Spreadsheet Championships

westv

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jz083lz6xo

I bet a few on here would love to take part. 

Brie

I love a good spreadsheet!!!

ali_bear

That's the Microsoft Excel World Championships. Other spreadsheet platforms are available. 

MyRealNameToo

ali_bear said:

Other spreadsheet platforms are available. 

not sure there are for the world championships, haven't seen a Numbers WC

leosayer

I'm more of a google sheets person and a pretty slow one too.

Cobbler_tone

The best spreadsheet I ever saw was a friends, who built it for our fantasy F1 group. It was incredible and I couldn't believe it was produced on Excel.
The people I know who are good on it massively overcomplicate things, or have their own style.
I get by and can create what I need, or usually interpret what others have done. I often build something and then go back to it months later and wonder...."how did I do that?!" a lot of googling normally.

It'll be another skill that is diluted by AI.

westv

MyRealNameToo said:

ali_bear said:

Other spreadsheet platforms are available. 

not sure there are for the world championships, haven't seen a Numbers WC

Where are the other competitions where spreadsheet geeks excel? 

LV_426

Brie said:

I love a good spreadsheet!!!

Don't we all. I've come to appreciate the power of the spreadsheet. I particularly liked Edmund Bailey's awesome cashflow spreadsheet. Look him up on YT.

leosayer

I've got quite a few on the go - these are my main ones:

Retirement cashflows
This is based on the Edmund Bailey sheet mentioned above which takes into account inflation, expected income requirements and different possible rates of investment return

Monthly cashflows
This models the transactions going in and out of all our pots eg. PCLS, Drawdowns, Contributions, big expenditures etc.
I also have a variation that models future allocation changes between high and low risk investments because we have a lot going out at the moment due to building works.

Performance
Records the value of all our investment holdings every week and calculates past performance - back to 1999!

Expenditure analysis
Consolidated bank/credit card statements categorised so that we can project our future spend

I also tend to do a bit of writing to support any decisions that we make - force of habit from my previous job as a business analyst.

Moonwolf

Personally I was more of a whiz with Supercalc and Lotus 123. Can’t be doing with these new fangled tools.

No really, I used both those before Excel even appeared.

Also Paradox and DataEase before Access and SPSS running on a Perkin-Elmer in command line mode.  

Secret2ndAccount

If you think you've got some skills going on, check out the International Obfuscated C Coding Contest. A chess program in 760 characters; a flight simulator in one page of code in the shape of an aeroplane...  These guys are on another level.