Minesweeper Efficiency
La eficiencia mide qué tan precisamente resuelves un tablero. Una puntuación del 100% significa que cada clic contribuyó a limpiar el tablero: sin movimientos desperdiciados.
Fórmula
How 3BV Feeds the Efficiency Formula
Cómo aumentar la eficiencia
Realiza acordes agresivamente. Hacer clic en un número con las banderas adyacentes coincidentes abre varias celdas en un clic: la forma principal de superar el 100 %.
Usa la técnica NF. Evita colocar banderas innecesarias. Cada bandera es un clic desperdiciado a menos que habilite un acorde.
Piensa con anticipación. Un solo acorde bien cronometrado puede abrir 5+ celdas. Planifica tus próximos dos movimientos antes de hacer clic.
Evita clics desperdiciados. Hacer clic en celdas ya reveladas o en espacio vacío desperdicia movimientos y reduce tu eficiencia.
Puntos clave
- Una eficiencia del 100% significa cero clics desperdiciados: cada clic izquierdo reveló directamente una nueva celda.
- El acordeado es la única forma de superar el 100 %: un clic revela varias celdas simultáneamente.
- Los tableros con 3BV por debajo del mínimo están excluidos de los récords clasificados y los cálculos de trofeos.
- El fragmento Naranja en eventos puntúa puramente en eficiencia — una partida al 110% supera a cinco partidas al 80%.
- La eficiencia se rastrea por dificultad: tu récord de Expert y tu récord de Principiante son separados.
Técnicas comparadas
Dos técnicas principales determinan tu techo de eficiencia. El juego Sin Bandera (NF) omite el marcado por completo — cada clic es una revelación. El juego de acorde utiliza un número mínimo de banderas colocadas solo para habilitar acordes. Un jugador de acorde puro en Expert puede lograr una eficiencia del 130–160% abriendo 3–5 celdas por acorde en un tablero. Los jugadores NF suelen alcanzar el 95–105%.
- Realiza acordes en los "1" cerca de los bordes. Los números "1" de borde y esquina rodeados de una sola bandera son los acordes más fáciles: rápidos de detectar, siempre vale la pena hacerlos.
- Omite el marcado en áreas abiertas. En una sección ampliamente abierta, puedes encadenar acordes sin banderas usando doble clic (acorde en cualquier número satisfecho).
- Revisa tu repetición. Después de cada juego, comprueba dónde bajó tu eficiencia. Por lo general, son 2–3 clics accidentales en blanco u oportunidades de acorde perdidas.
Worked Example: From Clicks to an Efficiency Percentage
Say you win an Expert board whose 3BV is 120 - meaning a perfect flag-free solve needs exactly 120 left-clicks. If your replay shows 150 total clicks (reveals, flags, and chords all count), your efficiency is 120 ÷ 150 = 80%. Thirty of your clicks did no unique work: redundant flags, clicks on already-open cells, or reveals a chord would have handled.
Now replay the same board with disciplined chording and finish it in 100 clicks. The 3BV has not changed - it is a property of the board - so your efficiency becomes 120 ÷ 100 = 120%. Same board, same result, radically different score. That is why efficiency is the best single number for judging clean technique independently of raw speed.
How Chording Changes the Click Math
A chord is never free: it costs one click for the flag and one for the chord itself. The profit comes from what it opens. If the chord reveals five hidden neighbours, you spent 2 clicks to do 5 clicks of work - a net saving of 3. If it reveals only one cell, you actually lost a click compared to revealing that cell directly. The skill of high-efficiency play is spotting which numbers give a multi-cell payoff and skipping the ones that don't.
Better still, one flag can serve several chords. Flag a mine that touches three different numbers and each of those numbers becomes chordable off the same single flag click - this flag reuse is how top players push past 130%.
What Counts as a Good Efficiency Score?
Under 80% means a large share of your clicks were wasted - usually over-flagging or panic clicking. 90–100% is tight, deliberate play and a realistic target for anyone past the beginner stage. Crossing 100% requires chording by definition, and sustained 130%+ on Expert is elite territory.
On Minesweeper.now those numbers have concrete payoffs: an Expert win at 100%+ unlocks the Sniper achievement (2,000 XP and 200 minecoins), some daily quests require hitting a set efficiency in a single win, and your best-ever efficiency feeds the trophy table - 100% earns 80 trophies in the category, 110% earns 100, and the ceiling of 150% is worth the full 150.
Put it into practice: drill chording rhythm on the Intermediate board, chase 3BV/s on the Expert board, and compare your efficiency against the field on the world rankings.
- Go deeper on the metric with what 3BV is and why it defines speedrunning.
- Cut clicks even further with the chording guide and flagless play.
- Push your 3BV/s on the Expert Minesweeper board, or read the 3BV FAQ.
More guides in the Minesweeper Help Center, or browse the Minesweeper FAQ.
Want the numbers for a specific board? Use the Minesweeper 3BV calculator to get its 3BV, 3BV/s and click efficiency, or check how good your time is against every ranked player here.
Every speed and efficiency guide on the site is collected in Speed & Strategy, and you can work out any board's numbers with the 3BV calculator.