use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; use Data::Dumper; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1; my %data = ( car => 180, motorcycle => 150, skate => 150, bird => 120, ); my @sorted = sort { $data{$b} <=> $data{$a} } keys %data; my $rank; my %result; for ( 0 .. $#sorted ) { my $curr_key = $sorted[$_]; my $prev_key = $_ ? $sorted[$_ - 1] : undef; if ( not $prev_key ) { $rank = 1; } elsif ( $data{$curr_key} != $data{$prev_key} ) { $rank++; } else { # values are the same, leave $rank unchanged } $result{$curr_key} = { val => $data{$curr_key}, rank => $rank }; } say "$_: ", Dumper $result{$_} for @sorted; __END__