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May 16th 2004 at 08:04:53 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

I still play on the original most of the time and will be doing so for the foreseeable future

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May 15th 2004 at 06:15:57 PM
Name:  

Stephen

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Well, just tied my expert record with a 61.88 seconds, ona 149 3bv board, 2.46 3bv/s (much better than my 1.96 or whatever it was for my previous 61. so this Period is now at 15-61, for a total of 76, my best by far. YEAH!

   
May 15th 2004 at 06:04:23 PM
Name:  

Robert Benditz aka Hopsing

Best expert:  

96 --> 93

Best intermediate:  

27

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hi
I just lowered my expert record down to 93.
Check out my great minesweeper-page to get the vid and keep track of my records development.

CU on the IRC-channel

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May 15th 2004 at 05:51:45 PM
Name:  

Daniel

Comments:  

Yeah, I think a lot of people now play with the clone (Rodrigo's). It records very easily and it's accepted for AR and WR times. Do you still play Matt?

   
May 15th 2004 at 01:59:45 PM
Name:  

Matt

Best expert:  

51

Best intermediate:  

10

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

So I popped in here and noticed people talking a lot about different clones. Is the standard Windows version of Minesweeper no longer what everybody plays?

   
May 15th 2004 at 12:59:23 PM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

62

Comments:  

62! Very nice
It'll be up on my page soon.

   
May 15th 2004 at 11:22:00 AM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

64.06

Comments:  

3rd 64 on a 152 3BV board.. Could have been a nice 63
Happy sweeping

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May 15th 2004 at 04:52:43 AM
Name:  

James

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

Woohoo!

I got 5 for beginner.

*Is attempting to go faster

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May 14th 2004 at 10:00:36 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

57x4!!!

Best intermediate:  

14x2

Best beginner:  

1x2

Comments:  

Hi fellow sweepers,
I don't know if anybody noticed, but I was absent for 6 weeks. I moved to a new appartment and didn't have internet access until now. Will take some time to read all the posts...
Nevertheless I was playing minesweeper. Since I could share my times with anyone during all that time I will do so now!

april
10th: new 3bv/s record: 3,10 3bv209 in 67,19
and even better: 3,35 3bv245 in 74,10
12th: 59,8 3bv146
16th: 58,68 3bv142 and 58,28 3bv139
19th: could've gotten a 52!!! but took 15secs to find the last square and finished in 67
24th: tied expert record 57,98 3bv124

may:
2nd: and again 57,28 3bv163 and 59,18
8th: missed a 54 on a 50/50 with one other square to go
11th: 59,11 3bv143

I also got some 200 sub60s which brings my total to:
703 sub70s, 19sub60s

I missed to beat my record on a bunch of other occasion, but I'm confident that it will happen on day. In two weeks will be the first birthday of my expert record.
(Btw Happy B-day Dennis!!)
I got all the games on video if anyone's interested....

Happy Sweepin'

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May 13th 2004 at 07:18:09 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Congrats to the record breakers. And Roli, I must say you sure know how to force the community to (at least try to) sort out some things

Happy birthday Dennis

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May 13th 2004 at 04:35:17 AM
Name:  

Roli

Comments:  

Thanks, you two! And happy birthday, Dennis!!!

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May 13th 2004 at 03:09:41 AM
Name:  

The Birthday Fairy

Comments:  

Happy birthday Dennis Lütken!

   
May 13th 2004 at 02:00:55 AM
Name:  

Dennis L

Comments:  

I just wanted to say that I also tried out Curtis' clone for a couple of hours and I don't see anything 'fishy' about it so I vote for accepting scores obtained on that one too, although I'll probably keep playing on Rodrigo's clone myself!

   
May 12th 2004 at 01:43:00 PM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

First, congrats to the two record-breakers! And second: I played some on Curtis' clone - found no bugs, and I only prefer Rodrigo's one because of the stats section, so I vote for validating it as official.
Keep on spinning!

   
May 12th 2004 at 09:06:15 AM
Name:  

Lance

Comments:  

@Stephen - Congrats! Those look like great scores so far for this period!!

@Roli - Congrats to you, too, 54 is better than I can do at the moment, that's for sure; but you also knew the whole time you were playing that we haven't accepted Curtis' clone yet. I'm not saying I have anything against it, but we haven't tested it or discussed it and can't say whether or not it is a reliable clone. So please don't be surprised if it's a struggle for you to get that score recognized.

Happy sweeping, all!

Lance

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May 11th 2004 at 09:41:31 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason (again)

Best expert:  

(this period) - 62-15

Comments:  

well for this period i am already on pace for perhaps my best ranking yet just got a nice 62.66 on a 141 3bv board. (easy board, no guesses on the entire thing)... i am quite pleased.

   
May 11th 2004 at 06:52:58 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

16-->15!!

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

just broke my int record on a board in minesweeper xp... 15.93 seconds, but 15 nonetheless. now all i have to do is to have my expert score low. only took me like 20 minutes to do it, and i wasn't even all that excited hehe.

   
May 11th 2004 at 03:33:11 PM
Name:  

Troll

Comments:  

Eryn: this site http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/minesweeper_b.txt has some useful tips and strategies.

   
May 11th 2004 at 03:25:29 PM
Name:  

Dennis

Comments:  

Really Daniel? Can I see that board? I've only heard of one other sub-90 3bv board ever and that wasn't on the clone! So if you could send the vid or a screenshot that would be nice. Thanks!

Roli: I can't believe nobody commented on your post yet! 54 is amazing! Lots of congrats to you from me! I would VERY much like to see that video, thanks!

I'm playing very little at the moment... I played some expert today but the best I got was an 80... On int the best I got was a 21 but at least I got my second best 3bv per sec ever... a 3.37 3bv per sec! Nice! My record is 3.45 but it feels nice to get close to that since it's been quite a while since I got that record of 3.45!

HAPPY SWEEPING ALL!

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May 11th 2004 at 03:20:34 PM
Name:  

James

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

19

Comments:  

I just got a 107. And I don't mean 3bv I mean seconds, 107 seconds!

   
May 11th 2004 at 02:09:47 PM
Name:  

Daniel

Comments:  

I got an 89 3bv board on Rodrigo's clone.

   
May 11th 2004 at 11:37:57 AM
Name:  

Eryn

Best expert:  

never tried

Best intermediate:  

forget

Best beginner:  

12

Comments:  

I have difficulty beliving the world records...
1 sec for beginner, 10 sec for intermediate...
I never even finished expert even...
I need some advice on finishing expert.
I always get stuck and start getting impatient and hopeless.
Is there a way to get out of the stuck position except by
guessing?

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May 11th 2004 at 11:23:21 AM
Name:  

James

Best expert:  

78

Best intermediate:  

21

Comments:  

I can't help but reply to Colin's post. I have a saved 102 board that happened pretty much the same way as he described. My point is not that I think it's the lowest board ever, but the fact that he thinks of these guys as pros. I catch myself thinking the same thing. It's pretty funny. Good job on those scores if you achieved them in only 3 months. I played on and off for years until I hit 131 on expert. I called a friend that was always bragging, and then I learned the truth. It took me 5 months and a little luck to get where I am now, but it's not as if I had never seen the game before.

@Fransesco: First off, I want to say props to you! I don't mean any disrespect at all. I watched your videos (19 and 61) and the 19 looked so easy that I had to try it. The best I got was 25 after 3 trys, so I am not putting you down, but...
How in the hell do you manage those times with your style? Wow! May I ask what kind of scores you put up on an expert board of, say 160+?

   
May 11th 2004 at 10:17:52 AM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

Wow, Dave, I can't believe you did that 83! I was pretty happy because I got a nice 96 these days and was even thinking: "well, at least this period I am going to be ahead of Dave!"

It seems that I am going to improve a lot or else to wait for the next period for that to happen.. Congratulations!!

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May 11th 2004 at 09:15:27 AM
Name:  

Roli

Best expert:  

59 ---> 54!!!

Comments:  

Yiiiihaaa, I finally made it. After reading Lasse's profile and getting depressed about his 15000 sub-60!s against my 375 sub70s, I decided to play some more today and broke my record by 5 secs. Though it was made on Curtis' instead of Rodrigo's clone, I hope it will be accepted. I think that all he altered from the original were security-features. It was a nice 111 3BV board. Well, I'm pretty **** glad anyway and hope some of you like to see the vid, to see, if it's deserved. KEEP SWEEPING!!!
Roli

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May 11th 2004 at 09:14:47 AM
Name:  

Colin Parker

Best expert:  

89

Best intermediate:  

27

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Hey everyone, this is my first post. I've been sweeping for about three months and my scores have been consistently dropping. I haven't hit any plateaus yet, so it is still very exciting for me. My goals are to reach 70-20-4 by the end of the summer, but I am worried since I am starting my consuling job in July and I don't want it to consume my productivity.

I was playing expert yesterday using Rodrigo's clone and happened upon a board of 3bv 100. Exactly 100. It was not in cheat mode and I was not doing a 3bv restriction or anything like that. It was about 18 3bv lower than any I had seen before. I had a great opening, but I click so fast that I hit a bomb before I saw what had happened. I am sure that if the pros had gotten this board, the records would have gone down. I am just curious what the lowest 3bv boards you all have witnessed...

Also, I have the board saved if anybody wants me to email it to them. I searched 320,000 boards using the 3bv restrictor and didn't get any of 3bv less than 105, so I assume a 100 is pretty rare...

Happy sweeping!

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May 11th 2004 at 07:33:58 AM
Name:  

Francesco

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

OK... new host for pictures and videos... let me know if you can see these ones (BTW the other host never gave me problems... even though it seems like for some people does):
http://digilander.libero.it/pippobombi/mine/mine_exp_61_01.png
http://digilander.libero.it/pippobombi/mine/xf-Exp-61-10_mag_2004-00h41m50s.mvf

F.

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May 11th 2004 at 07:30:04 AM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Comments:  

Hey all:

You know, I was just thinking. If a bunch of us were all together for a tournament, we'd probably need some hearing protection. Imagine the clicking!!! I'm just picturing it now, someone walking by a computer lab full of us playing minesweeper clicking wildly. It would definitely raise an eyebrow!

Anyway, just a thought I had. Have fun!

   
May 11th 2004 at 07:22:10 AM
Name:  

Francesco

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Actually I uploaded the wrong file... I must have been thinking something else while doing it...
Here's the right one:http://pippobombi.altervista.org/file/xf-Exp61-10_mag_2004-00h41m50s.mvf

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May 11th 2004 at 02:11:38 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

11

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Lance, I don't have any problems viewing the picture... Anyway, I'll send the pic to your e-mail!

LASSE, what an awesome profile! Thanks for sharing all of that with us 'newbies' who still don't know much about 'the old days' of Minesweeper! And if I ever do go to Copenhagen again I'll let you know!

   
May 10th 2004 at 10:25:22 PM
Name:  

Lance

Comments:  

@Dave - congrats! It feels nice to even tie records!!

@Martin - I agree, Lasse's profile is great, very informative as to what the reigning minesweeper god does on his spare time and how he views minesweeper itself. Great stuff!

@all - on Lasse's profile, is anyone else having difficulty seeing the picture that is at the bottom? I get a red "x", and I don't know if it is just my browser having some kind of issue or if the picture file isn't uploaded to the site. Anyone else notice this? Dan - any ideas?

Happy sweeping!

Lance

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May 10th 2004 at 05:24:56 PM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Best expert:  

83 --> 83 x 2 !!!!

Comments:  

WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Well, earlier this week I tied my old int record of 25, now I tied my old exp record! Again this exp record is a bit better than the last one, was 83.66, now 83.44. I've got the vid in .mvf format if anyone is interested.

Sweep Hard! Hurry Hard! Hurrrrrreeeeeee!

   
May 10th 2004 at 01:37:55 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

@David Barry: Yeah, but we all know he let her win

@Francesco: I neither could open the link and the new link is to a 19 sec int game

@Lasse: Nice profile on the AR page. You put some things in perspective for me

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May 10th 2004 at 01:36:07 PM
Name:  

Heath

Best expert:  

42

Best intermediate:  

10

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

BEAT THAT!

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May 10th 2004 at 08:12:41 AM
Name:  

Francesco

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

The link works for me... BTW here's a mirror for it:
http://pippobombi.altervista.org/file/xf-Int-19-10_mag_2004-00h37m26s.mvf

The board was an easy 120 3BV, but for the first time I felt closer to the great ones out there... ...even though I know I still need to train... and train... and train...

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May 10th 2004 at 02:58:42 AM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

Lasse might still be a few seconds ahead of Dion, but our Mary beat Prince Frederik in the yachting today!

   
May 10th 2004 at 01:30:20 AM
Name:  

Matti Halme

Best expert:  

76-->71

Best intermediate:  

17

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Lately I have liked playing with Expert. That´s quite unusual.

   
May 10th 2004 at 12:48:33 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

GRRRRR..... I have to improve my expert....

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May 9th 2004 at 11:23:08 PM
Name:  

Dennis

Comments:  

Congrats Fracesco!

61 is a very nice time! I want to see the video but the link you provided doesn't seem to be working... Would you mind sending the video to my e-mail account? Thanks!

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May 9th 2004 at 03:57:05 PM
Name:  

Francesco

Best expert:  

67 -> 61

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

It's quite a lot of time I don't post, but in the last months my time didn't improve much... Still I've been training much in the last weeks and finally I got a great jump in the expert time!

For those of you wondering, here's a screenshot:
http://xfranky.interfree.it/mine/mine_exp_61_01.png
...and the video:
http://xfranky.interfree.it/mine/xf-Exp-61-10_mag_2004-00h41m50s.mvf

I'm ahead of Daniele, again...

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May 9th 2004 at 02:14:43 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Active Ranking Statistics have been updated, too.

   
May 9th 2004 at 10:58:16 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Active Ranking has been updated.

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May 8th 2004 at 11:30:46 PM
Name:  

Christoph Marx

Comments:  

@Dave: My experience told me, that it's never a good idea to not continue playing a level after you got a new record. Nearly always my hand accelorated with the selfconfidence of a new record and I could beat the new record again. But of course the trick is not to want to beat your record but always to find the next bomb as fast as you can.

keep sweepin
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May 8th 2004 at 04:04:10 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

@Dave and James: Congrats to both of you! From 92 to 78 is certainly a huge jump but as long as it's in that 'end of the scale' I think it's not all that unusual!

   
May 8th 2004 at 03:37:38 PM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Comments:  

Hey all:

Well, I broke my int record today....kind of. It was a 25.88, now it's a 25.11. Still happy though.

I don't even want to play int any more this period because I'd be playing to beat my record, and I don't like that kind of pressure....before I was just trying to beat my best for the AR period, that pressure is alright.

Later everyone!

   
May 8th 2004 at 12:44:49 PM
Name:  

James

Comments:  

Btw, about the fluke timer I mentioned... I got confused switching back and forth. When I tried to save the vido, the counter said 47.5. After I saw the video, I realized I was looking at the wrong game. After I varified the 3bv and all other factors, I have no doubts that it was a true and honest game. It was a pretty big jump though.

   
May 8th 2004 at 12:39:41 PM
Name:  

James

Best expert:  

92 ------- > 78!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best intermediate:  

21

Comments:  

BIG, BIG, break through today!!! I finish very few expert games. 6+ hours last night and 3 this morning I only finished about 6 games from 101-105. Every busted board for the last three weeks, and every other indication has told me I was getting faster, except for the one that counts. Now I have it. I was swithching back and forth from clone to MS and it finally happened. I thought it was a fluke timer on the clone until I realized it was on the regular version. The 3bv came out to 138. It sucks not to have the clone video, but I will be happy with the screen shot. Thanks to all of you that gave advice, and thanks to the rest that intimidated me into trying harder. Just to settle any skepticism, the 1.76 3bv/s is above average for me, but not out of reach. The board had no guesses and no tricks. Nearly all my best times are on smooth 140 boards.

   
May 8th 2004 at 11:36:18 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

@Robbie: I haven't experienced it myself, but several people have gotten times in the 20's, 30's and 40's all due to this bug...

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May 8th 2004 at 09:44:33 AM
Name:  

robbie

Comments:  

what's the timer bug?

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May 8th 2004 at 07:25:48 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

@Robbie: There is some way to stop the timer by pressing some buttons down at the same time (I can't remember which ones), but it's more likely that you've been exposed to the timer bug, that appearently isn't so unusual...

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May 8th 2004 at 06:20:46 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

@Justin - I know it's easy (in theory at least) to work out the 3bv, but 1)I'm lazy, and 2)I always seem to get different answers each time I count the 3bv of a board, no matter how systematic I try to be

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May 8th 2004 at 03:18:04 AM
Name:  

Hopsing

Comments:  

Hi Robbie
Play on Rodrigo's clone, then you will have a video.
http://www.geocities.com/minesweeperclone
CU all

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May 8th 2004 at 12:23:50 AM
Name:  

robbie

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

can someone tell me if there's a way to disable the timer in minesweeper in windows XP (ie - stop it)? if there isn't, then i just inadvertently (i was completely zoned out from the game and thinking about something else (always when i get my best times)) demolished the #1 expert time of 43 seconds. help please!

note: i wasn't running that video software for saving the games, all i have is the screenshot of the "enter your name" box after the win.

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May 7th 2004 at 05:04:13 PM
Name:  

Grégoire Duffez (Detrusor)

Comments:  

Just made my second sub20... 19.43 sec on a 37 3BV board
So my sub20 :
18x1
19x1

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May 7th 2004 at 10:52:49 AM
Name:  

Justin

Comments:  

@Dave: 3bv count is fairly easy to calculate. If you want to email me a picture of you board I can tell you its 3bv

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May 7th 2004 at 10:42:30 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

21

Comments:  

I just made my best expert in this year today with 67 seconds in the end and also improved my all-time int best time by 4 tenths - though it's still over 21 & Quite good period for me

   
May 7th 2004 at 10:21:36 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

I just got a 16

It was my first for a long time (even though I got 3 17s and 4 18s in one day not so long ago, without playing that much), and it's also my 2nd sub20 on this computer (the other was an 1

Unfortunately I don't have a video and I don't know the 3bv... if anyone want's to calculate it for me then that'd be great!

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May 7th 2004 at 09:11:08 AM
Name:  

Justin

Best expert:  

81--->77

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I really only sweep at work in which case its hard to play many expert games (Fast clicking is LOUD - or maybe I'm just paranoid?). So anyway I've been playing intermediate sized boards with 70-85 mines (rarely beating them obviously...My record is 80) and its really improved my expert game. I played expert for the first time in a month or so and got 82 in my first and 77 in my third. If I actually played for an hour or 2 I could probaby go sub 70. Just a suggestion for someone wanting to improve

   
May 7th 2004 at 04:51:46 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Just got my 100th sub20, a 15,99 sec on a 46 3BV board

13 - 1
14 - 1
15 - 4
16 - 7
17 - 12
18 - 33
19 - 42

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May 7th 2004 at 04:31:18 AM
Name:  

MvanH

Best expert:  

69

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Reading about the randomness issue, I thought it might be worth checking to see if it's possible to crack the windows source code! Just an idea, probably a case of wishful thinking but who knows..

   
May 6th 2004 at 02:51:14 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

D*mn! Just missed a 68 on the last click! (50/50 guess) That really s*ucks! It would have been nice with a sub-70 for the AR! 145 3bv

   
May 6th 2004 at 10:18:51 AM
Name:  

Daniel

Comments:  

@McGonigal,

While I'm pretty sure that you're seriously submitting these scores, I must point out that that it is highly unlikely that your expert time is a true and valid score.

There is a certain timer bug in the Windows Minesweeper that can skew expert times. We've had people come here and claim times in the 20s and 30s, all caused by this bug.

The reason for my skepticism is your extremely high intermediate time. It flies against the experience of every single sweeper here. However, if you have 2nd or 3rd best expert time in the 50s, say, then I'd be interested to see the screenshots.

Hope this clears things up,

Good luck with the sweeping!

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May 6th 2004 at 09:21:06 AM
Name:  

He Who Wishes to Remain Anonymous

Best expert:  

still 78

Comments:  

(1) take screenshots. hit alt-print screen after your game and copy it into a paint program.

(2) work on improving that intermediate time

   
May 6th 2004 at 09:11:12 AM
Name:  

McGonigal

Best expert:  

44

Best intermediate:  

39

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

I play minesweeper a good bit,and when I got a 44 on expert my roommate told me to check out best scores online. Tied for second all time it looks like, how do I go about getting on the list?

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May 6th 2004 at 06:02:44 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Talking about AR scores, I got a nice 55 sec yesterday on 144 3BV board - my first finished exp this period
I also got a 14 sec on int on a 41 3BV board some days ago (my 2nd best time), so for the second time I've got a sub70 total for the AR

I also played some when I was doing my written examination in Danish today, but I only got a 79 sec because I don't play very well on my laptop

www.gymks.dk/lort/MTM-Int-14,93-3BV041-2004may01-23.40.mvf
www.gymks.dk/lort/MTM-Exp-55,74-3BV144-2004may05-23.18.mvf

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May 6th 2004 at 04:20:28 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

Dennis - that's nothing, my AR times will be 18-80, which isn't my current level, but it's the best I can do on this small screen on my crappy desk I have here with limited time

Still, in less the 2 months time I'll be back at home and start chasing your times again

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May 6th 2004 at 03:51:33 AM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Comments:  

@ Stephen Arnason:

Well Stephen, glad to see that you're back. One day on chat, a bunch of us were discussing that. I knew you'd be back!!! It is in my opinion that one has to hit rock bottom before they can completely quit. It didn't seem like you had hit rock bottom. A 3.5 is not rock bottom. . Also I figured that now that university is out giving you more time, and with more time comes more boredom, with more boredom comes more thinking about minesweeper, and finally...more thinking about minesweeper results in....you guessed it......more PLAYING minesweeper!

At any rate, welcome back, we DO need more Canadians on the AR, even if it means I won't be the best!

   
May 6th 2004 at 03:38:54 AM
Name:  

He Who Wishes to Remain Anonymous

Best expert:  

78

Comments:  

just missed a 60 yesterday. really annoyed. i would have qualified for the best ever rankings if i'd got it.

back with better times soon, though....

   
May 6th 2004 at 02:33:50 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

11

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hey! Welcome back, Stephen!

Cograts... I think you lasted longer than I did... I think I could actually stop playing now if I wanted to but I don't really want to because I seem to be able to play just a little sometimes and just for fun! I am going to get lousy AR times for a while I think as I am not really trying to get nice times on expert, just to have fun but I don't really care. Perhaps sometime this summer when I'm off from school I'll get more competitive again but for now I'm just playing for fun and I haven't even finished a single sub-70 this period so I think my AR looks like this: 14-72... pathetic but I think I'll submit anyway since that IS my current level!

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May 5th 2004 at 11:52:19 PM
Name:  

Lance

Comments:  

Welcome back, Stephen!

Happy Sweeping!

Lance

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May 5th 2004 at 05:48:04 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Comments:  

perhaps I was a little bit hasty in my complete retirement... sometimes i get so fed up with this game, and I will still not back down from my depicting that it is a complete and utter waste of time. but i suppose lots of things are, and yet I do enjoy playing minesweeper. I am not going to completely retire, but I will not be shooting to be the best (ie playing until 1 or 2 in the morning sometimes). with work instead of school now it's easier not to play lots (as i am away from the computer all but maybe half hour) and so I will most likely not be able to achieve as good scores for AR as I was getting, but I would still like to play. I will be posting more frequently than for the last few weeks but less frequently than i was before. anyways i got 4.00 this semester so apparently even with minesweeper i was able to pull it off. Greetings to all those who I have not spoken to in awhile. Dave, you're not going to be the only Canadian on AR.

   
May 5th 2004 at 04:47:54 PM
Name:  

James

Best expert:  

74

Best intermediate:  

20--------->19

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Yay! Well I finally beat my 20 from Oct. 17th 2002. This is my 306th sub-30 and 33rd sub-25. The full time was 19.06 so it was quite close to 18! I got it on a 38 3bv board and it was a NF game which is weird because I usually over-flag.

Congrats to all record breakers.

James

   
May 5th 2004 at 10:26:05 AM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

**** Deadline Friday @ 20:00 GMT/ 4pm EDT ****

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May 5th 2004 at 09:52:04 AM
Name:  

Christoph Marx

Comments:  

oups... sorry... I know some guys named schwartz. I mixed it up.

   
May 5th 2004 at 09:49:29 AM
Name:  

Christoph Marx

Comments:  

@stella schwarz: You should hand in screenshots or better screenvids of you records. By the way 50-32-8 are not just very hard to believe but untrustable scores. If you really can play 50 you can also play sub 20 and sub 4.

   
May 5th 2004 at 09:30:59 AM
Name:  

Stella Swartz

Best expert:  

50 seconds

Best intermediate:  

32 seconds

Best beginner:  

8 seconds

Comments:  

I looked at your world records and noticed I could make the list. How do I get on it? Please let me know.

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May 5th 2004 at 08:16:59 AM
Name:  

Christoph Marx

Comments:  

@matty boy: No, I'm not the next.

   
May 5th 2004 at 04:13:44 AM
Name:  

matty boy

Comments:  

why do we do the things we do? Im sure there is more to life than minesweeper, remember enjoy your next fix it could be your last, if you need help please dont hesitate to contact us, minesweeperanonymous.co.uk. this is not a joke you are not alone, thousands of people like you and me quit minesweeper everyday, are you the next??

   
May 3rd 2004 at 08:02:10 AM
Name:  

Roman

Comments:  

This game is my 501th sub70

   
May 3rd 2004 at 07:23:21 AM
Name:  

Roman

Best expert:  

53 --> 53x2

Comments:  

3BV 124

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May 2nd 2004 at 12:18:21 PM
Name:  

Christoph Marx

Comments:  

@Dave Morgan: Thats exactly what I ment: Your not the only one who couldn't make the clone run on linux.

   
May 2nd 2004 at 11:59:36 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

@Christoph - there's no reason why Rodrigo's clone shouldn't work on linux, using wine (a windows emulator), although things written in VB are often difficult to get to work. For some reason I've been unable to get either Curtis or Rodrigo's version to work, but with the same error message (luckily the original version works though)

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May 2nd 2004 at 10:54:08 AM
Name:  

Christoph Marx

Comments:  

Today I spoke to Stefan D. whos server hosts my page(minesweeper.dotti.at). We discovered that it's not so difficult to host. We imagine that you can login with the clone to see who else is online and choose against whom you want to play which level. At the end you should have played áll 9 levels against all other players.
(Unfortunatly I had not the time to update my page today like I posted yesterday)

@Rodrigo: I think Stefan sent you some details concerning the programming.

@Dave Morgan: So the solution for you would be a clone that is compatible to Rodrigos clone and works on linux? That'll get very difficult to manage.

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May 2nd 2004 at 07:51:03 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

I doubt I could participate in the competition - when I'm at uni I don't have access to a windows pc, and I don't have conditions I can play well in here either (I don't like mouse mats, but the surface of my desk is equally difficult for me to play one, and my laptop screen is too small)

I could potentially play depending on when it was, but it's unlikely

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May 1st 2004 at 04:28:28 PM
Name:  

Roli

Comments:  

@Stevan: 9 was on Dreamboard, which is only available at non-clone, finished by memorizing board, but without memorizing board cycle. Shortest explanation handy to me...
@Katy: I still got the lag even with the newest version. Don't know why... My video of it didn't seem to help Rodrigo.
@Christoph: I know that. I wanted to defend James. But I don't think I would join the championship, because my localities of 1. perfect mouse 2. perfect mouse underground and 3. Internet differ.
Happy Sweeping!

   
May 1st 2004 at 01:17:33 PM
Name:  

Katy LaVallee

Comments:  

about the online competition using the clone -- doesn't everyone who plays need to be capable of hosting? or am i misunderstanding the plan?

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May 1st 2004 at 12:00:07 PM
Name:  

Christoph Marx

Comments:  

@Rodrigo: Yes, that was nearly exacly what I ment. But if scores are tie I would suggest to split the points. I'd also give the winner of the match additional 2 points (out of four reasons:
1.winning a match gets more improtant
2.it's than easier to handle matches if one of the players doesn't appear.
3.we can also create a table where we only look at the matches.
4.I like the number 20 better than 18. It will produce more surveiable scorelines.)
I've thought about a mysql-database instead of an exsel-sheet.
I don't think, that the games could be sheduled because if 21 player will participate, there are 400 games to shedule. And it will get difficult to shedule matches for players from different timezones. I guess it will also work out, if the players have to shedule their games on their own. That sounds like organization by chaos but it will work, if the number of players isn't too high. If it will be to high, the players has to be divided to two or four groups.

@everyone: please post your oppinion: are you interessted to participate such a championship?
I hope to find the time to update my page tomorrow, I'll than place there some ideas I'll ask you to discuss than. (I'll post again tomorrow.)

@Roland Seibt: I wasn't posting thinking about your low int-times but about the unlucky formulated post by James. If you like to see more useful discussion pleas participate the discussion concerning the championship .

regards
Christoph Marx

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May 1st 2004 at 11:44:53 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

georgi: thanks for noticing the posts. i have already archived the posts, but haven't uploaded them. bravenet changed their settings, so that you can only archive if you pay. i now have to watch the last page in this gb until it reaches the last post archived, then pay again (probably in a few months). thanks.

@lance: thankyou...i'll write you back.

   
Apr 30th 2004 at 05:50:54 PM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

Well, Cristoph, I really like your idea! A championship would be very nice! If I correctly understood what you mean by the frame you mentioned, then it would be nice. I built a quick excel table that could be used to keep the scores of a possible championship. See if it is what you imagined. I think the table is nice, but it still needs to be improved a little. I did it just as an example, small and simple, with the first dates and names that came to my mind (from the IRC channel ). Another one, bigger and more complex, with all the names that would be in the tournament could be permanently kept on the website you mention, to show the official championship results during it.

Of course that I still need to make some improvements on the multiplayer function for it to be used properly on a championship. But I am currently working on it!

The table I did is in http://www.geocities.com/minesweeperclone/championshiptable.zip

Take a look at it and tell me if it can help a little. It would be nice to get ideas from everyone, anyway!

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Apr 30th 2004 at 03:40:55 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

Roland how you did your 9 on int?!? And you did it on Curtis clone?!

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Apr 30th 2004 at 02:04:13 PM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Comments:  

I think that there used to be a lag on older versions. I believe that he corrected that sometime around beta 0.83 or thereabouts.

   
Apr 30th 2004 at 12:37:16 PM
Name:  

Katy LaVallee

Comments:  

rodrigo's clone has a lag on XP? are you sure it's not something else? because i'm using XP and i get no lag.

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Apr 30th 2004 at 07:09:51 AM
Name:  

Roland Seibt

Best expert:  

59

Comments:  

I feel like I have to say a few words to the local discussion.
I don't want to get much into the DB-discussion anymore, cause I found that arguments tend to drift into accusations (cheater...). Argumentation styles that accuse people of certain stuff without a hint of a proof (hitting F2, playing only
one board, etc.) bring people who don't need to be into the defensive state. Also I don't like the primitive try of dragging-
people-into-one-boat-propaganda like "Neither of which the majority of the community accept as valid.". When I tried to raise an issue
last time, it was ignored twice. I'm still playing only Curtis' clone, because of Rodrigo's XP-Lag. I'm at 355 sub-70s now,
so will my hopefully-soon-to-be-record be accepted or do I have to switch to original without proper video? I mean, after all
, I'm one of the people, you demanded clones for. I would like to see more useful discussions than just accusations or
insults to people who try to raise them. Considering to the amazing Sweeper-IQ-distribution from the yahoo-poll which seemed
to shift the famous Gauß-bell-function 50 points into the upper level, this should be possible, right?! In my humble opinion,

Roli

   
Apr 30th 2004 at 05:36:58 AM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Comments:  

Hey, I just noticed something. I'm the only Canadian still active on the AR. (There's Stephen Arnason, but it doesn't sound like we'll be hearing from him anytime soon). I feel so lonely...come on fellow Canadians, join the AR!!! (Or don't, and keep me as the top Canadian in the world!!!)

   
Apr 30th 2004 at 05:31:10 AM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Comments:  

I like the idea of a championship. Maybe it could be something that we do as a yearly championship to determine a "Best Sweeper of the Year" or something. Unfortunately, I wouldn't so well in such a championship!

   
Apr 30th 2004 at 12:15:38 AM
Name:  

Christoph Marx

Comments:  

@Gergely: great idea!

I'd join such a online compation ad once.
Rodrigo could add a 'match-mode' to the clone. Both players create a log-file that is transmited to tha ranking-page. It won't appear a problem to automatically add the results to a table. Stefan D. and I had a lot fun programming such stuff in the past, so I could offer to host the rankings at minesweeper.dotti.at
I don't think that the number of players will get a problem: even if 40 players want to play in the league, thats only 39 matches for every one. I guess that one can manage at least 3 matches per week. So the table should be completed aber 3 months or so. Afterwards there could a last 8 or last 16 playoff take place.
Where Rodrigo invented three different types of multiplayer games, I'd suggest that a match could contain 9 frames, one for every type of game and level. You'll get 1 point for beg-frames, 2 for int and 3 for exp. If a won match counts 2 additional points there would be 20 points to collect out of one match.

@everyone: Please make suggestions how you could imagine a minesweeper campionship.

@Rodrigo: could you add a match-funktion that creates transmitable log-files of multiplayer games?

regards
Christoph Marx

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Apr 29th 2004 at 11:54:10 PM
Name:  

Lance

Comments:  

Damien, if you read this guestbook very often, will you please check your email (thefinerminer@hotmail.com AND thefinerminer@metanoodle.com) for a couple of emails from me and the AR? Thank you!

Happy sweeping,

Lance

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Apr 29th 2004 at 12:12:10 PM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

What about Christoph's? The only problem is nothing but travelling costs. Don't You all people think? However, online competition is here with the help of the clone - why not try out? Even if one can't win 1000000$ Let's say that everyone plays with everyone and there's a league, or, for faster results, 2, even 3 leagues primarily made from AR rankings, with players dropping out and advancing. The second/third league would be open for players who don't submit scores. And, cheating can be easily disabled, because the two players competing would be both required to send scores.

   
Apr 29th 2004 at 06:23:32 AM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

Catamasia - download Sorin recorder/player you can find it on google

Btw about that competition I think for a long time, but no initiative yet from anybody

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Apr 29th 2004 at 02:09:54 AM
Name:  

Xiaohu Zhang

Best expert:  

54, several days ago

Comments:  

Now I turned on Camtasia again and got a new problem. It can't get the minesweeper region no matter I choose "window" or "fixed region". Most of the scenes are black, and my minesweeper is at one corner with a tiny part shown. Maybe it's because my desktop is disabled? Anybody has this problem before?

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