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Sep 9th 2003 at 09:00:51 PM
Name:  

Steve Clayton

Best expert:  

135

Best intermediate:  

45

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

Wow! This site is a shocker to me. I thought my time of 135 on expert was pretty good. But I don't spend much time playing beginner, intermediate, or expert. I find it's much more fun programming the custom setting to be harder that expert. The hardest one I've beaten so far is:

Height:24
Width:30
(Largest board possible)
Mines:190

I've been working at 195 for a couple months now with no luck. But I only play for 15 minutes at the most, a couple times a week.
Doesn't anyone else play this way?

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Sep 9th 2003 at 05:37:02 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Thanks guys.
It really sucks, but at least now I know that I'm able to get something pretty much faster than 59 sec... I just have to keep trying

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Sep 9th 2003 at 04:38:03 PM
Name:  

Sorin

Comments:  

You gotta hate those guessings!!
That would have been a big jump Martin. Pretty bad it didn't worked out.

I missed two 49's this period at the very last click. One was my mistake, the other was a guess. Anyway, I think it hurts more when you screw up than when it's a guess involved.

Sep 9th 2003 at 12:23:58 PM
Name:  

Grzegorz

Comments:  

****!!! Martin, slow down man

Sep 9th 2003 at 11:54:35 AM
Name:  

Manu

Comments:  

Nice game Martin, congrats anyway...

Sep 9th 2003 at 11:48:20 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Ouch, Martin...
I feel for you. That really, really sucks.

Sep 9th 2003 at 10:33:37 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

Well there are video on this site where you can see the world record as it was, and I have the video of the current WR, and if you email me i'll probably send it to you, despite your arrogance and inability to read (this website doesn't say flagging mines are a waste of time - it says that some people beleive that flagging wastes time, and that flagging EVERY mine is a waste of time)

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Sep 9th 2003 at 10:27:46 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

59

Comments:  

F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK


www.gymks.dk/lort/51sec_blowup!.png

F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK

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Sep 8th 2003 at 04:36:24 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Actually the WR is 41. The Top100 hasn't been updated in a while.

Sep 8th 2003 at 03:53:45 PM
Name:  

Letsak

Best expert:  

93

Best intermediate:  

45

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

A few minutes ago i thought that i was the best sweeper in the world (though i still think i am). Unfortunately i found out by looking at your site that the wr at the expert level, which really concerns me, was almost 45s. I admit that i use flags which by the way you characterize as waste of time but as i said before i think that in any case there is no such record.

Sep 8th 2003 at 06:47:46 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Best expert:  

77 -> 74

Best intermediate:  

18

Comments:  

Yipee! 132 3BV.

Sep 7th 2003 at 05:29:25 PM
Name:  

Herman Lo

Best expert:  

366

Best intermediate:  

68

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

Cool Site. I wish i could make the top 100 list.

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Sep 6th 2003 at 03:00:00 PM
Name:  

Andrew Brown

Best expert:  

94

Best intermediate:  

26

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

Wish I knew about this a long time ago, I got these scores in my 95-96 semester in college, I have no proof of that, but as long as I know, I'm pretty proud of it. Actually, didn't have proof then either (except beginner), my room mate Jerry had 86/18/5, so the top 2 belonged to him. Anyway, great way to pass some time!

Andrew

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Sep 6th 2003 at 01:23:01 PM
Name:  

Adam Claus

Best expert:  

87

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hey i can't seem to get my expert time consistantly under 100... can some1 give me some tips in increasing speed other then what's in the tips section here that would be great!

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Sep 6th 2003 at 09:24:46 AM
Name:  

Grzegorz Górny

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Another 2 3'bv board and 2 seconds again.

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Sep 5th 2003 at 06:33:38 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Best expert:  

77

Best intermediate:  

18 x 6

Comments:  

Gnash. 18.45 seconds on a 38 3bv. I thought it was finally going to be the 17. Oh well.

Happy Sweeping

Sep 4th 2003 at 05:44:03 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Yesterday I beat my 3bv/s record for int, which at the same time was a new highest 3bv for sub20: 18sec on a 63 3bv board
Still no new record though.

Sep 3rd 2003 at 12:11:36 PM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

I don't know how many of you are familiar with it, but there's a minesweeper clone called Narkomania (you can download it from http://www.cylog.org/games_4.asp), which automatically gives you an opening at the start, and each board is numbered, allowing you to play the same one over and over, or to play the same one as some1 else (there are also 2 extra levels, and a "help" button, and the timer starts at 0 instead of 1)

so, I was thinking, maybe people would be interested in having a Narkomania competition, like the active ranking, but where each 2 weeks a certain board is chosen for each level, and we all try to do that board as quickly as possible (today I managed to do beginner in 0 seconds and intermediate in 11 )... This could provide an outlet for those who feel agrieved at their DB scores not counting because people memorized it

Feel free to post any comments here or email me if you're interested (I'd be interested to hear what people think the exact format should be), and if there are enough people it could start fairly soon... I guess it would provide some light relief from trying to get good AR times

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Sep 3rd 2003 at 12:02:06 PM
Name:  

simon franklin

Best expert:  

19477

Best intermediate:  

8900

Best beginner:  

195

Comments:  

i rilli suck

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Sep 3rd 2003 at 11:26:15 AM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

57 <---- sheesh

Comments:  

Wow, to exemplify how used to writing "58" I am, I mistakenly wrote 58 as my record in my last post. My correct record is 57, of course

Sep 3rd 2003 at 11:24:34 AM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hello all,
A belated thank you to everyone who congratulated me, I appreciate it. My internet is still not working at my apartment, so I am forced to use the internet in the library to check email, read pages, etc., which is the reason for my slow "thank you"'s. To answer another person's question (Elmar's?), yes, I had been stuck on 58 expert for just over a year, and was getting pretty frustrated. In the time that it took me to break my 58 expert, my intermediate lowered from 17 to 13, to give you an example of my improvement. I played expert again yesterday, and got a 58, so I'm hoping to be able to break that 57 again soon... I think sub-55 isn't out of my reach. Thanks again, all, and happy sweeping!

Lance

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Sep 3rd 2003 at 01:19:57 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

93

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Hi Justin! Nice to meet another competitor here! You're right, your intermediate record is relatively high compared to expert but then again I've got a really lousy expert time compared to my intermediate record. I guess the reason for this is that intermediate and expert require two very different styles. On intermediate the most efficient way is to flag very little and then use double-clicking. I suck at that and have found out that I have to either flag or not flag so I finally decided (when I was stuck at 28 like you) to start playing without flagging. Of course it was hard at first. I remember getting 45 and thinking, "Wow, that's nice.' I even took a screenshot. I soon got down in the thirties using non-flagging and finally I reached 30. After that it took me quite some time go improve that. I reached 28 after some time and thought I was never going to be able to get a lower score but then suddenly one day I got a 25. The next day I got another 25 and 10 minutes later I got a 23... It didn't take me long after that to get to 21 either but this is when it gets hard and I just finally got a 20 the other day after having had 4 21s. I wonder if I'll ever break the 20s berrier. Anyway, good luck, Justin. If nothing else then it's a lot of fun to play intermediate without flagging so try it out and don't worry if you suck at it to begin with! Take care!

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Sep 2nd 2003 at 10:04:38 PM
Name:  

Justin

Best expert:  

82

Best intermediate:  

28

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Geez... I thought all the records on this site were BS until I saw the videos. Amazing speed. Obviously I have a lot of trouble with that aspect, judging by my relatively high intermediate time. How the **** do you play without flagging? And I think I'm missing a few logical sets. All I know is the 1-2 and a few simple ones. Nowhere tells me about such things. HELP!

Great site btw. Definately the coolest on the internet.

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Sep 2nd 2003 at 02:24:12 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

93x2!

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

2x3

Comments:  

What a day! First I get 2 2s on beginner and then I tie my expert record on a 144 3bv board. I've got really nice scores for the active ranking already, in fact they are my best overall scores as well. So far I've got 2-20-93... I wonder if I'll get to improve that even further... 93 is still VERY high compared to other people who have got such low scores on intermediate and beginner!

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Sep 2nd 2003 at 11:44:20 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

Often on beginner I'll get a board with a low 3BV but because my 1st couple of clicks were on squares that would have been opened if i'd clicked on an opening, it makes fast times impossible

I screwed up on an expert board with a 3BV of 110 - 1st click was on the edge of an opening, the 2nd an opening, and then the 3rd was on a mine (I was still randomly clicking)

The next game i won i had 2.36 3bv/s... so if i'd done that on the last game that would have been my 1st sub50

Sep 2nd 2003 at 04:12:55 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

93

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

8x8: 2 --> 2x3

Comments:  

First of all, it's GREAT to see so many new people write in here. The more the merrier!

Today I woke up thinking, 'Today I want to play a lot of beginner and try to at least get another 2 on the 8x8 grid.' Well, I have now played for 1 and a half hours straight and I have gotten 2 2s and 3 3s. My best 2 was a 2,54 made on a 5 3bv board! I don't know about you guys but I think that's pretty **** good myself! I still haven't gotten a 1 yet although I did have a 2 3bv board the other day... I only got a 3 because of being slow combined with the timer bug! I'll get a 1 eventually on the 8x8 grid I'm sure!

Congrats to all record breakers and good luck to everyone!

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Sep 2nd 2003 at 02:51:26 AM
Name:  

Demidov Vladimir

Best expert:  

75

Best intermediate:  

21

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Hi to all minesweeper players in the world from Russia !!!

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Sep 1st 2003 at 09:27:47 PM
Name:  

Keith Whitener

Best expert:  

81-->75!!!

Best intermediate:  

19 DB, 22

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Finally! after months of pining for a sub-80 on expert, i broke my score by a full 6 seconds. That means 99 total (or 96 if i had gotten here a few months ago). just thought i'd celebrate with you guys, seeing as how most of the other people i've told don't seem to care (go figure). keep sweeping and best of luck to all.
keith

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Sep 1st 2003 at 05:28:15 PM
Name:  

Felipe Costa Gualberto

Best expert:  

116!

Best intermediate:  

38!

Best beginner:  

7

Comments:  

I'd like to know if you guys enjoy playing the expert board with 120, 130,140 and even 150 mines, in a custom game...
For a newbie like me, it's important because I could learn a lot of patterns.

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Sep 1st 2003 at 03:00:34 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

I agree on the active ranking part too! Actually I don't really like the idea of the penalty at all. In my opinion one ought to have to submit times if one wanted to be on the list! Why keep people on a list of a two-week period if those people haven't submitted scores for the two-week period? Just a though!

Sep 1st 2003 at 02:04:59 PM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

David, I agree with your take on the active ranking penalty. Assuming the active ranking continues in 2004, it should be changed.

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Sep 1st 2003 at 01:46:13 PM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

I realise that this doesn't matter, but I think that it's unfair that if some1 has a penalty for not submiting times and they have the same sum as some1 else the person with the lowest expert time has the highest rank - I think that either the person with the penalty should be ranked lower, or the penalty points should be split between their 3 times (though not listed that way in the thing) like 7 seconds on exp and 3 on int or something and then use that.... I'm not just saying this because it would improve my rank this period either

And to say that its more complicated than "it takes on averae half a year to sub100" doesn't make sense - the fact that its an average means that there's variation (though i never mentioned that it was an average), basically it was a rough guess that it would probably yake more than 6 months, i did say it depends on how much and how often you play though...

Sep 1st 2003 at 01:20:57 PM
Name:  

Michiel

Best expert:  

132

Comments:  

Getting sub-100 is a nice objective, which I think I could do, provided I would spend energy to it. To beat the 100, I must learn not to flag all bombs, learn to guess instead of trying to find a hard-to-find sure square, which is fun but very bad for your time. Those things require a professional attitude and dedicated exercise, not just trying to solve the expert level. I currently do not give priority to improving my expert time, which has become a sport rather than a game now. I have enough other interesting things to do.
So I do not share the observation that sub-100 takes half a year on average. Things are more complicated than that.

Sep 1st 2003 at 11:21:43 AM
Name:  

Manu

Comments:  

Congrats Lance !

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Sep 1st 2003 at 10:37:48 AM
Name:  

Jonathan

Best expert:  

98

Best intermediate:  

37

Best beginner:  

7

Comments:  

Hey everyone. This is the first time that I have been to the site in a while. I came to it a few months back (when my expert was in the 140's) because I thought that was really good. Boy was I wrong. So I started to practice. Well, I finally got my first sub-100. Hopefully I can keep improving. Happy sweeping.

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Sep 1st 2003 at 09:33:58 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Active Ranking has been updated.

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Sep 1st 2003 at 07:21:23 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

57

Best intermediate:  

14x2

Best beginner:  

1x2

Comments:  

Lance, you son of a mother!!!!! How can you dare taking advantage of my mouse being broken and just beat my scores. Btw I don't think it should be allowed for people in the top30 to beat two records in one day!!!!
Just kidding... Congratulations!!! I think you deserve it. You had been stuck at 58 for ages hadn't you? Motivates me even more to crack that 14.

I still haven't scored a new record but I'm confident it will happen soon. I got another 15 and yesterday I tied my 14. (3bv31 nf) I have it all on video. You can actually see the counter turn to 14 on my last click.
I'll put them up as soon as I have an internet connection at my place.
So long, Elmar

Aug 31st 2003 at 03:17:09 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

57*

Best intermediate:  

13*

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hello all,
Sorry about the delay on the AR update. I recently moved back to college, and am having extreme difficulty getting my computer to accept the cable modem router so that my roommates and I can share the cable modem Internet. It seems to be a software problem of some kind... whenever I plug in the router into my computer, the whole system lags, individual programs hang, and I eventually have to restart the computer. If it remains unplugged, the computer runs well... there's just no internet. I've checked network properties and IE settings, and everything I can think of, but nothing makes a difference. If anyone has any suggestions for me, I'm all ears. My next step, in the next couple of days, is to just say "screw it" and do a clean install of WinXP (I run Win ME currently). Yay. As you can imagine, much of my time went to dealing with that large problem, so I didn't play minesweeper last period.

Anyway, I was able to get to a computer lab today and get the updated scores to Dan, so he'll post those when he gets a chance.

I did get a chance to play for a bit yesterday afternoon, to start the new period off right, and I ended up breaking my intermediate and expert records by 1 second each!! So now I am well on my way to having my best AR period yet... 3-13-57 as it stands now. Maybe I can get a 1 sec beginner to submit all of my PR's! The 13 came on a 36 3bv board, not 5 mins after I missed a 25 3bv board (probably the same that was determined to be a 23). My 13 was almost a 12... I watched it turn from 12-13 as I made the final click. The 57 expert was a 141 3bv. Maybe I can improve on that in the next two weeks as well!

Well, happy sweeping, all!

Lance

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Aug 31st 2003 at 07:06:11 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Best expert:  

69

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Dennis - I played in black and white a couple of times, didn't like it though, I imagine that the colours are important... I want every possible advantage

Felipe - Damien doesn't update his site at the moment, and it takes probably more than 6 months to get below 100 (I think), but it depends on how much and how often you play

Alex - All version of minesweeper that come with windows are the same, except that the newer versions don't have the same timer bug where sometimes it goes to 2 almost straight away, and the beginner board is a different size (9x9 instead of 8x

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Aug 31st 2003 at 05:37:22 AM
Name:  

alex

Best expert:  

same as b4

Best intermediate:  

same

Best beginner:  

same

Comments:  

as im not a computer and especially not a minsweeper expert could sum one explain wat all the jargon is about boards and stuff. does it matter wat programe u use coz i just use the one on my comp wit windows ME. i dont even know if ME is ny good generally. thanx

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Aug 30th 2003 at 08:43:40 PM
Name:  

Felipe Costa Gualberto

Best expert:  

150

Best intermediate:  

38

Best beginner:  

7

Comments:  

Hello guys. I´m a newbie and my english sucks. I'd like to know if Damien still update the site, thanks...
By the way... how many time I'll have to play to get a sub-100?

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Aug 30th 2003 at 05:48:47 PM
Name:  

Dennis

Best expert:  

93

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I WAS actually wondering why it hadn't been updated yet! I think I'll just go to bed now and perhaps check it out tomorrow if it's updated by then! Thanks for notifying us, Dan!

Just wondering... Does anyone ever play minesweeper in black and white? I tried for a bit and to my surprise I seem to be just as good as when I play in color. I thought it would be harder when you couldn't tell the numbers from each other by looking at the colors but it doesn't seem to make that big of a difference! I got a 27 and several times I was close to an even better time and I only played for like 10 minutes so perhaps I'm even better when I play in black and white!

Aug 30th 2003 at 05:04:56 PM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

I have not received the active ranking list from Lance yet, in case anyone is wondering why the site hasn't been updated.

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Aug 29th 2003 at 03:40:15 PM
Name:  

Michiel

Best expert:  

132

Best intermediate:  

47

Best beginner:  

9

Comments:  

Hello Stephan, no 9 bombs, just the seventh row is missing, that's all. #1 free minesweeper has 10 bombs in beginner level. .
I played knightsweeper with pleasure (beginner and advanced level), hopefully Damien will put it on this site. It is only hard to re-adjust to kingsweeper, i.e. normal minesweeper.

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Aug 29th 2003 at 01:08:27 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

93

Best intermediate:  

21x4 --> 20

Best beginner:  

2 (8x8) 1x2 (9x9)

Comments:  

Finally I beat my record on intermediate. Too bad I wasn't concentrating and focusing at all or I could have definitely gotten a sub20. I had just installed Camtasia and was trying to figure out how to adjust the capture area. To find out if what I was trying worked I played for a little while and if it didn't work I would just try something new... Well, I didn't get the whole window but I got to capture most of it so I've got most of my record on video if anyone is interested in watching it! Ironically I figured out how to do it the right way and get the whole window immediately after having broken my record! I got my 20 on a 29 3bv by the way on a board that I haven't seen before! It was a quite nice board although it had 8 openings!

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Aug 29th 2003 at 07:59:09 AM
Name:  

Bobby

Comments:  

Lol, I wouldn't miss it either

Aug 29th 2003 at 01:57:18 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Good idea!

Aug 28th 2003 at 06:16:49 PM
Name:  

Paul

Comments:  

ditto

Aug 28th 2003 at 05:21:35 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Comments:  

Lets get rid of beginner! NOW!

Aug 28th 2003 at 03:49:57 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

93

Best intermediate:  

21x4

Best beginner:  

1 --> 1x2 (9x9)

Comments:  

Okay, I finally got a 1 which wasn't done on a 1 3bv board! I know that last time I got a 1 on 9x9 I started a huge discussion about beginner and which boards should be accepted and which not. I really don't think that 1 3bv boards should be accepted at all as they require NOTHING but luck or knowledge of board cyckling! However, I do think that the kind of 1 I just got should be accepted since I've done it the 'right' way. I clicked somewhere in the middle, most of it cleared and I looked around and clicked the remaining square. Then the record thing popped up and I took a screenshot. This was made with NO knowledge of board cyckling and they were NOT just two random clicks; I actually looked around and found the remaining square. I don't really care if you guys accept this. I still think it's huge for me! I know that you get more 2 or 3 bv boards on 9x9 but you still have to be equally good to take advantage of them the way I did, I think! And then you don't have to worry about the timer bug which is another thing that depends 100% on luck so what's the point of that when it doesn't say anything about skill?

Take care everyone and good luck!

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Aug 28th 2003 at 12:06:05 PM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

wow, I got my 1st dream board today! i lost, and it wasn't going to be that fast anyway, because where i started wasn't that helpful, and I was supposed to be working , I didn't even realise it was a DB until I opened up countrec when I'd lost to see what the 3BV was (since it was obviously a fast board), and when it came up with 30, and i looked again, I realised, and was anoyed

Aug 28th 2003 at 05:24:19 AM
Name:  

Bobby

Best expert:  

95

Best intermediate:  

33

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

When I first saw the World Records section, I thought to myself: "I'd like to see my name in there thrice". Well, now I've managed it, albeit using flags and excessive left-and-right clicks . I'm starting my final year of University soon (Physics) and I've also got WWP commitments, so I don't think I'm gonna be able to drive my times down much, if at all .

I take my hat off to all the 'Sweep. Pros out there

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Aug 27th 2003 at 02:33:30 PM
Name:  

David Morgan

Comments:  

Alex, look at the videos on this site and you'll see how its done, its always at leats largely down to luck, sometimes skill/speed are needed too, and sometimes they aren't

Aug 27th 2003 at 01:51:59 PM
Name:  

alex

Best expert:  

137

Best intermediate:  

37

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

how the heck do ppl get 1 surley that is impossible or they r really lucky and get a good grid to start with. well obviously ive never been lucky enough to get a screen like that. ive been working on my scored 4 ages i know my expert is crp but the others i thought were ok but again i am proved wrong can some one plz tell me how to get 1 in the first go
btw the smiles u have r quite cool

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Aug 27th 2003 at 12:34:32 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best intermediate:  

19*2

Comments:  

Another 19!! This time on win Xp...you can see it on my site. My AR scores are 65-19-2, which are also my absolute best times!

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Aug 27th 2003 at 08:41:34 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

94x3 --> 93,99

Best intermediate:  

21x4

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Wow, I finally got below 94... 93,99 but still! My AR scores for the period are now 94-21-3... really nice! If only I can get a 1 or a 2 on beginner my AR scores will be the same as my all-time best scores! Well, gotta go eat with my new class mates at the university! Chau and good luck to everyone!

Tought luck with your computer Jarad! Why don't you just install winmine95 on your new one? That's what I did!

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Aug 27th 2003 at 08:13:24 AM
Name:  

Jarad

Best expert:  

57

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I am very dissapointed. The other day my computer blew up, it just stopped turning on so I gave it a "little" kick and then smoke started pouring out of it. So, needless to say, that ish don't work no more. Anyway, I lost all of my screenshots and everything. I have a replacement now and i was playing and jeez, wow, i must have gotten better because all of my wins are in the low low 60's, how did this happen. i'll tell you, this computer blows for some reason, every version of the sweep has a timer deficiency and slows down close to 4 seconds. I hate playing on the new versions of minesweeper and prefer 95 with th ebig bold colors. But alas, I cannot play this anymore and I refuse to accept a record on this. I guess I'll have to use the new version, but it hurts my eyes and makes me want to cry and wet my pants. oh well. Thought I'd let all of you know. Oh yeah, I had a dream last night that i was showing someone how to play and I could have gotten a 1 but the person messed up my game, sooooooo, I ate their face. weird huh.

Aug 27th 2003 at 07:30:02 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

57

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hi everyone, in case anybody has missed me, I have moved to Lyon France. I dont have internet access till september 1st. I have been playing a lot of int lately, since ,y mouse is broken and I can only play NF. I have gotten about 20 sub20s this week including 2 16s and a 15. I missed a 13 by only 5 clicks. Hopefully the next time I come here I will be able to post a new record....
HAPPY SWEEPING!

Aug 27th 2003 at 06:00:17 AM
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Aug 27th 2003 at 04:11:14 AM
Name:  

Robert

Best expert:  

75

Best intermediate:  

22

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

i thaught i am good but as i saw this page i was shocked
it´s very funny because i have competition with my father and my sister and i am the best and i always make laugh at them but i know i should shut my mouth i cannot imagine how someone can be so fast like the one from danmark

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Aug 26th 2003 at 10:25:37 PM
Name:  

James

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

20

Comments:  

@ Damien: If I am not mistaken you are from the Okanagen, so I thought I'd leave a measage of support concernig the wildfires. I hope that you and yours are okay. I am actually on the island, in Duncan, right now staying with some family and checking out UVic and UBC to see if I will aply at either for my masters. This is a great part of the world, though Vancouver Island, and Victoria especially, have an endlessly confussing street naming system.

On the minesweeper front, my grandma's comp is set up for a left handed person and she has an archaic mouse. No point in trying really. I have hopes of sub-70 - sub-20, 2 by the end of this year.

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Aug 26th 2003 at 09:26:03 PM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

note - i simply havent played for half a year, not that it took me 1/2 year to win one

Aug 26th 2003 at 09:24:58 PM
Name:  

Case

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

wow, just blasted out a 65s expert for my first win in almost half a year. It was on a 168-3bv board too, gives me high hopes for breaking 60 in the future.

Aug 26th 2003 at 06:01:24 PM
Name:  

Paul

Comments:  

I'm still using some ancient version of Kazaa, maybe 1.6 or something. I can not run Minesweeper at the same time I'm running Kazaa. I have had all kinds of ugly things go wrong, but nowadays I get to the frozen computer with messed up graphics stage almost instantly.

Aug 26th 2003 at 01:02:57 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

94x3

Best intermediate:  

21x4

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I just got another 21 on intermediate. It's definitely my best one so far I think. I got it on a 44 3bv and it was 21,39 seconds. My other 21s have been a 36 3bv and a 35 and a 28 3bv...

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Aug 26th 2003 at 11:43:24 AM
Name:  

Bobby

Comments:  

When I say worms, I mean "Worms World Party", not the original, or any other version or variety.

Aug 26th 2003 at 11:42:27 AM
Name:  

Bobby

Best expert:  

95

Best intermediate:  

36

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

Finally, I've passed the hundred-mark! I'm toying with the idea of converting to the no-flags style of play, but I don't know if I'll be able to ... By the way, I threw those Inter. and Beg. times together in order to complete the trio

Do any of you lot play worms? It's my main game

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Aug 26th 2003 at 07:06:31 AM
Name:  

Dave

Best expert:  

131-->111

Best intermediate:  

35

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

Hey everyone. Does anyone out there have any problems with Kazaa while using minesweeper? I was playing last night and I broke my record with a 111 (maybe not so impressive to many people on this forum, but impressive to me). The box came up for me to enter my name, and when I hit enter. As soon as I hit enter, an error popped up, I cleared it, then my computer froze. I couldn't even get a screenshot. I had to go into winmine.ini to add my new score in. I was just wondering if anyone has had any similar problems. Also a warning to everyone, maybe running Kazaa and Minesweeper just isn't a good idea. Maybe my version of Kazaa is just buggy as hell. I don't know.

Later.

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Aug 26th 2003 at 06:42:57 AM
Name:  

Gareth

Best expert:  

76x2

Best intermediate:  

20x3

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Gee, yesterday I got a 76 out of like nothing, as in I hadn't played minesweeper in a couple of weeks I think. I reckon if I play minesweeper constantly I could get close to a sub-70 in a week... But I can't of course because of Uni.
I can't be stuffed with intermediate anymore, about 2 months ago I played two moderate-length sessions of intermediate, about I got a 20 in each one. I don't think I'll ever sub-20, it just seems beyond me.

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Aug 25th 2003 at 08:32:49 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

94x3

Best intermediate:  

21x2

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Hi! I'm back from Turkey! It was a great trip but I kind of missed minesweeper a bit. I've just gotten a new computer, a new monitor and a new mouse so it's really cool to play minesweeper now. I got a 22 and a 23 on intermediate yesterday and I only played for a couple of hours.

Adam, I was at your level only a couple of months ago. I found it hard to believe too but if you play every day your really improve a LOT and eventually you'll have beaten your records by several seconds. About the beginner boards: some boards can be done in 1,2 or 3 clicks and if you play long enough you'll get one of those boards as well. Try to get used to not marking any mines on beginner. It might be hard at first but it's more of a challenge and you'll improve you minesweeper skills by doing so. That way when you get a board which can be completed in let's say 2 clicks you only have to click twice and not 12 times marking all of the mines as well! Good luck!

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Aug 25th 2003 at 01:33:27 AM
Name:  

Adam

Comments:  

Oh right, i get it. I'm only 16 at the moment, so as soon as i get a sharper memory, i'll be able to remember some sequences and not place as many mines. Whenever i play i always show the mine by left clicking, even when there's 8 "1's" around the square i still mark it!

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Aug 24th 2003 at 04:41:51 PM
Name:  

Dan

Best expert:  

44

Best intermediate:  

11

Comments:  

Believe it, Adam. Several squares can be cleared with one double-click, that is pressing the right and left buttons at the same time. If you come across a square with a 1 in it and you know which surrounding square the bomb is in, you just have to place a flag there and double-click on the 1 to clear the remaining squares.

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Aug 24th 2003 at 01:00:08 PM
Name:  

Adam

Best expert:  

141

Best intermediate:  

40

Best beginner:  

7

Comments:  

I've looked at some of the videos of these minesweeper times and i must say that it looks extremely dodgey because i never ever get so many sqaures cleared in one click of the mouse, especially in the beginner where one guy completed it in 3 clicks of the mouse. The least clicks i've had in beginner is about 10, and i got 7 seconds. I'm just not convinced that all these people could just go on to any computer, such as mine and then just come out and do even sub 100 secs on expert.

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Aug 23rd 2003 at 09:06:10 PM
Name:  

Matthew Ackerman

Best expert:  

68

Best intermediate:  

8?

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I'll try to get some scores into active ranking, although I don't know if I could keep it up every 2 weeks. Carpel tunnel be ****ed, time for some expert.

Does anyone else notice their mouse hand's pinky finger going numb after a few rounds of expert?

Aug 23rd 2003 at 07:15:36 PM
Name:  

ruanyi

Best intermediate:  

16

Comments:  

@Matthew Ackerman
it`s great!!!!
is it 3bv 19?

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Aug 22nd 2003 at 05:08:31 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Double post... my computer is sometimes choking in the popups...

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Aug 22nd 2003 at 05:06:19 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

I have had some of them mid-50's too. I don't finish as many boards as you do, probably because I'm a non-flagger, but as long as the scores are good it's okay
And I'll remember that thing with the police

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Aug 22nd 2003 at 05:06:18 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

I have had some of them mid-50's too. I don't finish as many boards as you do, probably because I'm a non-flagger, but as long as the scores are good it's okay
And I'll remember that thing with the police

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Aug 22nd 2003 at 04:28:57 PM
Name:  

Grzegorz

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Thanks Martin
You just said that you have couple of sub'65 scores.
I must say that i don't finish many games, usually something about 10 maybe 15 board per 2 hours of play. For example i had 2 games on a ~130 3bv board with an estimated time 53 which i blew up at ~ 40s.
I always play as fast as i can and i'm waiting for a boards without 50-50 situations.
Anyway. Keep playing!!! we've gonna brake Lasse's record soon.

PS look out for the POLICE on the road.

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Aug 22nd 2003 at 01:58:06 PM
Name:  

Alex

Comments:  

Just got a 26 3bv on itm. The lowest 3bv I have ever got. I have the screenshot if anyone would like to see it. I can email it to you. I would be interested to see if anyone has had it before and has got a low score on it.

I didn't complete it. Messed it up with 4 squares left and 18 on the clock. Even if I had completed it, at that pace I would have been a few seconds off my record anyway.

PS It may take me a couple of days to get round to sending the screenshot as I will be away for the weekend. But I will send it to anyone who wants it as soon as I get back.

Aug 22nd 2003 at 11:06:48 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

59

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Congratulations Grzegorz
Now you're ahead of me due to a better exp score, but I hope to beat my exp record soon, since I have increased my 3BV/sec ratios quite a lot in the last couple of weeks and have gotten several sub65 scores...

Btw, I just passed the driving test today, so now I'm ready to do the roads unsafe

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Aug 22nd 2003 at 10:36:19 AM
Name:  

Grzegorz

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

16 -> 15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Very nice 38 3bv board and after 6 months new PB, 15 sec intermediate
AR so far [2,15,64]

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Aug 22nd 2003 at 06:03:08 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Michiel: by the way, your painting has only 9 mines. But even in XP, a beginner grid is filled with 10 mines. So, no record at all

Aug 22nd 2003 at 05:55:53 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Congrats to all record breakers. You're improving very fast, Daniele. Not bad.

@Michiel: for Damien's rankings, only 8x8 grids are accepted. Of course, a 6 in 9x9 wouldn't be a WR because there are lots of 1s around. That board - not counting the mistakes in the pre-last row - was probably a 4 3BV. That's okay to get a 2 or at least a 3...

Aug 22nd 2003 at 05:00:46 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

67 ---> 65

Comments:  

Oh, yes!!!! Another improvement...
Now, my sum is 86!!!
You can see the screenshot on my website

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Aug 21st 2003 at 05:35:25 PM
Name:  

Michiel

Best beginner:  

6 (9x9)

Comments:  

Hello,

I just made a new time with beginner. Is this a "World Record" or are 8x8 records only accepted?

Ok, the board was very convenient. Many of you would have solved it within one or two seconds.
000000011
01221001X
01XX20011
013X20000
111121100
X2001X100
111221011
001XX101X

Michiel

Aug 21st 2003 at 12:11:07 PM
Name:  

Michiel

Comments:  

The fact that he expected the DB does not mean that he used a fake program. Trying to solve the intermediate level quickly by way of hoping for the DB seems correct to me.

Aug 20th 2003 at 09:20:33 PM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

sorry Roli... I'm pretty sure he played that game expecting it to show up. Watch where he clicks the mines he places. Coincidentally they're in the places where you can open large 3bv gaps up with a double-click. Also, at the start of the game there is no hesitation at all as he moves to make the first no-flag click to the left of the first opening.

Aug 20th 2003 at 02:06:48 PM
Name:  

Roli

Best expert:  

59

Best intermediate:  

9 DB

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Hi, long time since I posted... I just wanted to add, just by fairness, that I would accept Matthews 8. It´s very well played and I feel myself beaten now. Just like me, though still nobody seems to believe me, he didn´t take use of board cycles. It just showed up. BTW, I had a shift of it again last month, recognized it after losing by second hit...

More important part, since I hate to talk about DB, I had a pretty session last days and got a calculated 41 after at least half of the board. I surely know it would have been far slower, but I would appreciate if any of you could analyse the .txt-video of Sorin´s counter to tell me how much potential was in that game. I don´t have a homepage that keeps files but if anyone wrote me a noticemail, so that I could send the vid to be analysed, I´d be very pleased. Happy sweeping, everyone...

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Aug 20th 2003 at 03:24:16 AM
Name:  

Michiel

Comments:  

Hello, me again.

I just though a new variant of minesweeper. It variates on go with chess pieces, see

http://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/gochess.html

Like normal go is go with rooks, normal minesweeper is kingmines: an unoccupied square reveals the count of mines that are one king move away. Knightmines seems a funny variant (in order to get desperate enough to open the corresponding links on this site ).

Bye

Aug 19th 2003 at 07:11:57 PM
Name:  

Michiel

Comments:  

Hello Bobby,

My "Master level" is 39x22, also with 200 bombs. I call it "Professional". Your superlevel contains much more mines per square: mine is only slightly more dense than expert.

Now you ask whence these idiot dimensions, don't you? The minesweeper implementation I submitted (see somewhere in between this message and your message) is in QuickBasic and the mine counts are put on the screen with the print command, 80x25 text screen size for graphic modes screen 3 (Hercules), 4(Olivetti AT&T) and 11(VGA MCGA).

Michiel

Aug 19th 2003 at 06:57:10 PM
Name:  

Michiel

Best expert:  

132

Best intermediate:  

47

Best beginner:  

9

Comments:  

Hello all,

I just submitted another minesweeper implementation, one I originally wrote for my 8086 computer. I added mouse support and a variant on the game.

My XP record list shows

Beginner: 10 seconden Michiel
Gevorderde: 47 seconden Michiel
Expert: 132 Michiel

It seems that I have to break the 100 sec boundary on expert to get a time unit for all three times with my Dutch version of minesweeper. Not only the 9 sec record, but also the 47 sec record, was with another minesweeper (the latter equaled in XP).

Michiel

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Aug 19th 2003 at 04:19:12 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Best expert:  

57

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

well, I have been playing and since my 57 I have gotten two 58's and 2 59's all on 140-150 3BV boards. so I know i am beginning to hit a period of increased speed and its really about time. I rarely finish a board under 70 now and have completely stopped saving my sub 70 screenshots. i know this doesnt really mean anything but alas, it is nice to write it down. I really think I can sub 55 at any moment and I cant wait.

Aug 19th 2003 at 03:30:17 PM
Name:  

Grzegorz

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

still 2

Comments:  

Just had a 2 3bv board. i don't know how but i did it in only 2 sec. Count rec shows 2.99 I've been watching this video many times and i saw that after two fast open cliks there was 2.06 on the clock. F***.
Why Why Why ???

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Aug 19th 2003 at 02:06:35 PM
Name:  

Bobby

Best expert:  

105

Best intermediate:  

dunno

Best beginner:  

dunno

Comments:  

Hello sweepers! Barely a day goes by in which I don't play minesweeper. I much prefer playing on a difficult field to playing on a comparitively easier one against the clock, so I play what I call "Master". The Master setting is: 30x24 (ie max area) and 200 mines. As you will see if you play it, success seldom comes: I've only ever won it three times to date. I have a screenshot of the most recent victory if anyone wants to see it. Incidentally - and this might be of significant interest - my best times on "expert" have come during periods of respite from Master, when the former feels very easy.

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Aug 19th 2003 at 11:20:58 AM
Name:  

David Morgan

Best expert:  

72 -> 69....TWICE!

Comments:  

what a day! didn't play that much but twice got a 69, I think they were my only times under 85 today too

Aug 19th 2003 at 10:41:03 AM
Name:  

Marko Jeznik

Best expert:  

123 -> 118

Best intermediate:  

35 -> 28

Best beginner:  

uhmmm... nvm

Comments:  

Getting there... (yeah right)

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Aug 19th 2003 at 01:03:13 AM
Name:  

Ashley

Comments:  

your site is very cool and honorable! would you mind rating my pic? http://www.wouldyouhitthis.com/?id=3430&referralid=4

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Aug 18th 2003 at 09:56:11 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Comments:  

that smiley figure was to be "18"

Aug 18th 2003 at 09:55:15 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Matthew,
I think the DB is basically dead to many people here, but it's still cool to see a nice, fast game played, even though some odd number of people have the whole thing memorized. I don't "respect" the board itself, though when I first sub-20'd, it was on the DB (an 1 , shaving 5 seconds off of my record. That was well before people memorized the board, recorded it, planned the most efficient path of sweeping, and cycled through the games to specifically get that board. I haven't seen it in my games (that I am aware of) in at least 2 years.

And if you still play frequently, you should submit your best beginner, intermediate, and expert times to the Active Ranking (active_ranking@hotmail.com) for the most current two week period. Unfortunately for you, as far as I know - and I am pretty certain - we don't accept the DB for a score. Sorry. Happy sweeping!

Lance

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