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# **Find the fastest time with MIN**

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**MIN** returns the smallest number in a range, and **MAX** the largest. The order the numbers are in doesn't matter.

Click **Continue** when you're ready.

Already know it? Type the formula straight into B8.

B8fx

|  | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Runner | Seconds |  |  |  | |
| 2 | Ida | 12.4 |  |  |  | |
| 3 | Jon | 11.8 |  |  |  | |
| 4 | Kim | 13.1 |  |  |  | |
| 5 | Lea | 11.5 |  |  |  | |
| 6 | Mads | 12 |  |  |  | |
| 7 | Nora | 12.7 |  |  |  | |
| 8 |  |  |  |  |  | |
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