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Jun 3rd 2003 at 02:25:48 AM
Name:  

Elmar Zimmermann

Best expert:  

58->57

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I was just going to play for 10min before going to university and pow, the first game i finished after no even 5 minutes was a 57(3bv 138).
Finally my score beats Gernot's!

Hey Kimmo, still stuck at 73sum? Looooooser!

Congrats to Ryan and Alex.

Steve, you coud've made a video of your screen and while moving the window of the finished game. But honestly i don't think anyone would believe you anyway. you sound like you're being honest, so i suppose your timer must have stopped somehow. I think you can do that by hitting the esc-button or something.

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Jun 2nd 2003 at 10:21:03 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

hey jon...i quit after 3 optical logitech's each within weeks because of jerkiness...not everyone gets the problem but it's prevalent in the first generation of that set.

btw, i fixed the download page but it's very spare...i'll doctor it up after i get the site updated.

Jun 2nd 2003 at 09:54:08 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

Hmmm. I expected the "Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse" to last longer. It's less than a year since I bought it, and it's been really jerky lately. Maybe it's because those four "circular knobs" underneath it has fallen off. Has anyone else had problems with this kind of mouse?

Jun 1st 2003 at 05:14:08 AM
Name:  

Alex

Best expert:  

77-->76

Best intermediate:  

21x3--->20

Best beginner:  

2x2

Comments:  

Yeah!!!
I now have a sub 100 sum!!! I got the 20 in the morning and the 76 at night!!! Didn't play that much either!!! My sum is now 98!!! Have to work on that sub 20 itm now. Does anyone know of any other sweepers from Wales?? I have never seen any others.

Jun 1st 2003 at 02:58:37 AM
Name:  

Steve Schafer

Best expert:  

23

Best intermediate:  

26

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

It's 2:51AM over here and about 20-odd minutes ago I set what I believe to be the world record for expert level. Now I had no idea there were this many people playing, let alone cheating, etc. I have no idea how to even cheat. I've noticed that some people use some kind of video recording program or something. I wish I had known about this. The quick version is that I was on the phone talking to someone who can really ramble. Oftentimes when this comes up I click on the minesweeper (TM) and have a go. It's very true what some people have said - just let your mind go blank, don't try and set a record.
For the record, I too was a piano player/teacher.
I'm guessing that no one's going to believe me, but for what it's worth, here's the facts:

I'm running a PII 333MHz machine with 256MB RAM. Pretty much the barebones which will allow me to run XP pro. Does that tell you what version of minsweeper I have? Are there ways to fake something like this? If so I don't know what they'd be, nor am I sure I even want to know. I've not yet even typed my name in, for doing so might erase some kind of 'proof'. I'm going to leave the computer on tonight and pray that the power doesn't go out.
Anyhoo, if anyone has any thoughts, lemme know.
Thanks,
Steve

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May 31st 2003 at 07:32:21 PM
Name:  

Soul Collector

Best expert:  

89

Best intermediate:  

30 (i know...)

Best beginner:  

6 (bbbaaaa)

Comments:  

Claims? CLAIMS???
I did score a 89!! and b4 i ever knew about this site i thoghut it waz extremely high too...
low, that is. not high.
anyway, i hope to improve this score...

May 31st 2003 at 06:18:03 PM
Name:  

TeaTime

Comments:  

you r all un human freaks! the best score i ever saw in real life is 112
and my best fried claims he got a 89

May 31st 2003 at 03:55:47 PM
Name:  

manu

Best expert:  

53

Comments:  

Last night I tried to play in the nf style, and missed a possible 58-59... maybe should I play more this way.

May 31st 2003 at 12:04:35 PM
Name:  

Ryan Mann

Best expert:  

54

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

The amazing just happened to me. I have been working this summer 3 hours drive from my computer, so I have not been able to play in three weeks. I sat down today and started to warm up. I thought I was going fast on this one game, and when I finished I could not believe my eyes, a 54, three seconds better than my last record, and only my second sub 60. Maybe everyone should take a 3 week break from minesweeper.
The only thing I am pissed about was when I went to copy the screenshot using Alt + Print Scrn, I got an illegal operation on my computer, cause it sucks and I now I don't have the screenshot. This has happened many times before, but i never thought it would happen when I just broke my record. Also, because my computer needed to be restarted then, it didn't show up on my best times list. Oh well. I don't think I will be able to play enough to get times for the AR, so I will hopefully be able to play in another couple of weeks. Pleasant sweeping.

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May 31st 2003 at 06:06:13 AM
Name:  

Scott Storm

Comments:  

I awoke the other morning and pondered for quite some time as to wether I was in fact shit cool or a shithead and came to the conclusion that there is a very fine line between the two conditions and that I am like a drunk man cycling along the equator drifting between both worlds.
This would explain how on wednesday night I pulled the girl that I have wanted for months, yet after completely dissrespecting her brother (which at the time she loved) she didn't want to see me again, and on friday night I was completely bereft of any pulling power what so ever! but even with the ladies being completely offside the dudes were absolutely tripping off my mad buzz

May 31st 2003 at 05:15:36 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Roli, I checked the videos from this site. Win98 is usually off by 1-3secs for sub70/sub60 games.
(Matt,Owen,Lasse,Paul 3sec; David 2secs; Reid 1sec, Yoni 4)
Hey, subtract 3 seconds from my score and i'd be ahead of you. I think it would be only fair if we all used WinmineXP

May 30th 2003 at 07:25:56 PM
Name:  

Chris Chappa

Best expert:  

don't know

Best intermediate:  

don't know

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

I was wondering if anyone has pursued 9x9 boards with more and more and more mines. I started at 20 mines and quickly progressed to 27 mines. It seemed like 28 mines would NEVER work out, but eventually it did. 29 miines also took a lot of trial and error, but I finally managed to pull it off (last empty square I clicked on was a 6... LUCKY!)

Now I can't get past 30 mines in a 9x9 board. Anyone else pursue this endeavor? If so, how far have you gotten?

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May 30th 2003 at 01:52:24 PM
Name:  

Roli

Comments:  

Hi and special congrats to Elmar!!! Can any of you tell me clearly how much loss there is with Windows XP compared to 98 please? Cause I´ve bought a new laptop 2.6 gigs and WinXP and now I cannot get past 75 on expert (compared to the 59 of my record). Is this normal with fast computers and XP??? Thanks a lot...

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May 30th 2003 at 02:04:15 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Dennis: 3BV means Bechtel's Board Benchmark Value.
See the FAQ section of this homepage or http://www.stephan-bechtel.de/3bv.htm for further explanations how to calculate the 3BV of a board!

May 29th 2003 at 05:39:04 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

137

Best intermediate:  

28

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I've got a question. I've been trying to figure it out but I just can't! What is that '3bv' short for??? People in here keep using that and I haven't got a clue what it means! To whomever answers this question: THANKS a lot!

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May 29th 2003 at 09:25:33 AM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Damn! Last night I was playing some minesweeper and just clicking along, and a beauty of a board popped up. every time I'd make a double-click, a large swath of it would clear. I came to my first, and would have been only, 50/50 guess, and I missed it, and the clock said 43 seconds. I had a small, easy section of the board left to do, which wouldn't have taken long at all. In my best educated guess, I think I could have finished it in 50 seconds, because there was a square I had missed that I would have had to look for, and on top of that I was playing slowly and cautiously. Had I been going at my usual pace and finished, it would have certainly been a 46-47 for me!!! Ah, what might have been. Email me for the screen shot of this 100 3bv beauty!

Lance

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May 29th 2003 at 02:42:34 AM
Name:  

alex

Best expert:  

77

Best intermediate:  

21-->21x2

Best beginner:  

2x2

Comments:  

Grr!!! The Second 21 should have been a 19 or a 20 at worst, but I fumbled it the last corner or the board. Ah well, I will have to keep trying.

May 28th 2003 at 04:54:58 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

17x2

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

@Dennis: Nice to see another Dane. Keep sweeping

@Daniel: I think I can see some of it early saturday morning. I'll watch it if I'm able to pull myself out of my bed

Btw, as most of you guys I'm also taking exams these days. Tuesday I found out that I have a German oral exam in two weeks... Not my favourite, but I guess it could be worse

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May 28th 2003 at 03:50:25 PM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

I'm off to Scotland to see this annular eclipse on Saturday morning. The weather looks poorly but we always knew the odds I've only managed to see 2 eclipses in my entire life. One when I was 6 and the other in Zimbabwe (2001). I missed all the other lunars in Ireland and the solar in Germany '99. Enjoy it if it's visible to any of you.

Happy Sweeping (Got my 3rd sub 80, a 79, with a 156 3BV)

May 28th 2003 at 01:15:07 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

137

Best intermediate:  

28

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Holy Jesus! I just realised that I've been playing minesweeper for 9 HOURS!!!!!! No wonder I have a hard time concentrating!!! It's 10:10 am and I still haven't gone to bed yet! Well, I'd better get some sleep and experiment some more with that double-clicking and flagging tomorrow! It'll take a while to learn, I just know it will!

About the Eurovision Song Contest, I really think Norway ought to have won! And NOT because it's our neighbouring country!

Good 'night' everyone and keep sweeping those mines!

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May 28th 2003 at 12:35:26 AM
Name:  

yo mama

Best expert:  

69

Best intermediate:  

69

Best beginner:  

69

Comments:  

do you know HOW LAME you are?????????????? GET LIVES

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May 27th 2003 at 11:31:54 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

137

Best intermediate:  

28

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hi everybody! I'm new here and haven't really played minesweeper a whole lot. My first time ever was about half a year ago. I know my expert time SUCKS but I very rarely play that. Somehow I think int. is more fun! How in the world it's possible to get a 10 is beyond me! I was so happy when I finally achived my goal of a sub 30! I'm from Denmark by the way, just like Lasse! I guess it will take me a couple of years to get THAT good! I still haven't figured out how to get it on cam but I guess I'll figure it out one of these days! Good lucky and happy mining everyone!

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May 27th 2003 at 01:36:13 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Grzegorz, it's my first time in top10. My AR scores for this period is 3,18,68 by now, but I assume I can beat that expert score, although I have a had time to sub 65

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May 27th 2003 at 01:36:08 PM
Name:  

Ben

Comments:  

The eurovision will take two days from next year on. One evening with qualifying round and the other with the final round. The top ten countries of this year's edition directly qualify for the final round. I'm not sure, but I guess all countries can then participate. Did anyone notice Belgium's great performance?

May 27th 2003 at 12:11:05 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Elmar, I've read that Germany is one of 4 european countries that have the fixed right to start even if they finish in last place. The others are GBR, FRA and ESP, I think.

Congrats to our new AR-Top10ers. Good job.

May 27th 2003 at 10:00:12 AM
Name:  

Jarad

Comments:  

Elamr, actually, your is much closer, in mine I had a jumble of bombs, I never would have flagged any of them but I had two squares that would have taken me a while to figure out which ones were bombs. though I think it migh thave been possible. Oh well, we are on the right path, though you are a bit faster than me.

May 27th 2003 at 06:33:42 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Jarad, i suppose your screenshot looks something like this?
http://debby.lexx.ath.cx/~elmar/minesweeper/Screenshots/Expert/missed%2056%20-%2027-04-03%20-%203bv149.PNG

Daniel, then how come Germany was allowed to participate? I think we finished 21st last year. (for a good reason btw)

Damien, what's up with your site? It's pretty slow and unstable these days. Is there a particular reason why you've stopped updating the page or is just because of lack of time?

Yeah, got my first top10 AR. 6th place, woohoo!

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May 26th 2003 at 05:43:09 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Comments:  

Had a 55 with two squares left, both very close and both guesses, hit it wrong. oh well, got the pic if anyone wants to see it.

May 26th 2003 at 05:38:08 PM
Name:  

Grzegorz Górny

Best expert:  

61*3

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Martin this s yuor first time in tp tn in AR?

Lucky guy. You've got the same sum as me only better exp. Lucky because i've got 2*61 something about 30 minutes after deadline.

We'll see next time For this moment my scores for next period are [4,19,61]. If our rivalisation we'll be on this level, a minute barrier on expert we'll be broken soon.

Keep playing
think positive.

Happy sweeping.

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May 26th 2003 at 03:28:49 PM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

Thanks Daniel for that... I wasn't trying to suggest that the French weren't voted highly because of their anti-war stance, just thought that the rest of Europe might see the country as arrogant (like the rest of the world... . I thought Britain deserved their zero votes. Their music is about as good as their cricket team.

May 26th 2003 at 05:01:07 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

Every year I prepare myself to sit up and watch the Eurovision with renewed optimism. I don't think I ever get past the 3rd song!

For that reason I can't talk about specific songs, like the French one. I think I can explain the absence of certain countries. I think there is a certain rota to the Eurovision. As it is, there are too many countries eligable to enter the EV, eg Israel. Because of practicalities, a restriction is placed on the amount of countries entering. It goes as follows.

If you were represented this year, then you must have achieved a finishing place higher than c. 14th (I think) to be allowed enter the next year. If you did not, then you are not represented the next year BUT have your place guaranteed for the year after that.

If you weren't represented this year, then you have a place for next year.

As regards voting, it's massively influenced by the proximity of the nations to you. If you think the French are hated due to their anti war stance, then what does Britain's overall 0 points say about Europe's feelings for them?

May 25th 2003 at 03:41:09 PM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

Seems pretty quiet around here...

About a year ago, we had a minesweeper chat, and the main topic of conversation was the Eurovision. So, this year, I decided to watch it.

Questions for the Europeans. Do you hate the French so much you are willing to relegate one of the best songs of the night into the bottom third of the table?

There were some notable absentees (Finland, Denmark, etc.) Who decides which countries have songs? I think Iceland needed some more Scandinavian countries - they were very unlucky.

May 24th 2003 at 06:31:36 PM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

Active Ranking is incorrect from what I submitted. Should be 4, 23, 77 and not 5, 23, 91. Thanks

May 24th 2003 at 06:27:37 AM
Name:  

Yannig

Best expert:  

80

Best intermediate:  

21

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I now know how to fix the camtasia record problem under WinXP. Just go under tools-Options-Program and check "disable display acceleration during capture".

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May 23rd 2003 at 04:28:02 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best intermediate:  

17x2

Comments:  

http://www.gymks.dk/lort/missed14.PNG

33/35 3BV, 14,41 sec

Would definately have been better than 17!


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May 23rd 2003 at 01:38:03 PM
Name:  

Anonymous Surfer

Comments:  

Future of minesweeping


Because of the pseudorandomness and board cycles there seems no future to minesweeper. Right at this moment it would be possible to fix as many dreamboards as you like in beginner and intermedia levels. First you just collect the data. You record both beginner board cycles and intermedia board cycles. This will take quite much time but not forever. Then with good programing skills you make a soft that compares a minesweeper board to boards in cycles. Program will detect your playing board in the whole cycle and say how many times you have to press F2 to get to board you want to play. And after this meaning of sweeping is gone, forever.

There is no reason why this couldn't be done also in expert. It just takes a bit more energy and work.

May 22nd 2003 at 02:37:43 PM
Name:  

Sorin

Comments:  

About Camtasia: I noticed that it lags a lot if set the colours at 16bit. Try 32 or 24 instead.

May 22nd 2003 at 11:01:14 AM
Name:  

Runar

Comments:  

Guess what.
I've just made a java-version of minesweeper on my homepage, complete with hiscore-table and everything..
Now you can really try to determine who's the best..

I've just finished it, so if you find any serious bugs, send me a mail. And the link is: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~runar for my page, or http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~runar/mine/mine.htm to go directly to the minesweeper game.

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May 22nd 2003 at 07:45:35 AM
Name:  

Dan Cerveny

Comments:  

My old motherboard died a few weeks ago - I think I already mentioned that - but I've had several problems getting my new motherboard to work over the past week. I have not had any time to play minesweeper this period, so I may take the penalty unless I can play a little today and get some good scores. I will be able to update the active ranking site unless something else goes wrong with my system.

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May 22nd 2003 at 04:41:22 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

narf! just lost a game after 55secs with 2 clicks to go. 3bv was 117, so i was actually going qutie slow. that's probably because i realized pretty fast that i was playing a fast board and got nervous.

May 22nd 2003 at 01:52:18 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

72

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@Daniel: My sum is still 97, with that damn 23! And my second time on expert is 74...

May 21st 2003 at 04:42:55 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

hey lasse: you have it all clear to the top. i have unfortunately been stuck in a bad sweeping set-up for the summer...i've only played every couple of days and my last 20 games have all been 57-59 with a lone 55 and 53...int has slowed to averaging 19 and getting sub-3 is impossible...i've almost given up for the summer already. good luck...go on holiday or something for a while...

congrats to all record breakers (daniel, elmar especially)

May 21st 2003 at 02:44:50 PM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Best expert:  

78 -> 77

Best intermediate:  

18 x 4

Comments:  

Been a strange one. Today in 2 hours I finished 1 game, a 91. Now out of nowehere comes a 77 and I didn't realise until the best time popped up. A 161 3BV. I think that ties with you Daniele but you have the faster expert.

May 21st 2003 at 08:31:36 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Yannig, i have the same problem inspite of 1,53Ghz and 512MB. just use count_rec, it's so much better anyways. smaller files and more information...

May 21st 2003 at 07:45:00 AM
Name:  

Yannig

Best expert:  

80

Best intermediate:  

21

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I'm having a lot of problems with camtasia. I just installed XP, and when i record with 15 frames/s, my pc lags and only recors with 5 frames/s. Under 98 I recorded with 15 frames/s and had no problems.
Any ideas?
thanks

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May 21st 2003 at 05:31:24 AM
Name:  

Jarad

Comments:  

Arghh, I barely ever win a game +70, but I still dont beat my 60, tied it again last nigth on a 147 board. Its extra frustrating because throughout the time I have played, my record always seemed to be around 10-12 seconds faster then my average winning times. I would say my average time now (for decent boards) is around 67 or so. One of these days damnit. Bye.

May 21st 2003 at 03:25:37 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

AR: 58-16-3 that should do...

May 21st 2003 at 02:57:01 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Thanks everybody.
I'm thinking about sending in scores for the AR this period. i was thinking maybe i could make top10 for the first time. looking at period 9 rankings it doesn't seem that difficult these days.
so i played some int after not having played for 3 and a half months. took me some time to get used to it again, but after an hour i got my first sub20.
a 16 which is my third best game ever(14;15). 3bv was 49 which is also pretty high. so maybe there is still some room for improvements on the int level. but i think i will keep on focusing on expert.
AR so far 58-16-XX

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May 21st 2003 at 02:16:40 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

17x2

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Good to see you back, Lasse

I will also try to beat my 19 on int. Currently my AR scores are: 3-19-61. This is my best AR score so far, so I really hope I can improve my 19

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May 20th 2003 at 06:02:50 PM
Name:  

Lasse Nyholm

Comments:  

Don't worry guys, I'm right here.. no no, over here! HI!

My playing has suffered due to schoolwork, but that'll be over in 10 days. I did get time to play a little in the weekend and got a handful sub-50s in a couple of hours. 2x45 as the best, so my expert-playing hasn't suffered too much, however my intermediate playing has. So far I haven't got anything better than a few 16s. Hopefully I'll find time to improve that soon, so I can push Damien off the top position on the active ranking. We'll see about that.
Congrats to everybody who has improved your records lately - good job!

See you - Lanyjé

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May 20th 2003 at 05:30:46 PM
Name:  

Grzegorz Górny

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I'm getting closer and closer. Yesterday 63, today 62 and for the first time three sub'70 in one hour. Look out guys because I've always beat my records by more than 3 seconds (maybe this time will be the same?? )

BTW does anybody knows what is hapening with Lasse. Is he quit sweeping or something

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May 20th 2003 at 01:57:34 PM
Name:  

daniele

Comments:  

@Georgi: yes, of course i have the Italian one.

May 20th 2003 at 10:26:54 AM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

@Kimmo - all the better... more competition! So your expert scores is lower... you're a bit slow on the beginner and intermediate though, ha! Happy Sweeping!

Lance

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May 20th 2003 at 07:19:13 AM
Name:  

Georgi Kermekchiev

Comments:  

One more idea about Counter program faults - maybe problems come from foreign (localized) versions of the game or at least from some of them
German one is ok, I use the original (US) one and everything is ok ...
What's yours Daniele ? Italian?

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May 20th 2003 at 04:34:14 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

@Georgi: I'll try it, but i don't use themes on win98...

May 20th 2003 at 02:42:45 AM
Name:  

Georgi Kermekchiev

Comments:  

Congrats Elmar!!!

In fact that board is your 4th best ever sub-70

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May 20th 2003 at 02:00:25 AM
Name:  

Kimmo

Best expert:  

55

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Hey Lance and Elmar, I'm also tied with you but I've better expert score. Losers!

(Please, don't be at me and my sense of humour)

May 20th 2003 at 01:29:23 AM
Name:  

Georgi Kermekchiev

Comments:  

Most probably problems with Counter come not from the windows version, but from the desktop theme that is used - I can suppose that Counter will work fine with standart themes.

Otherwise Counter program can not find starting point for reading the board

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May 20th 2003 at 12:47:39 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

@Elmar: I tried the counter on WinXP and win98 (i use them both) and it doesn't work. It also happens on XF's pc (he's a friend of mine), and he uses winXP.
I have winXP professional v2600 sp1 and win98 se.

May 19th 2003 at 10:32:10 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Elmar... we are tied for 30th! You have improved very quickly, so maybe this new competition will pressure me into lowering my expert score again. I only have 3 sub-60's and almost 200 sub 70's, but I have come very close on several occasions to getting 55 or better, so we'll see if I can do it. The only problem for me would be that I am now playing on a different computer for most of the summer than I have been for the last 10 months, because I am home from school on summer break. Strangely enough, I've set almost all of my records on this computer (without a real timer lag!), so maybe this is just what the doctor ordered... good luck, and happy sweeping, all!

Lance

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May 19th 2003 at 04:47:37 PM
Name:  

Grzegorz Górny (POLAND)

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Congrats Elmar

God days for me too.
Yesterday i've done my second best on expert. It was 63 (123 3BV ) and today second best int. 17 (35 3BV ).
sub 60 soon? Maybe

Happy sweeping everybody .

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May 19th 2003 at 01:21:02 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Congrats Elmar! Don't come too near, please!
Of course, I'm already using the new version, although on my XP computer, the .99 bug didn't occur really frequently.

May 19th 2003 at 01:19:26 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

hey lance, we're tied for 30th i think!

May 19th 2003 at 01:14:04 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

59->58

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

214 sub70s 2 sub60s!!
3bv was 125, so 58 isn't that great considering that this is about the best board i've ever finshed. but i'll take that 1 second.
video and screenshot are on my site!

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May 19th 2003 at 07:19:34 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Daniele, i don't know what you're doing wrong. it works for both games on my computer.

Stephan, the new version is definitely better. no more .99 bug!

May 19th 2003 at 06:38:52 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Elmar, thanks for pointing out. I've realized as well that Oli's 54 has a lag of 3 seconds due to Win98. But that's bad luck for me...

Even the old version of the recorder works on Win XP.

May 19th 2003 at 06:07:44 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

Yes i tried...it only works with winmine_98 that i found on your site. With XP and 98 "orginal" versions it doesn't work.

May 19th 2003 at 06:02:47 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

of course it does. i'm using WinXP. it even works for winmine98 on XP. did you try recorder_fix.exe?

May 19th 2003 at 05:35:13 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

72

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

And another one makes his intermediate better....uff...
Btw, i made my 50th sub90. I know, it's nothing particular, but i'm proud of it!

@Elmar:the counter doesn't work on XP, i tried it.

May 19th 2003 at 04:56:30 AM
Name:  

Alex

Best expert:  

77

Best intermediate:  

22--->21

Best beginner:  

2x2

Comments:  

Another second shaved off. My sum is now 100 exactly.
Grrr!! Only 1 second away from a sub 100 sum and 2 away from a sub 20 intermediate. Will have to keep trying

May 19th 2003 at 03:54:28 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Looking at Oli's video i'd say your second 56 still is the second fastest german expert game. in my opinion his 54 would've been a 57 on xp as btw your first 56 was. why can't just everybody use winmineXP?

oli, do you use a third mouse button for double clicks? i've never seen anybody use as many doublebclicks as you do. there are only about 5 left clicks during the entire game. pretty weird style.. it doesn't even look that fast. well, obviously it works.
your counter doesn't work, you should get the new version. you can get it under software on my site.

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May 17th 2003 at 02:11:04 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Congratulations Oli. I must admit that I'm not really happy about losing my second place in Germany's best expert players, but this was about to come, so I was aware of it...

May 17th 2003 at 01:32:46 AM
Name:  

ruanyi

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@Oli Congratulate!
Could u post me your video,thanks.

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May 16th 2003 at 07:51:21 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Congratulations Oli

Btw, yes it is 4:51 AM

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May 16th 2003 at 05:40:35 PM
Name:  

Oli

Best expert:  

55->54 on a 147 3bv board

Comments:  

i knew this record would come because i am in very good shape today so i turned on camtasia...
Finally a video of my currend record to show to my friends
i think i'll play another hour maybe i get just a litte more lucky. BTW yes it's 2:38 am

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May 16th 2003 at 05:07:27 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

@Daniele. I tend to flag very little on intermediate. At the time of my first 18, I never realised the double click thing existed! So I decided to change to flagging and it took me a very long time to get used to it. But now I feel a lot quicker than my non flagging days. However, non-flagging is a far more exciting game. In my opinion, you need far more awareness and mental agility to play non flagging. I can see a flaw in that opinion however if you take into account the awareness needed for the most efficient flagging play to occur. But that's not always clear.

My 3 other 18's have all been flagging and vary from only circa 3 mines flagged all the way up to 15 or so being flagged.

I think it's good practice to play non flagging to get the mental juices flowing and then slowly introduce a bit of flagging to areas you think it would be more efficient than non flagging.

You will beat 23 without any doubt. It's just a matter of time.

May 16th 2003 at 04:20:45 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

72

Best intermediate:  

23X2

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Cannot beat that damn 23...even without flagging..ARGH!!!

@Daniel:do you flag on intermediate?

May 16th 2003 at 12:14:21 AM
Name:  

Aapo

Comments:  

Sorry about the writing error. Now I leave.

May 16th 2003 at 12:10:18 AM
Name:  

Aapo

Comments:  

Yes, It's true what I said.

The disanvantage is 0,5 sec in avarage but in worst cases it can be almost a second! It can change right away to 2 sec if the system cock happens to change.

Yes, I know that there is lag with slow computer but the lag is very fractional in avarage level. XP's mine sweeper is better then 98's.

May 15th 2003 at 02:01:13 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Oh, I mean on Windows XP. My beginner time is made on Minesweeper 98, but on Windows XP... Guess that it still has the same bug then
Anyways, my int and exp times are on Minesweeper XP while running Windows XP

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May 15th 2003 at 01:31:45 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

can you change the size of the beginner board to 8x8 on XP, because i can't.

May 15th 2003 at 01:12:48 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Yes, also my beginner time

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May 15th 2003 at 12:56:32 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Grzegorz and Martin, i also started playing seriously about a year ago. i can't really tell when. i got my first 69 in june. my 99 can't be older than 18months. my road to 59 was:
99-95-???-76-73-71-69x3-66x5-64-63-62-61-60x3-59
as you can see i wasn't blessed with many big jumps like you martin. especially 69,66 and 60 were tough barriers.

May 15th 2003 at 12:05:33 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Martin, ALL you times? does that include your beginner time?

May 15th 2003 at 11:39:24 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

17x2

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

All my times are made with Windows XP, so all my times should be right

@Grzegorz: As far as I recall my improvements in the last year are: 88-84-81-75-70-63-61. The 88 is from April last year I think.
I got the 81 July last year and it took about a half year before I broke it to 75 January this year. Between 81 and 75 I changed from flagger (but no double-clicking (one never really reads the help files )) to non-flagger. I couldn't really get used to double-click. Btw, my double-clicking record is 89 and it's about a month ago I got it.
February this year I first got 70 and later 63, and now I've got 61.
And of course I will beat 61 if you ever doubted that

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May 15th 2003 at 11:25:21 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

just got 3 63s in a row 3bv 141,139,158

May 15th 2003 at 10:07:48 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

aapo, that's not exactly true. the 1/2-bug is only one part of the problem. it gives you a disadvantage of .5 on average...
the 98counter is also slower depending on your system. if you take a look at expert videos played on the 98 version you will notice that the counter often is off by up to 3 secs. so that second bug overcompensates for the 1/2-bug. the world record for example is 41 but judging by the video it should be 43...

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May 15th 2003 at 09:35:30 AM
Name:  

Aapo

Comments:  

Play with XP! No system clock bug.

What this bug also means is that you get advantage by using XP also in avarage and expert. For example, if I play a 18,70 game with XP the time is 19. But if I play it with 98 version the time can be with a 70 % change a 20. So the bug isn't same for every one.

May 15th 2003 at 07:57:56 AM
Name:  

Anonymous Surfer

Comments:  

Is there this kind of bug in every windows except XP. The point is that there is no reason compeating anything if time 2 means 0,01-2,00 and the times are under 2 sec.

May 15th 2003 at 07:52:41 AM
Name:  

Aapo

Comments:  

But it's great joke! Time shows 2 but real time is 0,1 sec. Hahahhah. Time is 2000% over real time. It's almost impossible to complete beginner in 1 sec.

May 15th 2003 at 05:51:53 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Aapo, i think the problem is that the 98counter is linked to the system clock. meaning that the counter starts when you do your first click but jumps to 2 as soon as the system clocks changes. so that explains for a lack of up to .99 secs. the rest can be explained simply by the fact that the counter starts at 1 and not at 0.
that bug is the same for every computer so you'll just have to deal with it or quit playing beginner.

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May 15th 2003 at 05:22:41 AM
Name:  

Aapo Käkränen

Best expert:  

113

Best intermediate:  

26

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Playing the "legal" beginner level.

Just found out that my 1 sec record is made with "illigal" 9x9 board. I downloaded the 98 version and started playing again. But quickly I noticed that the 98 minesweepers clock was complitely fucked up on my Windows XP. It goes from 1 sec to 2 sec in couple of tenths of second. I measured that the real time of my new record was 2,8 sec but minesweepers shows 4. The video is here

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/miinaharava/testi.avi

The only reason that I can think is that my computer is really fast 2 Ghz and some how minesweeper of win 98 doesn't work propably.

May 14th 2003 at 10:00:23 PM
Name:  

ruanyi

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@Tang, Ho Fung
Can i list u`name on my web.


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May 14th 2003 at 05:45:49 PM
Name:  

Grzegorz Górny (POLAND)

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Hi everybody and congrats Martin you've just equal my expert 61 and overall 79. I'm just wondering what was your way to 61 because i've start playing seriously a year ago when my expert was 103. I was thinking that i'm improving my times very fast (93, 83, 74, 71, 69, 67, 65, and a month ago 61) so it's 42 seconds in one year. As i remember your first message on this chat was (something about) a half a year ago. Maybe i'm wrong but i'm sure that you're improving faster than me.
By the way i have new comp and new mouse and i've got serious problem to get sub 70 (only 68 and 2*69). so Martin keep playing faster and faster. If you'll beat 61 maybe i will start playing faster. Good luck!!!


One more thing. That 61 I've got on my friend's comp. Unfortunetly his comp broke down 2 weeks ago and i've lost a screenshot of my beauty 61.

Now I can't prove that i really had 61.

Keep playing guys and make a lot of improvements especially you Martin



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May 14th 2003 at 04:22:03 PM
Name:  

Matt M. (another one)

Best expert:  

51

Best intermediate:  

10

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I havent played in about 4 months, just lost interest. Ill still be participating in the congress, but I just want to let you guys know that these will probably be my scores for a while. I still have an itch to break 50, so I might play again seriously sometime...


May 14th 2003 at 12:16:20 PM
Name:  

Matt M.

Best expert:  

115

Best intermediate:  

33

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

just to show how much progress i'm making, in just a day i have reduced my personal bests from 7-35-125 to 4-33-115! still with a long way to go but i am definitely making progress!

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May 14th 2003 at 06:42:13 AM
Name:  

Manu

Best expert:  

53

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hello everybody ! No I'm not dead, just have no time to play anymore... Maybe I'll stop playing in the next several weeks and come back then, I'll see.
Thanks for everything Roelof, I'm sure we'll still hear about you sometimes... when France will meet Holland in the Euro 2004 for instance ! Good luck to you !

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May 14th 2003 at 05:06:26 AM
Name:  

Jarad

Comments:  

Elmar, I am pretty sure that i have gotten sixty twice, i am not on my minesweeper computer right now. Truthfully I don't even know my 3BV ratio though. I don't even save my games anymore if they are not below 67. I must have around 100 69's alone. Twice now I would have gotten a 58 but I missed on the last click. Those were usually mid 130's 3BV, I usually do best in 140's or 150's though. I have strange playing style I think in which i incorporate a lot of "right click to get better position for double click style". Its tough to explain what that means but perhaps one of these days I iwll actually record a game and send it in to the yahoo group. Its just that the computer I play on doesn't have internet yet. Oh well. Eventually I will bust through this hump, I just need to play more!

May 13th 2003 at 02:01:30 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

63 -> 61

Best intermediate:  

17x2

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  


134 3BV - 61 sec


@Yannig and all other record breakers: Congratulations

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May 13th 2003 at 07:43:24 AM
Name:  

Yannig

Best expert:  

87-->85-->80

Best intermediate:  

21

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Like I told you yesterday, I can do it better. 80sec on a 143 3bv board. That makes 104 sec total sum. Only 5 sec to go....

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