how do you get into world ranking ???
my score is better than some listed 

Congratulations on the genius time Yariv. It's amazing how the times get so much better every day... I see you are building quite a following here. Keep it up.

Any thoughts of developing even bigger levels?

The more the better in my opinion.

haw to get(beginner) 1sec ??? ??? ??? ???

I'm thinking of changing the weightings slightly as 10x on beginner makes it very hard to catch up with the other levels. Mind you, a 2-second player deserves a good lead over a 3-second player, for example, so I don't want to make it too low. I suggest 8x for beginner, what does everyone think?

Nonosweeper Pro users can now play tournaments! I've been working on this feature for the past few days and it's likely to still have some bugs in it, so comments and reports are very welcome. Anyway, give it a try!

In reply to the suggestion of 5-2-1 weightings: although it isn't in my best interests since I'm hopeless at intermediate, I personally think a weighting of 3 times the expert score is better than 2, particularly looking at the spreads of the top scores for those two levels. The beginner weighting is a tough call though!

Thanks for the praise, Liz!

A "donate" link sounds like a great idea (specially as I've recently paid for a new web host and a download.com listing for Nonosweeper so I've made a loss on it so far!) so I've added one at the bottom of the main and best times pages; everyone feel free to use it as often as you like!
Or use this link:
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=info%40nonosweeper.com

Another good way to help the site is to tell all your friends about it and get them addicted too - and better still ask anyone you know with a website to link to Nonosweeper.com.
Mind you, I'm grateful to all users just for playing the game and making things more competitive  

There aren't any cheats or easter eggs in the game, and I've done my best to stop people cheating/hacking so the best times table reflects the genuine records. I'd be happy to put easter eggs in though, if you want!

I can't say for sure how 1 second on beginner was achieved, but I believe it's possible, even if it requires playing the game thousands of times until the right grid comes up, e.g.:
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This can be done in 1 second, I guess.

Anyway, thanks again Liz - I hope to see you on the Genius scoreboard soon!

Oh, I almost forgot - have you tried World of CryptoPics? It has even more "weird squares" than Nonosweeper!

Having checked the nonosweeper best times and quickly cross-referenced it with the records for minesweeper, i can see that there are some remarkable similarities. This also leads me to the conclusion that i need to improve my technique more than anything else here, because there is no way in hell i could get less than 100 seconds on the expert level of minesweeper. Not even close. I am under the impression that my fingers are just not fast enough, but that can't be right.

So, where are the tips and hints on how to achieve good times, because my mouse is tired of taking the blame for everything here...

Hi Nonosweeper Fans,

as it becomes more and more difficult to beat the top times, I suggest a new form of ranking: For every level, a player get a "Best Average" score by adding his personal Top10 times. So, a "lucky punch" would count as much as now, because you need 10 lucky punches (which obviously aren't lucky anymore then) to have a really low Top10 Total.

Example:
Player 1 Beginner:
3+3+3+3+3+4+4+4+4+4 = 35

Player 2 Beginner:
2+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4=38

So, player 2 is listed in front of player 1 in the normal ranking, even if he obviously had one single lucky game. In contrary to him, player 1 seems to be able to finish more constantly in a low time.

Maybe, this would give some new competition to the rankings... What do you think?