Finally managed to score sub 20 on INT ( 19.75 sec).

@hexx I don't want to take position on the cheating discussion but you're wrong about this: "morpheus_303" isn't a fake profile. I'm Andreas from Switzerland and met Stephan in Vienna and Fritz in Zurich personally (minesweeper tournaments).

Thanks Daniel! I'm unable to reach your record times on intermediate but in genius I hope to make progress soon.

Thanks Stephan! Yes I'm regretting not to participate in the nonosweeper tournament in Vienna but then I had no idea how this great game works!

Would be nice if nowadays more people would still playing: I'm feeling somehow 10 years behind and the strage thing is I'm not so young anymore

Hi Fritz, impressive scores after such a long break!

Daniel:  well done! GEN sub 200 is what I'm looking for:
              September 29th 2020 I messed up with the last click
              and since then I was to stupid and missed a couple
              opportunities, especially in the year 2022. 

              greetings also to nikolaj & maruda

             

Daniel: grats! For me, you are clearly player of the year. It reminds me of last year when I had succes, too. But this year is very disappointing  so far... I'm wondering if you can brake the one minute barrier? This would bei huge: my chances are arround 5%, quite unlikely. Regards

Just lost a game on genius at 111.23 seconds with 4 safe squares and 6 unflagged mines left.

morpheus_303 wrote on Sep 11^th, 2023 at 2:39pm:


I'm sorry, but I don't think I have played nearly enough Nonosweeper compared to how much pratice it took me to reach sub40 on Minesweeper Expert. So, any of my estimations here are likely off by quite a bit.

If compared to other top Minesweeper players, I don't think I'm exceptionally fast at clicking and recognising patterns. Instead, I'm just very consistent at both clicking and finding where to click next, which is why in Nonosweeper Genius level feels less rushed than Expert or Intermediate.

For a rough estimate of what a sub40 on Minesweeper Expert would be like on Nonosweeper Genius I'd guess sub100. For sub30 I'd say sub75.

This site's pool of players is tiny, especially compared to the tens of millions of people who have played a game of Minesweeper at some point and probably thousands of players over the years who have made a serious effort of trying to be fast at Minesweeper. It's more than likely that the fastest Nonosweeper times are still far away from what could be achieved if someone took it as seriously as Minesweeper.

That being said, I just lost a game at 102.54 seconds with 8 unflagged mines and 5 safe squares left. Probably would have been done with 3 or 4 more safe clicks. Unfortunately I got carried away listening to a video playing in the background and clicked left instead of right and hit a mine. It could have been a 106 seconds record...