Intermediate Minesweeper Leaderboard
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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 Intermediate record in this category is 35.140s, set by 1761723, and the 11 fastest ranked players average 169.3s.
This leaderboard covers the middle classic board - 16x16 with 40 mines, about 15.6 percent density - where the puzzle is large enough to reward technique but still small enough to hold in your head. Each row shows a player's best ranked time next to the 3BV/s that produced it.
| # | Spieler | Zeit | 3BV/s | Effizienz | Datum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
1
1761723
|
35.140s | 1.37 | 76.2% | 2026-05-14 |
| 2 |
R
rtrvt
|
37.797s | 1.35 | 76.1% | 2026-07-02 |
| 3 |
B
Bo_L_Gia
|
78.015s | 1.00 | 70.3% | 2026-05-01 |
| 4 |
D
Danial_Khan
|
81.272s | 0.58 | 46.5% | 2026-07-24 |
| 5 |
B
Bamboozed
|
103.029s | 0.51 | 48.1% | 2026-05-14 |
| 6 |
C
c_V_Minh
|
121.285s | 0.61 | 78.7% | 2026-05-10 |
| 7 |
M
Mou
|
128.773s | 0.33 | 43.0% | 2026-05-15 |
| 8 |
W
Willp
|
224.739s | 0.31 | 90.9% | 2026-06-08 |
| 9 |
M
milaa019
|
257.544s | 0.26 | 56.3% | 2026-04-17 |
| 10 |
S
Suvania_Nadasen
|
377.363s | 0.15 | 50.9% | 2026-04-21 |
| 11 |
L
Laybit
|
417.535s | 0.12 | 51.5% | 2026-05-21 |
What Counts as a Good Intermediate Time
Intermediate benchmarks are wider apart than Beginner ones because there is room for technique to compound. Sub-60 seconds is a solid result and the usual sign that chording has become automatic rather than something you remember to do. Sub-40 seconds is competitive; at that pace you are no longer solving one clue at a time but reading several linked numbers in a single glance. Sub-10 seconds is elite territory that very few players reach on any board draw.
For scale, the fastest Intermediate solve on the externally verified record lists sits at about 7.05 seconds. That record belongs to the global verification authorities outside this site and is not a time you will find in the table above.
Something worth knowing before you compare: Intermediate rewards consistency more than the other difficulties. A player who posts 45 seconds every game is usually further along than one whose average is a minute with a single lucky 30.
Reading 3BV and 3BV/s on the 16x16 Board
Intermediate boards typically carry something in the region of 40 to 70 3BV. That is the minimum click count needed to clear them, and the difference between the two ends of the range is close to a factor of two - enough that time alone tells you very little about who played better.
3BV/s fixes that. It normalises the result by the work the board actually contained, which is why competitive players quote it before they quote seconds. On Intermediate, 2.0 3BV/s is a decent working rate, 3.0 is high, and 4.0 is very high. If your times are stuck but your 3BV/s is still rising, you are improving - the boards have simply been generous or stingy in ways the clock cannot separate.
How to Climb the Intermediate Leaderboard
The players at the top of this table are not clicking faster than you by much; they are clicking fewer times. At 15.6 percent density a satisfied number sits next to several unopened cells, so every chord you take replaces three or four separate reveals. Skipping chords is the single most common reason an Intermediate run stalls around the minute mark.
Flag discipline is the other half. A flag has no ranked value in itself - it only matters when it completes a number you are about to chord, and any flag that does not do that is wasted travel that drags your efficiency down. The habit to build is to place a flag and take the chord it unlocks as one motion, without moving the cursor away in between, then let that chord's new numbers feed the next pair.
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Wichtige Punkte
- Rankings sind nach der besten Abschlusszeit für jede Schwierigkeits- und Moduskombination sortiert. Nur deine einzelne beste Lösung zählt.
- 3BV/s (3-Board-Wert pro Sekunde) misst, wie viele logische Zellgruppen du pro Sekunde geräumt hast – es ist die Standardkennzahl für Effizienz im kompetitiven Minesweeper.
- Effizienz ist der Prozentsatz deiner Klicks, die notwendig waren – höhere Effizienz bedeutet weniger verschwendete Klicks auf Flaggen oder Chord-Räumen.
- Die Standard-Rangliste erlaubt alle legalen Spielstile. Ohne-Raten ist eine separate Kategorie für Boards, die vollständig ohne Raten lösbar waren.
- Rankings werden jede Saison zurückgesetzt – die Rangliste zeigt nur die Top-Zeiten dieser Saison. Vergangene Saison-Ergebnisse werden archiviert.
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.
- Hohe Effizienz ist an der Spitze wichtiger als Rohgeschwindigkeit. Die schnellsten Spieler haben typischerweise 90 %+ Effizienz — jeder Klick zählt.
- Überprüfe beide Standard- und Ohne-Raten-Tabs für deinen Rang. Viele Spieler schneiden in einem Modus deutlich besser ab – deine vergleichende Stärke zu kennen hilft dir zu entscheiden, wo du für Saison-Belohnungen antrittst.
- Reiche eine Zeit ein, bevor die Saison endet. Saison-Belohnungen gehen an die am besten platzierten Spieler beim Cutoff – eine einzelne Ranglisten-Lösung sichert deine Saison-Platzierung, auch wenn es kein persönlicher Rekord ist.