The site did not become popular, and when Ryan discovered 'Authoritative Minesweeper' in 2000 he joined and deleted his pages.Īpart from actual rankings, players submitted scores to other minesweeper websites. He borrowed scores from the old Expert ranking and accepted new submissions. Ryan Gazder (India) started an Expert ranking in 1999 and named it the 'Minesweeper Top 50'. The ranking stopped in 2002 when players moved to a new French ranking, Planète Démineur. The best scores were ultimately 1 (Damien Moore, Canada), 15 (Pascal de Guelis, France) and 51 (David Barry, Australia). This site was the first to collect scores for each level and had a separate ranking for each. In its first year it accepted scores only from French players, but in 2000 players from Authoritative Minesweeper started submitting scores. Jean-François Desclaux (France) started a minesweeper ranking in March 1999 at Chez Démineur. (Strangely, the site lists Chris Paradise with an 82 despite linking to his site and 'Expert World Records'.)
#Minesweeper world record update#
The earliest copy of the site is from September 1998 and the last update took place in January 1999. This appears to be the first ranking where pictures were mandatory.
The ranking eventually listed 9 players, the best being Marc Schouten (Netherlands) with a 70. The ranking listed 8 Sub20 players, the best being Sean Reynolds (USA) with a 17.Ĭlint Olsen (Canada) was ranked with a 24 on the 'Intermediate Minesweeper World Records' site and he started an Expert ranking at 'Minesweeper Central'. He accepted scores less than 30 seconds and managed to rank 23 players before abandoning his site in February 1999. Chris had been the highest ranked Expert player with a 51 and was studying chemistry at Harvard University. As the world wide web became more popular many sites tried to replace it, with limited success:Ĭhris Paradise (USA) started the Intermediate Minesweeper World Records site on, the same day Wacharin made his last update. The dead 'Expert World Records' site remained the most important ranking until 2000. His final update on listed 146 players from 20 countries, with five players having broken the Minute Barrier. Wacharin maintained the list while studying mathematics at the University of Illinois, but retired after suspecting some of the scores were fake. Screenshots were optional and games lost on the last click were accepted. Expert scores less than 100 seconds were listed on his Expert World Records site. The first maintained minesweeper ranking was created in April 1996 by Wacharin Wichiramala (Thailand) with progamming help from Peder Skou (Norway). Players continued to discuss and occasionally share scores in various Usenet groups, but there was no organisation of scores and no further lists or rankings. The best player was Wu Liu with 80-25-5, and this was the only player with a Sub100 score. This ranking included 26 players and was sorted by the Expert score, often providing scores for the other levels as extra information. He posted a request in the Usenet group .games asking for scores, and two weeks later posted the results. The first known ranking was created on by Sanjay Shah (USA).
#Minesweeper world record windows#
A search of archived Usenet posts returns more than half a million results for 'minesweeper', with the earliest Windows Minesweeper scores being shared in 1992. Minesweeper records are as old as minesweeper.
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