What are people considering "cheating"? Taking a picture of the board, pausing it, and then entering the numbers by hand? Solving it via a bot? Or using the 'helper' functions like checking if the board is valid? The first two are obviously cheating, but one could make an argument the third is no.
I'm somewhat skeptical of extreme scores at a minute or less, though I suppose there are some people out there who have way too much time on their hands and don't mind permanently disfiguring their hands by typing that fast on a tiny phone. I did solve a minesweeper game in under 4 seconds once (ok, it was kinda luck). Usually though I'm just playing this while watching TV, and then only submitting my score if I did well. I would guess a lot of others are in the same position, which would explain why the percentiles are off. People are more likely to submit their 8 minute extreme win than their 30 minute extreme win.
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