Ranking exercises give you quantitative data about your tester's preferences, by allowing you to see how your testers order items in terms of relative importance or priority.
Enable rankings on a maze
To require testers to rank cards inside a category:
- Open your draft maze, or create a new one.
- Click Add block and select Card Sort from the list of blocks. Learn more about card sorting
- Toggle Require participants to rank cards.
- If needed, customize the instructions, shuffle the order of the cards, and fine-tune other settings before sending your maze live.
Preview
Once the maze is sent live, your users will be prompted to sort the cards inside the category/categories in order of preference, with the following callout:
The order is important
Rank the cards in each category by placing the most important ones at the top.
Analyze your results
As testers complete your live maze, you will start seeing insights on the Results dashboard. To learn more about how to visualize and understand your results, check out this article: Understanding your card sorting results
If you've enabled rankings on the card sorting block, you will see the average ranking for each card inside that category when expanding a card or category in the Results dashboard.
Alternative method: Forced distribution using categories
Alternatively, you can prompt testers to rank cards across categories. This approach can be useful if you want testers to pick a few options and exclude the rest.
- Open your draft maze, or create a new one.
- Choose Card Sort from the list of blocks. Learn more about card sorting
- Add categories corresponding to each rank on the scale — e.g. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice.
- Set a maximum of 1 card that can be sorted into those categories.
- If there are more cards than ranking categories,create a category for all remaining cards.
- Add your cards.
- If needed, customize the instructions, shuffle the order of the cards, and fine-tune other settings before sending your maze live.