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Jan 21st 2008 at 10:27:31 AM
Name:  

aris

Comments:  

@fritz: try it

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Jan 21st 2008 at 10:05:10 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@aris:
i never heard of that site before but it seems to be a cool idea.

   
Jan 21st 2008 at 09:42:16 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Gergö, i believe that was exactly the idea behind Budapest and Vienna, to have a meeting among minesweepers, with the tournament a bit in the background (that's how i see it at least ). it's definitely worth it if you have the chance... You get to visit a nice city in even nicer company. I spent a whole week in Budapest, where no more than 3h were about sweeping, and met 25 people from 4 continents with many many things in common

@kexas: try emailing Schu (schubomb[a_t]gmail.com) he should have a more direct communication with Rodrigo (don't forget to tell him i tried to help, but it wasn't one of the usual problems)

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Jan 21st 2008 at 09:39:42 AM
Name:  

aris

Best expert:  

66

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

damien probably means minesweeperlive.com.why cant we use this site for tournaments?it has no guesses and sweepers play the same board...

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Jan 21st 2008 at 09:29:01 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ damien:
of course i know AR. but AR only shows the best scores sweepers can get in 2 weeks. what i'm thinking about is a ranking where sweepers are ranked by their best scores regualry achieved in short times. the tournaments/meetings like vienna or budapest are good to find out who can get the best scores in short time but as relatively few players have the time/money to participate in they can't properly show how good a sweeper is compared to other actives.
of course an idea like mine would require a lot of trust into the scores submitted by others but i'm sure that those who would try to compete will take it seriously enough not to submit fakes or cheated scores
btw: minesweeperonline.com doesn't work

   
Jan 21st 2008 at 09:03:08 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Fritz: I'm sure you know about Active Ranking. Also, you can get points at minesweeperonline.com by playing the same board at the same time as other sweepers

   
Jan 21st 2008 at 08:56:57 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@Gergő
i suppose you're thinking of meetings like in budapest or vienna or the tournament rogen organised.
what i thought about is sth like a bi-weekly little tournament where you get points for your rank and at the end of a year the sweeper with the most points wins the whole thing.
just an idea how it might work:
i'd create a group on facebook where every bi-weekly tournament is announced (e.g. every 2nd sunday). the day before a tournament you post in which time you'll play the session from which you submit your scores and as proof of your scores you'll upload a screenshot of your daily statistics (this should easily work for arbiter and clone).

about your missed 81: when i was trying to get total sub100 (it was about 3-22-78) i almost got a 74 but i forgot 1 square and the record was gone. don't be too sad about it next time you won't blast

   
Jan 21st 2008 at 08:49:09 AM
Name:  

kexas

Comments:  

Hurray! Just go my first good time on minsweeper =) - 6 beg NF (although i'm a flagger but it came out that way )
P.S. joni, i didn't get any reply from Rodrigo.. You mentioned theres one more person i could ask for help?

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Jan 21st 2008 at 04:01:42 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

I don't know how does it work, but nonosweeper has weekly tournaments probably it would be possible for minesweeper too

   
Jan 21st 2008 at 03:10:17 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best expert:  

77F, 87NF

Comments:  

@Fritz: Not a bad idea, One of my friends told me, that Stunts (an ancient car-game) has meetings, when "addicts" meet each other in a weekend, just to get closer to each other, to make friends. Does it exist in Minesweeper, too? If not, we can organise such meetings. What is your opinion? Or am I too naive?
@all: I blasted a 81 exp NF with a reflex click... I needed to find the only closed field, which I left somewhere. Maybe next time...

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Jan 21st 2008 at 02:27:00 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Grats Tam!

   
Jan 20th 2008 at 08:35:21 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

And grats to Manuel, of course! I just read through some of the earlier posts, great to see you fighting your way to the top ranks and getting the score you deserve on intermediate.

   
Jan 20th 2008 at 08:25:52 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Best expert:  

45.18 -> 44.78

Comments:  

My breathe completely froze when I began solving the final seconds, because that's when I caught a glance of the clock. I'm just glad I didn't mess this one up, phew

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Jan 20th 2008 at 02:02:44 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

not: "jsut an idea"
"just an idea"

   
Jan 20th 2008 at 02:01:25 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

jsut an idea:
what do yiou think about sth like a minesweeper world cup?
i thought of sth like every 2 weeks people sweep a session of 30min-2hours and try to compete in several challenges e.g best 5 int times, best 5 exp times, best 3beg+3int+3exp, fastest time in vienna sweeper mode .....
for your ranking in each session you get points (e.g. 1st-50, 2nd-40, 3rd-30, 4th-25, 5th-20, 6th-15, 7th-10, 8th and the rest-5) and at the end of the year the player with the most points wins the worldcup.
it's not meant to replace the world championship but i think it would be a good way to find out who's the best sweeper throughout a whole year. it's just an idea and so i'd like to know what you think about.

   
Jan 20th 2008 at 11:15:07 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Rogen: can u put to your folder all your sub50 NF vids?
I finished The Lost Vikings, now I can play more Minesweeper

   
Jan 20th 2008 at 08:37:15 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 12x8 -> x9

Comments:  

...

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Jan 20th 2008 at 07:10:37 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Best intermediate:  

12x3

Comments:  

Just got a 12,049 on a 32 3BV board. I don't think I played it optimally, so it could definitely have been faster.

BTW: congrats to Bertie and Rogen with their latest scores

   
Jan 20th 2008 at 06:54:14 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Just made my biggest blast ever: 124/136 est 45NF vid linked
@ Rogen: I tried your board: 35/36 @ 10,9 on timer

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Jan 20th 2008 at 06:50:24 AM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

I just got 11 sec NF on 3BV 36, the board is extremely easy. Vid is linked.

@Kamil:

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Jan 20th 2008 at 03:52:22 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

The vid of my 1 IOE is in my folder. The board actually had two openings, so I was a little lucky with the "crazy-clicking" in the start. I think I had another 1 IOE way back when I still played on winmine with Sorin's recorder.

I've just started using facebook. My friend list is a little short for the moment, so if someone wants to help me out by sending requests that'd be cool

   
Jan 20th 2008 at 02:17:45 AM
Name:  

Bertie

Best expert:  

51.40 -> 51.02 (51x3)

Comments:  

Well it seems that I was destined to be part of all this improvement going on. But improving in this fashion, I must admit, it a bit like kissing your sister. I got it on a 124 @2.47 with 0.75 IOE, 3.27 clicks/s and 5054 path. I saw the counter at 49 and I think that caused the 0.02 part. It could so easily have been a 50. Oh well. I am however pleased with the way I played it, because this is exactly the kind of style I'm trying to develope.

Well done to Manu and to Jon S. A 1.000 IOE is good flagging, but quite special NF. I'd like to watch that vid.

Oh, and to follow up the clicks/s question: What kinds of IOE do you guys get?

   
Jan 19th 2008 at 06:43:23 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

Is it just me, or have there been a lot more activity in the rankings in the last couple of months? I remember being at 77th, and I think that was before I beat the minute barrier. Now I'm 84th and my score is below the minute barrier by 4 seconds. Nobody in the top 100 now has a score of 60 or higher. The highest ranked player who hasn't beaten the barrier is at 128th. Maybe I just never noticed before, or haven't been around long enough to recognise the speed of improvement.

A nice feature for the rankings might be to mention each player's highest ever position. I'm not sure if there's any data for that, or if people's memories are reliable, but I think it would be nice. Also it might take a lot of work, so sorry for the suggestion Damien - just a thought.

I've hardly played int since I beat my record in June by nearly three seconds, on a super-easy board. I had hardly any motivation to play as it seemed so unlikely that I would break my record again. Played yesterday and almost instantly beat my 3BV/s record (3.4 something) and blasted another possible 13 at 34/36 on a guess. The final click was slightly further away, so it would probably have been a 14, maybe a 15, but almost certainly a second best.

Oh, and well done to Manu.

Sorry for the huge post.

   
Jan 19th 2008 at 03:54:28 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

OK, now I'm definitely gonna ritually burn my Clone version and install a new one. Just lost on a 137/138 guess on 98,142.
I should be able to do sub100 every day....considering that yesterday I even blasted a sub100 on a 212 3BV board (197/212) est 95s and my 81s record on winmine.

   
Jan 19th 2008 at 01:14:37 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 12x7 -> x8

Comments:  

@Damien: u forgot about my Int NF 4,407 3bv/s world record to write in World Records

Blasted NF 50/83 @ 5,009 3bv/s
Got 13,607s NF on 51 @ 4,045 3bv/s (vid linked) - new RQP and IOS record

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Jan 19th 2008 at 12:43:49 PM
Name:  

damien

Best expert:  

Site Updated

Comments:  

Nice Manu...your ranking is better now....please stop.

There is a new best woman in the world: E Tao Jin with 2.64 - 14.89 - 50.10 from China

   
Jan 19th 2008 at 08:26:51 AM
Name:  

Tibor

Comments:  

Grats Manu!!!

   
Jan 19th 2008 at 06:14:27 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

Congrats to Manu

I got an IOE of 1.000 NF on an int board today. I still didn't break my best 3BV/s

   
Jan 19th 2008 at 03:49:21 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 12x7

Comments:  

Nice manu, nice board - 11,217 NF 1st try in UPK, vid no watched before

   
Jan 19th 2008 at 03:45:55 AM
Name:  

Tommy

Comments:  

Well done manu!

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Jan 19th 2008 at 02:53:34 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Grats Manu!

   
Jan 19th 2008 at 01:44:03 AM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

Grats Manu!! Well done!

   
Jan 18th 2008 at 11:56:46 PM
Name:  

Nikolaj

Comments:  

Great game Manu!

   
Jan 18th 2008 at 05:26:42 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

Congrats Manu

(I still can't finish expert FL boards sub100 on clone somehow....it's start to be annoying. )

   
Jan 18th 2008 at 05:24:49 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Kamil, Elmars technique seems to be related to configuring more keys (on your mouse) to produce left-clicks or other abnormal ways to get a higher click/s. Funny enough, not long ago I even wondered myself if there would be people using more than 1 finger to produce left clicks...guess I wasn't the first to think of it. (Not that I tried it though). Anyway, many sweepers consider it to be unfair/cheating, because it's unfair competition against naturally gifted players, like yourself, that play the game just as it was intended.

   
Jan 18th 2008 at 05:14:25 PM
Name:  

manuel heider

Best intermediate:  

11x6 -> 10,908

Comments:  

Horst2104 Last game: 10.908sec - 3BV=32 - 3BV/s=3.23 - level=int *flagging* - Ranks: 1/10647 - IOE=0.653 - RQP=3.377

finaly a 10 !!! WOOOHOOOOOOO

sucky played(its 2:15) but still a 10
vid in my folder

btw, broke the 50x12 , now i have 51x 12

mfg

   
Jan 18th 2008 at 04:29:06 PM
Name:  

Josh W

Comments:  

Just had my worst loss ever.... blew a 54 last click on a guess, would have been a 5second improvement

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Jan 18th 2008 at 04:36:24 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

1. What is Elmar's Technique?
2. my average click/s beg-int-exp NF are: 4,9-4,684-3,861
3. I played exp for 1 hour today but couldn't win any game, becouse of guessings
4. To see all sub50NF players go to News -> sub50NF

   
Jan 18th 2008 at 01:42:21 AM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

Bertie - my clicks/s is about the same. 3.12 for last month, 3.09 so far for this month.

   
Jan 18th 2008 at 01:40:02 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

I read what I wrote... Dictionary is of course directory...

   
Jan 18th 2008 at 12:26:57 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best expert:  

77F, 87NF

Best intermediate:  

22NF

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

NF exp record! Yesterday I broke my 90,398 exp NF to 87,905 on a 3BV137 board . Video in my NF dictionary.
@Bertie: in NF exp I have about 2 left clicks/s with an average 3BV/s of 1,7.
@all: Yesterday my friend switched off the "log to history files" option, and changed playing mode for a while on Minesweeper Clone 2007. Afterwards he changed back to normal mode, and left the Clone. When I started it, and wanted to check my history (log to history function was active), I got a message: "Error: Mistype variable or syntax error." and I did not see my histories. But when I played, the information window showed the ranking of the actual game, so the history exists, it is not deleted. What should I do to see my history?

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Jan 18th 2008 at 12:08:58 AM
Name:  

Josh W

Comments:  

@Bertie... My clicks per second is average of 7.0, its very ugly and odd (i think)

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Jan 17th 2008 at 02:27:31 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

That's insane Kamil ... To answer the question by some of you, By what i can remember the other people to sub-50 NF are :

Dan Cerveny (2 i think) best 48,
Rogen (several at least 4) best 45,
Martin Toft Madsen 49
Manu 48
in chronological order.
Elmar has also got a 49 using the so-called "Elmar Technique", his best is 50 in regular play. (haven't been very active the last 6 months so i apologise if i missed someone ... i remembered Manu as I was about to post this for example ) I think Dion has a 50 too, and probably others as well...

   
Jan 17th 2008 at 01:46:40 PM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

Okay, this might seem a bit strange to ask, but I'm just curious. What kind of click/s scores do you guy get in exp on average? My average is about 3.

   
Jan 17th 2008 at 01:35:19 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

Something tells me that this might not be your last WR, kamil

GJ

   
Jan 17th 2008 at 06:12:11 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 4,393 -> 4,407

Comments:  

World record 76 3bv in 18,247s. Vid linked

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Jan 17th 2008 at 06:11:44 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 4,393 -> 4,407

Comments:  

World record 76 3bv in 18,247s. Vid linked

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Jan 17th 2008 at 01:12:34 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best expert:  

77F 90NF

Best intermediate:  

22NF

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@Gergely: If you click on "more" link in the top right corner on youtube, you will find the English translation of the song :) It's really "strange"...
@Michael: First NF record was 154 about 20th December. At 3rd January Exp NF best was 119.22, at 13th of January it reduced to 90.398... 29 seconds in ten days... But your times are much better, of course. I rarely finish NF exp as well, but now I feel to beat my best NF exp in a few weeks.
@Kamil: No comment. Wonderful! Grats! My int NF 3BV/s is only around 2,3...
@Bertie: I have a safety bag from Turkish Airlines, as they did not allow me to carry my pocket knife with a blade size of 5 centimeter the passenger room, so they carried it in a 30X40 cm safety bag... And it is 100%, that if I will have money to travel to the Vienna competition, I will preserve my ticket.
@all: Does an NF ranking exist? It would be interesting, at least for me...

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Jan 16th 2008 at 01:38:26 PM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

**** you people have been busy! On the Hungarian thing: When I want to reminis about my time in Budapest I just grab my tubemap. But of memory I can at least remember some of the subway stations. Baros ter, Ferenc tere/ter etc. (actually the rest evade me now :D ) I also have a swisscom phonecard (given to me by the hotel people in st. Gallen when our flight home was cancelled for the night) and my subway ticket in my wallet at all times. And of course
a wrapper of one of those swiss air chocolates stashed in my bag. Hopeless romantic, I know.

Anyway, I have really been polishing my style of play lately, and have had a few good games. The most memorable one was a 59.9X on a 191 @ 3.24 3bvs, 1.288 IOS and 0.96 IOE. The IOS was a best and the 3bvs was my second best. Anyway.

cheers vir eers.

   
Jan 16th 2008 at 12:31:28 PM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

Grats, Kamil.

I still haven't been close to sup-4 int, but I did tie my record today with 12,402 on a 36 3BV board (just uploaded)

I even felt a little slow and jerky today, since I didn't get much sleep last night...

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Jan 16th 2008 at 10:26:07 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

Congrats Kamil.

How many people do now have sub50 NF, btw?


....days 23 since my last completed expert board and counting...

   
Jan 16th 2008 at 10:24:54 AM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

Here's my new record video. I forgot to mention that it is also an NF game, which is surprising because I only ever do NF games by mistake. Nevertheless, I must have been doing it mroe frequently recently, because on the 24th of December my NF record was 75. I've beaten it a few times since then, culminating in this 56, which means my NF record improved by about 19 seconds in about 22 days.

The game itself was shameful though, the best board I've ever completed by 7 3BV. I should've done better.

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Jan 16th 2008 at 10:18:45 AM
Name:  

Parucka

Comments:  

Oh, it's song, not son.
And here's the link to the mentioned video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYikF0vjBYg
Sorry for double post, I'm unfocussed ad infinitum

   
Jan 16th 2008 at 10:15:39 AM
Name:  

Parucka

Comments:  

Just a reply to that off topic question.
The son is about Jozin from the swamps who eats people, he enjoys especially those who live in Prague. The only way to hurt it is to use powdering airplane. In the end it ends in the zoo.
You may also like this terribly off-topic one - it's about teaching hungarian

   
Jan 16th 2008 at 08:53:03 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

Oh, and forgot to mention:
grats, Kamil!

   
Jan 16th 2008 at 08:51:59 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

absolute offtopic: this video is hilarious even if I don't understand a word of it! Any Czechs around? What's this all about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzdrhOJ0DrA

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Jan 16th 2008 at 08:51:20 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

NF 52 -> 49,325 !!!!!

Comments:  

lol on 129 vid linked
@Dion: your "impressive" means "nice" or " nothing special"?

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Jan 16th 2008 at 07:57:08 AM
Name:  

Dion Tiu

Best intermediate:  

4.037 3BV/s NF

Comments:  

@KAmil: Impressive games

I only just broke the sup4 3bv/s NF barrier lol.

   
Jan 16th 2008 at 07:24:01 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 4,393

Comments:  

Ive just passed 6 Int NF sup4 3bv/s games in 26 minutes playing:
15:10 - 81 3bv in 20,769s @ 4,097 3bv/s
15:13 - 77 3bv in 18,784s @ 4,330 3bv/s
15:20 - 76 3bv in 19,583s @ 4,090 3bv/s
15:28 - 89 3bv in 22,357s @ 4,167 3bv/s
15:31 - 59 3bv in 14,953s @ 4,228 3bv/s
15:36 - 65 3bv in 17,106s @ 4,036 3bv/s

   
Jan 16th 2008 at 02:13:49 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best expert:  

77F 90NF

Best intermediate:  

22NF

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@Daniel: Congrats! The spelling was nearly perfect, and I do not think that you have "í" and "á" characters on your keyboard... But beer is an international thing, I know its Russian (and I can write it, too), Czech, Slovakian, Spanish, German and English names, as well. Just not to die on thirst abroad
@Ronny: Similar situation. I forgot how to flag, as I play for a month only NF. I was not able to do int sub35 with flags, but without them I have 3 sub25-s... But never mind, your time will come soon!

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Jan 15th 2008 at 04:02:54 PM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

I just missed a chance to get a really good RQP on a 48 3BV int board with one opening. I lost a 50-50 guess on the last click. Would have been 14,84 secs

Video here if anyone's interested:

http://www.minesweeper.info/videoindex.php?dir=JonSimonsen/Missed/

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Jan 15th 2008 at 01:17:41 PM
Name:  

Cristian Gallego

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I did 15.78 in intermediate at last , I'm Cristian Gallego, from Venezuela, and achieved this on january 14, 2008, yesterday , this is something very favourable to me

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Jan 15th 2008 at 12:18:19 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

I think me clone version is cursed! On winmine I have a 81s flag record from 2003, I flag faster and much more efficient than in 2003, but I'm still waiting for my first sub100 on expert with flagging on clone. Even worse, I haven't managed to finish an expert board since 24th of december. It's like I completely forget how to finish an expert board.

(BTW, don't be surprised if my first sub100 is also a sub80, because I think I just learned to take too much risks while playing Int to get a faster time )

   
Jan 15th 2008 at 12:13:38 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

The database is working now....the server in the USA crashed yesterday and they forgot to re-boot my site for some reason!

@dion: Dion Who?

   
Jan 15th 2008 at 11:46:21 AM
Name:  

daniel

Best expert:  

65,04->64,71 (160 3BV)

Comments:  

yesterday the 3bv highscore, today also my best time is really flagged again though its not the big step i hoped
when i was in hungary i didnt even know the spelling of beer in german but i think ive been quite right with my spelling of this city havent i?
btw: 11 flags

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Jan 15th 2008 at 04:06:39 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

@Michael: looks like there is some problem with the database, Damien should take care of that, meanwhile you can access the video folders via this link (i.e. Player Videos on the minesweeper.info website)

@Damien: i switched that link back to the php page, because there are problems with the downloads if you go from videos.html. I also think it would be nice to have the menu on the left, I'll work on it on the weekend, but it's best it remains so until then.

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Jan 15th 2008 at 02:15:49 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Dion: Buy a dog

   
Jan 15th 2008 at 12:56:14 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best expert:  

77F, 90NF

Best intermediate:  

22NF

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

As nobody should be isolated from the conversation, I'll translate all Hungarian to English

@Gergely: Igyekszem! Köszi! (I'm on it! Thanks!) :)
@Tibor: Üdv Maistro! :) A nagyapám nagyapja nekem is szlovák... :) (Hi, Maistro! The grandfather of my grandfather is Slovakian...
@Daniel: It is spelled Nyíregyháza ;) I live 50 km to it. Don't you remember sör (=beer)? :D Besides, just to teach a little bit Minesweeper is called Aknakereső (mirror translation: Mineseeker).
I now the numbers until ten in Itaian... And I know a lot of Fiat car types :D

@all: Thank you guys for everything. Fine to be in your community. If I can help you anything, just send a mail.

I am just trying NF, but it seems, that I forgot to play with flags... I did not think, that synchronising both styles are so hard work...

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Jan 14th 2008 at 09:40:12 PM
Name:  

Dion Tiu

Comments:  

Just made my 8th sub40, a 38 on a 123 3BV board

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Jan 14th 2008 at 09:00:06 PM
Name:  

Michael

Best expert:  

57 > 56

Comments:  

As if to prove a point, I just beat my record on a board of 109 3BV. Terrible run, worse than 2 3BV/s, but still my best time ever. Not only did I take 4 seconds to find the last square, but there were a few other notable pauses that shouldn't have been. It's really cold in my room (because it's late at night) and I have a headache as well. On a good day I might've even sub-50'd this board, it's that easy. I will upload it soon, something seems to be wrong with the site and I can't access the profiles.

   
Jan 14th 2008 at 06:02:02 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

Josh W - There are a number of ways of measuring the value of a sweeper, as I'm sure lots of people here will tell you. You can use personal bests, consistency, efficiency, 3BV/s, etc. Each player is different. Some are very efficient, and complete a huge amount of games, without getting spectacular times, and so on.

Also, each player has a type of board that suits them best; for some the lowest 3BV available allows for the best time, for others the best times are achieved on boards of around 150, and so on. As a general rule, the larger the 3BV of a board, the better the 3BV/s. It's rare to find a player who records his personal best time and personal best 3BV/s on the same board. So, the answer is, it's hard to give any standard such as "if you're 3BV/s is X then your best time should be Y" because each player is different, and you might be a player who is better at the high 3BV boards. This might give you a more impressive 3BV/s than personal best time. Someone who is more suited to lower 3BV boards might find the opposite.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is: don't worry about it, just keep trying to be the best player you can be. We can't all be judged by the same standards, just as in other sports, some players might be built for power, others for speed, others for agility, etc.

   
Jan 14th 2008 at 01:00:34 PM
Name:  

daniel

Best expert:  

2,55->2,76

Comments:  

3bvs, ios, rqp highscores are flagged ones again - im quite content with my style now (16 flags ) i just have to be quicker with my mouse
once i was in hungary with an exchange programm in nyregyhaza (im quite sure it must be spelled another way ) but the only words i remember are köszonöm and csokolom

   
Jan 14th 2008 at 09:57:04 AM
Name:  

Tibor

Best expert:  

75

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

@hungarians:szia magyar baratok...en is vagyok ha felig magyar felig olasz is!!!

@Damien:are you coming back with low 40's???

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Jan 14th 2008 at 07:59:27 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Gergő: Csak így tovább! Még több magyart a ranglistára!

   
Jan 14th 2008 at 01:44:41 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best expert:  

77 F

Best intermediate:  

22 NF

Best beginner:  

2 NF

Comments:  

The locomotive rushes towards! On saturday the best NF was sup95, yesterday after a 94,029 a new NF exp record with 90,398 on a 3BV162 board . Video linked. NF sum is 114! Goal: sup2 3BV/s NF exp.

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Jan 13th 2008 at 04:46:41 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Today is the first time I have done 5 sub50 in the same day....also got a 51 where I spent 5 seconds looking for 2 missed squares. (49x2, 47x3). Previous best was 3 in a day, which I have done many times.

   
Jan 13th 2008 at 04:20:00 PM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

I just had a great intermediate board that I managed to screw up after 4 seconds. I tried to UPK it afterwards, and achieved 9,5 seconds after several tries (NF, and I tried to solve it in a "natural" way). It's possible that I normally would have taken a chance by clicking the square in the lower left corner, and hit a mine anyway.

You can download it here:

http://www.minesweeper.info/videoindex.php?dir=JonSimonsen/UPK/

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Jan 13th 2008 at 06:50:21 AM
Name:  

paul mendoza

Best expert:  

69

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

representing the philippines baybeh!

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Jan 13th 2008 at 05:54:23 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

****! Before Christmas, the IMC agreed to meet at 9:00 on Jan 13th....I didn't think it was in the morning!! (We have never met in the morning before....I wrote down the time last night to make sure I'd be there). I guess it is my fault...sorry guys for not being there. I'm really annoyed I missed it.

   
Jan 13th 2008 at 04:44:02 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@IMC: if the ranking is here, y do u want it on minesweeper.cc?

   
Jan 13th 2008 at 03:33:27 AM
Name:  

IMC (Christoph&Tommy)

Comments:  

The constitutional meeting for the 2008 IMC has just taken place. We discussed:

-IMC meetings in 2008: The meetings will be held biweekly.

-AR: It has to be fixed - the AR restarts with the New Year (no penalties in the first period of a year).

-World championships: The world championships will be held once a year. Every sweeper can apply for hosting the next years world championship in a time to be designated by the IMC. The IMC will check the applications and pick out the most promising ones. These will be put to a vote. (NOTE: The 2008 world championship was already designated to be held in vienna - so that will be valid startig with the 2009 championships).

-Rankings: The rankings on minesweeper.cc should come to life - a task to be solved by Damien and Christoph.

-Registering the IMC: Will be done by Christoph and Tommy in february.

   
Jan 12th 2008 at 11:50:02 PM
Name:  

Jason K.

Comments:  

So now that I have motivation again, you should definitely come out of retirement to make sure I don't catch ya!

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Jan 12th 2008 at 11:43:22 PM
Name:  

Josh W

Comments:  

Hey Guys, first post here, just wondering what type of expert score someone should have if there 3bv/s is greater then 3.0, Because i have sup 3, and only have an expert score of 59, feel like i'm under achieving a lil.... Any thougts???

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Jan 12th 2008 at 04:33:04 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

well done Ronny

thanx Damien, you made Jason happy when he passed me in the rankings (he even tryed to persuade me to start playing again to keep competing with him ), now I'm ahead again (without having to sweat much ) so he'd be even happier next time (when it will be for good )

@kexas: clone does have some issues...but it's not easy to understand exactly your problem from here. If you can, you can join the IRC channel: server irc.initialized.org
channel #minesweeper
tomorrow (Sunday) at around noon CET, i should be there by then. you can of course join at another time, there should be somebody there to help you.

   
Jan 12th 2008 at 04:11:28 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

Just realized that in 'real time'(-3 seconds) my total is now sub100 (99,4s)....OK still not world ranked, but still a nice bonus....

   
Jan 12th 2008 at 04:07:30 PM
Name:  

Ronny de Winter

Best intermediate:  

FL 21,152 -> NF 18,969 (3BV=34)

Comments:  

Finally!!! Finally!!! Finally sub20!!!

I was getting more frustrated by the day as I know I have to retire soon again (due to physical problems ). I already blasted 3 sub20's and tied 21s 4 times. But today it just had to happen. First I broke my NF time record by 0,073s , 5 minutes later my 3BVs=2.658 and IOS=1,30013. After that I just knew that I all I needed was 1 good map....and BOOOM! 10 minutes later: 18,969s!!!

My dutch total is now: 2 + 18 + 81 = 101s

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Jan 12th 2008 at 11:47:27 AM
Name:  

kexas

Comments:  

Well .mvf is there! And i'm from Lithuania.
I exited the clone. After a while, trying to start it, i got this error
http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=minesweapererrorpt4.png
I repaired the .NET framework, the clone starts without errors (but my scores go deleted :/). Still, i can't view MY OWN videos. I get the same error: 'not vid or corrupt...'.

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Jan 12th 2008 at 11:26:11 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

12

Best intermediate:  

Jan

Best beginner:  

2008

Comments:  

1 year ago I got my 1st sub100 sum (1-20-76). I didn't think that only 1 year later I will be 16th in world ranking I passed all my goals for year 2007. My goals for 2008 are:
1. All NF world records
2. 10000 sub5 (I already have 3500)
3. NF 3BV/s sum sup14 ( I already have 6,188+4,393+3,237=13,819)
@Damien: "Manuel Heider (Germany) is first to win 10000 sub20 games " I guess Dion has 10000 too And u doubled my 6,188 in news

   
Jan 12th 2008 at 11:09:15 AM
Name:  

Damien

Best expert:  

Website Updated

Comments:  

Hi Kexas...maybe the Clone made a mistake and did not put .mvf at the end of the video name (a few people have sent me video that do not have the file extension). If you add it, the video will work. Just a guess

Also, Clone videos made in China, Korea, Taiwan do not work on English computers.

@Joni: I am really sorry! It is on the ranking now.

   
Jan 12th 2008 at 10:59:26 AM
Name:  

kexas

Comments:  

I can't load my videos (watch). When i try to, an error appears: The file seems to be not a video file or is corrupted, but other videos (downloaded) seem to work fine.
P.S. Video preview after game works. I use Minesweaper Clone 2007.

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Jan 12th 2008 at 05:35:25 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 4,393

Comments:  

Just got NF 4,355 3BVs on 81 If I clicked last square a bit faster, it could be a world record vid linked Don't worry Manu, I hope to get 4,6 till next month

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Jan 12th 2008 at 04:54:22 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@manu: u should post your record to Damien, history of world records should be true

   
Jan 12th 2008 at 04:17:15 AM
Name:  

manuel heider

Comments:  

@ kamil

first of all: grats on ur World record !

most people dont care about NF int as rogen said, i think if they did the world record would be sth around 4,6 or even higher... but u seem to be the only one trying ;-)...

i discovered a few days ago that u probably didnt beat the WR of dennis, u beat mine :P
( if the record of dennis was 4,198 like damien has it on his site)
my int NF record was at 4,201 for a few month, now it is at 4,231, this took me 2 minutes of playing NF.

but im a flagger ....

as joni mentioned a few days ago THERE IS AN IRC CHANNEL !!! please use it, u can post ur games there and have a lot of fun with other sweepers !!! would be nice to see some of the "new" sweepers there !...

mfg
manu

   
Jan 11th 2008 at 03:49:28 PM
Name:  

Michael

Best expert:  

127

Best intermediate:  

42

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

I'm already happy with my 4/42/127 scores :) I just discovered the double-click 3 days ago and I beated easily my previous best... But I don't handle this double click good enough yet.

   
Jan 11th 2008 at 01:59:49 PM
Name:  

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Best expert:  

Serpenter_e

Comments:  

F of course

   
Jan 11th 2008 at 11:53:50 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Rogen: how many sup4NF do u have?

   
Jan 11th 2008 at 11:25:41 AM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

Because most of players don't care about NF and int

   
Jan 11th 2008 at 11:00:24 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Out of 145 Int NF games in 2008, 7 of them are sup4NF 3bv/s. Why only 4 people in world have sup4?

   
Jan 11th 2008 at 10:19:05 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Serpenter: NF?

   
Jan 11th 2008 at 09:59:40 AM
Name:  

Serpenter_e

Best expert:  

55

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Good work, Kamil !
Just want to insert into your records some mine:
beg 3bvs 5.683 -> 6.337
int 3bvs 4.026 -> 4.234

   


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