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    Who can beat my score on expert?
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    "Luck's last match struck in the pouring down wind." - Chris Cornell, "Mindriot"

  • #2
    Maybe not on expert, but I can cream you on beginer and intermediate.

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    • #3
      You do realise how easy it would be to cheat in this artificial competition you've just created?

      Maybe not on expert, but I can cream you on beginer and intermediate.
      I dislike them, because they're awfully similar to Starcraft: Click-fest where the one with the best control of mouse and quickest reflexes wins, not the one with the most utilized brain-power.

      ...and he hasn't shown us his scores yet on those levels, has he?

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      • #4
        another life wasted
        Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

        Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Tuomerehu
          You do realise how easy it would be to cheat in this artificial competition you've just created?
          Yeah, but I figure it's minesweeper, and cheating at minesweeper is just sad
          "Luck's last match struck in the pouring down wind." - Chris Cornell, "Mindriot"

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          • #6
            Pfff. I had less than 120 on expert and even this isnt good enough. I think the world record is 53 or something.
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            • #7
              My best two ever on expert were 54 and 58 seconds.
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              • #8
                Were all the mines lined up around the edges or something? How the hell did you go that fast?
                "Luck's last match struck in the pouring down wind." - Chris Cornell, "Mindriot"

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                • #9
                  From my experience, the trick to the really fast scores is not to mark the mines.
                  "We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know, I read it in the paper, Fifteen years ago" - John Prine

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                  • #10
                    Two handed. I used a mouse in one hand to move around, and a pen tablet in the other to do the actual clicking. The other part is just knowing the patterns and being able to eliminate questionable squares faster. I didn't get any huge breaks from the start, but I did get resolvable patterns almost all the way through, so I only had to guess a couple of times.

                    No matter what you do, there's a big element of luck, since you can always come down to two squares in a corner with one mine.
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                    • #11
                      Ooo, Minesweeper. I used to play it a lot 6 years ago

                      My best is around 90 something, not as good as MtG's, but I only used one hand.
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                      • #12
                        If you don't mark mines, you can't do the cool clicking with both buttons that opens up all the tiles touching a number with all its mines marked already. Thats how to get speed.
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                        • #13
                          You say that's your best score but it clearly says Mike so it must be my score!
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                          • #14
                            A long time ago, Minesweeper (together with Solitary) used to be the only game I had on my PC, and I could play it for days on end when I was really bored...

                            IIRC my record times are:

                            Beginner: 3 seconds
                            Intermediate: 16 seconds
                            Expert: 86 seconds

                            Not marking the bombs really holds you back as it forces you to think about which tiles are mines and which aren't -- and thinking is the last thing you need to do with this game...
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Locutus

                              Not marking the bombs really holds you back as it forces you to think about which tiles are mines and which aren't -- and thinking is the last thing you need to do with this game...
                              One must train one's mind to see the patterns.
                              "We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know, I read it in the paper, Fifteen years ago" - John Prine

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