# Best Mindsweeper times?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mindsweeper-times/353387>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 19, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mindsweeper-times/353387 "2006-04-19T23:43:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mindsweeper-times/353387/21 "2006-04-21T02:52:29Z")

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> [@Eyebrows 0f Doom](#):
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> hee! Why thank you very much!

You wouldn’t happen to be my English teacher, would you?

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**Author:** ![Dr.Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mindsweeper-times/353387/22 "2006-04-21T04:20:08Z")

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4/24/148. I hardly ever play expert, the ratio of victories to games played is much too low to keep me addicted the way intermediate or beginner can.

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**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mindsweeper-times/353387/23 "2006-04-21T10:06:02Z")

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Every time I play Minesweeper on Expert, I get stuck at a fork in the road - I get these situations where I have to choose between two squares and I know one of them is a mine. This doesn’t happen with Beginner or Intermediate, it’s only Expert that is big enough for this to happen.

And it is annoying. I want to be able to calculate my way out.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mindsweeper-times/353387/24 "2006-04-21T14:34:12Z")

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Check out these dudes.

[Minesweeper Records](http://planet-minesweeper.com/bestever.php)

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**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mindsweeper-times/353387/25 "2006-04-21T15:20:23Z")

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By a fluke I got 2 for the Beginner board - before that it was 6 and intermediate was, I think in the upper 30s. Expert was 150, maybe.

Now when I play I don’t care much about the time - I play a customised board 30 x 24 with 175 mines. I often can’t finish, but if I do then under 500 is good and under 400 very good!

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