Thank you very kindly for the follow up. I will try to answer your questions as best as I can.

1) Why do you use alphanumerical codes and have to use this equation?

ANSWER: I am not sure I understand the question. Alphanumeric let's me read the equation at a glance. So A01 reads out as ANSWER01 and I know that "A03",2,0 means If answer03 is selected the value is 2 otherwise 0. I don't see how a simple sum equation can work on an array question whose value is different depending on the selected response. I may have not understood the documentation, of course.

I am totally open to suggestions and additional reading or consideration, feel free to share and critique. And thank you for this type of question, I do appreciate learning about how best to think about these things.

2) What are your 30 fields?

In the sample quiz, on the second page I have 3 questions labeled RPTQ04, RPTQ03, RPTQ02. They are purely used to display text information and their visibility is controlled by the equation in the Condition field for each question. Their purpose is to communicate to the user something about their results and only one of the three is displayed based on their score.

I have 30 of those to either display or not display. I want to only display 6 of the 30 based on top scores and cannot figure out how to do the math + comparison to test if each question is part of the top 6 scores.

3) Your suggestion for calculation is intriguing. I think I can visualise a way to start working on this. I appreciate this very much!

If anyone happens by this question before I post updates please feel free to make additional suggestions, I am looking to learn and discuss. If I figure out how to do it I will post the solution.

Joffm, thank you very kindly for the deep response and for taking the time to load up the quiz and share your questions and insights with me. That is very valuable and greatly appreciated.

Hi, here is a working example
calculating ten scores
and displaying the four highest scores with the verbatim description.
 

Please, read trhe manual to get familiar with the basics of access to variables, the "self" and "that" variable, ExpressionScript in general.
You may import the sample surveys in the manual
[url] www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScript_sample_surveys [/url]

Some short explanations:
You did not use all items of the array to calculate the score.
Therefore I used a better way of coding.
"Scored" items have codes like "S01", "S02"..., memorizable as "Score"
The other items - not used for the score - have codes like "N01", "N02", memorizable as "No score"
And of course nuzmerical codes of answer options

Now the "sum" function is only
sum(that.Q1.sq_S.NAOK)

You will see that I added a very small number randomly. This to avoid ties.

Now the group "GCalc"
Here the work is done.
"M" is a "container", a question of type "array(numbers)" to store some interim data
Important: The first coulmn with the scores, the fourth column with the ranks.

And your results.
It is not necessary to use three separate displays for just one score. Use a nested IF, and everything is file.

To be honest: You could use just one question to display all results.
Again with a nested IF. But depends a bit on the length of your texts.

As said: The four highest out of ten.

So you only have to extend the "container" M to your amont of scores and the equation "eqScore"

Joffm