Hi,

I did a study on spreadsheet usage. I asked you, and others all about your usage of sheets. I asked members of Better Sheets , and non-members alike: How often do you use Spreadsheets?

The results are in. Check them out at

​https://bettersheets.co/results​

Some key take aways:

Easy to Learn Quickly

It's surprisingly easy to get confident in your skill level no matter the years you've spent in Google Sheets.

TONS of Hours

No seriously, tons and tons of hours are spent in spreadsheets. I didn't really realize how many until I saw that on average God Tier level spreadsheet users spent 12,000 hours of their life in spreadsheets. Advanced users spent 7,000+ hours.

Second Brain

Our spreadsheets are like second and third brains. 61% of the Business Logic of Advanced Users are in Spreadsheets. Even people who claimed they were beginners averaged about 33% of their "business logic" is in spreadsheets.

Businesses really run on Spreadsheets!

Lack of Correlation

I found it absolutely interesting that there was almost no strong correlation between any answers. Perhaps the strongest was between hours in sheets and days, and business logic. Which of course those are all within the same arena so I would assume that. But even that wasn't a very strong correlation.

If you had not yet answered the questions about your spreadsheet use, you still can: Go here.​

Your Thoughts

Happy to hear your thoughts, deeper questions. And if you fancy yourself a data analyst, go through the data, find something else of interest! Let me know. Happy to share.

-Andrew

P.S.

I tweeted about it here:

Kamphey, Google Sheets Wizard 🧙‍♂️ @Kamphey HOW PEOPLE USE SPREADSHEETS The results are in: Half of Business Logic is in Spreadsheets. Advanced users use sheets for 60+% of their business logic. It's like a second brain. It's easy to learn sheets: There's no correlation between years spent in sheets and level of skill. 3:45 PM • Jul 31, 2023 0 Retweets 0 Likes Read 1 replies

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