How I won the 2023 Microsoft Excel World Championships

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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...
For more info on Excel eSports or to register for the 2024 season, visit fmworldcup.com/
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

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@quoit99training83 3 ай бұрын

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 😊

@ElliottExcels 2 ай бұрын

"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

@Patrick_from_Youtube 3 ай бұрын

Amazing, thanks for showing this and congrats on the win

@DimEarly 4 ай бұрын

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 : )

@andrew_ngai 4 ай бұрын

Haha well you don't need to do it by hand if you have your colour macro 😂

@DimEarly 4 ай бұрын

@@andrew_ngai That was the one good investment I made in my finals prep... it didn't save me though! 😂

@Tim_Heng 3 ай бұрын

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 😂

@DimEarly 3 ай бұрын

@@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??

@Tim_Heng 3 ай бұрын

@@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

@Ago468 3 ай бұрын

Congrats with the win and thank you for the video, enjoyed it!

@kanewilliams1653 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful, thank you!

@LeviBailey 3 ай бұрын

Nice one Andrew. Congrats on the win and good luck with the KZfaq career!

@XFaramir 3 ай бұрын

Really good ! Quick thinking

@sledgehammer-productions 4 ай бұрын

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!

@omori3007 3 ай бұрын

thanks for the video!

@AIR_TANAH Ай бұрын

Congratullation 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@xXPhixiusXx 4 ай бұрын

First 🥇 of many hopefully! It will benefit us all to have a glimpse into the mind of another Excel genius!

@Reduce_Scan 4 ай бұрын

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

@CaribouDataScience 3 ай бұрын

Thanks

@RemyMS 2 ай бұрын

Insane!

@jldocherty 3 ай бұрын

Good video thanks. Keen to see if you can make one similar about Excel Road to Vegas battle 1 (and onward). Thanks

@LLau 4 ай бұрын

YAS QUEEN SLAYYY

@doctorofkickboxing 4 ай бұрын

This video helped me realise Microsoft Excel is an insane ESport!

@AdhySulistyo 3 ай бұрын

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@user-wq2zb3zg9k 3 ай бұрын

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

@andrew_ngai 3 ай бұрын

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

@benlim0707 2 ай бұрын

what sorcery is a data table @19:04 & @26:00 was trying out this excel today.

@andrew_ngai Ай бұрын

can find it in Data > What-If Analysis > Data Table, sorry i'm clicking stuff underneath the banner i placed on the video

@pyl-3136 2 ай бұрын

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...

@andrew_ngai 2 ай бұрын

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)

@pyl-3136 2 ай бұрын

@@andrew_ngai Thank you so much ! :)

@Felix-ef8mg 28 күн бұрын

How do you create that symbol in front of the dates at 10:04?

@andrew_ngai 25 күн бұрын

I didn't create that, it was a special type of data object that came with the question

@respawnablescomedy4024 25 күн бұрын

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?

@andrew_ngai 25 күн бұрын

I'm an actuary. I suppose it depends on what job specifically but in general I'd say both are important