. That game is played with previous knowledge of board bomb map!!!
You will ask how that can be done ?!?
.... well, recently I found a site, where it is explained how to see where there are bombs before start playing. I offered Sorin to use that code in his Recorder in order to calculate the 3BV of the boards that is going to be played ...
I, myseft couldn't use the code, because it requires some programming skills, but others might be successful ...:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/minememoryreader.asp
And obviously that code can be used for other purposes.
I tried to play with Curtis clone a board for which I saw the bomb map, then hid the bombs and start to play .... the result was a game played with exactly the same style as Stevan's. Nothing else to say....
It is too hard to keep the game from cheating ...

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Jan 20th 2004 at 07:28:47 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

you have to save it to disk, you cant open the file, then click save and then try and use the player program, which isn't that easy to do when its not a clickable link - I had to use a download program

It seems odd that he didn't bother to tell anyone that he'd sub50ed before (until now), and 7 seconds is a massive jump when your that low (geeez, my best it only 64, and I doubt I'll ever improve by 7 seconds in one)

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Jan 20th 2004 at 05:51:13 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Detrusor: I downloaded the version at the yahoo group, and the 41 video worked with that version.

Jan 20th 2004 at 05:48:12 AM
Name:  

Detrusor

Comments:  

i meant "should"... not "would"

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Jan 20th 2004 at 05:46:53 AM
Name:  

Detrusor

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

22

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I can't read the file... Maybe i use an old version of the player... Could you give me the url to download last version ?

I'll give my opinion without having viewed the video... If he really cheated, i think that he shouldn't be trusted anymore, and that he would be dropped off from the bestever.html table

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Jan 20th 2004 at 04:07:45 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

It doesn't look like a person playing minesweeper to me - there's no hesitation, no errors/slips, nothing to make it looks like there's a really person thinking the game through (admitedly, the best way to play minesweeper is often to not think about it, but not to the extent shown their)

My opinion is that either, it was largely played by a computer program, or it was a modified version of the game (perhaps so that if you clicked on a mine it moved)

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Jan 20th 2004 at 03:25:31 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best beginner:  

Another 2...

Comments:  


Jan 20th 2004 at 01:59:02 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

57x2

Best intermediate:  

14x2

Best beginner:  

1x2

Comments:  

Sorry, Stevan. As much as I'd like to see a little competition for Lasse, but I don't buy it...
- About 25 lucky "guesses" when there is absolutely no need to guess.
- You hit all the big openings like you know where they were. That is, you don't hit you don't hit a number next to it and then the opening, but you go straight for the opening.
- The overall style is just to "jumpy". Regular NF doesn't look like that. You leave aside parts that are easy to sweep and every normal sweeper would go for.
- 7clicks/s without going for those easy to clean areas...
- The last 10sec are just pathetic compared to the rest. It looks like cleaning up what's left after a preplanned stragtegy.

Other opinions

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Jan 20th 2004 at 12:32:47 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Congratulations to Stevan, but I can't believe it. I've never seen such a nf video. There are probably 20 lucky guesses in cooperation with wild clicking. Normally, this isn't possible to be done without clicking on a mine. Moreover, I somehow doubt that a left clicking rate of 7 clicks/sec is possible to keep up for 30 seconds. But maybe it's just a mixture of amazement and a state of shock.

Jan 19th 2004 at 10:41:36 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

I can't play the file. How do I go about links to textfiles? I usually copy the adresse to the explorer. Once the txt-file opens I use save as, but it never works....

Jan 19th 2004 at 08:20:39 PM
Name:  

Stevan Gvozdenovic

Best expert:  

48->41.08

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Unbelievable!!!

Before few days I finished 77% of est. 45s game (video sent to Martin Madsen) and now some crazy luck fast clicking no thinking NF routine turned to great game 138 3BV 3.44 per sec, Lasse's 41 tied

Here is the link:

http://www.securityguardmn.com/TiedWR!!!.txt

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Jan 19th 2004 at 12:35:41 PM
Name:  

Roman Gammel

Comments:  

I just finished english version of my website. You can find a list of best known russian sweepers on it. Welcome everybody. (To switch to english version click on a flag at left up corner).

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Jan 19th 2004 at 12:19:03 PM
Name:  

Dan

Best expert:  

44

Best intermediate:  

11

Comments:  

I just played a 99 3BV board, but I messed up halfway through. I don't think sub 100 3BV boards show up too often, although I was lucky enough to get my current record on a 99.

I am not willing to give up my records that I got using the WinXP version of minesweeper. I don't play nearly as much as I used to and I doubt I'll ever match 44 on expert and 11 on intermediate.

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Jan 19th 2004 at 12:00:55 PM
Name:  

Steffen

Comments:  

I dont think, the world will have to crash now, elmar

Jan 19th 2004 at 08:59:26 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

What's even worse, that was my 100th sub65. I was hoping for it to be a sub60...

Jan 19th 2004 at 08:40:51 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Kacke! Just finished a 113 3bv board in 62secs. 3bv/s: 1.82 Pathetic....

Jan 19th 2004 at 01:35:33 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Yes, it may differ with the timer speed but there's no difference whatsoever on my computer either!

Jan 18th 2004 at 04:51:23 PM
Name:  

Marko Jeznik

Comments:  

It may differ from computer to computer, but about the timers... On my computer there is no difference in speed whatsoever. At least there was none big enough to be noticed in the first 250 seconds. Any comments on this by the experts?

Jan 18th 2004 at 11:43:00 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

I think it does matter that the time is different, even if only for comparison with older times

I also think its a bad idea to scrap all the current times and to stop people from using the MS version - what about people who don't play anymore, or people without internet access on their own computer or people on networks where downloading is heavily restricted? Having to download a new version of the game to be part of the community will just generally make people think twice about joining

Someone (Martin I think) suggested that only times better than a certain value (he suggested 60s) would have to be proved with videos from the new program, and I think that this, along with just accepting all current scores based on screenshots and videos made with existing programs is the way to go

Also, James: that mario video is great, even if his version of the game doesnt play exaclty as it should. I can complete super mario bros pretty quickly, I'll see just how quickly in a couple of months when i get back home from uni (if anyone wants to know how to do it fast you can email me). Planetquake (i think its just www.planetquake.com) has a some videos of people doing quake really quickly, so you might be interested in those.

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Jan 18th 2004 at 10:36:47 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

68

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

It doesn't really matter that the timer on Curtis' version is slower that the original version. At least not if we can all just agree on which scores will be counted! If from now on we only count times achieved on Curtis' Minesweeper then we simply just delete our current records and start going for new ones! A lot of people have already said that they are willing to give up their current records if a Minesweeper game could be made where cheating isn't possible. However, in my opinion the scores made on Curtis's version shouldn't count YET! The reason for this is that it's still possible to cheat and I think we should wait until a recording program has been built into the program and the 3bv search function has been disabled so that we know for sure that people didn't cheat!

What does everyone else think?

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Jan 18th 2004 at 10:04:29 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

The timer on Curtis's version is slower than on the MS version

Jan 18th 2004 at 09:49:31 AM
Name:  

Gustaf

Best intermediate:  

24 -> 21

Comments:  

Ooops..
Another record for the day with the new minesweeper

Jan 18th 2004 at 07:51:05 AM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

76 -> 68

Comments:  

OMG!
I am a little confused here...
I downloaded Curtis' version of minesweeper, played for 30 min and beat my record with 8 seconds...
Can sombody please give me an answer to this

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Jan 18th 2004 at 04:31:08 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

68

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Curtis, thanks for changing the program. Now it's certainly harder to cheat! However, if the boards are cycled it is still possible. Are they cycled?

You could play until you get a good board and record the session. If the good board you got was a 28 3bv board on int or something then you could look at the 3bv of the board right before that and search for that until you found the right board. Then the next board would be the nice 28 3bv board and the score would count because it wasn't found on a direct 3bv search!

Perhaps you ought to get rid of the 3bv search function altogether!? It's kind of fun but maybe you could just put out your old version on your site too so that people can download that version if they want to have fun with the 3bv search function!? There might still be other ways of cheating but I haven't thought of any yet. However, if anyone does, let everyone know so that we can finally get a Minesweeper where it isn't possible to cheat!

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Jan 18th 2004 at 03:24:39 AM
Name:  

Curtis Bright

Comments:  

Hello again everyone. If anyone is interested, I updated my version of Minesweeper. I believe I added most of the features that were requested. (Besides the recording - it will hopefully be in a future version.) To help prevent the faking of videos, I've changed the mouse cursor in my version. I also moved the 3BV/click counters into a statistics window, and also added the statistics that Sorin's great Recorder/Counter program displays.

However, I have a question about the solved 3BV value. Is there a definition of it anywhere? I disagree with the value calculated by Sorin's Counter. I think if you subtract your solved 3BV from a board's total 3BV, you should get the minimum number of left-clicks the board could now be completed in.

For example, look at the following board:
http://www.geocities.com/brightprojects/minesweeper/1_solv3BV.gif
Although Sorin's Counter displays a value of 4, I think this value should be 0, as if you click the top left-hand corner (or any other zero around it) all the 4 squares I clicked will be opened, so by opening the 4 squares alone I haven't solved any 3BV. If you go by Sorin's Counter, the solved 3BV could be higher than the total 3BV. Example:
http://www.geocities.com/brightprojects/minesweeper/2_solv3BV.gif

Once again, let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement, or if you found any bugs. By the way, I changed the format of the board files, so the older board files won't work in the new version.

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Jan 18th 2004 at 02:19:15 AM
Name:  

Detrusor

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

22

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Elmar > could you email me some of your sub70's, including the 3BV of 225 ? Thanks

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Jan 17th 2004 at 10:19:44 PM
Name:  

Darin Styles

Best expert:  

59

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Elmar, since you ask, I am Darin Styles and I am from Michigan. The last time I was on the Active Ranking site was period 4 in 2003. Being the lazy person that I am, I eventually lost interest in having to email my stats to the rankings every two weeks. I decided to resubmit for the new year because of my recent record breaking and that I wanted my new scores to be on the best ever list. I'll try not to make this submission a one time deal as that seems a little cheap if I were to just submit once when I want my name a bit higher up in the world rankings, and then never submit again for a year. If anyone remembers (I barely do), back quite a while ago I posted a comment that asked two of the guys if I could join in on their friendly little competition they had going on. I really don't even remember who they were (and I doubt they remember me) because this was back when they were trying to break 100 for their total times (I had already done that however, but not by much). Once again, I completely lost interest in this and I haven't posted since. Despite my total lack of motivation to post, I am a regular reader of the guestbook and the interest in myself is appreciated. Just so you're aware, I probably won't be able to approach that expert time for the next several periods as I am quite inconsistent on that level.

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Jan 17th 2004 at 08:31:47 PM
Name:  

Michael Kenyon AKA The Illinois Enema Bandit

Comments:  

I've been gone for some time. I apologize to my fans. I fled to Mexico because it seems that lil Damien has some federal connections in the USA. And he posted my address on the page. I stabbed the fellow who came to my house. Dont force me to post more pictures of you with cocks in your humble little mouth ****er. PS I give enemas for my own sexual pleasures and then I take their belongings. I'm a 133t h4x0r thats a thumb in the keister to stretch it so the hot oil drips out nicely.

Jan 17th 2004 at 03:01:43 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Ok, two more, a 66 and a 69. That's 13 sub70s in one day.

Jan 17th 2004 at 02:20:58 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

New 3bv/s record for expert:
3bv 225 in 72 seconds -> 3.13 3bv/s (prev best 3.06)
Got the video of course...

Jan 17th 2004 at 02:12:02 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Got 11 sub70s today:
62,3x63,2x64,3x67,2x68
Previous best was 9 in one day...

Who is Darin Styles? What are his best scores?

Jan 17th 2004 at 01:42:11 PM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Active Ranking has been updated.

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Jan 17th 2004 at 10:28:48 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Lance, I like that idea.

Jan 17th 2004 at 06:20:27 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best intermediate:  

18*2 --> 17!!!

Comments:  

Oh, yes!!!!! It arrived, at last!!! You can see the video (txt version, i added the links on "video" page) and the screenshot on my website!

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Jan 17th 2004 at 02:52:52 AM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

Justin, from memory, when Matt McGinley first posted to this guestbook, his best int time was 27, and his best expert over 240.

Jan 16th 2004 at 11:53:04 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hey everyone, the AR list for the first period of 2004 is on it's way to Dan. Since it's the beginning of a new year, I think it might be nice to inject some more fun into the thing, and have a "Player of the Period". This player would write a 2-3 paragraph bio about themselves and would link to a favorite non-sweeping site (a personal webpage or just a fun/interesting site), and a link to this bio would be featured in the information box near the top of the page, right above the list. After that period is over and the person is no longer the "Player of the Period", their bio would be linked to their name.

To start off, the AR staff (Dan, Stephan, and myself) would post our bios to "introduce" ourselves, and then after that, I (or one of the other AR staffers) would choose which player or players would be the focus of the following periods. I would likely be asking individuals for submissions a couple of weeks in advance so that we don't have a week go by where there is no Player of the Period.

I would very much like to see this added to the site, because I think it will help everyone get to know members of this community better, since we all talk about the game so much! Please post thoughts/suggestions/comments here, and I will create a poll in the addicts group about this topic. Thanks a lot!

Happy sweeping,

Lance

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Jan 16th 2004 at 03:22:18 PM
Name:  

Luke Vaughn

Best expert:  

156

Best intermediate:  

47

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

I found a way to cheat that's not on the cheats page here...and although I don't endorse using it, and I hope no one uses it to propagate false scores, I thought I should share my knowledge.
Anyway, here it is:
Start a new game, click a square to start the timer, then hit Window-D (the key with the windows symbol on it and the letter D). This will Show Desktop (minimize all windows). Now simply click on the minesweeper window in the start bar and play your game. The timer will have stopped, and you will probably get a high score in any level (unless you're very good and already have a 1 on beginner).
I don't know if this works for OS's other than WinXP. I also don't know if this was an intentional cheat, or just a glitch.
Remember to write down your best scores somewhere, then you can change them back with winmine.ini after you've had your fun.

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Jan 16th 2004 at 01:19:22 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best intermediate:  

3,19 --> 3,32 3BV/sec

Comments:  

Very nice board. Here's the screenshot: http://maresias.interfree.it/counter3BV_2.png
I have the video if someone wants

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Jan 16th 2004 at 09:52:09 AM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

76

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Justin
I think it's like impossible to do better than 24 on intermediate but i had many chances to improve my 76 and I think I gonna beat that very soon.

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Jan 16th 2004 at 09:41:43 AM
Name:  

Justin

Best expert:  

87

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Dennis, thats weird because when I be my time of 20, I did it with a 17, and that was right around the same time I got a 92 on expert. So now that I got a 16 (which I got today), according to your schedule, I should be able pull of an 80 or so in the next few days.

Jan 16th 2004 at 08:22:20 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Just tied my 3bv/s record:
64sec 196 3bv ->3,06 3bv/s

Jan 16th 2004 at 07:53:29 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

68

Best intermediate:  

14x2

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Justin, I know what you mean! I've been where you are when it comes to that! On the same day as I went from 20 to 17 on int I also went from 93 to 90 on expert and then when I got my first 16 I also went from 81 to 78 that same day. I've only gotten considerably better at expert relatively fast because I've dedicated a lot of time to improving on expert! I used to hate expert because I was so lousy at it but now I kind of like it! Don't worry, you'll beat the h... out of that expert record too sometime soon if you keep playing! Good luck!

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Jan 16th 2004 at 07:29:30 AM
Name:  

Justin

Best expert:  

87

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

How is it that everyone can to do the expert so fast when I'm about the same as anyone fir the intermediate, I mean, anyone who has a 16 on intemediate has like a 62 or something on expert. I keep hoping that one of these days I'm gonna blow away my current expert time...

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Jan 16th 2004 at 06:33:43 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

Sorry...if you visit those links, the txt files are not directly downloadable....while waiting for a dedicated page, to save them just choose File --> save page as... on your browser!

Jan 16th 2004 at 06:30:59 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best intermediate:  

18 --> 18*2 , 2,96 3BV/s --> 3,19 3BV/s

Comments:  


And this time....i've got the videos!! For 18, look at maresias.interfree.it/txtvideos/18_sec_39_3Bv.txt . For 3,19 maresias.interfree.it/txtvideos/33_sec_103_3Bv.txt . Yes, 103... There's also an image: maresias.interfree.it/counter3BV.png

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Jan 15th 2004 at 03:09:04 PM
Name:  

James

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

20

Comments:  

Hey, I thought that some of you might appreciate this vid of someone finnishing Mario Brothers 3 in 11 minutes.

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Jan 15th 2004 at 11:19:56 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

hey matthew, 109 3bv, nice board.

cheatmine may interest some of you...several interesting features that you programmers may or may not wish to see for interest.

http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/~natasha/Chitmine/chitmine.html

Jan 15th 2004 at 09:53:58 AM
Name:  

Matthew Ackerman

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

just got a 15 on int, missed a suqare and shoulda been 14!
This is my best non dreamboard score by 1 second. Can't wait to see my AR.

Luckiest Day Ever

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Jan 15th 2004 at 09:41:29 AM
Name:  

Matthew Ackerman

Best expert:  

63 -> 58

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Wow, picture is on my website, that's gotta be the best expert board i've seen. My AR is gonna rule. Gotta work on int.

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Jan 14th 2004 at 01:08:58 PM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

**** Deadline Friday @ 20:00 GMT/ 3pm EST ****

Remember there is no penalty carry-over to the new year and no beginner time is required.

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Jan 14th 2004 at 12:16:58 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

@Sorin: it happened again...this time i made a 66, and it didn't even start recording!

Jan 14th 2004 at 07:05:20 AM
Name:  

Manu

Comments:  

Missed a 14 on the last click last night , but got a 19 on a 71 3BV board...

Jan 14th 2004 at 06:22:59 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

I forgot: congrats to all record breakers!

Jan 14th 2004 at 06:22:30 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

I just wanted to announce that I won't be able to host the AR files when I'm leaving university in the end of March. So, if anyone has 5 MB free webspace, I would be pleased if I get some reply. The domain www.active-ranking.de.vu isn't affected, of course, as it's only a redirect, anyway.

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Jan 13th 2004 at 11:26:15 PM
Name:  

Detrusor

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

22

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Dennis > i am interested by your videos of intermediate.. Could you send me at my email some videos (ex : 10 videos) of your best int times ?

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Jan 13th 2004 at 04:13:00 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

73 --> 68!!!

Best intermediate:  

14x2

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

FINALLY I got a sub-70 on expert!

It was a 68,64 second game made on a really nice 137 3bv board! After having messed up several chances of a sub-70 it's nice finally to get one! I've got the video of course for anyone who's interested!

Oh, what a nice start on the 2004 Active Ranking to be able to submit my overall int and expert times 14-68, giving me a total of only 82!

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Jan 13th 2004 at 02:33:15 PM
Name:  

Sorin

Comments:  

..that should be written 'reset'

Jan 13th 2004 at 02:30:41 PM
Name:  

Sorin

Comments:  

I reseted my scores and tried the Recorder. On all levels it worked properly. I'm not saying that a bug is not impossible to appear, just that this doesn't happen always.

Jan 13th 2004 at 01:50:31 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

Of course *use* was wrong...i meant *was*...

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Jan 13th 2004 at 01:49:18 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

@Dennis: About the 65... i use using Sorin's recorder, and it failed to count on that game. It just showed the total 3BV, but not the solved. That game was the 2,70 3BV/sec. I already wrote to Sorin about that: the recorder seems to hang when beating a record.

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Jan 13th 2004 at 01:44:09 PM
Name:  

Josh

Best expert:  

147 sec.

Best intermediate:  

43 sec.

Best beginner:  

5 sec.

Comments:  

Hey I just wanted to know if I could be added to the beginner's record page. I don't have a pic of the minefield, so would my "best times" window be of any valid proof?

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Jan 13th 2004 at 10:56:42 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Best expert:  

2.63 3bv/s

Best intermediate:  

3.48 3bv/s

Best beginner:  

4.49 3bv/s (at least)

Comments:  

Roman - there's definitely a correlation between best 3bv/s and best time, even if its not 100% accurate. And looking at your 3bv/s helps you know that your improving, even if you havent broken your record recently

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Jan 13th 2004 at 07:35:14 AM
Name:  

Roman Gammel

Comments:  

Dennis, my best 3BV/sec 4,07(beg), 3,66(int), 3,05(exp). I think that big best 3BV/sec is not real advantage. I got this results on a boards with big 3BV (beg-22,int-88,exp-223). During last two years (except last month) I finished about 100 intermediate games (Expert is my favorite, so intermediate and beginner got 1 hour of playing for 2 years). Because of playing only on expert my style is click-a-lot (as Georgi said - I click left button approximately 4 times/sec, right button - 5 times/sec) and I mark almost all mines, I played some nf games but best 3BV/sec was 2,14. So when I see intermediate board with low 3BV I can't solve it fast, boards with low 3BV contain parts which solution is to click to few fields, it will be faster if I solve it by nf style, but I am not good nf-player.

So you can get big 3BV/sec, but at the same time your best results could be worse than results of players with lower best 3BV/sec.

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Jan 13th 2004 at 06:29:08 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Wow, Daniele! Nice expert 3bv per sec record... on int. you're getting really close to the 3 3bv per sec... Good luck with that! The first time I went above 3 3bv per sec on int was when I got my first 15 (15.90) on a 49 3bv board! Good luck! And congrats on your second 65! Do you have a video of that? I'd like to see it! If you have the game with a 3bv per sec of 2.70 I'd like to see that too!

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Jan 13th 2004 at 04:48:38 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

2,70 3Bv/sec

Best intermediate:  

2,96 3Bv/sec

Best beginner:  

3,45 3Bv/sec

Comments:  


Jan 13th 2004 at 04:43:59 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

2,32 --> 2,47 3bv per sec

Best intermediate:  

3,45 3bv per sec

Best beginner:  

4,?? 3bv per sec

Comments:  

I just finished a 207 3bv board in 84,68 seconds! That's a new 3bv per sec record for me! I was kind of hoping to see the pop-up sign because I knew I was going extremely fast (by MY standards... ) but I realised that the 3bv was 207 when I looked at the counter and that kind of explained it! Once again the difference between expert and int. is less than 1! That means it's time to break that expert record soon!

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Jan 13th 2004 at 03:10:50 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

I upgraded my website, with the page "software". Every italian player can download useful programs.

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Jan 12th 2004 at 07:30:29 PM
Name:  

Paul

Comments:  

RyanTurk, if you want to complete beginner in 1 second, then go ahead and keep trying. Surely that is all the incentive that you need?

Jan 12th 2004 at 05:10:26 PM
Name:  

RyanTurk

Best expert:  

82

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I have an idea for the beginner issue on the AR, how about having the player's best ever beginner score count every week (that way there's still incentive for myself and others to get that one second game)

Jan 12th 2004 at 01:14:13 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65 --> 65*2

Comments:  

I got another 65!!!

Jan 12th 2004 at 01:08:03 PM
Name:  

Roman Gammel

Comments:  

Oh, I missed a game on a board with 200 3BV. I solved all board but last double click was wrong because of ambiguity . Time = 59,77, 3BV/sec=3,40 (my best 3BV/sec of finished expert games 3,05)

About AR: I waste about 2 hours each period to get 2 sec on beginner, so it will be great to submit only intermediate and expert results.

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Jan 12th 2004 at 12:26:19 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

14x2!!! :-)

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I just got home and am really tired so I decided to play a bit of Minesweeper instead of studying. I got a 19 on a 45 3bv board and kept playing... Then suddenly I got a 14.93 on a 34 3bv board!

AR: 14-80... Looks really strange with such a good int score and such a bad expert score, don't you think???

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Jan 12th 2004 at 09:02:29 AM
Name:  

lukasz malinowski

Comments:  

damien, thanks for your congratulations. that's true about dying this site.. i wish you have time to update it .

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Jan 12th 2004 at 04:05:46 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I agree on eliminating beginner times for AR.
@Eli: try to think and examinate the games you play. You'll find something like 1-2-1, 2-3-2.. just keep playing!

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Jan 11th 2004 at 07:00:52 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I really like the idea of not having to submit beg. times for the AR because I think it\\\'s mostly a wast of time to play beginner. I sometimes do it anyway but I would love it if I didn\\\'t have to! Way to go, Dan!

I haven\\\'t played much recently... In fact today was the first time I played in more than a week. Don\\\'t worry, I\\\'m not quitting - I\\\'m just studying for exams! I had an exam on Saturday and I\\\'ve got a 10-page paper to be handed in on the 19th and since I haven\\\'t even started reading for it yet I don\\\'t think I\\\'ll get to play Minesweeper until after then... If so then my AR scores will have to be lousy 17-80 (=97)... Actually it\'s not so bad after not having played for a while, especially considering the fact that I\'m not even at my own computer with my own mouse!

Good luck everyone and happy sweeping!

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Jan 11th 2004 at 05:44:25 PM
Name:  

Eli

Best expert:  

191

Best intermediate:  

49

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

I need help on how to improve. Ive been playin for about 2 years and i still mark almost all mines not near 1s. What should i do?


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Jan 11th 2004 at 05:38:55 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

i\'ve always enjoyed having beg in AR because it usually gave me a one sec advantage in my long trek behind lasse, dan, and now lukascz. elimination is the least controversial method of dealing with xp i guess.

it\'s been a while since i\'ve checked in...mainly because it is harder to pay attention when you aren\'t playing. just like to let you guys know that i have changed the formats for all the lists and have updated two months this week, and this should be ongoing for the next few weeks. however, i have not posted anything as of yet, as i am still not connected and wish to send in a larger effort. thanks for all your patience, but this site is not going to die if you guys hang in a bit longer. thanks.

special congrats to lukascz for passing me in the ranking.

Jan 11th 2004 at 05:15:48 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

AR so far: 18x2-57=>75

Jan 11th 2004 at 04:31:52 PM
Name:  

James

Comments:  

My younger sister is having a little contest on her website. It would make her very happy to have some worldly entrants.

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Jan 11th 2004 at 04:28:50 PM
Name:  

James

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

20

Comments:  

Good move getting rid of beginner Dan. I just might be abel to finish an expert and an intermediate game every two weeks...well, maybe.

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Jan 11th 2004 at 02:26:46 PM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

Yay! Thankyou Dan for finally getting rid of beginner times for the AR (I hope). I don't know if I'll be sweeping fast and resuming submission of scores, but it is a change for the good.

Jan 11th 2004 at 01:15:41 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

I don\'t care whether the beg times count in the AR

I just made an 62.98 sec on a 178 3BV, the best in a long time. The last couple of days I have only get to play around 3-4 am, so my times these days kinda suck

Anyway, I\'m going to build my new computer now, so I don\'t know if I get to play the next couple of days...
2.8 GHz Pentium FSB800 by the way

Happy sweeping!

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Jan 11th 2004 at 08:21:01 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Paul, go ahead and send in beginner-less active ranking times. Unless there are any major objections, the 2004 active ranking will just use intermediate and expert.

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Jan 11th 2004 at 04:31:30 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

Does any1 else have problems with the AR page when using mozilla firebird? It doesn't load properly for me

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Jan 10th 2004 at 06:15:20 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Elimating beginner might motivate me to submit scores as well. I guess I could play a couple of int games every two weeks....

Jan 10th 2004 at 10:20:36 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

I agree that we shouldn't bother with beginner for AR, maybe keep it for the best ever list just because 3 numbers look/sound cooler than 2 (though I wouldn't mind if it was scraped for both)

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Jan 10th 2004 at 09:52:13 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

The need of a decent beg time for the AR keeps me going to try to get a 1 (with having a 1 I could stop forever)...
But I don't have anything against eliminating beginner.

Jan 10th 2004 at 09:40:31 AM
Name:  

Paul

Comments:  

Eliminating beginner times from the AR might make me submit scores.

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Jan 10th 2004 at 09:39:42 AM
Name:  

Lasse Nyholm

Comments:  

Dan: I won't miss it, if you choose to discard it.

Lanyjé

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Jan 10th 2004 at 07:42:35 AM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

75

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Hey dudes!
I wanna b on the worldrecord-list :/
I\'ve got videos of my records.
C ya!

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Jan 10th 2004 at 07:22:24 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

What does everyone think about eliminating the use of the ridiculous beginner level for the active ranking?

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Jan 10th 2004 at 04:11:32 AM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

ahaha Georgi
man, been playing so good today
scored a 51 on a 144ebv board
and scored my 3rd sub-50 on 117ebv with a time of 49.97

Jan 9th 2004 at 11:59:48 PM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Dion,

My sister bugged me too ... several years ago

Jan 9th 2004 at 07:42:30 PM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

Jesse, my sister introduced me to minesweeper and how to use double-click. From then on, i played my nut off

Jan 9th 2004 at 07:06:36 PM
Name:  

Jesse W

Comments:  

Hello there Dion...
Im 17 and from Newcastle...
What got you addicted to minesweeper???

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Jan 9th 2004 at 06:01:25 PM
Name:  

Dion

Comments:  

David, im 16
Heh, i'ii listen to your great words of wisdom

Jan 9th 2004 at 12:48:21 PM
Name:  

Roman Gammel

Comments:  

Have anybody seen a board which is axial or central symmetrical to intermediate dreamboard? Or two intermediate boards with this property?

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Jan 9th 2004 at 12:39:48 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I'm in a strange situation...i often finish nice expert games, with times like 70, 71, etc. But i can't reach sub70 again....do you think i may try to change something in my way of playing?

Jan 9th 2004 at 04:24:56 AM
Name:  

Jesse W

Comments:  

Its me again... tell me if any one can finish this...
H:9
W:9
M:64

Jan 9th 2004 at 04:15:38 AM
Name:  

Jesse W

Best expert:  

n/a

Best intermediate:  

88

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Now ive only become addicted to minesweeper in the last 2 weeks... What would be the best stratergy to use when trying to finish expert level... ?
17-m-Aust

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