Anyone else play it seriously? Scores?

I played it pretty seriously before I found an unblocked forum in the class in which I am a Teacher's Assistant. I spend most of my time on the computer there anyway. That being said, when I get back to school and can check my old times, I'll give them to you.

I just recently got majorly addicted to this game.
I can beat the easy level and intermediate, but I haven't managed to beat expert yet.

I was never good at Minesweeper.
I can beat the easy level, but that's it.

I can beat the easy level (best: 8 seconds) and intermediate (best: 104 seconds) but I haven't been able to beat the expert level yet.

I can beat expert occasionally, but I'm not particularly fast (at anything).

That's not bad Pi, better than most people can do. And Diav, you really can't go for speed until you have beaten it many, many times and can recognize most common patterns instantly.

Personally my high scores are 3.20 on beginner, 23.50 on intermediate, and 81.68 on expert. Those aren't quite low enough to qualify for world ranking on minesweeper.info, so I've still got some work to do.

You're my Minesweeper idol.

I liked it so much I set it as my screensaver. Then when my computer idles when people come over, they can play minesweeper without even logging on to my computer.

That's nothing, look up Kamil Muranski on Youtube.

Your modesty comes with a mildly flawed concept. Allow me to suggest a reasoning that this is made more sensical.

Let's say I went to college, and one of the people who I only knew a little bit from there becomes a... Table Tennis champion. Now, let's say he goes to a Table Tennis Tournament. Let's also say he comes in 3rd, because he is fundamentally less skilled than the winner. This former classmate is more likely to be my Table Tennis idol, simply because I have a slight personal connection to him, despite his lesser skill.

We slightly know you, my friend. That makes us all the more likely to seat you in a higher ranking spot in our minds than someone who can minesweet more quickly. Skill is skill, but perception of skill is more important than the skill itself.

True that, it's just I've always been a bit sketchy about strong praise, plus I don't really want to come across as better than I really am.

I that case, you're really good, and I wish I was as good as you.

I found it. It says "17 seconds". Which is weird, because I thought I did a lot better than that. Oh, this was for Easy, of course.

I searched minesweeper and an interesting result that showed up was the xyzzy cheat. Does this work for you? It doesn't work for me.

Yes, I've tried it. It's not a very practical cheat when going for speed, of course, but it does work.

What version of minesweeper do you have/use?

If I recall correctly, this stopped working after the XP versions.

I run XP. Minesweeper versions from Vista and later are ineligible for the rankings... not that I use the version that comes with the computer anyway.

I like to play with the flowers on the Vista version. My times are 12, 70, and 224, for the three difficulties. Not very good, I know, but I tend to start playing and do other things at the same time, especially when I'm playing on the biggest one. I don't go for speed. I'm happy enough just to beat it.

I played a lot of minesweeper.Mostly on Clone and Minesweeper X.Clone takes too much RAM, so mostly X.
My best times are something like:
Beginner:Clone 2.xx ,X:3.51
Intermediate:Clone :No idea(around 43) ,X:40.84
Expert:Don't remember. I didn't play on expert a lot but it must have been quite high.
This inspires me to start again.

Is that 40.84 X time? Because on X, the timer starts at 0.00, whereas Clone's timer starts at 1.00.

Yes, it should be 41.84 seconds.(It was X time, I didn't add 1 second)