How to Get Top 3 Maximum Numbers in Google Sheets

Learn how to find the top three maximum numbers in Google Sheets using the LARGE function, along with VLOOKUP and INDEX MATCH for better data management.

I want to find out which item do I have the most of in all of my stock. Over here I have products. I have a total number of products. I have products all over storage here. I just want to find out which product do I have the most of and what is the top three inventory. Well, we can do large and we can go through our data . And I just want the number one item there and that's 39. And so I can do a little bit of a VLOOKUP or index match . I really like index match . I just want to find the index of what's in D column with a matching 39 from the E column. And that's chalk. Where is chalk? There is don't want to

put zero for an exact match . And so that is pencil here 39. Now you might be using max and you just say what's the maximum of this column and you'll say 39 but you can't find the next one. So that's why I use large because I can say one and then in the next spot I can say two and in the next spot I can say three. And now I see that my top three inventory items are pencil, marker and notebook. And that's why I use the large formula here. Hopefully that was really cool for you and now you can stop using the max formula . If you're looking for the top sort of n numbers here, you're

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