Competition: Best Minesweeper time on "expert" . . ..

[kenshorin]

My best was somewhere in the low 90s... I did it at my last job, which sucked bigtime... they restricted net access so I had to play minesweeper to pass the time, and got pretty good. Of course, for that one time of scoring in the 90s there were dozens of fails and 500+ second ones too... sooooo....

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: mattlear
Back when WFW3.11 was popular there was a cheat for minesweeper. I think you typed "xyzzyx+<shift>+Enter" (not entirely sure if this is the exact key... it's been a while!) and the topmost pixel on your screen would turn white. When you moused over a square with a mine, the pixel would go dark.

I remember doing that in college (about 10 years ago) and amazing my roommates.

Heheh, simple tricks. I think they removed the cheat in Windows 9x and future releases.

-Matt

In Win 3.xx and 95 (maybe now too, I'm too lazy to look) they put the high scores in an INI file and you could easily change it with a text editor. I beat ALL of the levels in only 1 second

 

[m2kewl]

avg ~133 secs

 

[DieselUV]

My best in intermediate is 27. I don't think I can do it again. I was in the zone.

 

[HomerSapien]

My best friend can get expert finished in under 50 seconds when he had a windows computer(2 years ago)...


My best is high....really high....but i dont play it that often.

 

[merlocka]

Originally posted by: Shooters
For the non-believers, here are a couple of amazing videos of a guy doing it twice in 43 seconds.

You'll need this codec to view them.

vid 1
vid 2

ET phOWN3D home.

 

[Dufman]

Originally posted by: Shooters
For the non-believers, here are a couple of amazing videos of a guy doing it twice in 43 seconds. You'll need this codec to view them. vid 1 vid 2

i dont think that is real.

 

[Shooters]

Originally posted by: Dufman

Originally posted by: Shooters
For the non-believers, here are a couple of amazing videos of a guy doing it twice in 43 seconds. You'll need this codec to view them. vid 1 vid 2

i dont think that is real.

Looks pretty real to me. Here's the whole page with a bunch more videos.

 

[Schadenfreude]

For the people who have said their record - no, I have not cheated, btw - provide pics as proof!

 

Originally posted by: Jehovah
For the people who have said their record - no, I have not cheated, btw - provide pics as proof!

go back to the hole you consider a school!

 

[EagleKeeper]

Speed of your system processor/video have a large impact as well as luck in terms of the explosive placement.

I remember when I did under 10 seconds for the medicam level. On a 25Mhz 386 lappy.


I have been trying the 225 x 64 custom level for the past 7 years.

 

[amoeba]

if you are trying for a fast time, you should try not placing flags all together.