<p>haha. love minesweeper!!</p>
<p>beginner - 5 seconds
medium - 37 seconds
expert - 139 seconds </p>
<p>WOOT :)</p>
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Interesting. Most the minesweeper geeks that I know who have better expert time than me have worse Intermediate times. I wonder if I’m one of those weirdo outliers.</p>
<p>Amongst our little group we follow a general rule of thumb - Somewhere around your intermediate time * 2 is good (or below). By the way, those are my best times on each mode. They are best times for a reason. Sometimes we get lucky. Most of the time, not quite.</p>
<p>If you look at the rankings, the better you get the larger the ratio. The best in the world are close to 4:1 expert to intermediate. An expert time of 60 should correspond to below 20. Obviously luck plays a role in it, but I can break 30 with a fair amount of regularity. Now part of that is because I play intermediate far more often than expert.</p>
<p>Not necessarily. I remember a person who could get under 20 in intermediate who could get under 40 on expert. That’s approximately 2:1, best times wise. His averages were closer to 4:1. Averages and best times are quite different. Luck plays too much of a role. For instance, on a lucky click, a person could clear 70% or more of the field.</p>
<p>My little group of friends and I, we don’t really consider averages – we are the type who click really fast, and mess up really fast. Our success rates are rather low, but the best times are often rewarding (somewhat).</p>
<p>I just downloaded Minesweeper on my iPod!</p>
<p>I have passed it exactly 0 times. lol I suck.</p>
<p>You remember a person? There are 9 people with recorded/validated sub-40 expert times in the entire world. None are American.</p>
<p>me me me me me me me me me me</p>
<p>I play minesweeper… = p.</p>
<p>Hmm. Let’s see. I never said that person was an American. Neither am I, for that matter.</p>
<p>Now, that person was a person whose records I found on youtube, not a person I met face to face. Does that qualify as a “validated” record? Not necessarily. The numbers were simply what he claimed as his records. If he falsified his records, then so be it.</p>
<p>Well if he was on youtube then I’m sure you could find his name.</p>
<p>I find it hard to believe that he cares enough to post his videos online but that he’s not in the world rankings.</p>
<p>I found that tough to believe as well, especially seeing that I can’t even find his videos anymore (I saw it a long time ago).</p>
<p>Some people choose not to. Was he one of those people or did he falsify his numbers? Now I’m beginning to lean towards maybe he wasn’t completely honest.</p>
<p>[Authoritative</a> Minesweeper: Minesweeper World Ranking](<a href=“Authoritative Minesweeper: World Records and the Minesweeper Community”>Authoritative Minesweeper: Minesweeper Game World Ranking)</p>
<p>Those are the world rankings, btw. Most of the videos on youtube seem to be of Dion Tiu, who was #1 several years ago but seems to have stopped playing.</p>
<p>Interesting. Now I really am starting to think he was stretching the truth, because:
- he never revealed his name.
- if it was true he was really good at one but sucked at the other.</p>
<p>Meh. All I remember about my lucky solve in expert was I clicked a few times and I had 80% of the board cleared. Haven’t gotten that lucky ever since.</p>
<p>beginner - 0, first button i pressed
intermediate - 2, second button i pressed
expert - 97, after that amazing performance i never again had a desire to play minesweep, even though i probably spent 3-5 hours a week on it for like 6 months</p>
<p>Oh finally, 1 second Custom update.</p>