# Who's the fastest Minesweeper?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-fastest-minesweeper/44432>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 7, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-fastest-minesweeper/44432 "2000-12-07T03:48:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-fastest-minesweeper/44432/21 "2001-01-18T16:15:08Z")

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I did an intermediate board in 4 seconds. No lies! It just happened to place all of the mines in such a way that I clicked on the first square, and POOF! 99% of it was done. I had to click one more obvious square and that was it.

But in reality I’m not that great at it. You’d all kick my butt.

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