Best time question
 

I've tried to search for MIN with multiple criteria, but had difficultly
applying the examples

I record running times, and I want to get the best time for a given day. So
column A has the date, and column B has the number of seconds. Column C
should show the day's best time (so it would be repeated for each row where
the date is the same).

For example, A2:A10 all have today's date. B2:B10 have times in seconds.
If B5 is the fastest time, the time in B5 would display in C2:C10.
Cells A11:A23 have yesterday's date - etc - I need the C2 formula to copy
down.

Thanks in advance

Daniel

Hi
in C2 enter the following array formula (entered with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER)
=IF(B2=MIN(IF($A$2:$A$100=A2,$B$2:$B$100)),B2,"")
and copy down

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Daniel Bonallack wrote:
I've tried to search for MIN with multiple criteria, but had
difficultly applying the examples

I record running times, and I want to get the best time for a given
day. So column A has the date, and column B has the number of
seconds. Column C should show the day's best time (so it would be
repeated for each row where the date is the same).

For example, A2:A10 all have today's date. B2:B10 have times in
seconds. If B5 is the fastest time, the time in B5 would display in
C2:C10.
Cells A11:A23 have yesterday's date - etc - I need the C2 formula to
copy down.

Thanks in advance

Daniel

Luckily you are OK with C2:C10 ALL containing the best time for a date. If
you only wanted it to appear once it would be trickier.

=MIN(IF(A$2:A$10=A2,B$2:B$10))

entered with control-shift-enter.

Note that b2:b10 must contain times, if it is just text like ":30" you
should use something like;

=MIN(IF(A$2:A$10=A2,--SUBSTITUTE(B$2:B$10,":","")))

also entered with ctrl-shift-enter.



"Daniel Bonallack" wrote in
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I've tried to search for MIN with multiple criteria, but had difficultly
applying the examples

I record running times, and I want to get the best time for a given day.
So
column A has the date, and column B has the number of seconds. Column C
should show the day's best time (so it would be repeated for each row
where
the date is the same).

For example, A2:A10 all have today's date. B2:B10 have times in seconds.
If B5 is the fastest time, the time in B5 would display in C2:C10.
Cells A11:A23 have yesterday's date - etc - I need the C2 formula to copy
down.

Thanks in advance

Daniel