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Feb 25th 2008 at 07:47:07 AM
Name:  

Arsen

Comments:  

@Gergo and Ronny: What I like about the minesweeper community is the aura of friendship and mutual trust and care

   
Feb 25th 2008 at 06:32:20 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: Than you should play only few times a week, and only 1-2 hours. The function of your hand is more important than the WR. I must take care of my wrist as well, as my metal band seems to start soon and wrist is needed to the guitar... Besides, in 2003 I wasn't able to solve a single expert board... That time I began playing the Game itself...

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Feb 25th 2008 at 06:19:49 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: 2.6xx was also my NF record when I got my sub21 time, so I think you're getting close indeed. (I also have a 2,8xx flagging, but that was on 111 3BV intermediate board, so that was really a ridiculous board.) . I know that in time I'll get my sub80 time as well, if I keep playing ....the only thing that worries me is that I feel my hands might get injured again if I try to get it too fast. (In 2003 I retired from playing, because of I got hand problems).

   
Feb 25th 2008 at 04:46:12 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

Great 3BV/s record! NF int 2,648 on a 82 board in 31,964. I improved 0,2 3BV/s! Now I have a sup 8 3BV/s sum (all NF!) But that 20 seconds do not want to appear (yet )...
@Ronny: Thanks for your videos. I try to watch them today. Who will be the first of us on WR? I don't know. But if you are the first, and after few weeks I follow you, I will be the first to sign that contract. The most important is, that both of us have the abilities to connect to the elite, and only time is needed (and a second...)

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Feb 24th 2008 at 11:27:30 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

The average score for Chinese Minesweeper(Rank in Saolei.net):
4.84 + 29.41 + 99.81 = 134.07

   
Feb 24th 2008 at 02:27:09 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Today I started playing Int and my 2nd game was a 12.08 on a 37! I got another 116 sub20 games, including another 12.

After not playing for the last few hours, I sat down and my first game was....42! (My first 42...I have 40, 41). On a 120...I don't like the way I played...I clicked on the wrong square two times but dragged the mouse somewhere else safe. I'm really happy...going to beat Manu for the first time on the AR And now my Clone scores are better than Lasse

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Feb 24th 2008 at 01:21:15 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Hugh: You can also choose for a slightly smaller cursor in Windows. I'm using the gold arrow cursor which is smaller than the default cursor of windows.

   
Feb 24th 2008 at 11:48:36 AM
Name:  

Hugh

Comments:  

Yeah, but the cursor changes sizes, too. I was hoping for the squares to be bigger. Seems like a gimmie upgrade to the game.

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Feb 24th 2008 at 11:23:57 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Hugh: I always change my desktop resolution to 800x600 before playing.

   
Feb 24th 2008 at 11:07:15 AM
Name:  

Hugh

Best expert:  

164

Best intermediate:  

53

Best beginner:  

25

Comments:  

Is there a way to make it bigger? My old eyes are losing it!

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Feb 24th 2008 at 10:32:54 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Way to dream that you are me

Code:WHAC

Whack?!

   
Feb 24th 2008 at 06:37:56 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best expert:  

54

Comments:  

Last night I dreamt that I got a 41 on expert (3BV=122). Too bad it was only a dream.

   
Feb 24th 2008 at 06:26:30 AM
Name:  

manuel heider

Best expert:  

4.422 3bv/s

Comments:  

new exp 3bv/s highscore:

Last game: 51.886sec - 3BV=225 - 3BV/s=4.422 - level=exp *flagging* - Ranks: 727/1 - IOE=0.849 - RQP=11.734

mfg

   
Feb 24th 2008 at 01:18:40 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

oops, for some reason my posts seem to get always long . i hope the fact that they are relatively rare compensates for that

   
Feb 24th 2008 at 01:08:27 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

@daniel: I'm afraid that's a million dollar question :D. A "spex" is a student theatrical production which is very original and quite tough to describe... (the link below has a good intro on it, how it is pronounced and a possible translation =P). It starts as a comedy... with storyline from an historical event, but all messed up with prominent figures living during that time (who probably had nothing to do with it) plus incredible and hilarious series of twists. The story ends as written in the history books. (Actually, we are fully convinced that ours is the REAL version of the story... and historians have lied to you all-along!! ). But words are not enough, so at certain moments it moves back and forth into a musical as actors sing - parodying existing tunes - dance and all that. Cross-dressing is quite common (i.e. guys interpreting female roles and/or girls interpreting male roles).

The most important feature is that it is interactive, the public is an integral part of the show, and most of the time is responsible for the outcome of it (and how much fun they have). They're supposed to laugh out loud and shout their appreciation to a scene/reply so that the actors have to improvise a different take on what they just did/said, hopefully in a funnier/more stupid way. They can also ask the actors to do all sorts of things... if the actors actually grant the request depends on how is that related to what they're doing at that moment and how "serious" the particular spex is ...

That's why you have to be part of that audience (sitting inside an imposing old theater, shouting and stamping your feet on the floor xD) to really enjoy (get blown off by) it and get a grasp of what it is about. watching it on TV or DVD simply doesn't do it justice...
The only downside of it, if you want to consider it so, is that it's in swedish :/.

Being part of the production crew is among the most fantastic things i've ever done.

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Feb 23rd 2008 at 06:18:06 PM
Name:  

Andrey

Comments:  

Why does Roman have 42.68 on the tournament ranking but 43.73 on the world ranking?

   
Feb 23rd 2008 at 04:15:10 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Old Winmine: go to downloads, 'Official Versions' on www.minesweeper.info

Erg...just lost 70/80 est 15 at 5.668 3bv/s

   
Feb 23rd 2008 at 03:38:12 PM
Name:  

torbjørn

Comments:  

Hi, does anyone know if it's possible to download the original minesweeper somewhere? I've just bought a new computer and I hate the vista version of minesweeper..

   
Feb 23rd 2008 at 03:15:14 PM
Name:  

damien

Best expert:  

Website Updated

Comments:  

Arsen gets a 48 (Russia).

Fabio Di Paolo got a 0.00 on a 1 3bv on MSX (but not accepted because of 1 click rule).

I fixed the Score List problem, Maike.

I started a new Tourament section on .info ... check it out!

   
Feb 23rd 2008 at 06:36:10 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő (and other if interested): Attached link shows my folder of my records and Top10 best times on intermediate and expert.

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Feb 23rd 2008 at 01:42:38 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

47FL, 49NF

Comments:  

Just made my 4th sub50 48,526 on 153, as my 1st sup130 3bv board. It's my best IOE and 2nd best RQP high score Vid in my folder

   
Feb 22nd 2008 at 08:29:29 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 4,606

Comments:  

Just made my 4th sup 4,5 NF: 70 in 16,544 @ 4,503 Vid in my folder
Also blasted 34/37 est 10, but the ending was really hard

   
Feb 22nd 2008 at 06:28:20 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

FL 3,612 -> 3,682

Comments:  

195 3BV in 53,966s I was a bit bored of non-flagging so tried some FL Vid linked
@Ronny: Nice As I remember correctly I made 76 about 2 weeks after 80, so u dont have to wait alot

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Feb 22nd 2008 at 12:10:54 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: Hehe indeed. We both got within a split second now.

I don't have a video folder yet, since I didn't want to bother Damien with it till I would become World ranked. I'll upload my best intermediate and expert times on my own server this week, so you can check them out.

The big question: Who's gonna be worldranked first?

   
Feb 21st 2008 at 11:44:32 PM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: You remember, when I predicted coevolution for us both . Grats to your record! My opinion is the same about flagging. I completely forgot double clicks and started NF to minimize misflags, which were quite regular. Besides (it can be, that only I am the idiot as I do not find your folder...) where can I watch your videos? It would be interesting for my development.

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Feb 21st 2008 at 02:40:06 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Bertie: Yeah I know I should flag more and lately I also do that on most boards, but not under pressure. Funny thing is that in the past, I hardly left clicked at all and flagged almost every single mine, because I didn't feel comfortable playing NF under pressure. Now it's completely the opposite. The more pressure, the less flags I use, because I feel that flagging increases the change of mis clicks, so I feel more comfortable without flagging.

Attached you'll find my ancient 81s record and have a good laugh about how I even start to flag the isolated mines half way.

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Feb 21st 2008 at 02:26:50 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

!! Just got a 13 with only 2 flags (on a 37 board). The 2 flags were both very useful (cleared 4 squares chording each time), so I can't complain. (got a new NF record of 14 last week).

   
Feb 21st 2008 at 02:03:13 PM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

Grats Ronny! That was a well played game. You still had reasonable control over your mouse in the vid. Overall, good job. I would of course (being a devoted flagger) suggest that you learn to play with flags (not just 3 ) because it is, quite simply, more efficient and effective. But that's just me

   
Feb 21st 2008 at 12:07:26 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

FL 81(2003 oct) -> 80,167 (142 3BV, 3 flags)

Best intermediate:  

NF 18,969

Best beginner:  

NF 2,377

Comments:  

Sorry, I forgot to play slow for a game or two.

I knew I had to be close to getting world ranked this board, but 0,168s too slow OMG OMG OMG

Oh well, besides the nightmare scenario of being a split second too slow, I'm mostly just happy that I finally broke my 2003 record of which I've always been so sure that I would never break it.

(Thanks for all the advice so far...it sure seems to help )

Also I move up a spot on the dutch ranking:
2 + 18 + 80 = 100s

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Feb 21st 2008 at 08:48:26 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@fritz: If you upload, your uploaded scores are taken - the penalty is only taken into account if you didn't upload (also if you couldn't beat the penalty).

   
Feb 21st 2008 at 08:33:41 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Ive just understood why Im a bit faster on hi-games than on clone On clone you have to click and then put finger up to see opened square. On hi-games the square shows in the moment when u click Thats y you can see faster.
Btw, since my 1st 11NF (30 Jan 200 to today I have 10, 11x6 and 9 on winmine Interesting how many 10 and 11 will I have to end of this year

   
Feb 21st 2008 at 08:06:02 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@michael: they said they are going to make a network for my school or so. but my account is still blocked. i hope it will be reactivated soon (it won't be more than 2 years ).#

@christoph: one question: what happens on AR when my previous score is more than 5 sec lower than my score for this period? do i get my old score + 5sec penalty for AR or the score i achieved and submitted for this period?

   
Feb 20th 2008 at 05:16:35 PM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@Fritz: minesweeperlive is not accepted for rankings. On the one hand it starts with an opening, on the other (almost more importantly) it places the mines s.t. you need no guesses. That gives you way more than the advantage of not having to guess, it gives you additional information about the board which you cannot get from the uncovered squares.

01?
24?
FFFX

In a situation like above X must be empty on minesweeperlive - on minesweeper you wouldn't have any information.

Thanks for the input on IMC stuff - we had this topic quite frequently but with only view results, we'll talk about it at the next meeting for sure.

   
Feb 20th 2008 at 04:36:13 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

FL 0,789 -> 0,858 IOE

Comments:  

Well, the 'play-slow-to-get-better' thing is slowly working to reduce the amount of mistakes. Also, because of the slow speed I'm also polishing my efficiency a little. Till now all my sub100 times have had an IOE between 0,46 and 0,60.
However, today I've finished a 189 3BV board in 99,767s and an IOE of 0,724. Funny thing was that even though I believed to be going painstakingly slow my 3BV/s was actually my 3rd fastest ever. So there's still light at the end of the tunnel.

   
Feb 20th 2008 at 03:32:33 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

Fritz, have you got your facebook account back then? The world cup group is kind of....dead.

   
Feb 20th 2008 at 02:25:37 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@christoph: i got a 54 on expert on minesweeperlive.com today while i sweeped against arsen there. are scores on minesweeperlive.com or on hi-games.net accepted for AR ?

just some suggestions to the IMC for their next meeting:
- i think the rules for minesweeper should be written down in detail on minesweeper.cc.
there are no "official" definitions for what is cheating, what are accepted clones and why, what kind of validation is required for which scores, tournament rules, rankings,...
of course much of these things are already written down somewhere but nowhere it is possible to find all the information as a whole.

-about the online tournament rules: in my opinion important aspects are 1. every sweeper should be allowed to play at the daytime they are in their best shape. 2. there should be different competitions for int and exp; also one for int+exp. 3.same boards for all sweepers (as on minesweeperlive) or same 3BV on all boards (hi-games) or a large amount of time for each level with random boards (so that the average for all sweepers should be roughly the same).

   
Feb 20th 2008 at 07:50:49 AM
Name:  

Ryan Heise

Comments:  

Hi Daniel: The Esc key clears the board so that it is ready to play a new game. I originally meant it just for aborting the current game, but it seems to also work just as well for starting a new game after the previous one is finished

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Feb 20th 2008 at 06:05:35 AM
Name:  

daniel

Comments:  

f*** second time i made a highscore without being logged in at hi-games...

   
Feb 20th 2008 at 05:52:34 AM
Name:  

daniel

Comments:  

just broke my nf expert rekord - 69.xx->67,26 if id know that im that good in time, id tried to be a bit faster in the end...

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Feb 20th 2008 at 05:24:45 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Kamil: I know. 56,25s = Sup3 (3,09) on a 174 board.

   
Feb 20th 2008 at 04:53:30 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Ronny: In fact my exp record on hi-games is 56s, but I spent only about 15 minutes on playing exp on hi-games If I played as much exp n hi-games as I play on Clone, probably it would be much faster btw, just got my 2nd best Beg time on h-g: 2,92

   
Feb 20th 2008 at 04:49:53 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Kamil: I see you kept your promise about setting a new highscore on expter at hi-games. Nice sup3 time.

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 04:08:07 PM
Name:  

maike

Comments:  

@damien
thanks, but the link you posted was for the worldranking, right? it worked. i can't go to the pages on the score lists though. but still: my laptop is screwy anyways, so nevermind...

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 02:16:47 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

To learn a little about myself. I just recorded 30 min of minesweeper and analysed it.

Efficiency: sufficient to get world ranked
Speed: sufficient to get world ranked
Blasts by forced guesses: <5%
Blasts by unforced guesses: 5-10%
Blasts by mis clicks: 10-15%
Blasts by pattern mistakes: >75%
Number of solved boards: 0

Funny how selective memory made me believe that I blasted much more boards on forced and unforced guesses, because they usually appear more often at the end of a board. It's easiest to blame things on bad luck, while it actually is 85% my own mistake when I blast a board.

At least I now know with certainty on which aspect I need to work: patterns and control. I will watch the mistakes a couple of times in slow motion and try to recognize the danger in the future.

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 02:15:53 PM
Name:  

daniel

Comments:  

@ronny: funnily my IOEs are much better when i play nf - in the high 0.8x. when i play flagged theyre in the low 0.7x
@joni: whats that for a show? im afraid i cannot understnad that swedish
@damien: i didnt cope with that expert game to...i also find it annoying that i have to press that play button to restart the game...is there any shortkey? could you just make one, ryan?

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 12:39:25 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ronny: to improve your pattern recognition (in this case i mean recognizing more squares at once) try to use flags efficiently. try to always uncover two or more squares with double click.

_1XXXXXX
_1111X21 <-- flagging the mine here and double
____2X2_ clicking is the fastest way to solve
____1X1_ this board.
____111_

as manu said think before you click. when i'm not 100% sure i always keep the left mouse button pressed longer (it's better to lose half a second by thinking than risking to blast a good game).

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 11:00:51 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

:D

Comments:  

Just made new NF RQP high score: 46 3BV in 11,986 @ 4,187 3bv/s
Also made NF IOS record today: 57 3BV in 13,547 @ 4,543 3bv/s Vids r in my folder

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 08:25:09 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

Come on, Ronny! It will succeed! We are with you! If we can help in anything, then you will find us.

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Feb 19th 2008 at 06:02:07 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

Thanks for the advice. I think I understand what you guys mean. I remember a game I've had a while ago at which I tried to reduce the amount of wasted clicks to almost zero. In the end I've blasted that NF board 196/212 at 2,12 3BV/s and IOE=0,892) while my NF records still stand on 1,806 3BV/s and 0,796 IOE. Unfortunately it took so much concentration I failed to play like that for more than 5-10 minutes. I think I need to somehow get in that sort of state and play only short periods to stay concentrated (i.e. 10-20 minutes) instead of long periods and let the auto pilot take over.

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 05:42:09 AM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

@Ronny: The advice you've gotten so far is about it on the subject. Just remember, don't play deliberately slow, play deliberately. Hope that's not too cryptic.

@all: I found a quirk in Arbiter. See, I've gotten into the habit of watching series while playing minesweeper. It is really effective for distracting you. To watch these vids I use vlc. Now, a funny thing happens at the end of the vid file. When the vid ends somehow the left upper square on the board is opened. Luckily it has only bombed me once, on a bad-ish game.

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 05:10:00 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Damien: Can you put a clock in the guestbook at next update? The problem is that in Hungary (and in several other countries) the time is much different than it by the comments, so it would be easier to follow when does that given person make his/her comment. This request is only relevant if this is not a difficult or time consuming work for you.

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Feb 19th 2008 at 03:32:23 AM
Name:  

manuel h

Comments:  

ronny:

when i play SLOW to practice pattern recognition and IOE, every single click is made consciously! i think about EVERY click i make, so there are NO reflexes !

i hated this missclicks u describe but they disappeared... ;-)

btw, i once finished 2x47 , 49 , 50 , 51 in sth like 4 min 35 sec :P

mfg

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 02:53:15 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@maike: no one else has complained yet...it works when i try. the link should point to www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html?page=2 ... try copying this and changing the number for different pages. If that does not work, what browser do you use?

@hi-games: i played for 1.5 hours yesterday and didn't win a single expert game! i hate nf

   
Feb 19th 2008 at 02:51:49 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: Well, I've tried to play slow and in control the last 2 days, but I didn't even finish a single board surprisingly. I also tried it on intermediate and could solve about 10 boards in 20 minutes, but on expert if I play twice as slow I seem to I lose concentration within a few minutes and my brains start to simply solve twice as slow as well, resulting in the same mistakes as before, only this time in slow-motion.

   
Feb 18th 2008 at 11:21:31 PM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: The problem is well-known for me as well. When I started to play NF two months before I had the similar problem. You remember that Kamil suggested: play slower to get faster. You told that it works. Wrong reflexes are hard to eliminate, and can be only, when you use to the right reflex to overwrite the bad. So I suggest, play a lot of games slowly and when you meet such patterns try to think it over and to give up the wrong reflex, and practice the right. When you feel that it works, try to play a bit faster but not the fastest, and check, what is the maximal speed at which you won't commit that misclick. Then, stay at this speed for days. After this check whether misclicks happen at your "usual" speed. If yes, repeat the mechanism mentioned above. If no, problem is solved. Currently I do not know a better solution. For me, the number of these annoying misclicks is decreasing, but not down to zero, of course... I hope that this will help you and soon you reach WR.

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Feb 18th 2008 at 09:10:45 PM
Name:  

Maike

Best expert:  

126...lame I know...

Best intermediate:  

32.something...

Best beginner:  

3.36...

Comments:  

hey there!
i just wanted to have a look on the updated score lists but the "next" links always put me back to the main score lists page...is my laptop just annoying again or is something wrong with the links?
maiki

   
Feb 18th 2008 at 03:05:23 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

If I only had a working mouse i'd show you kids how to NF on that site .

On another note, had a really tiring but very satisfying day today as we pulled a great performance in front of a fantastic public. If someone reading this happens to be in Stockholm tomorrow YOU CAN'T MISS THE MOST ENTERTAINING SHOW IN TOWN, Kårspexet @ VasaTeatern. Still a few tickets left

time to catch some sleep. sweet dreams...

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Feb 18th 2008 at 02:49:32 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

I have a problem and I hope you guys can help.

While playing minesweeper I've made the same mistake about a million times and I don't know how to eliminate this out of my system.

Here's the situation (see attached image for examples):

I see a group of squares. While looking for patterns, I see a square on the corner of the group that is surrounded by three '1's. So I think: that's a mine and click on the square next to it........WRONG!! GAME OVER!!!!

It was wrong because I didn't see the mine that wasn't attached to the group, but was 'floating' NEAR the group.

I'm sure you guys recognize this situation and made this mistake many times as well, but have any of you found a way to not to make this mistake anymore or at least eliminate it mostly?

I understand I probably need to look at more square at the same time, but how do you train that?

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Feb 18th 2008 at 10:35:32 AM
Name:  

manuel h

Comments:  

i never took the time before , i did just learn some algos during last week, and i dont have my real r-cube with me, its "at home" .

right now i dont have the time to seriously sweep, so go on wasting your time on hi-games :P i hope that there will be a flagging version ....

mfg

   
Feb 18th 2008 at 10:19:34 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Manu: I will play on Clone today, I will beat your exp on h-h tomorrow at school btw, what's your rubiks cube record on normal cube? (not on h-g)?

   
Feb 18th 2008 at 08:36:57 AM
Name:  

manuel heider

Comments:  

im NOT a NF player ! im still a flagger ;-)
im forced to play nf there...

@ronny
why dont u mix it up ? when u see a "4" or a "5" (or higher)dont flag, when there r lots of "1"s flag and chord. wheres the problem ?
u dont have to decide before u see the board...
( except u want to play NF ...)

btw, i did rubik cube in 72 s ;-) ...

mfg

   
Feb 18th 2008 at 08:32:14 AM
Name:  

Zhang Hong

Best expert:  

nf 55.20 -> 55.17 -> 53.62 !!!

Comments:  

Finally a sub55 - -
blasted a 104 yesterday
still struggling for sub50

   
Feb 18th 2008 at 07:49:44 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Kamil: Ah, I was already wondering who horst2104 was. Looking at the speed it had to be a top5 NF player, so I should have known I guess.

   
Feb 18th 2008 at 07:01:53 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Ronny: lol, yes My Int record is 15,82, but 1 time I couldnt find last square when 14 on timer I see that manu beat me on Exp, I will play some exp later

   
Feb 18th 2008 at 01:48:28 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@tk: I'll try. I'm currently playing some UPK record boards of others till I've finished them within or near my own record. Till now I hardly ever get sub80 on them quickly and I usually blast them about 9 times before solving them. I'm still not sure whether I should try to get sub80 NF or flagging. Some boards I seem to solve faster NF, while others go faster using flags, but I also keep blasting more boards while flagging. The fastest UPK time so far was a NF 71s on my old 81s board, while I could hardly get sub80 on that board while flagging. This does seem to suggest I can better stick to NF, because it's more stable on low 3BV boards.

@Kamil: Nice scores on hi-games. It sure shows you're the fastest NF-er on average/high 3BV boards.

   
Feb 17th 2008 at 01:00:04 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

ARGHGHGHGH!!!

Thanks Kamil, I don't know what I would do without you

   
Feb 17th 2008 at 11:52:12 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Damien:
1. Date of my 10 is still 2008-01-02, it should be 2008-02-01
2. Manu still has bad date in News: it's 19th, not 18th
3. World Records -> Int NF 3BV/s: my 4,407 should be 76 3BV, not 79, and my 4,393 has 2007, it should be 2008.

   
Feb 17th 2008 at 10:52:11 AM
Name:  

damien

Best expert:  

Website Updated

Comments:  

Small update, because the last one was only 4 days ago :)

   
Feb 17th 2008 at 05:32:37 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF RQP 3,049 -> 2,985

Comments:  

53 3bv in 13,088s @ 4,385 3bv/s Usually I dont care about RQP records, but this time Im happy with 1st sub3

   
Feb 17th 2008 at 04:19:20 AM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

Ronny: do what I suggested (play slowly and in control) and pay attention to patterns. In your case, I would suggest that you always logically derive everything you can know. (This is the case when you know and can logically explain why you can't find out any more about a situation).
You can always learn new patterns, there is no substitute for knowing what you are doing, and understanding it.

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Feb 16th 2008 at 06:10:15 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Arjádre: I won't worry about it. I tried it NF without watching and ended 1s my record (87s) as well and even 7s above my flag record.

   
Feb 16th 2008 at 05:53:03 PM
Name:  

Arjádre (Aryeh D.)

Comments:  


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Feb 16th 2008 at 05:52:23 PM
Name:  

Arjádre (Aryeh D.)

Best expert:  

54

Comments:  

LC'd a 55@131 today... I wasn't too bummed...
and then I won a 55@115! Pretty pathetic, even if it *is* my 3rd best expert score.

It is also the lowest expert 3BV I've solved (previous was my 70@117 years ago).

If you want to see it (I don't really see why you would ), the vid is linked below.

   
Feb 16th 2008 at 03:01:29 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

I feel like deleted Minesweeper of my PC. Played like a 100.000 games today and finished only 1 in 123s.

Any tips on how I can get rid of the hundreds of pattern recognition mistakes that make I keep making over and over and over and over and over?

   
Feb 16th 2008 at 11:50:42 AM
Name:  

fritz

Best expert:  

2,996===>3,024

Comments:  

finally a sup3 3BV/s on expert
72,43 sec on 3BV=216
few clicks before the end i looked at the timer and was ****** off because of that (for me) bad time and then suddenly it was a 3BV/s highscore.

   
Feb 16th 2008 at 06:30:15 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Kamil: Aaahh that's nothing. Yesterday I basted 8/172 est 36 yesterday.....would have difinitely been a WR if I had finished it.

   
Feb 16th 2008 at 04:18:56 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Just made my biggest blast ever 30/35 est 9,975 NF, very easy ending I didn't save the vid, Im afraid if I watched it I would have to commit suicide

   
Feb 16th 2008 at 03:51:09 AM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

lol @elmar, true indeed :-D

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Feb 15th 2008 at 06:49:57 PM
Name:  

Ryan Heise

Comments:  

KAmil:

The solutions:

1. If you do login, click login only once and wait patiently (clicking multiple times invalidates all of the first keys).
2. (Better solution) Never logout. If you have logged into hi-games.net, just stay logged in all the time - that's the way the site is intended to run :-)

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Feb 15th 2008 at 04:06:31 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Beer is also know to cause that effect.

   
Feb 15th 2008 at 02:47:51 PM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

Yup, would be interesting to find out if something other than music can cause that effect. I guess listening to new stuff all the time might be a solution, you can be surprised by the music. Or at least variate.

As I said, try playing 100% controlled - also, when you do that, put some thought into what is efficient and what isn't. Think before you flag - often there is a move that is not obvious unless you think about it but way better than what your first impulse may be.
Doing that also teaches you a lot about the game.

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Feb 15th 2008 at 02:39:24 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@tk: nice input. I definitely don't have such control over my reflexes yet. I can easily make the same mistake thousands of times. Even if I replay a map in UPK it's not rare that the same reflex blasts the map on the same mine 1,2,3,4,5,6 times in a row. I've even tried to play just to solve a board tonight (I havent finished one in 2 days) and still the stupid reflexes kick in.

BTW, I know the trance state that you are referring to. I've had it a couple times only, for instance with my 5yo record of 81s, my 83s board last week and also my 18s on intermediate was a streak of 3 records in 5-10 minutes time. The problem is that if I try to reproduce that situation (same song and stuff) I'm too aware that I'm trying to force it and it won't happen. Maybe I should look into meditation/visualisation or something to achieve it. One day I'll figure it out.

   
Feb 15th 2008 at 11:14:05 AM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

Oh yeah, and grats @ rec breakers ;)

   
Feb 15th 2008 at 11:13:02 AM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

KAmil: For you it may not be this way - but there is definetly a diference here.
Recently, I discovered that Metallica is perfect sweeping music for me.

I also got many outstanding highscores while listening to music and then getting into some kind of trance. I don't enter that state very often, but sometimes I can think about a game of minesweeper without really thinking about it. I just mechanically solve it then, and fast.
That happened when I played my 60 after only two other prev. sub70es, and it happened with my 42.

IMO, music is something that is to be taken extremely serously, and something worth studying more closely, especially for pros. Since the game relies solely on visual input, there is nothing to obscure that way.

Lawrence:
My tip is to do both extremes. Play hard, reflect the kinds of mistakes you make and what is fast (so, analyze your style and see what you want to keep and what you want to improve on), and then play at a speed where you are 100% in control (every mouse movement/action has a reason you conciously thought of, no reflexes, if you accidentally let them take over play slower.).

And then, slowly get faster until you are comfortable. I think it is probably a matter of personal preference. Although I think that it is very important to know how to hold back your reflexes. If you can do that, you can use them to solve anything you can do that way, but hold them back in critical situations.

It's also useful for situations that will look one certain way most of the time, like for example

221
xx2
?x3
?x3
xx2
221

Usually, the squares with ?s on them will be free, and I always assume they are when playing (takes too much time to go back if they are, and they usually are).
Now, say I uncover the top one. Most likely I will uncover a 4 and know that the one below is safe. A 5 would indicate a mine in the square below. Now, if I do that during a game, I need to see the number before I can go on.
However, most of the time the square is free. Now, most of the time, it will be fast to just uncover the two squares without considering the content of the first one. However, if you do that, sometimes you will blast because it's a mine.
In this situation, I let my reflex to uncover both squares take over - but I look at the square I just uncovered, and if I see that it is a five in time, I hold the reflex back.

Being able to control your reflexes is extremely important when you hit complicated areas in a frenzy. Often you have the strong impulse to go on and guess somewhere. Controlling that and slowing down is extremely important IMO.

Remember, though, I can't say how much of this is applicable in general and what is simply my style.

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Feb 15th 2008 at 08:33:16 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Ryan: cool, i have 3 emails with login keys but now any of them doesn't work and I can't login. what happened?

   
Feb 15th 2008 at 08:21:44 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Ryan Heise: Why do I have to copy Login Key every time when I login? Probably something is wrong, I should have copyed it 1 time I think

   
Feb 15th 2008 at 04:48:14 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: Very nice...seems like you can do a 20s as well soon and probably beat on me getting WR'd. Yesterday I've only played shortly after drinking a couple of beers, so not surprisingly I didn't finish a single board.

   
Feb 15th 2008 at 03:14:40 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best intermediate:  

22,564 -> 22,443 -> 21,246

Comments:  

@Ronny: You predicted that sum 100, and it came true! But it's your turn to catch sum 100. You know: co-evolution
@all (and to Damien to update : Two int NF records! The previous 22,563 improved to 22,443 on a 50 board with 2,332 3BV/s. Then I blasted an est 20,8xx with 2 3BVs before the end. After two games came the other record! 21,246 on a 40 board. If it was a quarter of a second faster, I would be World Ranked... Both records are in my Records folder.
@Tibor: Then I will never reach WR, as I expect it...

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Feb 15th 2008 at 01:50:27 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Lawrence: If you look into the help file of Mine Sweeper Cone these terms RQP, IOS an IOE are explained pretty good.

About finding the right balance between speed and reducing the risk of blasting a good board is mostly related to how much frustration of blasting records you can handle.

The best thing seems to start as fast as you can, but finish at a little lower speed, because if you blast a map at the start it ain't so bad, but blasting a record on the last 20 squares gets really frustrating at a while.

Off record: BTW, for me, all the above is just theory because I'm glad if I finish a single board per 2 hour, because I can't get rid of the habit to press uncertain squares when I don't see a path through the mines anywhere near my cursor.

   
Feb 15th 2008 at 12:12:48 AM
Name:  

Lawrence Schwartz

Best expert:  

Time = 64.10 3BV/s = 2.590 RPQ = 29.305 IOS = 1.220 IOEff = 0.936

Best intermediate:  

Time = 16.47 3BV/s = 2.927 RPQ = 5.959 IOS = 1.384 IOEff = 0.945

Best beginner:  

Time = 2.34 3BV/s = 4.322 RPQ = 0.871 IOS = 0.00 IOEff = 1.000

Comments:  

I am just getting into minesweeper in terms of trying to break records. I understand some of these numbers but if someone can explain them in more detail that would be great. Thanks. (i understand what the 3BV/s means)

Also I need some advice. I usually try to complete boards going at a normal speed, however lately ive been trying to go as fast as I can...I havnt really been passing boards but my estimated times late in the games have been from 40-60 every time. Should I continue doing this in hopes of grabbing a great board and completing at a really fast time, or continue to go at a normal speed and hit a nice board and still get a good score. Thanks

   
Feb 14th 2008 at 04:59:37 PM
Name:  

daniel

Comments:  

after a long time i had yesterday and today some highscores (ios, rqp, int 3bv=3,33 (nf)) and my first sub20 sup3 (of course nf, too )
time for some new best times i think

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Feb 14th 2008 at 09:38:24 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Of course music doesn't change playing speed But I always listen to death or folk metal while playing
@Dion: Is your average exp time sub50?

   
Feb 14th 2008 at 09:35:47 AM
Name:  

kyle

Comments:  

i definitely think music makes a difference while playing. I sort of end up clicking along with the beat so the faster the song the faster i am generally.... but you can also wear yourself out faster and make more mistakes so its a trade-off

   
Feb 14th 2008 at 05:06:50 AM
Name:  

Tibor

Best expert:  

3bvs 2,295 -->2,424

Comments:  

flagging on 191 3bv, new RQP and IOS; video uploaded in my folder.

@gergo & ronny: WR will arrive unespectedly!!!

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Feb 14th 2008 at 03:55:28 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergo: You're right, I thought you were on 100s. I only have one sub21, so in that case it's hard to say whether you should try it on int or expert or maybe 1s of both.

Yesterday I also tried to see how much faster I've become on NF. So I dug up my first NF sub100 board (98s) and I solved it in 77s while playing with a certain amount of safety to make sure I did finish it on the 1st attempt. So that gave a little faith that I can get sub80 if I get the right board.

   
Feb 14th 2008 at 03:45:47 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: Maybe you are right. I have another sub 23, but only that single sub 80. Nowadays I get quicker and quicker on NF int, as my 3BV/s record raised to 2,45 from 2,3 in two weeks. But I have already blasted some 82-83 NF exp games... But maybe beg 1 can be done, as I have never had a 2 or 1 3BV board yet... But I am currently at sum 101, as you.

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Feb 14th 2008 at 02:33:42 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: So only 1s less for you needed to get world ranked . I think sub22 on intermediate should the easiest record to break of these 3. I believe I have 5 sub22's in total, while my expert record is slower as yours.

   
Feb 13th 2008 at 11:22:51 PM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: Fl 77, NF 86 on exp, on beg 2,310 (look at my Records folder) Otherwise, grats a lot to your 83!
I listen to various musics, it depends on my actual state, but lots of records were born during Nevergreen (a slow doom-gothic metal).

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Feb 13th 2008 at 04:49:54 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

(Oops wrong link)

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Feb 13th 2008 at 04:47:50 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

Funny think about my record tonight was that I was experimenting with different kinds of music to see if fast music would increase my speed.

Guess on which song I broke my record?...The slowest and sleepy song of all: 'All you have to do is dream' from the Everly Brothers. (See link attached).

Maybe that sleepy music actually did the trick by making my brains go to semi-sleep and continue solving on auto-pilot without noticing the time and getting all shaky near the end. Whos knows....or it was just a coincidence.

What music do you guys listen to while playing?

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