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Dec 12th 2003 at 12:02:43 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Kurt,

YOU ARE THE MAN

Dec 11th 2003 at 11:29:48 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Grzegorz, yesterday, I read about your 56 and was quite shocked (as my best was 61 for this period). In the evening, out of nowhere and after only 5 minutes of playing, I got a very nice 57 [125] which makes me think that I can compete with you in the current AR period

Dec 11th 2003 at 08:29:43 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

you got a screen shot or video somewhere for that 31, Kurt? i'd like to see it.

Dec 11th 2003 at 06:32:45 PM
Name:  

Kurt Strathearn

Best expert:  

31 seconds

Best intermediate:  

22 seconds

Best beginner:  

4 seconds

Comments:  

I don't know how I did it, but I just beat the world record for expert by 12 seconds. Look for my name at the top of the list.

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Dec 11th 2003 at 03:00:04 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

2-->1

Comments:  

I just got my first 1 in beginner! i was wondering if anyone could tell me a program to save just screen shots (can you use camtasia??) also, is there a crack for camtasia that works? i tried the one that is downloaded from this site and it said it didn't work.

Dec 10th 2003 at 05:27:28 PM
Name:  

Grzegorz Górny

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I've just equal my best exp (56) on 151/3bv board.
I don't know why but i slow down at last 5 clicks.
last 5 cliks was 1 3bv/s.
F**K.

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Dec 10th 2003 at 03:04:38 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Told you I was on fire....
59 3bv148
That's my 5th sub60!!!

Dec 10th 2003 at 02:37:47 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

And another one 4 clicks before the end.... (3bv13
I'm on fire...

Dec 10th 2003 at 02:26:42 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Just missed a 59 two clicks before the end, of couse on a 50/50
I think it could've been a new record but the end was really nasty with a bunch of 50/50s... (3bv121)

Dec 10th 2003 at 02:15:47 PM
Name:  

Manu

Comments:  

Please send me your vid Dennis ! Thanks

Dec 10th 2003 at 01:22:58 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Would that be a Narkomania int world record, I wonder???

Does anyone else in here play it ever and have you finished any games faster???

Dec 10th 2003 at 01:21:24 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken - Narkomania

Best expert:  

33

Best intermediate:  

7 --> 6 --> 5!!!

Best beginner:  

0 (lots)

Comments:  

I decided to play some more Narkomania Minesweeper just for fun. I found a nice 39 3bv board and decided to see how fast I could finish it. I managed to finish it in 5 seconds! I know that the counter starts at 0 but still I think it's pretty amazing! I've got the video of this nice int. Narkomania game if anyone's interested!

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Dec 10th 2003 at 12:12:57 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Had an eventful int session today. I had two missed estimated 15s with only few sqares left. One of them was a shifted Dreamboard which is why I messed up. I also got an 18 on a 52 3bv board and a 19 and then of course a 3.17 3bv per second game in 24 seconds! I've got all of these games cut out into one file for anyone who might be interested! Just let me know!

@ David: congrats on your 67! Very nice! I'd like the video please! Thanks!

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Dec 10th 2003 at 10:57:46 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Best expert:  

69 -> 67

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

wooohooo! a new record on expert, on a 134 3bv board
also got a new expert 3bv/s ratio, 2.63 3bv/s (time was 72)

Have screenshots + "videos" if anyone wants them (just email me)

I keep sub 85 screenshots + videos, sub 22 screenshots and sub20 videos... and screenshots of sub 4s

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Dec 10th 2003 at 10:05:59 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

I only have 18 MB of videos and screenshots on my hard drive. I have stopped saving sub-50 screenshots and I stopped recording videos months ago.

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Dec 10th 2003 at 08:22:58 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Steffen, I have about 150 MB of screenshots/recordings of my games and about 260 MB of .txt files from Sorin's recorder. In addition I have about 4 MB of other's videos
I think I'll burn all my .txt files onto a CD if I ever get enough to fill one completely. That's probably about at least 2-3 years of minesweeper playing

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Dec 10th 2003 at 05:26:41 AM
Name:  

Manu

Comments:  

I keep my 63 or lower on expert, 17 or lower on int, and my 1 and 2s on beg.

Dec 10th 2003 at 05:26:08 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Brian,
When I changed my PC in June, at the very first session I played I broke my Expert by 3 seconds

Dec 10th 2003 at 05:11:33 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Steffen,
Few possibilities:

1. now you probably record at higher frames per second
2. your desktop settings are with better color scheme (24bit ot 32bit color)
3. check also whether you interleave audio while recording...

Dec 10th 2003 at 03:56:25 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

I have just above 2 GB of Minesweeper stuff!

Dec 10th 2003 at 03:34:15 AM
Name:  

Steffen Stachna

Best expert:  

51

Comments:  

How many MB of MinesweeperStuff do you have, Martin/others?
i have 46 mb of vids and pics -i just realised. But my new vids (using camtasia) are bigger than the vids of former times. (140kb ~ but now ~400kb; anyone knows why at first glance?)

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Dec 10th 2003 at 02:19:45 AM
Name:  

Brian Cornell

Best expert:  

51

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

My computer broke down, and I got a new one but it just doesn't feel the same. A couple weeks and the best I've managed is 3-19-62. Has anyone else had this problem?

Dec 9th 2003 at 04:56:46 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

I almost forgot to congratulate Traian

I have thought about only saving sub20's on int, but I guess that it's fun to have as many screenshots/recordings as possible, especially old ones. It doesn't take too much space considering what games and applications use these days

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Dec 9th 2003 at 04:26:02 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I save everything sub-70 on expert, 20 and below on intermediate, and only 1's and 2's on beginner. I used to have every single file, but I forgot to back up my picture folder when I wiped my computer and installed WinXP, so I no longer have a complete record. I have the earliest records at home, dating from 2000 forward, including some stuff that I have done on that computer, but my school computer was where my real gems were saved. I have all of my records, but I don't have several hundred sub-20's and probably 175+ sub 70's. A real shame. I was pretty angry when I realized I forgot to back up that folder Happy sweeping, all!

Lance

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Dec 9th 2003 at 03:32:31 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

It funny Martin because I used to save all my sub-23s as well! Now I only save all of my sub-20s and I've got 32 so far. Today I played a lot but I only got 3 21s. Got higher than 3 3bv per sec three times (best= 3.23 3bv per sec)

On expert I used to save sub-100s, then sub-90s and now I only save sub-80s (2 videos and a screenshot so far) and any good NF games. I missed an NF game on the last click today and the timer had stopped at 78 so I'm just about equally good at both styles I guess!

On beginner I save only 3s or lower!

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Dec 9th 2003 at 03:09:44 PM
Name:  

Detrusor

Best expert:  

75

Best intermediate:  

22

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I keep all my sub100, sub30, and sub5... I have also 164 sub100, 84 sub30, and 10 sub5. Not much, but it increases !

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Dec 9th 2003 at 02:56:18 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Maybe even worse is the fact that I keep track of my finished sub-25 int, any exp, AR performance, 3BVs etc. in several excel spreadsheets

Dec 9th 2003 at 02:54:11 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Congrats to Traian. NF is always best, at least in int Plase note that this was NOT an objective statement...

@Martin: I have screenshots of every sub-4 on beg, sub-25 on int and sub-90 on exp (4675 files). Moreover, my hard disk is full of uncut videos of sub-20s and sub-85s since about 08/2002 (821 files). Of course, I didn't delete a single file of Sorin's recorder so far. Maybe I should optimize my storage behaviour

Dec 9th 2003 at 02:15:40 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

That makes me think: How many of your finished games do you save as a screenshot or recording or maybe both?
I save all my sub90's on exp (that's pretty much all the games I finish, at least all my NF games), all my sub23's on int (for some reason...) and all my sub4's on beg.
I save both screenshot and recording on exp and int and just the screenshot on beg (count_rec doesn't work with my 8x8 beg)

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Dec 9th 2003 at 01:19:11 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

I made my 500th sub30 on intermediate...it was a 26

Dec 9th 2003 at 09:29:05 AM
Name:  

Traian

Best expert:  

72

Best intermediate:  

19 -> 17 !!!

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

YES!!! Finally broke that record 10 minutes ago. I haven't played for a while, because I bought a new computer. Unfortunately, I didn't get a new mouse . Of course, that 17 is NF (thanks Dennis...).
Ah, I managed 4 3BV/s on beginner. 4.96 seconds, 16 3BV. Does this worth something? Anyway, I'm happy!

Dec 8th 2003 at 11:32:11 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Stephen: It's easy to explain. As minesweeper boards aren't generated in a totally randomized way, but occur in cycles, there is a probability in getting to the same point in a cycle and therefore getting the same board. The board you mentioned is called the "Dreamboard" as it is quite easy to finish and therefore is or was the record board of many players (e.g. 11 for me, 10 for Matt etc.).

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Dec 8th 2003 at 07:36:44 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

i had a question for Stephan Bechtel: why is the board that you recently got 11 seconds on (intermediate) exactly the same as the one Matt Mcginley got 10 seconds on? they are completely identical http://www.active-ranking.de.vu/ shows your 11 seconds, and when you go to Matt McGinley's 10 second video and look at the end they are completely identical. I was just wondering if this was a fluke or if there was some explanation or something?

Dec 8th 2003 at 04:12:06 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

@ Stephen: I think people are very different when it comes to this little great game but if you ask I'd say that you should be able to get a much lower intermediate time! I mean, with an expert score of 73 you must be a pretty good player and 23 on int. really isn't as impressive as the 73 on expert. I've got 74 on expert and 15 on int. but I am one of those players who just really prefers intermediate. Still I think you should be able to get a sub-20 on intermediate! Go for it and good luck!

Are you flagging lots of mines on intermediate? Did you ever try not flagging anything? I used to flag mines on intermediate but now I don't flag at all on that level. On expert I still flag a lot of mines! It takes practice to get used to the non-flagging style but I think it's really good for beginner and intermediate!

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Dec 8th 2003 at 03:19:39 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I was wondering, according to the experts here, which of these record times i need to work on most (ie is there one that is too high for the other)? I'd like to know which one would be easiest, given my ability strictly from this (i don't know the 3bv ratings or anything on the record boards) to lower my score. If there's no way to tell that just from this, then that is cool too.

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Dec 8th 2003 at 01:39:59 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I just missed a chance on beating my expert record by a couple of seconds. The timer was at 70 with only two squares missing but I couldn't find them, looked at the timer and hit a mine in mere desperation! So STUPID! It was a really nice 128 3bv board so definitely record potential!

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Dec 8th 2003 at 10:20:00 AM
Name:  

Lasse Nyholm

Comments:  

I think you have to be patient Magnus - today it's exactly one year since the world record changed to 41, and it still isn't on the list. I guess that means that it's also one year since I last broke my record....****!

Lanyjé

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Dec 8th 2003 at 07:32:00 AM
Name:  

Magnús Kristinn Magnússon

Best expert:  

280

Best intermediate:  

53

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

Put me on the site man

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Dec 8th 2003 at 03:15:38 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

33

Best intermediate:  

7

Comments:  

Narkomania times, of course but still!

I played some more and got a 9 on a differend board (39 3bv) and on beginner I managed to get a 0 on a 9 3bv board! Well, it's only possible because the first click is given and because you can do the rest with 5 clicks! There were seven numbers right next to each other and I tried clearing them as fast as I could but I just couldn't do it in less than a second even though I knew where they were, so that definitely convinced me that Steven's supposed 1 on an 8 3bv board was IMPOSSIBLE! No doubt about it.... (Not that I ever did have doubts about that! )

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Dec 7th 2003 at 08:28:30 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I sympathize with Stephan on this topic. I'm winding down my last semester in college by writing 40 pages worth of research papers and studying for two final exams. I played a little bit for studybreaks, but not nearly the amount that I would for a normal AR period. And this is where the penalty actually does its job: I don't get to keep the good scores I had last time, but instead I get 5 more seconds tacked onto the old score, to theoretically move me down the ranking, while acknowledging that I have not stopped sweeping altogether. Yeah, it might be an abuse to not submit times of 3-19-65, but those aren't true gauges of my abilities. There are so many external factors that impede your sweeping time, that you need to factor in a little margin of error, which is what I consider the penalty to be. Anyway, that's my take on it all Happy sweeping!

Lance

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Dec 7th 2003 at 01:04:35 PM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Last year I did not submit times if they were worse than taking a penalty. This year, however, I always submit.

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Dec 7th 2003 at 05:45:04 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

That's not just you, but only a few people have indeed submitted scores that were worse than a penalty. The main problem is to draw a border: I played only a few hours within the last period as I had to prepare for exams. I finished some games, but I couldn't keep my good performances from the previous period. Is it in this case "fair" to be thrown back 10 places? I prefer the current system which is more similar to tennis' Champions Race where you aren't thrown back at once if you were ill or something.

Dec 7th 2003 at 03:44:45 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Stephan, I didn't think you were going to change the system. I just wanted to express my thoughts about it!

I find it strange and wrong that you can't submit scores from further back than two weeks but you can stay on the list with scores from that haven't even been achieved in that two-week period. I think Damien showed us all a very nice example when he submitted lousy scores instead of just accepting a much better 5-second penalty! If you don't get to play much in an AR period I think the scores ought to reflect that but I guess that's just me!

Dec 7th 2003 at 02:47:58 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Dennis: Of course, you're right. But as long as we can't check whether anyone couldn't play at all or just couldn't play long enough to get decent scores, the penalty rule will remain in the current way. I could have submitted 3-16-64, but with the knowledge that nearly everyone else does not submit if his scores are more than 5 seconds worse than last period, I didn't submit as well. Sorry again.

Dec 6th 2003 at 06:55:48 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

83-->73!!!!

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I just beat my best expert by 10 seconds! i went from an 83 to a 73! nowhere close to Lasse's 42, but it was darn fast for me

Dec 6th 2003 at 03:15:24 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

And what, you can't post scores if they aren't as good as last period??? I don't get the 5-second penalty still. In my opinion only the people who submitted scores ought to be on that list! I'd submit scores even if they were 10 seconds worse than last AR period but I guess that's just me! I just don't think it's a penalty if the reason for not posting is because you can benefit from not posting!

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Dec 6th 2003 at 12:23:59 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Neither Kimmo, Stephan, Lance nor me has posted scores this period. I guess it's because we competed so much last period that we couldn't get such good scores again

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Dec 6th 2003 at 09:20:14 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Active Ranking has been updated.

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Dec 6th 2003 at 07:01:59 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Best expert:  

69

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

some of you might have noticed I've not been doing as well in the AR as usual (when I've submitted scores that is)

I've been at university with not much time to play (and didn't play at all for the first 2 weeks or so), but having got back home I've realised that I'm not as fast on my laptop as my desktop because of the smaller screen size, so maybe I should change my resolution so I can really big squares

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Dec 5th 2003 at 06:18:10 PM
Name:  

Luke Vaughn

Best expert:  

191

Best intermediate:  

60

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

I just found this site today; I searched Google because I wanted to know the best times. When I first read the site I had 191, 61, 9, but now I have 191, 60, 6, so either something I read helped or I've only just started...
When I first started playing for speed (like 2 weeks ago) I figured the best possible would be about 175, 50, 1...at least I got one right. I think I'll go ahead and make a goal of 140, 45, 5 right now. Hopefully it will be a harder goal soon.

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Dec 5th 2003 at 05:18:15 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I still can't decide whether or not I should play NF on expert too... I just finished my third game ever playing NF and this one was my best so far, an 83,58 on a 163 3bv board. I went really slow at first because I didn't really think I was going to finish it anyway so I think there's a lot of potential in the NF style at least for now... I know for sure I can lower my expert score to around 65 playing NF because I'm been close several times. The only problem is that I finish so few games and that really frustrating! Am I the only one in here who can't make up his mind about what style to use???

Got a new 3bv per sec record as well. Nothing special, just 2.40 3bv per sec on a 196 3bv board...

Good luck and happy sweeping everyone!

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Dec 5th 2003 at 12:01:02 PM
Name:  

Nate

Best expert:  

514

Best intermediate:  

214 (I think)

Best beginner:  

12

Comments:  

I started really playing minesweeper about a month ago. I had played before but didn't really care to take the time to learn how to play (I would rather play pinball, or snood). As soon as I figured out the basics of the game I started playing on Expert. With most games I try to master the hardest level first for some reason. I won the very first Expert game I ever played. Sure my time was well past 999 (as it stops there), but I figured thats about as hard as the game would be. Probably 100 games later I beat it again with a score of 647. That was the point where I started to feel like I was getting ahold of the game. As of now I can beat it pretty regularly but my best score is just 514.

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Dec 5th 2003 at 02:31:34 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Just missed an estimated 53 after 43 secs, of course on a 50/50.

Dec 4th 2003 at 11:16:46 PM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Lasse,

Do you still keep all videos previously hosted at http://www.oek.dk/~lanyje/

Dec 4th 2003 at 11:02:47 PM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Last night missed at 43seconds with 24 clicks left - estimated 54 ...

Dec 4th 2003 at 05:07:13 PM
Name:  

Evan

Best expert:  

108

Best intermediate:  

35

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

Hey I just found this site after I started playing minesweeper about 20 minutes a week. (I thought my times were pretty fast and wanted to see what other people could do,) I've been playing for about 3 years on-and-off, since I was 10 and was wondering if any of yall experts could give some advice on how to use less falgs etc.

Thanks,

Evan

Dec 4th 2003 at 04:21:10 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Just blew another possible sub60 at 56 with 9 squares left to clear. 3bv141, stupid 50/50s!!!
But I'm getting there...

Dec 4th 2003 at 04:03:08 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

I'm pretty sure Damien had a 20 on a 96 3BV board, 4.8 3BV/sec

And congratulations to Dion, btw

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Dec 4th 2003 at 02:29:05 PM
Name:  

Sorin

Comments:  

Congrats to Dion for a nice 48!

I think Damien has over 4 3BV/s on intermediate.
My personal best is 3.97 : 18.58 on a 70 3BV board, no-flagging style. As far as I know it's the best nf

Dec 4th 2003 at 02:23:10 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Lasse, who doesn't remember your 50 sec on a 220 3BV board?

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Dec 4th 2003 at 02:07:42 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

It's funny because my second best expert time is 77 but I still think I should be able to cut quite a bit off my expert time... I was very close to getting another 74 (it was an estimated 74.57) on a 174 3bv board and that was after solving 134 out of 174 3bv! I'm very happy to have cut three seconds off my exp. score today but I feel like I'm missing so many chances of improving it a lot more. Does everyone miss a lot of chances of breaking their record??? That doesn't happen to me on int. very often compared to expert!

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Dec 4th 2003 at 02:05:49 PM
Name:  

Lasse Nyholm

Comments:  

I actually got 4.12 3BV/sec yesterday on a 233 3BV board in 57secs, I don't remember if I've gotten something higher before though.

Lasse

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Dec 4th 2003 at 12:17:46 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Lasse has gotton over 4 3bv/s.
Has anyone actually responded to Alex' claims? Everyone keeps talkings about Stevan while I think nobody replied to his 48 or 49...

Dec 4th 2003 at 12:09:32 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

I saw that some people watched my site... i'd like to know if there are some problems with visualization. I used a lot of CSS, but i tested it only with IE6, Firebird 0.7 and Opera 7.21.
Thanx!!

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Dec 4th 2003 at 10:39:45 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

OK man no hard feelings, but I'll try to make some 180 3bv/s board sub50, btw what's the World record for 3bv/s on expert level(and others)?!?

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Dec 4th 2003 at 10:32:40 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Stevan, just play like you normally do and there should be coming some 12/13/14 on int and some low 50's on exp all by itself. Then show them to us. All these assertions doesn't help any of us.

Happy sweeping

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Dec 4th 2003 at 10:00:45 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Sorin I did 55 and 57 in 2 hours!!! (didn't have your recorder before) and on some boards I can keep 3.5 BV/s for a 3/4 of the board with my warmed hands (it was 3.00 AM when I did 55 and 57).

I will take some time tomorrow to play it because I'm studying physics and I've got to learn something
(it's easy for Lasse, he can sing while playing minesweeper, while I cant solve math and physics problems )

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Dec 4th 2003 at 09:55:21 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

I must confess that I often warm up watching some nice videos around 55-58 seconds, sometimes sub-50s ones...

Poor Lasse - he have to watch computer generated videos

Dec 4th 2003 at 09:26:06 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Thanks Martin! It worked! Of course the date isn't right but I don't really care about that! I don't get how you did that but I guess you just know way more about computers than I do! THANKS!

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Dec 4th 2003 at 09:03:06 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Dennis, try to write this into Notepad, save as a *.reg file and then execute it (I don't know if the REGEDIT4 part is necessary and of course you shouldn't copy the Start and End messages )

---Start---
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\winmine]
"Time3"=dword:4a
---End---

Hope it works

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Dec 4th 2003 at 08:07:21 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Thanks Elmar but I think something's wrong with my regedit.exe file because when I open it it automatically closes after 10 seconds or something like that no matter what. I don't know what's wrong! The same thing happens whenever I try to open winmine95 so now I can't play beginner 8x8 anymore on my own computer! I think I've gotten some kind of stupid virus but my anti virus program can't find anything...

Dec 4th 2003 at 08:00:28 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Thanks for the videos and congratulations on your new record.
To update your record just start regedit.exe in the windows directory and search for winmine. One of the results should contain the entries name1,2,3 and time1,2,3

Dec 4th 2003 at 07:34:12 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

When I closed down the Minesweeper window with the 74 I realised that there was also another Minesweeper window open - the one with the 79 - meaning that my 74 wasn't save as the high-score. How can I change the scores because I can't seem to figure out how?

I would really hate it if the pop-up window came and then it turned out to be a 76 or something! Help!

Dec 4th 2003 at 07:10:00 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

77 --> 74!

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

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FINALLY! After posting that last message here I sent the files to Elmar and decided to watch some expert videos which were good but not TOO good so I watched some 64-66 expert videos and started playing. I tried to copy that style but I just couldn't so I went back to LOTS of flagging and just tried to go fast. Suddenly the high-score window popped up and I wrote my name while looking at the counter... 74,48! Not bad! It was only a 132 3bv board but it's still really nice to beat my expert record by 3 seconds! I've got the video for anyone who's interested!

I just checked and it turns out that I flagged 'only' 80 mines! I think that's an improvement actually!

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Dec 4th 2003 at 05:52:47 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

77

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Elmar, I have seen a board like that where 4 mines had been shifted! I'll send the boards to you so you can see for yourself! I'm not sure how the two theories correspond either but I certainly know that I recognise quite a few boards on intermediate! The day before yesterday I got the board on which I got my 15 once again but like always when I recognise a board I screwed up very fast! Can we get a random Minesweeper game soon? Oh, and I do NOT start Minesweeper very fast after turning on the computer so that doesn't explain why I have so many board that are the same!

I got a 79,66 today on a 161 3bv board... I don't get why I can't do better than 77!

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Dec 4th 2003 at 03:29:04 AM
Name:  

Elmar

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How does this theory correspond with the theory of ~32000 boards and shifted boards. And has anyone ever seen a variation of a board in the way he describes it with a few mines different.

67,66,64 in an hour of playing, I'm getting there.

Dec 4th 2003 at 01:25:44 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Thinking of the cycling in Beginner and Intermediate I remembered of an article mentioned by Damien once. It was only Part I and continuation was to come.
Now all articles are available at:
http://www.techuser.net/index.php?content=11

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 07:32:40 PM
Name:  

Active Ranking

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 02:47:19 PM
Name:  

Norm

Best expert:  

179

Best intermediate:  

36

Best beginner:  

14

Comments:  

It's very hard for me to believe the one-second results. Knowing how hard I have worked to break the 200 second barrier on expert, some of those numbers floor me as well. How can a person even flag more than 2 mines per second, much less clear around them? These people should be directing air traffic or something.

Nevertheless, I applaud those who legitimately set records. Have some mercy on us old guys.

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 02:42:39 PM
Name:  

Sorin

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The board Stevan claims he solved in one second with random clicks:
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|0002*2000|
|1102*3100|
|*1012*111|
|11012211*|
|0001*1011|
|110111000|
|*10000111|
|1101222*1|
|0001**211|
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As for the 48 on 173 3BV, I don't believe it happened (not on this board). You showed 2 games around 55 seconds on boards of 129 and 119 3bv, where the 3BV/s is 2.26; On a 173 3BV board you need 3.6 3BV/s to finish in 48 seconds. A very big difference.

You also claim 4 3BV/s on intermediate (12 on a 49 3BV board).

If you got this scores on other boards and you don't have the real screenshots please say so.

I have nothing else to add on this subject.

Dec 3rd 2003 at 02:04:08 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

I guess, Manu's referred to some stubborn 8-in-1 guy... But a missed 50/50 15 is always a reason for .

Dec 3rd 2003 at 02:01:01 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Manu what's wrong?!?

I don't force anybody to believe in it, but that's simply how it is...one in million times it happens, nothing more, 8 of 10-11 clicks was at the right place,.

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 01:00:20 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

77

Best intermediate:  

15x1 ˝... LOL

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Judging from Manu's little 'smiley' I'm tempted to guess that I'm not the only one who's a bit frustrated right now! First I mess up a 127 3bv board with after solving 106 3bv (I think it was) in 56 seconds and then I miss a 15 on intermediate on the very last click, a 50/50 guess! It was on a 37 3bv board and I've got the video for anyone who's interested!

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 09:14:43 AM
Name:  

Christina

Best expert:  

252

Best intermediate:  

67

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Hey I was just wondering what you guys called the smiley face @ the top of the m-s board?

Dec 3rd 2003 at 05:50:58 AM
Name:  

Manu

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 01:17:58 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I don't even have intention to convince anybody cause it would be stupid if I can finish 3 3bv board in a second finishing 8 3bv board...I don't know.

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 12:59:06 AM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Stevan: We can all say with complete conviction that your 8 3bv 1-sec beginner board is fake, even those of us who have never seen it. You may have faked it with a cheat code or by using some photo editing software. Maybe you even accidentally did it through some glitch in the game. However you did it, no amount of argument will convince anyone here otherwise. Sorry.

Lance

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 12:47:25 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

Where can I see this screenshot?

Dec 3rd 2003 at 12:46:46 AM
Name:  

Uh-Jin

Best beginner:  

11->8

Comments:  

I'm korean. This site is very good!

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Dec 3rd 2003 at 12:05:46 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Look, that was probably not 8 but 10-11 random clicks so 8 of them was on the right place, I can't explain it better, but I really don't think I'm "genius" cause I can click 10-11 times in a second and I see it is luck and nothing else, so conclusion is that I was very very lucky, nothing more. Now everybody happy?!?

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Dec 2nd 2003 at 04:13:21 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hey everyone,
Just thought I'd announce my first 1 sec beginner on a 9x9 board. I was just messing around in the computer lab at school in between classes and up popped a 2 3bv board. I know it's not that difficult to get (and does not count for the AR ), but it's still fun to talk about! Happy sweeping, all!

Lance

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Dec 2nd 2003 at 03:12:42 PM
Name:  

Sorin

Comments:  

...I mean 8 3BV/s there...

Dec 2nd 2003 at 03:11:29 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

The new version of my site is online...best view with browsers gecko-based (as Mozilla)

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Dec 2nd 2003 at 03:08:04 PM
Name:  

Sorin

Comments:  

It's possible to click 8 times a second(I did max 11),that's really no problem. The problem us that you can't react to the changes on the screen that fast (125 ms for each click to see how the board has changed, move the mouse and click again). Even if you click the mouse right away, move it, and then release you still have to wait until you get where you want to.

Conclusion: It's humanly impossible to achieve 83 BV/s. I don't think it's possible even if you learn the board and you know where to click(unless all clicks are in a straight line). 8 is just too much. I would say 5-6 maximmum.

Dec 2nd 2003 at 01:23:53 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

I finally updated my site

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Dec 2nd 2003 at 11:07:39 AM
Name:  

Steffen

Best expert:  

51

Comments:  

hi, thanks for your congrats. regarding to a 1sec in a 8 3bv board: nonsens!
its possible to have 8 clicks/sec but...no need to explain in this forum...

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Dec 2nd 2003 at 06:17:40 AM
Name:  

Alex

Comments:  

I have had to re install my computer because of a virus. So I have lost my minesweeper scores. Have played for about 15 minutes and my times are 2-21-76. So already I have a sub 100 sum. But of course. I have saved my screenshots on disk and re copied them. So not all is lost!

Dec 2nd 2003 at 05:30:17 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Best expert:  

48

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Doh..it IS possible to click 8 times in a second if you DON'T think anything, on interm. and expert you still got to THINK...a little tough

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Dec 2nd 2003 at 12:35:25 AM
Name:  

Dion

Best expert:  

49 -> 48

Comments:  

WOOO heh, i only got 49 a few weeks ago. Didn't think i would crack it so soon I hosted the recordings
http://diontiu.tripod.com/Dion48.txt
and my 50 i got yesterday
http://diontiu.tripod.com/Dion50.txt

Dec 2nd 2003 at 12:32:52 AM
Name:  

abdullah nurus salam

Best expert:  

76

Best intermediate:  

43

Best beginner:  

11

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