I guess you are right. I recalled when I was in college when our organization won 1st place in a lantern-making contest... a good finish... but definetely not a glorious win because our lantern was the only entry.

One thing that I could probably do, for example if I list the top 10 performing students in terms of the number of correct answers is:

1. Student A - 230 ques
2. Student B - 185 ques
3. 3 Tied at 175 ques
4. Student X - 175 ques
... And so forth

I don't know if that would be better... I'll try to see later once I have the real data to crunch

In reply to Re: Re: What's an Efficient Way to Retrieve a Rank from a MySQL Table? by soon_j
in thread What's an Efficient Way to Retrieve a Rank from a MySQL Table? by soon_j

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