Practice Excel.
Level up your skills.
Cellcraft turns Excel practice into a 16-bit-inspired adventure. Solve 96 original formula quests across 12 regions, get immediate feedback, and take your practice into Excel with downloadable workbooks.
Begin your first quest →No installation or account required to try. The public beta curriculum is free.
Learn by writing the formula
Read a short workplace task, inspect the data, and enter your formula. Progressive hints and worked explanations help when you get stuck. A working alternative to the example solution can pass: the checker tests the visible result and changed numeric inputs.
Choose a useful skill
Formula foundations
Your first formulas, cell references, and everyday calculations. 8 quests.
Totals & summaries
Turn a sheet of numbers into answers with core functions. 8 quests.
Decisions & error handling
Build business rules with IF, AND, OR, and IFERROR. 8 quests.
Conditional analysis
Find the right totals with SUMIF, COUNTIFS, and more. 8 quests.
Lookups & references
Connect information using XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, and INDEX/MATCH. 8 quests.
Text & data cleanup
Transform messy names, codes, and imported data. 8 quests.
Reporting & analysis
Calculate weighted results, rankings, and useful report metrics. 8 quests.
Workplace boss challenges
Combine your skills to solve realistic business problems. 8 quests.
Dates & working days
Build real Excel dates, schedule renewals, and count working days. 8 quests.
Statistics & decision rules
Read distributions, round to useful units, and write clearer business rules. 8 quests.
Text search & extraction
Find variable separators and extract information from imported records. 8 quests.
Dynamic arrays
Build live lists with UNIQUE, FILTER, SORT, and array comparisons. 8 quests.
Bring the practice into Excel
Explore 3 project tracks, 10 keyboard shortcut drills, pivot-summary challenges, a daily quest, and a review list. Download practice and solution .xlsx workbooks to continue in your own spreadsheet app. Project tracks combine smaller exercises; they are not replicas of a complete workplace dashboard.
A clear path to completion
Start anonymously, then use your account to save verified progress and work toward a Cellcraft completion certificate. The certificate records completion of Cellcraft’s course requirements. It is issued by Cellcraft and is separate from Microsoft’s examination credentials.
Know what the lab supports
The browser engine supports 71 English-named Excel functions, common operators, and bounded cell ranges. It is a teaching simulator with defined limits, rather than the Excel application. View the curriculum and compatibility details before relying on a specific feature.
Start small. Keep the useful habit.
XP, levels, achievements, and the daily quest make practice visible. The skill check can suggest a starting point. Return to mistakes, explain your formulas, and test important work in the version of Excel you use.
Explore the full quest map →SUM practice: add a range with confidence
Learn Excel SUM with a worked sales example, range checks, common mistakes, and interactive practice.
IF practice: turn a business rule into a formula
Practice IF, comparisons, and nested logic with realistic stock and payroll examples.
SUMIF and SUMIFS practice for useful reports
Learn criteria ranges, sum ranges, and multi-condition totals through original Excel exercises.
XLOOKUP practice: connect your spreadsheet data
Practice exact-match XLOOKUP, missing-value fallbacks, and left lookups with an original inventory dataset.