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How to rank duplicate values in Excel?

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Let's say you have received the transcript as left screen shot shown, and want to get your rank without sorting, how could you get it done in Excel? And what if your score is duplicate with others? In this article, I will introduce several rank formulas to solve it in Excel.

Rank function in Excel

Rank duplicate values and return the best rank or average rank

Rank function in Excel

Normally we can apply the Rank function and return the rank number easily in Excel.

Select a blank cell, enter the formula =RANK("84",B2:B23) into it, and press the Enter key. See screen shot:

Rank function to return the rank number

Note: in the formula of =RANK("84",B2:B23), 84 is your score, and B2:B23 is the score range you want to rank your score in, and you can change them based on your needs.

Rank duplicate values and return the best rank or average rank in Excel

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Sometimes your score may be duplicate with others in the score range as left screenshot shown. If you want to rank your score and return the top rank number in Excel, you can do as following:

Select a blank cell, enter the formula =RANK.EQ("84",B2:B23) into it, and press the Enter key.

Rank duplicate values with formula

Notes:

(1) In the formula of =RANK.EQ("84",B2:B23), 84 is your score, and B2:B23 is the score range you want to rank your score in, and you can change them based on your needs.

(2) For ranking duplicate values and returning the average rank, please apply this formula =RANK.AVG("84",B2:B23).

(3) Both formulas do not work in Excel 2007.

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