Here's another way...

=AVERAGE(SUBTOTAL(9,OFFSET(A1:A14,SMALL(IF(A1:A14 0,ROW(A1:A14)-MIN(ROW(A
1))),{1,2,3}),0,1)))

....confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not ENTER.

Hope this helps!

In article ,
Alienator
wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'll give an example to show you what I want to do. I have the
following data:

0
1.2179
0
0
0
0
0
0
1.2140
0
0
0
1.2115
1.2165

I want to average the first 3 numbers that are non-zero. So the result
of the 1st should be 1.2179+1.2140+1.2115 /3. I need the results of
these to be in the 1st row somewhere else.

The rows with zeros, and non-zeros keep changing, so you might get 10
0's in a row followed by 10 non-zero numbers. I just need to extract
the first 3 non-zero numbers then average them

I'm good with the basic functions, but I can't figure this out

Any help at all would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Zak