Just got a 43 on MSX (easy board played badly, but I only play bad now). Best score in 11 months for me

14,55s (14*6) ------>14,52 (14*7)

/me int game --> Time: 14,52 «» Est. Time: 14,52 «» 3BV: 31 (31) «» 3BV/s: 2,29 «» Ranks: 1 / 4332 of 4953 / 56,27% «» RQP: 6,33 :E

i got this score in the very first minute i played minesweeper today...

normally an improvement of just 0,03s would annoy me as hell but since this score beats luke's score of 14,54 i'm quite happy.

i'll upload the video to my folder in the next time.

@Joni: Vids broke down

(BTW, did you ever try the fix I send you for this?)

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how do you get the thousandth of a second thing

1x39 -> x40

Arbiter: 1,90 on 3
I need 10 more But probably I will never get bored, and if fact Ill be 1st to 1x100

Ive created a new folder in my video folder for Facebook's tournaments
Ive put my 1st vid there: 2,58s of this new tournament

the first out of 4 tournaments of season 4 on the facebook minesweeper page starts today.
level for S4-T1 is: 12(h)*14(w) with 16 mines
untill 17:00 GMT everyone who wants to take part may upload a screenshot of their best time on this level to the fan-photos section on the facebook minesweeper page.


@all: HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I WISH YOU ALL LOADS OF HIGHSCORES!!

and again 2,00 on 7, and 3bv/s is 6,93. Its seems that today I made 2 exactly the same scores on the same 3bv: 2,01 x2 on 7
I wonder why its written 2,00 if its 2,01 linked.
@Damien: it seems that it was 40,67 and not 40,66 like u wrote, the correct time is in "Replay Progress Control Bar"

@Kamil: Pretty amazing improvements you've made in just one year.

Eventhough progress seemed slow, this year I've also improved quite a lot when I look back at 2008:

Int 21 -> 15
FL Exp 81 -> 70
NF Exp 87 -> 70
FL Exp 3BVs 1,9xx -> 2,491
NF Exp 3BVs 1,7xx -> 2,491

Happy new year all.

1x39 -> x39

new RQP record: 0,257
Arbiter: 1,74 NF on 5 linked
I regret that I cant watch chinese players vids because Li Feng has 1,71 on 5, Id like to watch it

Just clicked number 8 in the 1st click And solved the board ! I played very slowly, because I like solving boards with 8: 61,43s on 204 @ 3,37
Its amazing, out of about 7-9 boards with 8 what I got in all my life (these what I noticed, I might have more) - 2 times I clicked 8 on the 1st click btw, how should I say: "clicked in the 1st click" or "on the 1st click"?
linked

Arbiter: 2,00 NF on 7. Can somebody tell me y 3bv/s is 6,93 and not 7,00?

add +1 to my sub50NF in 2008, coz i made 48NF on 162
awesome fireworks tihs year there is a pitch just befind my house, so ppl come there to fire their fireworks and I have a great view from my window

1x37 -> x38

new RQP record: 0,273
Arbiter: 4 3bv in 1,66 @ 6,06 3bvs, just luck my 1st 1s this month and last this year
OK, so, its again end of year, so its time to write some words assuming year 2008 quite long post is coming but I hope u wont get bored.
I feel that this year was very short - probably because of a lot of sweeping. Some of u would say that its 1 year wasted - year with average 2-5 hours sweeping a day. Anyway Im going to live forever after death, so 1 year out of eternity, even if its wasted, is nothing
As I promised, I made 10NF (even more than 1), and made all NF world records. i didnt win 10000 sub5 beg games (too boring)
My goals for 2009:
1. all overall world records
2. sub9 Ive a lot of time, I can play alot.
3. Beg 1x50
So, exactly 1 year before I wrote some words assuming year 2007, so now we all can compare how my stats and skills changed
I broke all of my records, with quite big improvements:
Beg: 1x7 -> 1x38 ( 31 1s games in 1 year it would be almost 100 in 3 years playing)
Int: 12x6 -> 10x27 here i dont know if I should be happy, or furious
Exp 47 FL, 53 NF -> 40FL and 40NF here Im very proud
Beg FL 3BV/s: 7,085 -> 8,026
Beg NF 3BV/s: 6,135 -> 7,27
Int FL 3BV/s: 4,44 -> 5,80
Int NF 3BV/s: 4,12 -> 5,214
Exp FL 3BV/s: 3,612 -> 4,476
Exp NF 3BV/s: 3,237 -> 3,89
Total sub50s (all FL) in 2007: 2 or 3 - i dont have clone here and cant even istall it, so I dont know and remember exactly
Total sub50s in 2008:
49 FL
40 NF
FL: 40x1 41x1 42x2 43x2 44x3 45x9 46x7 47x8 48x10 49x6
NF: 40x1 41x0 42x1 43x0 44x3 45x5 46x2 47x8 48x10 49x11
I dont count sub50s on luckysweeper or minesweeperlive ( 5 or 6 in total).
I dont have my clone stats here, but my arbiter stats are only year 200 :
Beg (667 games won):
average time: 3,52
av 3bv/s: 5,14
Int (285 games won):
av time: 14,79
av 3bv/s: 4,24
Exp (65 games won):
av time: 49,22
av 3bv/s: 3,50
Happy new year to all if anybody wants to know some more stats, just ask

Arbiter: 9,18 NF 34/36 est 9,66: 1/3 chance to win a guess

2.9 -> 3,4 (33)

woah

1.84

Got my first sub 20 in 2 years yesterday and today i finally relieve myself of my accursed 3 in beginner with 1.84 on clone.

NF 2,234 -> NF 2,504 (217 in 87)!!!!

Oh my GOD sup2,5 NF !!!

Even a bigger improvement (12%) as yesterday with flags (and faster!)

I hardly practiced NF lately and only blasted a few 2,3 and 2,4 near the end, so this 2,5 really came totally unexpected.

(Also IOS from 1.18xx -> 1.20572)

Vid in folder.

just made my 1st since quite long time sup5 NF:
75 in 15,92 @ 5,02

37,11 NF 125/130 3bv est 38, 50-50 Maybe I will put a vid to my folder later, but Im sweeping now
@Manu: I still dont have my cable back and i dont have clone to upl and then watch your 43 and new 10

10,74 -> 10,209

Last game: 10.209sec - 3BV=32 - 3BV/s=3.475 - level=int *flagging* - Ranks: 1/11144 - IOE=0.615 - RQP=2.938

the vid is in my folder

i hesitated a bit a the end, could have been a 9 ;/

mfg
manu

FL 2,266 (171) -> 2,491 (218)!!!

(RQP 6,4 -> 6,014 on 3BV=41 in 16,21)

GOODBYE SMALL STEPS! Finally a great board that I didn't blast on the last click.

I really improved my expert 3BVs a lot this week (about 10% + 5 3BVs records), but blasted all big improvements.....so I'm really glad I finally did finish this one.

Only 1 more goal remains for me now: sub70 (since I'm happy with my 3BVs record now)

(Since my 3BVs and time were very outdated, I was sort of hoping for a hops, but that's out of the picture now, off course )

@Fritz: nice but I think there is no point to put there all details about tournaments - after 20 tournaments the article will be too long
btw: does the ranking on facebook have 2-30-100 3bv rules? can I post my 8 on winmine as my record?

there is now an article about the minesweeper facebook page in the minesweeper wiki (linked)

56 as integer

Hey Damien, i guess you haven't switched to realtime yet, so my score should be listed as "56.53".

@Damien: The 'World NF Record' is grouped as 'sub50 NF' in the news

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i dont know how to upload my time, because my best is short than the best time of argentina

website updated.

Pavel Mishin 3rd Russian to sub50
Ko Yeong-Ju 1st Korean to sub50
Kamil new NF 3bv/s world records and time record
Manu new NF time record
And lots of others....

Hehe Manu...it took you 7s do solve the last 13 3bv

73,83--> 69,63 on 129

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Hi to all players!
i used this holiday to play again minesweeper after some months of stop...
the result is my first sub 70!

good sweeping to everyone!!!
and happy holiday!!!!!
VIDEO in folder

Arbiter: 98/120 est 33NF, 50-50
linked

NF 3,78 -> 3,89

Arbiter: 193 in 50,56 NF, linked
My cable to laptop should be back tomorrow and I will be able to play on Clone again

its NF world record hopsing, any my personal best NF and overall
Im ill now and I suck, it seemd that I wont get sub37 NF this year

Congrats Kamil. Is that an overall record as well as an NF and 3BV/s record? What would that be, a double-hopsing? Well done.

58 ---> 56 (55.53)

Grats to all christmas record breakers.


Arbiter's features and flash used in guestbook, including idiotic "replies", suck.

When I watch my vid of 40s NF on 1 PC, its always 40,67. When i watch on my 2nd PC its always 40,66.
wtf?
btw, when will be next tournament? I'd like to get sub45NF next tournament

BW, what happened to Matt McGinley? He's not on FB anymore (or maybe he just blocked me?)

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Expert is GAY GAY GAY

Just spent friggin' 2 hours without finishing a game. 50/50 guesses are actually 80/20 that you BLOW UP!!!!

@kamil: happy b-day

@those who care about it :

the next minesweeper tournaments run via the minesweeper fan page on facebook will start on friday january 2nd. everybody is invited to take part

Arbiter's and Clone's replays says that its 40,67 and not 40,66 so WR is in fact 0,01s worse than I posted
Vid with pop-up window and very unholy song ( Mayhem - "The Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" linked

@Joni: vids broke down

@Kamil: Happy birthday.

@Damien: Can you activate my forum account, please

91->89

sub 90...

Happy birthday KAmil

thx guys
this hopsing learned me 1 thing - never be sad after even very big blast
I blasted 126/128 est 39NF, another 40NF on the last click and sup3,8 NF (3,99 2 cl to the end as my best) about 10 times But if I won only 1 of these boards, there would never be WR hopsing anymore 1 day I will get sub40NF, but if I didnt blast - I wouldnt hops a few days ago

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Another sub 70! 69,769 on a 128 board without a guess. I am happy
@Kamil: Happy birthday!

Happy 18th Birthday KAmil ;)

@Tommy: its Arbiter, u should be able to tach it, anyway in next few days I plan to preare vid with pop-up window and link it here

nf exp est 55 blasted at 140/141
wrote something on my profile if someone might be interested...
well done kamil and manu

Big grats @manu & KAmil
I want to be able to watch the vids I forgot my laptops power cable at school over the holidays, so I cant use it, so no christmas sweeping for me And no watching vids from my little sisters eee pc
BTW, I had wine at christmas

I still cant understand how do u all solve sub 120 3bv boards Everybody gets records on 107, 110 boards, and I've never solved sub 122 board

@Kamil, Manu: BIG GRATS!!!


@All: Pavel Mishin is 3rd in Russia to sub50 with 49,528 on a 110 board.

FL 2,201 -> 2,230 -> 2,235 -> 2,266 (177 in 79.1....small steps you know;)

/Record spam

New FL 3BVs (+ IOS) record for the 3rd day in a row....I think I might actually have improved this week.

@KAmil: HOLY WOOOOW......very very nice....I bet that's the first ever WR HOPS! Big congrats!!

@Janis: Very nice step forward to getting world ranked.

@Manu: Screw the small steps...I want a big step like yours now, too. Congrats!

94->91 linked

YEAHHHHHH christmas owns

btw damien... im swede...

NF 42 -> 40,66 on 150 3BV!!!

WORLD RECORD HOPSING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
42 -> 40,66
3,74 -> 3,78
RQP 10,756 NF
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Its the happiest day in my life 1st in world sub40 real time, 1st in world WR hopsing, Arbiter WR, 1st in world sub11 NF RQP and 1st in world TOTAL FVCKING PWNAGE

Arbiter: 37,02 166/186 @ 4,60 est 41

Arbiter: 126/127 @ 40,93 NF
fvck.

and where is the vid?

Nf 48 -> 43.394 (small steps, you know)

Last game: 43.394sec - 3BV=107 - 3BV/s=2.524 - level=exp *non-flagging* - Ranks: 16/4132 - IOE=0.713 - RQP=17.193

i hate me for not playin flagging style on this board -.-
but still, 43 nf ;-)

ah, and btw: merry christmas ;-)

mfg
manu

NF 2,234 (172) -> FL 2,235 (185)

With small steps at a time I didn't mean this, lol.

Merry Christmas all and my present to u all: 4 links to my favourite songs in youtube
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=pcBr7tUsdAg&feature=channel_page
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=f71FIsiQ2SE&feature=channel_page
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=v3BVoN1kzuo&feature=channel_page
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=STY4ac4nVQ0&feature=channel_page
I hope u will like them - 2 folk metal songs, 1 folk/death metal and 1 depressive suicidal black metal

Grats Ronny! Way to go!
@Kamil: Beer is fine. You will get used to it. At the age of 19 I did not like it either, and I drunk only vodka... So, you have a year to get used to beer, and on the Hungarian tournament in summer we will drink some together
@all: Just take a look at my intermediate achievements from this year. A week before I had 1700 sub 30s. Till then I played a bit:

Totals
16: x1
17: x5
18: x13
19: x16
20: x37
21: x52
22: x100
23: x121
24: x186
25: x260
26: x281
27: x316
28: x315
29: x299
sum: 2002

So, I have sup 2000 sub 30s and 35 sub 20s on Clone. All of them are NF, of course.

FL 2,20 -> 2,23 (small steps = more records ;)

Merry christmas to all of you

@Gergo: I started liking beer, but I still prefer vodka - it makes me drunk faster

Cheers to everyone and drink a lot of beer for Xmas (except Kamil, he can decide what he should drink instead of beer) in the name of the community.

Merry Christmas everyone!

NF 42

Arbiter: 44,88 NF on 151 and 45,52 NF on 148 in 15 mins playing linked

65x1->65x2

65.02s on 148, on MSX, same integer score, better decimal score.

link to the youtube trailer of the wc docu:

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJi3yA1-4E58&h=4ebdda9832447a968647de5063c8fbaf

link to the docu's page on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/2008-Vienna-Minesweeper-World-Tournament-Untitled-Documentary/28383220899



Johnny is still searching for a good title for the film....so if you have any ideas you should tell him

Last time i chatted with him he said he hopes to finish the editing in the next 2 months

Does anyone know anything about the fate of the film from the world championship? Is it still under construction? I suppose Gergely gave a link to some facebook page or smth about it but I didn't save the link.

@Luke : Ranks: 2 / 8

How?!

14*4-->14*5

/me int game --> Time: 14,97 «» Est. Time: 14,97 «» 3BV: 33 (33) «» 3BV/s: 2,36 «» Ranks: 5 / 3984 of 4815 / 58,59% «» RQP: 6,34 ^(O_O)>

14+52 in not even 30 min...

hmm...no school in the next 14 days...i guess it's a good time to start minesweeping again

FL 17,571 (3BV=44, 3BVs=2,655) -> FL 16,520 (3BV=31, 7 openings)

Basically just another NF 16 + 1 useless flag, but officially it's a flagging record it seems. The 3BVs was also terrible (1,997) due the many openings that often took 5 clicks.

Bit of a lucky record, but I'll take it.


Vid in folder

45 (on 114)

/me exp game --> Time: 52,72 «» Est. Time: 52,72 «» 3BV: 115 (115) «» 3BV/s: 2,22 «» Ranks: 35 / 2525 of 2811 / 54,50% «» RQP: 23,71

dunno how i feel about this game

Int flag 3bv/s from 3.533 on a 114 -------> 3.622 on a 95

@Fritz: when a new session starts?

as some of you may have already noticed, anthony, luke and i are running a fan page on facebook, which is dedicated to minesweeper.
right now "minesweeper" has almost 36.000 fans and is the 80th biggest page among all games-related fan pages on facebook.

also the link to our page here on ms.info says we're running tournaments. as the 3rd competition has ended about an hour ago i suppose it's a good point to introduce our tournaments to everyone here on the gb:

-every ca. 2 months a new Season of tournaments starts
-1 Season consists of 4 single tournaments
-1 tournament is 1 week long
-during a season every 7 days a new custom grid is given (in the past season this were: h12*w12/m10, 14*28/56, 23*19/84, 10*10/20)
-to take part all one has to do is to upload a screenshot of one's best time on the current toutnament's board to the fan page.
-if X players take part in a tournament 1st gets at the end of a week X points, 2nd gets (X-1) points, 3rd (X-2), 2nd last gets 2 and last gets 1 point.
-After the 4th tournament the winner is who has gotten the most points in all 4 single tournaments together.


Some stats about the past season:

39 sweepers took part in (at least 1 of) the 4 tournaments
smallest difference between 2 scores was 1/1000 in T1
9 world ranked sweepers took part

3rd place in season 3 goes to: WP Yeoh (62 points)
2nd place goes to: James Mckenzie (68 points)
1st place goes to: Luke Sullivan (75 points)

NF 2,227 (3BV=191) -> NF 2,234 (3BV=172, 78s)

Hehe, I've just broke my NF expert 3BVs, RQP, IOS records at 4:00am in the morning. I can't remember much of the board itself, because i was barely awake, but looking at the video it was pretty darn fast.

NF RQP: #1 35,7 -> 34,9
NF IOS: #1 1,179 -> 1,8502
NF 3BVs: #1 2,227 -> 2,234
NF Time: #3 78,000s

Vid in folder


Very nice luke. Only think I don't like about your record is that you've just beat my 15,66s.

biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig congrats luke !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'm sooo happy for you right now!!!!

really, i can remeber only two records after which i have been more excited (and these were my 1st sub50 and my 45 ) - so i guess this is really the record that made me the happiest. and what makes this record even more genuine is that you tied exactly my int record....

hehe, the fact that you did it nf, while i used flags, the fact that my record was on 34 and yours on 36...you know what this means

16x3 -> 14.55

/me int game --> Time: 14,55 «» Est. Time: 14,55 «» 3BV: 36 (36) «» 3BV/s: 2,65 «» Ranks: 2 / 8 of 219 / «» rqp: 5,4798,17% «» RQP: 5,47 «» Left Clicks/s: 47 «» Openings: 3
Just after breaking my RQP record I did this gem!

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Hey all, long time no see.
Thought I'd check in to say that the "play for cash" link on the front page is no longer needed. Sadly, Worldwinner decided to remove Minesweeper from their lineup. Good things never last....

joniComments:big grats Aris well done my neighbour that means now we're all tied at 55 =D Greece, Italy and Albania...

Haha suckaz

Vid of my 8,026 with pop-up window utubed and linked

@Bertie: I wish u to beat your record in my birthday day - 26 december
@all: 34/35 @ 9, couldnt find last square, because I suck.
congrats to record breakers.
I need a break

16x2-> 16x3

16.68 on 38, 2nd best time. best on arbiter.
And that game marks my 50th sub 20s game.

136.75

35.75

5.76

Hi
my minesweeper clone 2007 saves videos (.mvf) but does not play them

it plays clone 2006 videos only and the error message is :
" the file seems not to be a video file or to be corrupted"
only this keeps me from breaking the records

plz help me
thnx in advance

Hey all, sorry I haven't been as talkative as usual, but I'm relient on internet cafee's at the moment. To add to that my PC's motherboard decided it had had enough. This means I will only start playing again somewhere in Jan. Big grats to all the record breakers (KAmil, Tommy, Gergo, etc). Oh, @KAmil: Well done for breaking the beg 3bv/s record on my birthday .

ahh! i want to be #2 on the custom ranking, so i played 39 mines on 9x9. i made 20 correct guesses and then guessed wrong on the last click! custom is really frustrating hehe

I made an Fl everything record It was without flags I think, I must have accidentally pressed the right button, and it counted as an Fl game... I watched twice the vid, and I did not see any flags... So to do Fl records if you are an NF-er

@damien:

im from sweden + my int is 24,217 and not 24,48 heh

@Fritz: Luckysweeper Guru 20,xx -> 16,56 linked

NF 42

Arbiter: 44,04 NF on 136, but 17 openings linked

Vid linked Damien.

#81 Kathleen LaVallee is behind #80 Daniel Brim, but her expert score is better and was made earlier. Shouldn't that put her ahead in a tie break? They both have 68 total.

FL 2,2011 -> 2,425 (197 of 197 on guess)

My FLAG 3BVs records are fucking cursed......5th time that I blast a huge leap forward on the last freaking square

Either I misclick, guess wrong, can't find last square or make retarded mistake.....each time it's that last freaking square. Guesses like these are really the worst of them, because you know you've made a sup2,4 but it doesn't count sumply due to bad luck.


@Damien: txs for the update.....#420 gives me some room to not drop out of the top500

oh, and i wanted to say i finally made 32 mines on 8x8 after a year of occasional play...also uploaded a 32 mine game where only 2 mines were left in the last 12 squares and i guessed wrong.

some of you have watched my 60 mines on 8x8 ... hehe. where should the limit be? (i have 60, 61, 62 and 63 mines). limit should probably be the original (x-1)(y-1) rule. merry xmas.

rankings updated.

biggest news is tommy's 41 and kamil's sup8, stanislav joins the top50 (he was already on site) and the consensus seems to be that gongor's sub40 videos (on clone and msx) are somehow sped up or played while the computer suffers from a RAM shortage. lot's of people knocked 1 oe 2 secs off.

big grats Aris well done my neighbour that means now we're all tied at 55 =D Greece, Italy and Albania...

There's historically a great deal of records being broken during the Christmas holidays and this year doesn't seem to be any different so I give my congratulations in advance to everybody.
I guess it's about time I'll be demoted from Damien's top-100

@all, especially to Ronny: SUB 70!!!! 68,793 on a 124 board @1,829 3BV/s one guessed click (except the search for opening). It seemed so slow that I only recognised the time 2 s before the end. Now I officially declare my 67 as a personal best as I proved that I am able to beat it. In my NF-expert folder.

51.39-->51.30

First, big grats @ Tommy! Second, AAARGHHHH!!! I've been feeling faster lately, and this should have finally been my sub50. Oh well, vid linked.