How I won the 2023 Microsoft Excel World Championships
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- This is a re-enactment of my performance in the MEWC 2023 Final last month.
I solve it (roughly) the same way as I did on the day and talk through what I was thinking during each stage of the case.
If you'd like to see a polished solution to the full case, check out Diarmuid Early's video: • Eve online Excel chall...
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00:00 Intro
01:31 Rules and Case Overview
03:36 Level 1
05:05 Level 2
06:28 Level 3 (Attempt 1)
10:50 Bonus 1
12:28 Level 3 (Attempt 2)
19:13 Level 4
26:41 Level 5? / Bonus 2
30:00 Bonus 3
33:54 Bonus 4
35:42 Level 5?
38:57 Conclusion
Can you video with most of formulas and keyboard shortcuts you use? I would be happy if I can learn even half of your techniques 😊
"Then I started looking at the scoreboard and hoping it would stay the same" I felt this to my core, glad it's the same right at the top! Thanks for sharing, great to see
8:31 This might be why I will never beat you! (One of the reasons anyway 😂) Sometimes I’m too purist for my own good… there weren’t even that many of them, but I don’t think it would have even occurred to me to just do them by hand!
15:28 I should do that more often!
I hope you can be persuaded to make more of these : )
Haha well you don't need to do it by hand if you have your colour macro 😂
@@andrew_ngai That was the one good investment I made in my finals prep... it didn't save me though! 😂
On this point, I always go back to Andrew's approach to the Excelopolis problem in the 2021 FMWC Open, where everybody else tried to solve it using fancy formulae and even VBA, and Andrew just solved every line of each question manually... and topped the scoreboard! Sometimes the manual approach is the best 😂
@@Tim_Heng I know exactly what you mean - it was the Share the Ride case, which was theoretically doable with circular references, but very tricky to get right.
I think that round might not play out the same way today though… using circular references was a very unusual idea at the time, but it’s come up a few times since. Maybe one or two people would crack the general solution in the time today??
@@DimEarly Yes you're right, it was Share the Ride. Your memory is better than mine!
I think that with recursion better understood and easier to implement with lambdas now, it might be a conceptually easier task to follow as well. I'll be honest and say that I still don't think the circular general solution is terribly intuitive, but that's why I sit on the commentator side and leave the competing to you good folks! :D
First 🥇 of many hopefully! It will benefit us all to have a glimpse into the mind of another Excel genius!
Amazing, thanks for showing this and congrats on the win
Congrats with the win and thank you for the video, enjoyed it!
Nice one Andrew. Congrats on the win and good luck with the UA-cam career!
Wonderful, thank you!
Really good ! Quick thinking
Exciting, looking forward to watching it. It would have been interesting to see the live event - FMWC could, next time, have streams on all the finalist individually. Just a thought. Happy to learn from the best!
Brilliant job!❤
Excellent. I hope you continue to solve these problems and teach us how to think to reach solutions
Thank you very much
And more success
thanks for the video!
Congratullation 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks
Insane!
Hey Andrew, big fan. I aspire to be just as good as you one day.
Great athlete
This video helped me realise Microsoft Excel is an insane ESport!
Good video thanks. Keen to see if you can make one similar about Excel Road to Vegas battle 1 (and onward). Thanks
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How important is the kind of computer you are using? what keyboard is best ? I am a beginner.
Could we get a Computer Setup video in future?
Thanks
I don't think the type of computer is that important, Excel doesn't use a lot of resources (at least for the cases in the competitions), you probably just want any keyboard and mouse that you find comfortable and a decent size monitor
what sorcery is a data table @19:04 & @26:00 was trying out this excel today.
can find it in Data > What-If Analysis > Data Table, sorry i'm clicking stuff underneath the banner i placed on the video
What is this magical move at 19:04 ? I don't even understand how it can automaticaly go to pick the good prices at the good date knowing all the initial calculations are being done with the prices of 3 jul 23...
oh that's a data table, sorry i'm clicking the Ribbon but it's hidden behind the banner which I added to the video to keep track of the question/scores
Data > What-If Analysis > Data Table, then set column input cell to the cell which you want to vary (in this case A1)
@@andrew_ngai Thank you so much ! :)
How do you create that symbol in front of the dates at 10:04?
I didn't create that, it was a special type of data object that came with the question
May I know your Educational background? I am thinking if After matric I wil spend my time learning Ms excel then is it important to have strong educational background for Ms excel jobs? Or only the skill is important?
I'm an actuary. I suppose it depends on what job specifically but in general I'd say both are important
From where can I download these worksheet and questions? I want to try these
They're available at FMWC's website, specifically fmworldcup.com/sample-cases/
Some are free, others you will need to purchase