Expert Minesweeper Leaderboard
Competitive rankings by trophy count
Minesweeper world rankings compare the fastest ranked clears by time, 3BV/s, and efficiency. Filter by difficulty and season to study top Standard-mode results, or switch to the No-Guessing rankings for the logic-only pool. The current Expert record in this category is 101.257s, set by 1761723, and the 2 fastest ranked players average 161.0s.
Expert - 30x16, 99 mines, 20.6 percent density - is the board serious Minesweeper players are measured on, and this table ranks the fastest verified runs on it. Alongside each time you get the board's 3BV, the player's 3BV/s and their efficiency, which together explain why one 90-second run is a better performance than another.
| # | Player | Time | 3BV/s | Efficiency | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
1
1761723
|
101.257s | 1.61 | 84.5% | 2026-05-15 |
| 2 |
B
Bo_L_Gia
|
220.769s | 0.72 | 73.4% | 2026-05-01 |
What Counts as a Good Expert Time
Start with the fact that most players lose more Expert boards than they win, so a finished run is already worth something. Once you are completing boards reliably, under 200 seconds puts you above average. Under 100 seconds is the real milestone on this difficulty - it is where efficient chording, pattern recall and steady scanning have to be working together rather than one covering for another. Anything below 60 seconds is elite, and only a small fraction of serious Expert players get there.
The external verified records go far below that: depending on which verifying authority you consult, the accepted fastest Expert solve sits somewhere in the 25 to 31 second range. Those are the off-site global record lists, not this leaderboard, and no entry in the table above is close to them.
Expect the numbers to move slowly. Expert progress arrives as a lower ceiling on your bad games long before it arrives as a faster best.
3BV and 3BV/s on Expert Boards
An Expert board carries roughly 100 to 200 3BV. Anything under 100 is an unusually open draw with large cascades doing much of the work for you; anything over 200 is a hard board where the mines are scattered enough to fragment the openings. A single seed can therefore double the amount of clicking required, which is why a leaderboard sorted only by time flatters whoever drew well.
3BV/s is the correction. It reports how much of the board you resolved per second, so a 130-second run on a 260 3BV board outranks a 100-second run on a 130 3BV one. On Expert, 1.5 3BV/s is decent, 2.0 is high, and 3.0 is very high. Rates on this difficulty run lower than on Intermediate because the extra density breaks the board into more separate frontiers to read.
How to Climb the Expert Leaderboard
Expert ranking is won on the frontier. With 99 mines packed into 480 cells, most clues cannot be resolved alone, and the deciding skill is holding two or three overlapping numbers in view at once so that the cell one of them cannot place is pinned by another. Working clue by clue reads as careful play but posts slow times, because you keep revisiting boundaries you already had enough information to finish.
Above that sits rhythm. Flag and chord should behave as a single unit of work, with the next target already chosen while the current chord is still opening cells - your hand should never be idle waiting for a decision.
Then there is volume. Expert leaderboard positions come out of long sessions, because a top time needs a clean run and a cooperative board at the same time.
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Key Points
- Rankings are sorted by best completion time for each difficulty and mode combination. Only your single best solve counts.
- 3BV/s (3-Board Value per second) measures how many logical cell-groups you cleared per second - it is the standard efficiency metric in competitive minesweeper.
- Efficiency is the percentage of your clicks that were necessary - higher efficiency means less wasted clicks on flagging or chord-clearing.
- The Standard leaderboard allows all legal play styles. No-Guessing is a separate category for boards that were fully solvable without guessing.
- Rankings reset each season - the leaderboard shows this season's top times only. Past season results are archived.
How to Improve Your Minesweeper Rank
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.
- High efficiency matters more than raw speed at the top. The fastest players typically have 90 %+ efficiency - every click counts.
- Check both Standard and No-Guessing tabs for your rank. Many players rank significantly better in one mode - knowing your comparative strength helps decide where to compete for season rewards.
- Submit a time before the season ends. Season rewards go to the top-ranked players at the cutoff - a single ranked solve secures your season placement even if it is not a personal best.