how would I create a query to get both the current player's rank and the surrounding player ranks. For example, if I had a leaderboard collection with name and points
{name: 'John', pts: 123}
If John was in 23rd place, I would want to show the names of users in the 22nd and 24th place as well.
I could query for a count of leader board items with pts greater than 123 to get John's rank, but how can I efficiently get the one player that is ranked just above and below the current player? Can I get items based on index position alone?
I suppose I can make 2 queries, first to get the number the rank position of a user, then a skip limit query, but that seems inefficient and doesn't seem to have an efficient use of the index
db.leaderboards.find({pts:{$gt:123}}).count();
-> 23
db.leaderboards.find().skip(21).limit(3)
The last query seems to scan across 24 records using the its index, is there a way I can reasonably do this with a range query or something more efficient? I can see this becoming an issue if the user is very low ranked, like 50,000th place.