Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • Conditional Formatting Data bars Examples in Excel
  • How To Remove Duplicates In Excel Column Or Row?
  • Managing Conditional Formatting Rules in Excel
  • Conditional Formatting Rules in Excel
  • How to create Gauge Chart in Excel

References

  • Two-way lookup with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • Extract all partial matches in Excel
  • How to get relative row numbers in a range in Excel
  • Perform case-sensitive Lookup in Excel
  • How to get last column number in range in Excel

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation must not contain
  • Data validation must not exist in list
  • Excel Data validation date in specific year
  • Excel Data validation allow uppercase only
  • Excel Data validation must contain specific text

Average top 3 scores in Excel

by

This tutorial shows how to work  Average top 3 scores in Excel using the example below;

Formula

=AVERAGE(LARGE(range,{1,2,3}))

Explanation

To average the top 3 scores in a data set, you can use a formula based on the LARGE function.

In the example shown, the formula in G6 is:

=AVERAGE(LARGE(B6:F6,{1,2,3}))

How this formula works

The LARGE function can retrieve the top nth value from a set of values. So, for example LARGE(A1:A10,1) will return highest value, LARGE(A1:A10,2) will return the 2nd highest value, and so on.

In this case, we are asking for more than one value by passing the array constant {1,2,3} into LARGE for the second argument. This causes LARGE to return an array result that includes the highest 3 values. The AVERAGE function then returns the average of these values.

The AVERAGE function is programmed to automatically handle array results, so it is not necessary to use Ctrl+Shift+Enter (CSE) to enter the formula.

Post navigation

Previous Post:

How to use Excel CHOOSE Function

Next Post:

Customize Ribbon In Excel

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • Return blank if in Excel
  • How to use Excel NOT Function
  • IF with wildcards in Excel
  • How to use IFS function in Excel
  • How to use Excel AND Function

Date Time

  • Get project midpoint in Excel
  • Get days between dates ignoring years in Excel
  • Convert text to date in Excel
  • How to enter Today’s Date or Static Date and Time in Excel
  • Get first Monday before any date in Excel

Grouping

  • Group times into unequal buckets in Excel
  • Group times into 3 hour buckets in Excel
  • Map inputs to arbitrary values in Excel
  • Running count group by n size in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel

General

  • Count cells that do not contain many strings in Excel
  • Subtotal invoices by age in Excel
  • List sheet names with formula in Excel
  • Convert column number to letter in Excel
  • Find, Trace and Correct Errors in Excel Formulas using ‘Formula Auditing’
© 2025 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning