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May 26th 2008 at 02:58:22 AM
Name:  

manuel h

Comments:  

@ damien : please take a look in your video folder, 3bvs, theres a little exp vid played @ 4,175 3bv/s :P

mfg

   
May 26th 2008 at 02:09:41 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

after updating the site last night, i played some expert and had a big surprise - a new 3bv/s record of 4.12 (3bv=228). previous was 4.06 i think...this is my first 'important' record for more than a year! i'll upload the video when i get home from work.

   
May 26th 2008 at 02:06:59 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Fritz: No more beginner me......even if 10 people would post that their beginner NF record is 4.093, then I still wouldn't start playing beginner again.

   
May 25th 2008 at 09:13:09 PM
Name:  

 

Comments:  

why is it when you go to Custom Ranking it has Oliver Scheer before you open time

   
May 25th 2008 at 03:10:19 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ronny: big grats. now try to get sup3 3BV/s on int and other highscores on int and exp.
or maybe you want to beat my NF 3BV/s highscore on beg which is 4.121.

   
May 25th 2008 at 01:07:01 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best beginner:  

NF 3,951 -> 4,092 3BVs

Comments:  



(In cause you're wondering why I'm happy with a beginner record:Now that I sup4 NF and I can finally stop wasting my time playing on beginner. )

NF sum: 4,092 + 2,959 + 2,227 = 9,278

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May 25th 2008 at 09:23:34 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

@kyle: that used to happen to me... it was because of custom indices I had created using variables that are not saved into the history. Turn off your custom indices and you should be able to view your stats just fine.

   
May 25th 2008 at 07:44:26 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@kyle: I don't think the problems is because of the recorded stats. If you look the history file it self, my in only 97kb, while clone uses up to 1 GB when viewing it. So it must be some sort of software inefficiency. Like Joni I also program microcontrollers with only a few kB of RAM memory and know how much you can do with only a few kB. With 1.000.000.000 bytes of RAM you can almost record all stats of everyone that ever played Clone.

   
May 25th 2008 at 05:38:47 AM
Name:  

kyle

Comments:  

I believe clone 2007 uses so much RAM because it keeps so many more statistics than any other version. Not just the standard stats in the counter window but then the min/max/average of everything including date, time, month, openings, flags, numbers, etc... This alone makes it use 3x more than just the stats alone. Every time you finish a game something like 75 points of data are recorded. I would reccommentd making this an option to turn on/off in the future. My computer/ clone 2007 crashes all the time when i try to look at my stats (under tables). I have 3.5 gb ram and 2.8ghz duel core processor...somethings wrong here

   
May 24th 2008 at 01:00:45 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

NF IOS 1,33xx -> 1,353 ; RQP 7,3 -> 7,018 (19,793 on 3BV=53)

Comments:  

My lowest 3BV I've seen on clone: 3, 31, 102(not solved:D)

Looking at the amount of time Kamil has played on Clone, I think it's about 90% certain that 2 3BV is not possible on Clone 2007...probably a standard '>' instead of '>=' software bug. I've made hundreds of those bug in my life.

   
May 24th 2008 at 10:23:39 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

@KAmil: good question.

I believe the IMC 3BV limits are 2-30-99, with 2, 30, and 99 3BV boards being legal. I've never encountered a 2, 30, or 99 3BV board on clone since the release of clone 2006, while I *have* encountered several 3, 31, and 100 3BV boards.

Has anyone out there gotten a 2, 30, or 99 3BV board on the later versions of clone????

   
May 24th 2008 at 07:36:21 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

In last 2 days I played expert for 11 hours and solved 1 board
I have 2 questions:
1. Why Clone doesnt generate 2 3bv boards? (My Arbiter record: 1x1 on 2 3bv, Vienna: 1x0, but had 2 3bv, and Clone: 1x19 but never 2 3bv)
2. Why winmine boards are easier than Clone's? (less openings, less 50-50)

   
May 23rd 2008 at 11:15:47 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Clone started using lots of memory (~300M on my windows XP SP1 as i recall) from the 2006 version, although it apparently was a minority who had the problem (I remember Ace saying it consumed only 40 MB on his pc). The problem was reported to Rodrigo from different sources but not adressed on the 2007 release, where it completely exploded. I have "only" 1 GB of RAM and, although i liked Clones stats, continueing to run it was not an option. Hence the switch "to the dark side"
It doesn't take a genius to figure out it must have something to do with that Framework thing. it's of course a Microsoft product, programmed following the Microsoft filosophy (and/or i can speculate Rodrigo hasn't gotten to tweak it for optimising memory consumption)

I am a C/VHDL programmer of microcontrollers and FPGAs, and I have a whole 144 Kbits of RAM at my disposal for the master thesis project I'm working on . How people can just occupy GBytes doing little useful is beyond my understanding

   
May 23rd 2008 at 03:58:26 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

NF IOS 1,32xx -> 1,33891 (3BV=67)

Best beginner:  

NF 3,859 -> NF 3,951 3BVs (3BV=22)

Comments:  

@Joni: Do you know why Clone takes that much RAM? I never understood why my PC crashes when I hope 4 Clones at the same time while I have 2 GB of RAM.

   
May 23rd 2008 at 02:53:54 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Damien: hmm the download page on .info looks really nice, but instead of linking directly to the clone download i'd reccomend linking people to Rodrigos site, so that they can get to know what they're getting into (i.e. that they need to download the .NET Framework for the clone to work and that on some PCs -- including mine -- that means ~1GB of RAM to dispose of just for the Clone to start :D)

   
May 23rd 2008 at 02:14:34 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Jonathon: Using Minesweeper Clone makes it even easier to save videos and it has a lot of nice extra features. With Clone you can simply save every board that you've played and you can replay the board whenever you like. To download it go to: Downloads > Official versions > Clone 2007.

   
May 23rd 2008 at 01:38:15 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Jonathon: Before you get brush, easel and canvas out, try ALT+PrntScreen (while the minesweeper window is active). Then open any paint prog, eg MSPaint, and select paste.

   
May 23rd 2008 at 01:33:20 PM
Name:  

Jonathon

Best expert:  

94

Best intermediate:  

33

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

How do I like take a picture or make a video of the computer screen? Do I have to point a camera at the monitor, or is there an easier way?

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May 23rd 2008 at 10:48:04 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best beginner:  

1x19-> x20

Comments:  

1,883 on 5
also I played Int and Exp both for 4 hours but of course didnt make any record only 11x2 on int on winminexe

   
May 23rd 2008 at 10:46:54 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Joni: Yeah, that's a decision from 2006 that was overruled by the decision on accepted clones later, which basically excluded winmine entirely for the IMC ranking.
We figured that Damien's ranking always allows newbies to join with their Winmine scores and the IMC ranking should only contain entirely valid scores...

@Kamil: I don't really see the point in that, but as long as you enjoy it, that's fine with me. Btw, you should be able to get at least a 5 on the DB. With a little bit of practice you can easily get a 6 every time you play it.

   
May 23rd 2008 at 09:19:59 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

if by "individual results" you mean all the games you have played (on a level for example) the "Search" tab should be the one for you... a search with "Level=Expert" should give you all the expert games, you can then order the scores the way you want to (clicking on the column headers).
That works of course if the "special keyboard" works... I haven't had any problems with it actually so I have no idea why it isn't working for you.
For Arbiter the pocedure is more or less the same (Search function there too)

@Elmar: I had the impression the IMC did decide not to accept any winmine scores at all at some point (i think i remember Schu and/or DB announcing that triumphantly in the IRC channel )... looking at their website it looks like only MS Vista is officially banned, although winmine is not included in the "officially accepted list" either... to make things ambiguous.

Not that it matters that much at the end of the day, since Damien's ranking goes by softer rules, where cases of new players joining with sub-50s are accepted as long as one is able to make fast games on the clones to back up his winmine score. (i too, like Damien, prefer to trust people so I'm not against that practice)

   
May 23rd 2008 at 03:50:44 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: That 67 was only an "accident" . That 2,227 sounds great, but sometimes I feel that result fulfillable. But nowadays I play mostly int, as I think sub 20 is easier than sub 80 (I made another 18 yesterday so I have one 16, one 17, three 18s, one 19 and 8 20s) and I have a very nice goal as well, I would like to reach 1000 sub 30 NF int in half a year. I began it 8th January, and I have already 890 sub 30s. And nearly 200 of them is sub 25... On exp I rarely finish games (but yesterday I finished about 8 in one hour), and I seldom get any sub 90... I must improve on exp until Vienna...
The sup 3 3BV/s on int seems to be close, but it is very rare that such a good board comes on which I can be really fast.
My real time records are 2,310 + 16,574 + 75,987 (67,17 = 94,871 (86,062) and at 3BV/s 3,646 + 2,935 + 2,121 = 8,702... Differences: 0,106 on exp, 0,024 on int and 0,195 on beg... Exp and beg souds as really big gaps...
My new life began this January as I got the Clone. Before it I played only Fl, but until than only NF. On MSX with flags I have 2-23-78, but half a year was gone since than... I think now I am not able to handle two buttons in one time, and I always overflagged, due to this I tried NF this January and I got used to it fast.
Just to analyse a bit: my top 10 NF int 3BV/s data are better a bit than yours. And on exp I have 8 or 9 sup 2s. If you remind me on Monday, I try not to forget to copy my clone statistics and I'll send you in email, as I know that you like stats...
My special selection options do not work in Clone history (bottom left panel with that special keyboard). BTW. How to get all individual results? It would be interesting for me.

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May 23rd 2008 at 02:40:21 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: Lol, with NF you're not exactly behind me (even though I broke almost all my int/expert records last week ). I'm still magically stuck on 79s (yours is 67) and also I'm still stuck on 2,959, which isn't exactly a big gap with 2.935, so I'm also still trying to get sup3 NF as well. (I did blast a few 3,2xxx with <20 3BV to go, so it should be possible soon).

My records now are:
no-flag: 3,859 + 2,959 + 2,227 = 9,045
flag: 4,381 + 3,018 + 2,107 = 9,506

BTW, do you still play any flagging, Gergo? Or are your NF records, unlike mine, also your overall records?

(See attached link for all my records)

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May 23rd 2008 at 12:45:56 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

I nearly completely forgot pop-up windows when one appeared. The day before yeterday there was a beg NF IOE record. 18 clicks on a 17 board, but yesterday an important record happened. Int NF 3BV/s 2,935 on a 87 board in 30,640. The previous was 2,890. It's in my NF intermediate folder. I hope I will get a sup 3 soon. Ronny seems to be far away from me in all imprtant records. I must join him to fulfil the coevolution theory

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May 23rd 2008 at 12:10:54 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Elmar: I play on winmine to get dreamboard and solve it in sub9 time. If I get a 9 on another board, and IMC wont accept it, I wont cry

   
May 22nd 2008 at 01:03:52 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Elmar: Thanks, didn't know that. Sounds logical due to the finite loop.

@Damien: Ok, I thought I was the first to notice.

   
May 22nd 2008 at 11:46:21 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Oh, by the way, I got my first 14 on that board a long time ago. :)

   
May 22nd 2008 at 11:45:02 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Ronny: Not just some ppl wouldn't accept a 9 on winmine, nobody would.

To quote from the IMC site:

Scores above 15 on int and above 60 on exp can be accepted if played on Winmine. Scores below 15 on int and below 60 on exp need videos (clone or arbiter) AND the validation/confirmation of 2 IMC members. World record scores need the validation/confirmation of the majority of the IMC members

   
May 22nd 2008 at 09:41:43 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Hey Ronny...if your first click is a mine it will shift to the top left corner. If the corner is already a mine, then your mine moves to the first empty square to the right of the mine in the corner.

   
May 22nd 2008 at 07:12:18 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

(Sorry for the spam)
If you look at the 4 shifts of the dreamboard in the topic about it...you'll see that 2 of the 4 example boards also have a replaced mine in the top-left corner......with other words....don't ever guess on the top-left corner next time you get a 50-50 there!

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May 22nd 2008 at 07:05:14 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

....I also think the relocated mine isn't replaced 'random' and it's actually always placed on the left-top corner. If this is true, this means on a 50-50 guess on the left-top corner, you actually have a slightly bigger chance of not blasted when you do NOT guess on the square in the corner.

   
May 22nd 2008 at 06:59:56 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Kamil: You're right....it's indeed not exactly the same!!! This is really interesting though....this might very well be another piece of the puzzle. I think your first click is exactly on the 'replaced mine'. I think this proofs that when your first click is on a mine, winmine doesn't generate a whole new board....it only relocates the that single mine!!!

   
May 22nd 2008 at 06:30:52 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Ronny: I cant agree with u: there is 1 another mine my board had it in left top corner and normal board has it in another place strange

   
May 22nd 2008 at 03:27:14 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Kamil: I remember Damien once posted that besides the dreamboard there was another famous board with a '6' in it. (See attached link) If you scroll all the way down. You'll see that your board is one of the 12 famous boards that have created the theory of having 4 finite cycles in MS Minesweeper.

BTW, even though this board is allowed as record. I think it's a good thing that your didn't set a 9 on that board, because otherwise I would bet some people would not accept it as new World Record for the same reasons as why the dreamboard isn't allowed. Best thing is the try to set a '9' on Clone to prevent such things.


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May 22nd 2008 at 02:01:12 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

my 6th 10:
Time: 10,15
3BV: 31
3BV/s: 3,39
IOE about 0,6
Linked
@All: my father fixed my Vegas Pro 8.0 and now my avi files are <1,2 MB so now all of my 10x6 vids r in my folder

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May 21st 2008 at 01:18:40 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 10x5 -> x6

Comments:  

sucky played 31 board, winmine xp I hope to get dreamboard soon, because Clone is better Im going to post a vid tomorrow
COngrats to all record breakers

   
May 21st 2008 at 11:03:09 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

260 in 13 days..........I'm glad if I finish 1 board a day

   
May 21st 2008 at 07:48:29 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ronny: few days ago i lost an est. 3.7 as i posted.
i have finished 260 exp games in the last 13 days, so there must be somehow a positive effect of that (unfortunately only on 3BV/s and not time score)
just keep practicing, then you'll break your 3BV/s score soon enough

VC:8eye

   
May 21st 2008 at 07:33:47 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Fritz: Wow, lol and I thought me 3BVs improvement was rather big. I don't think it's very nice of you though....just when I became less than 50% (46%) slower than you, you immediatly break your own record to make me 60% slower again. You *******!

   
May 21st 2008 at 07:28:23 AM
Name:  

fritz

Best expert:  

3,26 (arbiter) ======> 3,597 (arbiter)

Best intermediate:  

4,213 (arbiter)

Best beginner:  

6,383 (arbiter)

Comments:  

/me exp game --> Time: 66,33 «» Est. Time: 66,33 «» 3BV: 235 (235) «» 3BV/s: 3,59 «» Ranks: 705 / 1 of 1798 / 80,42% «» RQP: 18,43 8-)

now my total 3BV/s is 14,194

ths came very unexpected. when solving the board i didn't realize that it had only 3 useful openings (the other 6 openings weren't bigger than 4x3)

vid is in my folder

@ronny: big grats

@michael,tk: right now i don't have any new arguments to bring in, but when i have some new i will post them

   
May 21st 2008 at 02:54:00 AM
Name:  

Strange #5

Best expert:  

research continues

Comments:  

Country Ranking:

Bulgaria: Nikolay Mollov (3-22-68) & Nikolay Mollow (3-22-89)

   
May 20th 2008 at 04:57:14 PM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

Anything constructive that has to do with the topic is welcome, at least as far as I'm concerned ;-)

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May 20th 2008 at 03:45:12 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

NF 2,021 (FL 2,107) -> NF 2,227 (3BV=191)!!!

Comments:  

Very big improvement on NF 3BVs, IOS and RQP

NF 3BVs 2,021 -> 2,227 (+10%)
NF IOS 1.15104 -> 1.17987 (86s on 3BV=166 -> 191)
NF RQP 43.907 -> 38.957 (same as IOS)


@Fritz: I know, but since I'm about 50% slower(!!) than you on expert...1 sec diff. on intermediate still seems to suggest that NF is more efficient on intermediate.

Vid in my folder

(Only downside about this record, I can forget about retiring with a hops now, because my NF 3BVs is no longer way outdated like my NF time record )

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May 20th 2008 at 03:35:23 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

@fritz: only if you have something to say and the IMC don't consider it a thread hijack or anything.

   
May 20th 2008 at 03:15:55 PM
Name:  

brian

Best expert:  

999

Best intermediate:  

275

Best beginner:  

24

Comments:  

i still need to get better

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May 20th 2008 at 03:09:27 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ronny: i just tried the vid of your blasted 14 upk and got 14,410 (9 flags used) in 1st try. it's quite a nice board but patterns on top right corner make it a bit slow. i doubt that kamil will get a 9 on this board in first try, maybe a low 11 is possible for him
btw. i'd like to remind you that my NFint highscore is still faster than your FLint highscore

@michael: grats (do you want me to reply on imc forum?)

   
May 20th 2008 at 01:18:43 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

FL 19,101 (3BV=40) -> FL 18,567 (3BV=40, 1 flag)

Comments:  

Still room for improvement compared to my NF 16 (and that blasted NF 14), but always nice to get a pop-up for best time.

   
May 20th 2008 at 04:35:55 AM
Name:  

manuel h

Comments:  

the same goes for flagging ( 15 -> 11 ) ;-)

   
May 19th 2008 at 07:00:05 PM
Name:  

Michael

Best expert:  

2.8x > 3.05

Comments:  

Finally got >3 3BV on Viennasweeper earlier. 237 board

   
May 19th 2008 at 04:45:00 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@fritz: Lol, would be a bit unfair indeed, but that's also what's NF is about....on an easy low 3BV board you can get very close to your maximum 3BVs speed, making extreme time jumps more likely than with flags (remember that my 2nd best is only 18,2s and my best expert 74)

   
May 19th 2008 at 03:42:35 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ronny: i almost thought you really had gotten this 14, then i read the brackets. it would have realy pis.sed me of if you managed to overtake me on int
keep trying, i'll try your board tomorrow

   
May 19th 2008 at 03:38:11 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

NF 16,4 -> 14,2 (27 of 33 on guess, very easy ending)

Comments:  

This board must have been one of the easiest board I've seen so far...almost finished in 13/14 but logically guessed wrong right before the straight forward ending.

@Kamil: Can you do this one in 9?

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May 19th 2008 at 12:58:15 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@Strange: Thanks for your help! I fixed all the mistakes, but they won't appear on the site until the next update. Here are the results:

MISTAKES now fixed:

- LuZembourg -->Luxembourg
- Claude Weis, Vasilev Pavel, Itamar Azulay, Robert Ryland, Etienne Proulx, Ronald Fuller, Andrej Duric, Stephen Furphy, Lukas Nadvornik were all duplicates due to spelling mistakes...
- Custom dates for Ben and Idan: typing mistakes
- Custom time for Aapo: his video is corrupt and stops after the first 31 seconds...
- Custom time for Anish and Cassie are unknown (only dates and mines are known), so penalty should read 999
- Hareth owns a website called Liban Trek!

NOT MISTAKES:

- NG is really their last name
- Jan and Gjis are brothers
- No one has been able to contact Paradise, and many of the scores on the old Expert ranking (see 'Dead Websites') are fakes or undocumented. I did manage to find about 40 players from the old ranking, and they are on this site.


VC = BETA

   
May 19th 2008 at 11:23:53 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@strange: normally people only check large databases when getting payed for it....good to see some actually make a hobby out of it.

@Bertie: I always search the player in the world/country ranking and click on the profile link, but sometimes I've also wished it would be more easy to find as well.

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May 19th 2008 at 10:54:25 AM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

I also have a question. Where are the player profiles?

   
May 19th 2008 at 07:48:01 AM
Name:  

Strange #4

Best expert:  

i'm sorry i can't stop

Comments:  

Beginner Score Lists:
Ron Fuller & Ronald Fuller (USA) with 2.00
Andrej Duric & Andrej Juric (Croatia)
Gijs Van den Broeck and Jan Van den Broeck (Belgium) with 4.00: 2003-06-17 and 2003-06-19 (maybe they are different people)

Intermediate Score List:
Etienne Collard-Proulx & Йtienne Collard-Proulx (Canada - Que) with 22.0
Stephen Murphy & Stephen Furphy (UK - NI) with 29.0, Furphy has a 97.0 in expert list
Andrej Duric & Andrej Juric (Croatia) with 32.0
33.0 score with date 2007-03-00 without name and country

Expert Score List:
Lukas Nadvornik and LukбЪ Nadvornik (Czech Republic) with 92.0
Jorge Gh (Spain) with 91.0 (is Gh a normal surname?)


There's a lot of people with surname "Ng" in the ranking. Strange...

And (i know someone has already noticed it) Ukrainian players are shown on the UK list.

Why picture near intermediate score in World Ranking, Country Ranking and Girl Rankings has a tooltip like "Version is MSX" while pictures near beginner and
near expert scores haven't this tooltip?

Are you sure that Nikola Babic from Bosnia is a girl? And Atalya Nir? Where are China overall and UK overall girl rankings?

Also, Damien, in your Archived Websites you wrote that we can download Brian Chu's full guestbook from minesweeper.info. How to do it?

   
May 19th 2008 at 06:20:11 AM
Name:  

daniel

Comments:  

@ fritz did the same on saturday: 3,3x -> 3,51 (nf!) - 24,6 on a 83

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May 19th 2008 at 05:42:25 AM
Name:  

Strange

Best expert:  

it's the last message for today, i promise

Comments:  

@Ronny: sure

In USA: Robert Ryland & Robert Ryland)
Also, in Lebanon: Hareth Moufarege and Liban Trek with equal scores and equal exact dates. Strange...

In Custom Ranking: Idan Moshe-Paffrath will score 162 on int\83, and; Ben Van Calster will score 180 on int\76 in year 2020.
Also: Cassie Davies scored 0 on 24x30\120, Anish Iyer scores 0 on 24x30/171, Aapo Kдkrдnen scores 0 on beg/34. Are their scores unknown, or is it a mistake?

And finally: Damien, why ranking miss ancient greats such as Paradise?

   
May 19th 2008 at 05:35:51 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@fritz: 11,925

   
May 19th 2008 at 03:52:41 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@strange fella: I'm pretty sure that by far the most common way to write 'Luzembourg' is 'Luxembourg' as well

   
May 19th 2008 at 01:45:53 AM
Name:  

Strange #2

Comments:  

There are also Vasilev Pavel & Pavel Vasilev, Itamar Azoulay & Itamar Azulay in Israel with equal scores.

   
May 19th 2008 at 01:31:41 AM
Name:  

Strange...

Comments:  

In Country Rating there's a strange country named "Luzembourg" with 2 players: Claude Weiss and Claude Weis with totally equal scores, but different dates...

   
May 18th 2008 at 02:44:01 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ronny: my 1st blasted 13 had 6 flags, my 2nd blasted 12/13 had 10 flags (vids are in my folder). besides that i'm a total flagger. i even need them on beginner. i gues it's just my style that i use pretty many flags, but i don't really care much about that as long as my time scores are good.
@kamil: i got a 55 on your board, i had no problems with the guesses, ok, i had much luck that i didn't blast the 50/50s. btw. can you also try my 2nd blasted 13 in upk please?

   
May 18th 2008 at 01:41:15 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@KAmil: A bit disappointing vid...I atleast expected a board with mines randomly positioned in the shape of a nude lady.

   
May 18th 2008 at 01:21:12 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Ive just wasted 7 hours trying to get a record The funniest video what u can ever watch is linked

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May 18th 2008 at 12:36:24 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

FL 2.975 -> 3.018 (3BV=65, 1 flag)

Comments:  

Sup 3!!!!!! (and also RQP and IOS record)

FL 3BVs: 2.975 -> 3.018
FL IOS: 1.34514 -> 1.35975
FL RQP: 8.248 -> 7,470

1 weekend.....9 records!

@Fritz: Looking at our 3BVs (4,213 vs 3,10 and our best time (15.14 vs 16,47)....I think you over flag low 3BV boards.

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May 18th 2008 at 10:08:36 AM
Name:  

WP

Comments:  

@Jon S: I agree with those 3 ways ;)

@Ronny and KAmil: You two are too complicated for my liking

   
May 18th 2008 at 10:02:19 AM
Name:  

fritz

Best expert:  

3,26 (arbiter)

Best intermediate:  

4.148 (arbiter) ===> 4,213 (arbiter)

Best beginner:  

6,383 (arbiter)

Comments:  

/me int game --> Time: 22,36 «» Est. Time: 22,36 «» 3BV: 90 (90) «» 3BV/s: 4,21 «» Ranks: 1277 / 1 of 3609 / 82,32% «» RQP: 5,30

if i can't get an int time highscore then i break my int 3BV/s highscore

   
May 18th 2008 at 08:47:42 AM
Name:  

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Best expert:  

Serpenter_e

Comments:  

I just uploaded my 12 to video folder, so you all invited to try this beautiful board.
Also here you can find exclusive beginner video of 100 3bvs.

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May 18th 2008 at 07:17:40 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Btw, you might see that 20 French players from Planete have been added to the ranking. Gregoire has given me permission to combine the rankings, but it is a slow job finding missing videos, player information and official scores. Over the next month the remaining 50 players will be added.

   
May 18th 2008 at 07:14:46 AM
Name:  

damien

Best expert:  

Website Updated

Comments:  

- Shao Guang is 4th Chinese to sub50 (47).
- Nicolas Senger (46) joins (finally found him!)

@strange: When Anoop J. sent scores to this site he was studying in England...P-M lists him as New Zealand, but I haven't found evidence for this yet.

   
May 18th 2008 at 12:20:34 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

My yesterday's 10:
Time: 10,14
3BV: 37
2 of 4 openings opneded in the start
3BV/s: 4,048
RQP: 2,504
linked
Blast kinds:
1. forced guess
2. unforced guess
3. too fast long distance move (misclick)
4. number 6
5. can't find last square
6. impossible end (too much mines)
7. your mum opens door too loud and u get scaryed
8. u play dreaming and suddenly u wake up
9. hidden mine
10. u sneeze
Thats 10

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May 17th 2008 at 03:56:37 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Jon S: I thinks that about correct. I once looked at all my blasts and counted 9 different kinds, but in general they all fall into your 3 categories (except deliberate blasts).

- Misclicks
-> Pressing on the wrong square unintended

-"missthink"/logical error
-> Miscounts (mistakes with high numbers, like 5's and 6's)
-> Floating patterns (pattern mistake due to a nearby mine separated by a single space)
-> Pattern error (logical think error)

- Guessing
-> Speed guessing (not waiting for the outcome for a click, but clicking on an the square with a high likeliness of being correct)
-> Unforced guess (Guessing to not having to move to a different area)
-> Forced guess (Guess that can't be avoided)

- Deliberate blast
-> Due to not liking the board
-> After expecting to finish a board but having missed a square somewhere and not bothering to find it

   
May 17th 2008 at 03:07:56 PM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

Congrats to recent record breakers. There's not much new to report here. A few days ago I finished two easy int boards with 3,90 and 3,79 3BV/s in less than two minutes. 3 openings on both of'em...

After reading the last post of Fritz, I started wondering if there's any "official" definition of "missclick". I always used it to mean that I hit a square that I did not intend to click on. With that definition, I could actually survive a misclick (or even survive because of a misclick if I intended to click on a square that contained a mine but missed). Are there any opinion on the matter

I'm thinking that there are three ways to blast a board:

-missclick (because of bad mouse handling or something)
-"missthink"/logical error (misinterpreting a pattern)
-guessing (forced or unforced)

   
May 17th 2008 at 01:54:14 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

FL 19,451 (3BV=36) -> FL 19,103 (3BV=40)

Comments:  

@fritz: Maybe tomorrow is your lucky day....day wasn't over yet, so I just also set my 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th best Flagging times on int.

1) 19,103 3BV=40 (3BVs=2,210)
4) 20,240 3BV=47 (3BVs=2,443)
5) 20,452 3BV=37 (3BVs=1,902)
21,598 3BV=50 (3BVs=2,427)

   
May 17th 2008 at 01:25:48 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

/me blasted int game --> Time: 12,77 «» Est. Time: 13,62 «» 3BV: 28 (30) «» 3BV/s: 2,37 «» Ranks: 0 / 0 of 3574 / 0% «» RQP: 0

2 squares to go, no guesses and... i misinterprete the pattern, lost on misclick

@ronny: now for me this another bad day on int, anyways grats to your records

   
May 17th 2008 at 12:35:30 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Joni: Txs, just got 4 new NF RQP/IOS records, so they are in my folder now.

NF Int RQP: 7.492 -> 7.371 (3BV=47, Time=19.120)
NF Int IOS: 1.32724 -> 1.329(3BV=47, Time=19.120)
NF Exp RQP: 44.361 -> 43.907 (3BV=166, Time=85.875)
NF Exp IOS: 1.15011 -> 1.15104 (3BV=166, Time=85.875)

Not a bad sweeping day.

   
May 17th 2008 at 11:57:39 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

the videos are back... I am now sure there are (at least) two bugs who don't have any connection with each other.
One of them had corrupted most of the file which keeps track of the nr of downloads (apparently in the process of updating the count for one of the vids (possibly one of Fritz's) had substituted the info related to ~1000 videos with lots of '/0's. among them Dions record and mine ).
The other bug likes to stop the whole cirus by writing two entries for the same video in the above file (looking at the logs one finds someone issued two download requests in quick succession for one of daniel's vids...)
I have unfortunately no time to go any deeper into the issues, but i did use a backup file from a month or so ago to revert back the counts of the old vids, [Dion's now back at 1000+, i'm back at 50+ ], while trying to mantain the counts for as many newly uploaded videos as possible in the process...

Some stats:
The video section has been up from January 2007. It features 79 Players, 171 Folders, ~ 1620 videos for 53 MB of size.

incidentally, those are the stats after Fritz asked me to delete most of his videos, which amazingly enough were more than everybody else's put together amounting to well over 70MB . I hope the script would run a little smoother, even if only for this simple reason

   
May 17th 2008 at 09:01:37 AM
Name:  

manuel h

Best expert:  

nono 74 -> 69

Best beginner:  

nono 2.00 -> 1.96

Comments:  

after getting a 2.00 as my second 2 ever, i now got a 1 after sth like 12 000 000 x 2s ;-)

mfg

   
May 17th 2008 at 07:55:58 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 10x4 -> x5

Comments:  

3bv=37 winmine xp Im still trying to get that stupid dreamboard (I want to have a nice sub9 video, to show it to my friends - we know that Dreamboard is not legit, but they dont ) I hope to post the vid later

   
May 17th 2008 at 07:02:44 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

the video page will be closed for maintainance until further notice :P

   
May 17th 2008 at 03:56:54 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@damien:

player videos doesn't work anymore:

Error in ./videos/.downloadcount on line 944.
./videos/DanielSteinmeyer/HI-SCORE Int_15,23_3BV=31_3BVs=2,17_daniel(nf).avf is already defined.

can you please fix it?


@serpenter: grats

   
May 17th 2008 at 03:37:51 AM
Name:  

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Best expert:  

Serpenter_e

Comments:  

Just broke my int record:
--===[ 14.126 ---> 12.270 ]===--

3bv=39 3bvs=3.461
rank time=1, rank 3bvs=108, rank rqp=1, rank ios=1
very simple board.

@damien: can u please send me my password for video folder ]8)

@all: good luck everybody

   
May 16th 2008 at 03:04:44 PM
Name:  

fritz

Best expert:  

NF 76 FL 50

Best intermediate:  

NF 19=>18 FL 15

Best beginner:  

NF 1 FL 1

Comments:  

just broke my NF int highscore:
19.xx ===> 18.001 on 3BV=36 (clone)

i was too lazy to play seriously int (FL), so i tried a little bit of NF just for fun

   
May 16th 2008 at 02:55:25 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@kamil: on arbiter i finished 2301 int games in 2008 so far:
avg. time: 22,6188
avg. 3BV: 60,8248
avg. 3BV/s: 2,8079


on expert i have finished 1240 games on arbiter this year so far:

averages:
time: 66,7000
3BV: 168,3629
3BV/s: 2,5630


VC: NARR (= german word for a "fool")

   
May 16th 2008 at 12:39:45 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Ive just solbed my 1000th CLone int game in year 2008. some stats:
Average time: 16,748
Av 3BV/s: 3,668
Av cl/s: 4,76
Av IOE: 0,771
Av 3BV: 58
@fritz: their site sucks

   
May 16th 2008 at 11:46:33 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Fritz: Hehe, sorry for laughing a little . BTW, 10 minutes after the blast I did broke my IOS and RQP (166 3BV in 85s), so that made things better again.

   
May 16th 2008 at 11:41:50 AM
Name:  

fritz

Best intermediate:  

15,24 on arbiter (15x9 => 15x10)

Comments:  

/me int game --> Time: 15,27 «» Est. Time: 15,27 «» 3BV: 41 (41) «» 3BV/s: 2,87 «» Ranks: 2 / 1098 of 3529 / 84,44% «» RQP: 5,31 >:)

what shall i say to this

@daniel: this was close. only 0.05sec too slow

@ronny: nothing against my lost est. 3.70 3BV/s on exp today. i lost an est. sub60 on sup200 3BV board about 15-20 clicks before the end, board had no guesses, on a complete misclick

@damien/joni/all: i found a page called minesweepers.org.
they have their own clone there but they require people who want to get on their rankings to pay money to use their clone. they also say that the "world records" (on their clone) are 1-11-53. maybe you, damien, want to add the scores from that site to BE. i haven't contacted the people who host the website cuz i think this should be done by someone who represents the minesweeper communuty (like the IMC, but i'd rather say by damien, since he is the one who does the BE here)
website is linked

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May 16th 2008 at 10:57:45 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

NF 2,021 -> 2,106 3BVs (185 of 186 misclick)

Comments:  

Ouch

   
May 16th 2008 at 09:51:08 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@ralph: Surely this must be the famous Ralph Eyre-Walker from times of old! Welcome back, it's great you're still playing. Email is below, let me know if you want a video folder and I'll add one for you.

@fritz: i'm glad you noticed...i'll check this out soon...i always liked it too!

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May 16th 2008 at 09:08:10 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@daniel:
grats to your small improvement (only 0.02 sec faster than your old int highscore). now i have one more reason to get 14 on int. but it may take me some time to get such an easy board as my blasted 13.

@ralph: send your vids to damien

@all: today i got 4xsub60 on exp in 7:53 min, also there was 1 blasted sub60 in these 8 minutes. this record of li feng doesn't seem unbreakable

@damien: why does the smilie on ms.info for cheats section not turn sad when scrolling over it, whle the smilie for cheats section on metanoodle.com/minesweeper did. it's just a little detail but i always liked it.

   
May 16th 2008 at 07:50:56 AM
Name:  

daniel

Best intermediate:  

15,23

Comments:  

just said i concentrate on exp but then this highscore came. now its ME thats 0,01s in front of you fritz i think its your turn to answer
vid linked

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May 16th 2008 at 07:46:07 AM
Name:  

Ralph

Best expert:  

67 --> 63.017

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

At last!!

I haven't been here on here for a while, a quick browse around the website tells me theres been lots going on!

Just over a year ago I hit a 63.681... except the very last click was a 50/50 and I guessed it wrong, and its haunted me ever since.... it doesn't matter now though, cos I've just beaten it, ha ha!!

This finally sends me back into the top 220 in the world (from 294, I used to be in the top 200 but over 100 people have overtaken me since my last record!), and into the top 10 in the UK

Can someone tell me... where do I upload my video to now? Thanks

   
May 16th 2008 at 01:08:00 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

Happy Birthday, Ronny! And grats to your record. Next year you will have a sub 60 at your Birthday I wish I have birthday, too, as it would mean that I improve on exp from that 67...
@Fritz: Records come unexpectedly... It is true for lots of my recors and top ten times. Few days before I intended only to increase the number of sub 25 NF int, and a nice 18,9 came (4. time from the 5 sub 20...), and that 67 was also a miracle... But when I played to get a record at the next board, I became so nervous that I always blasted my best opportunities, as well. So, just play, and don't mind the record. It will come soon by itself.

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May 15th 2008 at 11:21:03 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@fritz: 29/31 @11,534 guess I wasted too much clicks on the openings, really bad IOE

   
May 15th 2008 at 07:13:38 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

NF 79,766 (3BV=116) -> NF 79,466 (3BV=128)

Comments:  

A fraction too late as birthday present, but still a nice little improvement.
Board started quick but ended with a cluster containing 6 '5's and a '6' so I was glad I even got through in the first place.

Also this small step it doesn't ruin the chance of a NF hops on which I'm hoping for.

Vid in my folder.

   
May 15th 2008 at 04:26:13 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@fritz: I've played your board and it's about as quick as my 16,4s board (my 2nd best time is 18,2). Kamil solved my board in 10/11s. First attempt I've blasted your board at est 16, after that solved it in 15s but I would blast this board 99 of 100 on the guess on left side, because the square with the shortest mouse path is the mine....so it's just bad luck with the placing of those last mines.

   
May 15th 2008 at 03:27:37 PM
Name:  

daniel

Comments:  

@ronny maybe a bit late but although happy birthday!
@fritz that one hundreth of a second is okay for me...im working on the difference of about ten seconds on exp...

   
May 15th 2008 at 02:58:09 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ronny: thnaks, but for this and the next week my intention while playing minesweeper was/is getting sub50 on exp. so i try to finish 20 exp boards a day then i play some int just to relax. quite funny that i almost broke a record i didn#t focus on at all, maybe i should keep that up untill i get sth like 12 or 13

vid of my blasted 13 is in my folder under est. records
@kamil. would you please try this board in upk? i got 11 in upk after few attempts and i think you can get at least a 10 on that board

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May 15th 2008 at 02:44:39 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@fritz: Wow that's pretty amazing. If you can set so many 15s in such a short time, I wouldn't be surprised if next week you set 5 sub15 in a row and have a record of 12s.

   


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