PERCENTRANK.EXC Function in Excel: Percentile Position, Excluding Ends

⏱ 1 min readUpdated 28 September 2026

StatisticsLevel: ExpertAvailable in: Excel 2010+

In this article
  1. Syntax
  2. Examples
  3. Example 1
  4. Related functions

PERCENTRANK.EXC works like PERCENTRANK.INC, but never returns exactly 0 or 1 — matching the EXC family of percentile functions.

Syntax

=PERCENTRANK.EXC(array, x, [significance])
Argument What it means
x Value to rank.

Examples

Example 1

=PERCENTRANK.EXC($C$2:$C$50, C2)

Percentile position of each score.

PERCENTRANK.INC · PERCENTILE.EXC

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