Minesweeper scores?

[DrSpike]

How dare you try and pigeonhole me with such an evil group! Minesweeper (for sub 90 second times anyway) requires a great deal of skill, far more than that possessed by any Sunday gamer.

[Skanky Burns]

Clicking on boxes versus controlling the life of your own sim. Gee, which is more difficult?

[Elok]

When you have to click on those boxes at a ludicrously high speed without making a single mistake?

[FrustratedPoet]

Clearly you've never tried to get your Sim to work on time in the morning. It requires planning and split-second precision of the highest degree.

[DrSpike]

Yeah and it's especially tricky when you are worrying about overcooking the sunday roast at the same time.

[Elok]

If I wanted to do that crap I would get an actual life. Geez.

[Spaced Cowboy]

My best ever was only 69 (get it), but I can pretty easily break 100. I've noticed that it seems harder now than back on my old 486. I wonder if comp speed has anything to do with it, or I'm just getting way to old for this.

[Shadowstrike]

Beginner: 6 seconds
Intermediate: 37 seconds
Expert: 128 seconds

This game is pure evil when you're trying to get anything done..... My biggest gripe is that Expert is usually very difficult to win, because of the mine to square ratio, you usually end up with quite a few dubious ones and end up hitting a mine guessing. Still... 60 seconds on expert? Dear lord....

[Spaced Cowboy]

Yeah, you'll need to put the comp on the lowest resolution (which makes playing it now rather tedious) (640*480) and turn off the question mark option.

Then it is right click to mark. Right and left click to blow open spaces around marked bombs.

And as for the "dubious mines," don't save them for last. Go ahead and guess while you are there. Also don't mark obvious mines out by themselves in the middle of no where.

[DrSpike]

All that is true, but if you want regular sub 100 second times there is only one real piece of advice. Play more.

[Merlin]

My mum set the fastest genuine beginner level minesweeper time I've ever seen - 16 seconds. My own best is about 35.

[Elok]

It's all a matter of learning to recognize patterns so quickly and respond to them so instinctively that conscious thought gets left out of the loop. For example, 1-2-1 against a wall is obviously bomb-clean-bomb, because any other configuration would have the ones be lies. That setup is sufficiently frequent that if you learn to just right-click, left-click, right-click in a row the second you see it you save a lot of time. Having to actually think is your enemy in minesweeper. While you're thinking you're not clicking as fast as you could be. Sometimes you have to so it's a necessary evil.
And not saving ambiguous cases for later is a good policy PROVIDED there is no way the situation could be made less ambiguous by clearing the mines in a line towards it from another direction, e.g. if it's in a corner. If you have several ambiguous cases on one unresolved mass, it's of course best to just go for the one that offers the best odds and start clicking. Thank god for ones in a situation like that.

[Kropotkin]

13, 65 and 183 seconds on my girlfriends computer. I'm not sure if those are my bests. My own computer is turned off, so I can't check.

I'm not really trying to break the records anymore. I'm just playing for distraction and leasure. I'm not planning to get a heart-attack over minesweeper.

[Garth Vader]

I got a 126 on expert, Although I haven't got better than 150 since that time.

[Zero]

40-50 second on expert. Simply with mouse.

No, I wouldnt be able to do that at all. Its my friend's record. And he clicks NON STOP. I wonder how he has time to think about where the mines are.... :scary:


so what about me? I think I beat expert mode once in my life. Rest of the times I just get impatient, bored, and click random buttons until either mouse breaks or i hit mine. (How do you people play this game!!!??? )