Our minesweeper community has its own records page etc., but I think denying us a spot on this site wouldn't really be fair, since the minesweeper world is very competitive for a relatively esoteric game. It also has eliminated many bugs from winmine, including timer bugs. Minesweeper Clone can not be fooled by tricks such as timer slowdown anymore either.
MINESWEEPER WORLD RECORD WINDOWS
Cheating is much easier to spot on minesweeper clone, because the original windows cheats no longer exist and the intense scrutiny of the mouse actions that this program facilitates makes recognising a solver program in use much easier. It records every mouse action in recorded games and additionally has much better randomicity, since the original had a rather ordinary PRNG (pseudo-random number generator). Lately (early 2004), someone in the minesweeper community programmed a high-quality clone of minesweeper called \"minesweeper clone\". I can understand not tracking the windows minesweeper, but the minesweeper community (of which I am part) has found its own ways around the big problems of cheating and of verification.įor verification, initially we used to take screen videos of the games using camtasia or the like, then someone made a program to record mouse movements on games on winmine. For example, should we ever make headway with Lafe Travis on getting unique access to his cleverly designed \"Venture II\" game, that would be one which would be a given.
MINESWEEPER WORLD RECORD PC
On an extremely rare occassion, if we can work things out, we would accept if it was verifiable a popular PC product linked to the TG site for score tracking recognition. We accept, generally, PC releases on disk. We do not accept scores on \"Solitaire\", \"Spider Solitaire\", \"Freecell\" or any other buil-in PC game. Of all the \"built-in\" PC games, the only exception we make is for the 3-D Space Cadet Pinball providing it is shot via camcorder from PC turn-on thru display of Windows O/S thru launch and gameplay thru conclusion and scoreboard thereafter. Between the cheats and difficulties in verification, we opted that this is one of those titles that we will not track. Good players should get this index to over 1.1 and even casual players should aim for 0.9 or higher.Īlltogether the formula for these 3 indices is IOE = Throughput x Correctness.As per agreement with Walter Day and Ron Corcoran years back, the policy we developed on \"Minesweeper\" is that it is a title TG would not be tracking.period. It basically tells you how good your actual solve was.
Throughput is the IOE of all your non-wasted clicks.
You should aim to keep your correctness at over 0.9, if not 0.95. A wasted click is any left click or chord that didn't open a square and and right click that didn't flag a mine which you later used for a non-wasted chord.
MINESWEEPER WORLD RECORD FULL
Top players can reach IOE >1 at full clicking speed during some solves and generally have over 0.8 IOE.Ĭorrectness is the ratio of your total clicks that were not wasted. IOE is the Index of Efficiency and is calculated as 3BV/total clicks. Using UPK mode (unfair prior knowledge) you can replay the same board over and over again and look for ways to improve your solve (2).Īnother option is using Minesweeper Arbiter, which has indices called IOE, Throughput and Correctness. Its replay player has options to show all wasted clicks and flags and a lot of other events that occurred during a solve. Although it is no longer allowed for rankings, it has a lot of great featuers. If wasting flags is your biggest issue, using "Minesweeper Clone 2007" (1) could help you a lot.
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