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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 1608887" data-attributes="member: 696">My best time for Expert was about 120 seconds.  But that was a very, very fortunate placing of mines.  That was probably a once-in-a-lifetime event. My standard time for Expert is about 140 seconds, of the ones I manage to win.  It's very easy to get the first 30 or 40 bombs flagged (in those cases where I don't manage to blow myself up in the "random click until you either blow up or you get a nice big starting position" way I play).  I'm pretty good at identifying the most common patterns, but I all too frequently have to guess.  I only win about one out of every hundred games, so it's no big deal. I've also been playing Minesweeper for over 10 years, so I should be better at it than most people. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>