Question

I have a database full of users scores for a game I created. I’m trying to add a feature to show the user what their current rank is.

I need a query that will sort the rows by score DESC and then locate the users score and get his / her rank by their username.

I know it’s a pretty simple query, but my mind just isn’t working right now.

CREATE TABLE HighScores(
   id       int(11)      NOT NULL auto_increment
  ,deviceID varchar(100) NOT NULL
  ,username varchar(50)  NOT NULL
  ,score    varchar(10)  NOT NULL
  ,game     int(2)       NOT NULL
  ,spins    int(10)      NOT NULL
  ,PRIMARY KEY (id)
 );

Answer 1

Since i don’t know your table structure it’s hard to come up with a query.

This article does exactly what you want.

Example query:

select @rownum:=@rownum+1 ‘rank’, p.* from player p, (SELECT @rownum:=0) r order by score desc limit 10;

The magic is in the variable rownum, which is a variable incremented for each row.