Are you not receiving all posted messages Harlan?

This is exactly what Biff posted, as a suggestion in his original reply to
this thread ... 2 days ago!

That made me also wonder at Debra's not seeing Biff's post?
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Regards,

RD

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"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
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"Debra Dalgleish" wrote...
You can use an array formula to total the top scores. For example, with
scores in cells B2:B100 --

=SUM(LARGE(B2:B100,ROW(INDIRECT("1:3"))))

To array enter the formula, hold the Ctrl and Shift keys, then press
Enter.
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If the number of values to average is small (subjective, but 3 is
definitely
a small number), and if you're hardcoding the 2nd arg to LARGE anyway
("1:3"), why not use

=SUM(LARGE(B2:B100,{1,2,3}))

which doesn't have to be entered as an array formula?