How to get faster at excel?

I am an analyst 1 at a top bank in a very technical group where I get a lot of excel reps. I believe I am an upper middle bucket analyst. Not amazing but definitely not bad either.


I am about as fast or faster than the others in my class but oftentimes when I see older associates or VPs who did IB as an analyst hop in excel it blows my mind how fast they are. Any advice on how to get faster? I need to make a habit of learning and forcing myself to use new shortcuts but I don’t know how.

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