51.40

I got a few sub60 times in the past few days, coming of a four week minesweeper break. I got a 52 and a 51.41! Look closely at my record up top. I was 0.01 seconds slower! I think that's cool.

@ Damien: Nice new News Probably u see all mistakes but if u don't I will write them all:
1. No New about 1st Dion's 38
2. Manu's Beg NF 3BVs record in World NF Records, not in NF 3BVs
3. NF Sub50: no word NF next to rogen and bad date.
4. NF 3BVs: not full time next to Manu's sup4 NF and Rogen Exp 3bvs record and no new about my Beg NF 3bvs 6,188
5. Blasted Records: Manu's New is not full.
I think that's all

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Thanks a lot for your help. To tell the truth, I am neither a PC-expert, nor a PC-intermediate, and what's more, I do not have internet at home (I hope, only yet...), only at work. I remember that on the site that you linked to me in email there was a link to download any additives to the Clone, but I don't know wether it can be solved that I download it on pendrive at work and install it on my home computer. Will it work perhaps?

Way to go, Gergő! By the way, do you have .NET framework on your computer? Install it, if you don't, or if that doesn't work, ask the programmer, Rodrigo!

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Could somebody tell me what the problem is when:
I downloaded Minesweeper clone and after installation a small pop-up window appeared with: "Initialization error!" What should I do? Thanks a lot!
Gergő

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If you need a joke...
Well, it is not about minesweeper, but not so bad (and hpe not to be so rude, if yes, than sorry, of course...):

- Mum! What's an orgasm?
- I don't know. Ask your father...

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I will be a prophet in my next life
On Friday I promised that nothing can stop me until NF 110 sec (on Friday 118,22 was my best). Yesterday afternoon a 95,47 arrived, and then two sub 100s!!!
Besides I did 2X sub 3 on Beginner. And one of it was 0,07 slower than my best...

Updated the Website

Thanks Joni

@Fritz: it's 119 3bv... In all my life I solved only 6 sub130 3bv boards and never sub120 : my 1st sub60 on 125, 1st sub50 on 123 and 2nd sub50 on 128
@Ronny: Don't worry about "3/39 and replay it 1 time in UPK and got: 18,8s". I remember when my record was 16, I lost in 2nd click an easy board and got 14s in UPK. And 2 weeks later I got 13 I lost Int NF 73/75 @ 4,23 and now I have 4,393. I lost 25/31 est 10, but I don't worry - I hope to get 10 or 9 soon

NF 22,3 -> 21,8

Both flag and NF 21s now.

Just blew a 39 3BV on 3/39 and replay it 1 time in UPK and got: 18,8s

Remember me to never replay a board......frustrating as hell when you know you could have smashed your record to pieces with 3s

@Damien: grats to Canada for winning the fourth straight Junior Hockey WCh... It was a thrilling final against Sweden, who fought back from 2-0 to 2-2 (draw with about 30 secs left in the third). Too bad they gave away a cheap goal in the suddendeath Oh well, 19-year olds... great tourney to watch

@leo/ryo: how come you know me but I don't know you . Very true though, i'm always proud to represent my country and all that stuff .

57,76=========>56,40

16,46

1,79

3BV=119
i looked at the timer at about 45 sec and got nervous. i lost probably 2 seconds on the last 10 clicks trying to avoid hiting a mine.
vid is in my folder
anyway it should be fast enough to enter top100 now . also got 4 sub20 in 20 minutes today.

@all: happy new year. good luck everybody. i hope there'll be many highscores for everyone

@bertie: i hadn't played minesweeper for nearly a half week. yesterday i played a few games and i hardly got any sub70 scores. and int wasn't better. i got 2 sub40-3BV boards (34 and 39) and both ended up with frustrating 20s.

you were asking for jokes in the guestbook -
here you get one:
why can't you play minesweeper at my computer?
because this sweeper is mine
ok it's not that good but all i could made up so fast.

@kamil: congratulations! 2 world records in 3 days. absolutely awesome

@daniel: next time you'll get it. don't be sad. although you hit a mine the missed record shows that you're still able to get better highscores.

it was 6 65s 6s 66s 7 67s

and the year is 2008 :)

64.11

Hi, it's Cristian Gallego, from Venezuela and I did 64.11 in expert on January 3 (personal record, my last one was 65.09).

I had had a lot of luck in the remote past, but in the recent past I had what they call Elmar's syndrome because until january 3 I had 6 65s, 6 64s, 7 66's, 3 blasted 64s and 1 blasted 63

@Michael:

Shikoku should be very nice.
My hometown is Fuukuoka ,which is nice city,too.
Just check it out
Anyway,good luck

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What can change a nature of a .... man?

Ryo - I'm hoping to become an ALT with the JET programme. I selected Shikoku as my favoured destination, but I could be sent anywhere (if I even get onto the programme at all). I've been studying Japanese since around September.

FL 2,579 -> 2,809 3BVs (3BV=111)

Congrats Kamil on the WR. Very nice!!!

(Luckily I can at least say I beat you with Black Hawk Down. )

After a months absolute absence from all things minesweeper, I'm really sucking. I got a few 80sec times yesterday and today and a 90 something. Then I got two lucky boards, one in exp and 1 in int. 61 on 125 (quite embarrasing really) and 15 on 45 (actually quite good).

Anyway, I recall something Damien said when we where chilling in the hostel in Budapest. He said that he really missed the times when the geustbook was a place where people would joke around and silly stuff like write minesweeper poetry and songs and stuff. He said he doesn't really like all this stat stuff. I agree now. The past two months have more conflict and (admittedly fun) heated debates than I can recall (granted, I missed a month of it, but still). In the worlds of a famous movie:"Why can't we all just...get along?"

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Estonia

Is it correct?

I have the bus now, but in 2 hours minesweeping at school I solved 39 Int NF boards, average time 18,308, average 3BV/s 3,499, 3 sup4 3BV/s, 14x3 as my best times and 37/38 @ 12 blasted

NF 4,12 -> 4,393 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WORLD RECORD !!!!!!!!! 4 sup4 NF in 20 minutes playing and wolrd record in the end Sorry Dennis Vid linked

6th sup4 NF: 65 3bv in 17,042 @ 4,042

5th sup4 NF: 93 3bv in 24,161 @ 4,015

@Michael:

Yes, now I live in Tokyo.
Is your plan to study abroad or something?


@Joni:

I know you were being absolutely delighted
with represent-the-country stuff when you made it 1 year ago or so

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I' have been trying non-flagging version of expert level. Two weeks before a 135 was the best. This year I made after 3 sub-130 my new record 118,22! Nothing can stop me until 110!

@joni: "wether", you mean whether, because wether is something completely different (check the dictionary ).

ahh...est. 64,76 132(135)blasted on a misclicked guess

youre totally right joni, i also felt a bit queasy reading something like this - think you should put the blame on his momentary euphoria

sorry, i really didn't mean it to get so long

KAmil
I have been around for not that much, but for enough time to learn not to like the people that shout out "cheater", and I'm even more dissapointed it's a young guy saying it . The reason you mention there is ridiculous and completely untrue... but in these cases the reason "why" never matters...
There was a time (i have heard) when everybody trusted everybody. The only proof one had for a record was a screenshot and that was enough.
Those times are long gone... in recent times the reality has been that, if you improve fast, you are considered a lucky guy, as long as you are behind certain people. Once you get close to them/get past them, you are suspected of being a cheater... (with the only notable exception being Zhang. Although he plays on the 0.97 and no-one of us can even watch his videos, someone must have thought not having a Chinese in the top-10 is probably more suspicious than having one ) your videos are scrutinized, and possible explanations on why you are going so fast are deduced (solver, UPK, timer slowing, Elmar Technique, all at once... you name it). Wether the accusations are half-voiced or said out loud it differs from case to case, or more correctly from clone to clone . To tell the truth, I wouldn't be surprised if someone would start calling you a cheater too... the only thing i am happy for, is that you are a young guy improving fast on "the mighty Clone" and that's a novelty in recent times . That doesn't mean you are unsuspectable (or haven't already been suspected). The last clone player to improve fast was Manu. One day he jumped from 15 to 11 (on an easy board) and nobody liked him... and as he kept improving on expert too, many suspected him. For what? who knows... Did they have any proof? it never matters... When he showed up at Vienna 07 and won, everybody simply forgot about it... Did anyone learn a lesson? doesn't look like it...

I am not a suspicious type, and I doubt I will ever accuse anyone of cheating (you and Thy_Cowman included). I am sorry to add though (as little I may know you or him) I have more respect for Thy_Cowman as a person than I have for you.

Seeing how much you rely on this site, i have to make another small remark.
I quote a saying on 'clocks': "from the best one you can not pretend absolute precision, and the worst one is better than nothing at all". Damien's site is the effort of one guy trying to keep track of about a thousand sweepers' time records, plus some more density, NF, 3BV/s, answering emails, etc... all of that in his free time. That means, despite his good will, this site is bound to be terribly inaccurate! Still, it's much much better than having nothing at all. The same goes for Planet-Minesweeper, despite not being updated for a whole year.
I think I remember a guy named Diego writing once on the guestbook about beginner 3BV/s WR (don't remember if it was NF or not, personally i don't put any importance whatsoever to beginner ).
And talking about NF 3BV/s records, how can you pretend the Beginner record is accurate when the Expert record is totally missing? That doesn't make Martin, Rogen and Dennis all cheaters, that just probably means Damien doesn't know... (and i have no idea who is the one to have it either... all i know is they used to be incredibly close, all three in a 0.002 margin or sth like that)

I deeply apologise to everybody for all the rambling... i just had to take that out

A big grats to Ryo, I know how great it feels to beat that barrier

happy new year to you all!
with the last year im very satisfied: from january to december (with a period of almost no playing between february and june)i improved as follows: 10x -> 65, 4x -> 16, 4 -> 1
i have no goals for 08 (as always), i think (as always,too) my highscores are at the very limit of my skills and i wont improve them anymore
perhaps ill work on my flagging skills if i have time to (just began studying and the exams are coming)
ar tÉ

Bertie - I now have one of those powerballs you mentioned. Got it for Christmas. It *seems* to be working for my arm and wrist pains, but it's hard to tell because I haven't been using it for very long (obviously). Also it could be a placebo effect. It's a fun toy either way, the one I have monitors your speed and has neon lights. I don't know if other people around the world can use play.com, but they have them much cheaper than the official site, and cheaper than amazon too.

Leo/Ryo - I think you are directly below me in the rankings. Please don't improve too much. Do you live in Japan? Because I am hoping to move to Japan in the summer.

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Hi,guys

Finally broke the minute barrier and thought

it's about time to register with the ranking.

Nice to meet you

My beg NF 3BVs world record vid with pop-up window youtubed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-kHiCeIUYk
@AreOut: Cowman's 7,05 NfF3bvs is cheat because his mouse works like in nonosweeper If he didn't cheat he would be in World Records, instead of me

Hey everybody!!! I'm back from my tour, and it was awesome! It ended a year in which I had three free holidays to the most amazing places, how cool is that? That'a how much God blessed me.

Anyway, I'm real happy to be on the IMC, even though the elation has worn off a bit since I found out before christmas already (I can visit the IMC site on my mobile, but not the geustbook, which sucks!). This is officially my first post for 2008!! I want to say thanx to all the people who voted for me, and to my mom, and my dad, and my ... But, really now, thanx. I'll do all I said.

@Christoph: The meeting date is perfect I just need to get myself on IRC, cause I've never really used IRC, but that's no big deal. Could you just email me a few pointers to the attached email adress (I can't reply from the other one because my mailbox is at like 1500% full . . Anyway, I email you my thoughts on the meeting, just send me a email sothat I can store the adress. If I'm talking gibberish, forgive cause I'm kinda loving this long lost typing sensation and I'm in a hurry.

Well, gtg, bye!

Almost made one of my goals:

Lost 168/191 @ 4.13 est 47

Point us to exact moment of video where you think its cheat

Cowman's records are obviously cheats

Kamil I think that Cowman has the better one :)

NF 6,135 -> 6,188 !!!!!!

World record 22 3bv in 4,555s NF. vid linked

Happy New Year, guys!

Seeing that there now is a member of IMC that dreams of me (literally), I assume I can get some goodwill on rulings

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Hi everyone! Happy new year for you all! I wish you new records and less guesses. Gergő

47s ; 3.82 3BV/s

12 ; 4.67

1 ; 6.45

Happy New Year everyone!

Grats to all those who broke their records this year (I didn't... ). I stored and deleted my 2007's history, time to start a new one!
Some of my stats for 2007 :
- 4241 exp boards completed, including 1428 sub60 and 13 sub50. Best 48s.
- 2046 int completed, with 398 sub20 (OK it sucks! ). Best 14s.

Maybe I'll break one of my record this year, but I'm not playing as much as I used to, so I doubt about it. But we never know...

Happy sweeping year!
See you

Ace

Congrats to Kamil, Fritz, Tam and all other record breakers.

Happy new year

I've just got new IOS record: 13,816 NF on a50 board @3,901 Is it the highest 3bv for 13NF?
@Damien: Dion has 1 download of his 3rd 39. His downloads count also cleared

@kamil: maybe you deleted and then uploaded the same video (instead of renaming it). this is a guess.....

@joni: i agree!

went to bed at 09:30 today....when i woke up and played minesweeper (my head still feels funny!) my first three games were 49, 50, 48.

Kamil, you are the first to experience such a problem. The script does actually remember the download info for files you have already deleted... (For example i can tell you that "POTENTIAL Int NF 9,417s 3BV= 22. Thy Cowman's board 1st try in UPK, vid no watched before.mvf" had 15 views...) but as you pointed out some files (as for example "Exp FL 48,157s 3BV=128.mvf") don't appear at all in the file that keeps track of the downloads count (although that particular file should have had 4 views).

Anyways, considering the huge amount of activity from you in the last few days (moving/renaming, deleting videos, creating new folders etc...) it's not easy to understand what has happened and why, and I wouldn't consider it serious enough to be worth spending more time on.

NF 4,12

4th sup4 NF: 19,842 on 76 @ 4,034
also 145/146 53,6 NF

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A belated happy new year everyone!
My dream scores for 2007 were 1-12-44 - I stated that the 1 was least likely to come true, and I was right :D
Since I don't sweep as often as I used to anymore I won't set my goals too high for 2008.
dream scores are 1-11-39 - again, the one is least likely to happen :D
I think 1-11-41 should be achievable - 11 will be hard though.
And a sub40 would be extremely nice even if its relatively unrealistic ;)

I've just noticed that about 30% of my videos have 0 downloads... but they had. What happened?

Happy New Year, everybody! Best wishes on your goals, minesweeper or not!

Best wishes for the coming year to you all from Stockholm , as the snow is gently coming down...

Best wishes for the coming year to you all from Stockholm, as the snow is gently coming down...

47FL, 53NF / 3,612FL, 3,237NF

12x6NF / 4,44FL, 4,12NF

1x7NF / 7,085FL, 6,135NF (1x5 on beg 9x9)

From 12th January 2007 to 19th December 2007 My records changed: 1-20-76 -> 1x12-12x6-47 I hope to get 10NF this year.
@Arjádre: what is the difference between optimistic and realistic?

Happy NY from hotel Kangaroo in Budva

54.969 / 3.600

12.997 / 3.999

1.16 / 5.083

New Years Resolutions for 2007:
1-12-49 (optimistic)
1-13-54 (realistic)
And something like sup5-sup4-sup3 3BV/s

Looks like I didn't do too badly overall...**** int 3BV/s...

Resolutions for 2008:
1-11-47 (ain't gonna happen)
1-12-49 (I hope!)
6-4.6-3.8 3BV/s

I suppose we'll see how it all went a year from now.

Until then, Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!
I wish all of You a whole lot of records for 2008

NF 4,12

Just lost 78/80 @ 4,136 NF not happy new year for me

61 -> 58 !!!

I just broke the minute barrier!!! I lost all hope to do it this year, but there we go!!! Happy new year to all of you!

Happy new year!



then

and finally...

Happy new year!



then

and finally...

@fritz: Don't worry, I lost 25/31 est 10,1

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Just recently noticed this site, and wondering if someone could tell me where I stand with a time of NF 66.756 on expert? Thanks ;)

just lost an est. 15
i hit a mine at 27/35 after i had to guess
vid is in my folder

I've just noticed something with the country ranking on minesweeper.info: if you want the list for the whole of the UK (everyone from Wales, Scotland, England etc in one ranking) it also includes players from the Ukraine.

@Damien: u forgot to write in news about Thomas sup4 on exp and Manu's sub50 NF

Txs for all time and work you've put into this site in 2007, Damien.

57x2 > 57x3

57.6 into 57.2. Three 57s now, but still no 58s or 59s. And each 57 has come in a different month. Slow improvement

Site Updated

Last update before 2008 is done

It has been a busy year...I hope to make many improvements to the site in 2008 (I spent a lot of time this year entering 5000 old emails into my new database...hopefully this year I can fix the profiles and make more things automatic). Thanks being nice about all the mistakes I make!

@Barbara: On which site do you have this problems? Is it here, on minesweeper.cc or somewhere else?

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Hello people! :)
Why cant I register??
I only have an option to log in and then it normaly appears it is wrong log in cause I am not registered..but there is no option to register..

AR = Active Ranking, a bi-weekly ranking of active sweepers. more info on the old site:
http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/active-ranking.php?p=info

the current AR (with no info whatsoever on how it works ) is hosted by the IMC (dig deep into the Scores & People menu, website attached) Looks like you have partecipated without knowing it

For the record, there is also a minesweeper chat, IRC channel #minesweeper at irc.initialized.org Not any huge amount of activity... but some old guys drop by to say hi from time to time, more often now during the holidays. consider dropping by if you're up for a chat with someone on the other end of the world , or if your hand is about to fall , or whatever... =)

happy holidays again

P.S. who you find on the channel, is dependent on which timezones you and other people live in. it's a small world =P

What is AR?

Perhaps the Christmas-busyness made some forget to upload the final 2007 active ranking scores

However, I'll let the AR open one day longer so your chance to upload hasn't gone yet.

NF 3,101 -> 3,237

NF 4,12

NF 6,135

229 3bv in 71,734s It's the highest 3bv board what I ever solved

@Christoph: lol

Me and the calender... it's an never ending story of missunderstandings

It is of course:

Saturday, 20th of September 2008

(but now there shouldn't be any more mistakes )

@ kamil
a late happy birthday and good luck with getting NFsub50

NF 53

I've just lost at 138/142 est 50NF... I counted mines next to number 5: 1+1+1+1=5

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Congrats to everyone, and thanks for reelecting me, hopefully this time around will be better.

I just got a 57 on a 136, and the game before that was a 56 on a really hard 107. my 3rd and 6th best times, and the first time I've ever done consecutive sub-minutes.

My birthday today Passed years 16->17

Thanks for the support michael!
A late merry christmas everyone ;-)

KAmil, youre sick - keep up up the good work!

@Micheal, don't worry. I remember the time I could frustrate Kamil with my 81s record......a long long time ago.

@ Tam: Out of the about 5000 beginner games I have played, I've gotten a 2 3bv board 0 times. Cool

@Kamil: Out of the 25242 beginner games I have played, I've gotten a 2 3bv board 11 times.

@All: Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

@Michal: I got my 1st sub60 (60NF->55NF) in 20th Oct, and my 1st sub50 (52->47) in 19th Dec, it's 2months-1day
And the music wasn't that what I was listening during record - I save mvf videos as evidence of records and avi videos with pop-up window for me to watch Then I always put music to those vids

Thanks to everyone who voted for me. I didn't expect to get in anyway, but 8 votes is pretty good. I'm really glad Tommy got in, you can tell he has the passion for it, he understands all the issues and I think if he has the time he'll be really useful in terms of getting minesweeper and the IMC more internationally recognised. (I think we should be aiming for a place at the 2012 olympics, not sure if anyone else is interested in that )

Kamil - what happened to the times when we were competing with each other? You've improved by about 15 seconds in 2 or 3 months, incredible. You must be one of the favourites to be the next world record holder at this rate. Also, was that music in the video what you were listening to when you broke the record?

Merry Xmas !!!

And as a present I bring along a date for next years world championship

Saturday, 19th of September 2008

I want to thank all who gave a lot of useful input for finding a suitable date. This weekend is at least the one with the least number of complaints.
September is usually a warm but not hot time here in vienna and I'm very sure you'll enjoy the visit here very much.

happy sweeping

@kamil
the most time is once spent was 31 hours a week
but now it's about 2-4 hours a day.
but as there's no school for the next 2 weeks i think i will manage to play more than 5 hours a day.

@fritz: how many hours/day do u play? U improve faster than me

just lost an est 54
lost on misclick solv. 3BV 129/135 @ 52.50sec
est.time was 54.90
vid is in my folder

@all: merry christmas

ive just got new IOS and RQP record: 13,182NF on 46

NF 4,12

Ive just got my 3rd sup4 NF: 73 in 18,803 @4,1

my 47s vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyOi6DqZsJw
WIth nice music

@Christoph: Any weekend other than the one around July 19th would be ok.

@Kamil: Grats on sub50! Do you have any youtube or arbiter vids? I don't have the new clone...

@All: Merry Christmas!

I've just got NF 3,966 on 17 @ 5,732 3BV/s I think that 17 3bv is the highest possible to get 3s NF Vid linked

@Tam: How many 2 3bv boards had u got? I had got 0

@Kamil: I have 8360 sub5:
1 x 20
2 x 394
3 x 2359
4 x 5587



Congrats Fritz on reaching that many sub5's, good luck in your 100 sub70s chase!

@fritz: I have 3285 sub5:
1x7
2x241
3x1347
4x1690
btw, I'm sure that everyone will watch your 1000 sub5 vids

1000 sub 5 games on beginner
1 x 2
2 x 22
3 x 192
4 x 784
all vids are in my folder
next step is getting 100 sub70 games on expert