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The Excel Functions Challenge Series.

The Full Stack Modeller Challenge Series is a bundle of three practical Excel challenge workbooks, with levels that start gentle and get pretty tricky. All three, plus any we create in the future, are yours for life.

Get the bundle · £25 One payment. All three series. For life.

Our challenge series will rewire how you use Excel.

One payment of £25 gets you lifetime access to all three Challenge Series on the Full Stack Modeller platform. Each series is a set of workbooks with levels that build from the basics up to problems that will make you think hard! You work at your own pace, and the workbooks are yours to keep.

The three series cover: the Excel Functions series, the LET & LAMBDA series, and the Spilling, Lifting & Broadcasting series. Start wherever you like, come back to the others whenever you want.

Together they cover the parts of modern Excel that most people never quite get comfortable with: the functions that replace half your old habits, the tools for writing your own reusable logic, and the grid behaviours that trip people up when one formula suddenly fills a whole range.

Three series, one bundle.

Tap any series to see what's inside. All three are live and included, so start wherever suits you.

The original series, built around the functions that do most of the heavy lifting in real modelling work. Six functions, each with its own workbook and eight levels that ramp up as you go.

XLOOKUP The one that quietly retires VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and a lot of your old INDEX/MATCH habits. Learn it well and half your lookup headaches disappear.
XMATCH XLOOKUP's quieter sibling, and the tool for positional logic. Once it clicks, you start reaching for it in places you'd never have thought to before.
SORT & SORTBY Sort data with a formula instead of a button, so it re-sorts itself as the numbers change. Live reports stop needing a manual refresh.
FILTER The function that makes most of your old helper columns redundant. Pull exactly the rows you want, and watch them update on their own.
UNIQUE Deceptively simple on its own, surprisingly powerful the moment you pair it with FILTER and SORT. The backbone of dynamic lists and dashboards.
INDEX The old classic that still earns its place every day. Nothing else gives you quite the same control over pulling values out of a range.

A six-part series on writing your own reusable logic in Excel. This is where you stop copying the same nested formula everywhere and start building tools you can name and reuse.

LET Name the pieces of a big formula so it reads like plain steps instead of one unreadable line. Easier to follow, and it recalculates faster too.
LAMBDA Write your own custom functions, in Excel, with no code. Solve a fiddly problem once and reuse it everywhere by name.
SCAN · REDUCE · MAP · BYROW · BYCOL The helper functions that let LAMBDA loop over your data. This is how you handle whole ranges at once without dragging a formula down a thousand rows.

Modern Excel's least understood behaviours: the moments when a calculation in one cell doesn't give you one cell of output. Get these right and your formulas start doing far more with far less.

Spilling Why a single formula can fill a whole range of cells on its own, and how to work with that instead of fighting it. The foundation everything else builds on.
Lifting How functions that expect one value quietly run across a whole array instead. Understand it and you'll write one formula where you used to write hundreds.
Broadcasting How Excel pairs up a row and a column to build a full grid of results. The trick behind clean calculation tables with no repeated formulas.

Built for beginners. Open to everyone.

Built for

Beginners

If you know your way around a spreadsheet but you've never properly used dynamic arrays, you're exactly who we had in mind. The early levels assume nothing and walk you through the logic before asking you to do anything clever.

Also welcome

Intermediates

You'll breeze through the first few levels, but the later ones tend to catch out even confident users. You'll probably pick up a few tricks you didn't know were there.

Three steps, then you're in.

Step 01

Get the bundle

Pay once via the link and your account is set up on the Full Stack Modeller platform. That's where all three series live. The workbooks are yours to keep, with lifetime access.

Step 02

Dive into any series

All three series are waiting in your account from the moment you're in. Pick whichever grabs you first and work through the levels at your own pace. The others are there whenever you want them.

Step 03

Tell us what worked

When you're done, send us a bit of feedback. It genuinely shapes how these series grow and what we build next.

Run by people who build models for a living.

Giles Male, founder of Full Stack Modeller
Giles Male, founder and MD

Full Stack Modeller is a global Excel and financial modelling training platform run out of the UK by Giles Male and his business partner Myles Arnott. Thousands of finance professionals use it every day to level up their Excel and modelling skills.

Giles, who designed this challenge, is one of only three people in the world to hold both the Microsoft MVP award and the Financial Modelling Institute's MFM certification.

None of which matters much on a Monday morning when you're trying to get Biscuit fed. But it's why the challenges are worth your time.

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