Top 3 Scores - MySQL [duplicate] - mysql

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I'm building a "Top 3 Scores" Leaderboard. I want to display the top three scores, drawing the max per person, but I don't want to limit 3, because I want to display anyone that has the top 3 scores. So for example, with the data below,
+----+-----+
|Name|Score|
+----+-----+
|Matt| 17|
|Mark| 29|
|Luke| 28|
|John| 29|
|Paul| 27|
|Matt| 29|
|Mark| 22|
+----+-----+
I want to display:
+------+-----+
|Name |Score|
+------+-----+
|1.Matt| 30|
|2.Mark| 29|
|2.John| 29|
|3.Luke| 28|
+------+-----+
My first thought is to extract the max for everyone, and then stop displaying after the score changes (using PHP).
select name, max(score)
from SCORES
group by name
order by name
Is there any way to do this directly in SQL?

Answer 1

SELECT name, score
FROM SCORES
JOIN (SELECT distinct score score3
FROM scores
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 2, 1) x
ON score >= score3
ORDER by score DESC
FIDDLE

Answer 2

SELECT name,score
FROM SCORES
WHERE score in (
SELECT distinct s.score
FROM SCORES as s
ORDER BY s.score desc
LIMIT 3)
)
ORDER BY score

Answer 3

SELECT Name, MAX(Score) Score
FROM TableName a
WHERE EXISTS
(
SELECT 1
FROM TableName b
WHERE a.Score = b.Score
GROUP BY Score
ORDER BY Score DESC
LIMIT 3
)
GROUP BY Name
ORDER BY Score DESC
SQLFiddle Demo
OUTPUT based on the records given above
╔══════╦═══════╗
║ NAME ║ SCORE ║
╠══════╬═══════╣
║ Mark ║ 29 ║
║ John ║ 29 ║
║ Matt ║ 29 ║
║ Luke ║ 28 ║
║ Paul ║ 27 ║
╚══════╩═══════╝

Answer 4

this will give the top three scores, regardless of ties.
SELECT score FROM mytable group by score
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 3
now get the third score.
SELECT MIN(score') FROM (SELECTscoreFROMmytablegroup by score
ORDER BYscore` DESC
LIMIT 3) as top3
finally get everything equal or above the third score
SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE score' >=
(SELECT MIN(score') FROM
(SELECT score FROM mtyable group by score'
ORDER BYscore` DESC
LIMIT 3) as top3)

Answer 5

I would try something like:
SELECT * FROM mytable
WHERE score IN (SELECT DISTINCT score FROM mytable ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 3)
ORDER BY score DESC

Answer 6

Here IS SQL FIDDLE.
SELECT
NAME,
score
FROM SCORES
WHERE FIND_IN_SET(score,(SELECT
SUBSTRING_INDEX(GROUP_CONCAT( DISTINCT score ORDER BY score DESC),',',3)
FROM SCORES)) > 0
ORDER BY score desc