Beginner Minesweeper Leaderboard

What Counts as a Good Beginner Time

Beginner is the difficulty where a single wasted movement is visible in the final number, so the ladder is tight. Finishing a 9x9 board in under 10 seconds is a decent result and the point at which most players stop losing time to hesitation. Under 5 seconds is strong: opening click, cascade reading and finishing clicks have all been compressed into one continuous motion.

Below that the scale changes character. The fastest verified Beginner solve tracked by the external ranking authorities is roughly 1 second. That figure describes the global verified record lists maintained off this site - it is not a time on the table above, and our ranked pool is well behind it.

Treat the ladder as a range rather than a target. Beginner boards vary enough that the same player can post 4 and 9 seconds in one session, so judge yourself on your median rather than on the single time that reached the leaderboard.

3BV and 3BV/s on 9x9 Boards

3BV counts the minimum number of left clicks a board can be solved in. A 9x9 Beginner board usually lands somewhere between roughly 10 and 30 3BV, and that spread is huge in relative terms: a 12 3BV board can be finished in a third of the clicks a 28 3BV board demands, before either player has made a single mistake.

That is exactly why raw seconds are a poor way to compare Beginner players. Dividing 3BV by your time gives 3BV/s, which measures work done per second instead of luck received. Around 1.5 3BV/s is a decent Beginner rate, and 3.0 or higher is genuinely strong. Sorting the leaderboard by 3BV/s rewards the player who solved a heavy board quickly over the one who drew an easy one.

How to Climb the Beginner Leaderboard

A ranked Beginner run is largely decided by its first half second. An opening placed against a corner or an outside edge touches fewer hidden cells, so it tends to cascade further and leaves numbers that sit on a boundary rather than in open space. When the opening instead produces one isolated number, abandon the game and take the next one: on a board this short, restarting costs almost nothing, and grinding for a workable opening is a legitimate tactic here in a way it is not on larger boards.

After the cascade lands, ranking comes down to removing pauses. The lone-1 rule - one number, one hidden neighbour, therefore one mine - has to fire without conscious thought. Any hesitation there is your real gap on this leaderboard, not your click speed.

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• Os rankings são ordenados pelo melhor tempo de conclusão para cada combinação de dificuldade e modo. Apenas sua única melhor solução conta.
• 3BV/s (valor 3BV por segundo) mede quantos grupos de células lógicos você limpou por segundo — é a métrica de eficiência padrão no Minesweeper competitivo.
• A eficiência é a porcentagem de seus cliques que foram necessários — maior eficiência significa menos cliques desperdiçados em bandeiras ou limpeza por chordes.
• A tabela Padrão permite todos os estilos de jogo legais. Sem Adivinhar é uma categoria separada para tabuleiros que eram totalmente resolúveis sem adivinhar.
• Os rankings são reiniciados a cada temporada — o ranking mostra apenas os melhores tempos desta temporada. Os resultados de temporadas passadas são arquivados.

Want to climb faster? Study the Minesweeper patterns guide and the efficiency & 3BV/s guide, then put it into practice on the Expert Minesweeper board.

• Alta eficiência importa mais do que velocidade bruta no topo. Os jogadores mais rápidos geralmente têm eficiência de 90 %+ — cada clique conta.
• Verifique as abas Padrão e Sem Adivinhar para seu rank. Muitos jogadores têm desempenho significativamente melhor em um modo — conhecer sua força comparativa ajuda a decidir onde competir pelas recompensas da temporada.
• Envie um tempo antes de a temporada terminar. As recompensas de temporada vão para os jogadores mais bem classificados no corte — uma única solução ranqueada garante sua posição na temporada mesmo que não seja um recorde pessoal.