In a recent blog we launched an Excel Challenge to see who could best emulate the smoothness of an iPhone in Excel. We have received a number of great submissions and we are today happy to announce the winner and thank people for their participation.
Excel Challenge winner – Daniel Ferry
The best contribution was submitted by Daniel Ferry, a.k.a Excel Hero. For those of you who, like me, have followed Daniels blog it doesn’t come as a surprise that he has come up with a cracking solution.
Daniel’s first entry was a very impressive, a slick and right-out awesome iPhone slider simulator. I was happy already at that stage. When he then later on sent through another even more amazingly addictive version everyone in the Corality Sydney office got so excited we had to pull them away from their workstations as they just couldn’t stop clicking the ‘Slide me’ button!
Daniel is an Excel MVP (Awarded on 1 July 2011) and also runs an online training program – the Excel Hero Academy. I haven’t been through the program, but it certainly looks like a great initiative!
Daniel, congratulations on winning this award and eternal honour for your fantastic submission to our Excel Challenge. You are now also entitled to a free participation in any of our financial modelling training courses!
Download Daniel Ferry’s Excel Challenge submission here
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Special award – Levi Bailey
I would also like to thank Levi Bailey who sent through a solid solution to the iPhone slider challenge but also included a ball game with nice physical dynamics of the ball movements. It reminded me a lot about my days in physics with differential equations and theoretical mechanics which doesn’t happen all that often in Excel spreadsheets!
I have known Levi for a number of years but his participation in the Excel challenge reminded me of his great financial modelling skills and we have since then offered him a role in our London team which he has accepted. Welcome aboard Levi!
Download Levi Bailey’s Excel Challenge submission here.
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Special award II – Chris Rowland
Chris Rowland’s submission to the Excel challenge showed a creative side as he managed to avoid a lot of the fundamental issues of ‘sliding’ an object in Excel. Instead, he used a combination of scaling AND movement which gives a great effect. His contribution is not as polished as Daniel’s but the simple idea of replacing the core problem to come up with a better solution is brilliant and supports my overall idea about avoiding complexity in Excel.
Download Chris Rowland’s Excel Challenge submission here.
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Thank you everyone else who also participated! I hope you all got something out of it!
Regards,
Rickard
