[Solved] Return quickest times for a user in mysql leaderboard

How to optimize this SQL query?

In case you have your own slow SQL query, you can optimize it automatically here.

For the query above, the following recommendations will be helpful as part of the SQL tuning process.
You'll find 3 sections below:

  1. Description of the steps you can take to speed up the query.
  2. The optimal indexes for this query, which you can copy and create in your database.
  3. An automatically re-written query you can copy and execute in your database.
The optimization process and recommendations:
  1. Avoid Subqueries (query line: 9): We advise against using subqueries as they are not optimized well by the optimizer. Therefore, it's recommended to join a newly created temporary table that holds the data, which also includes the relevant search index.
The optimized query:
SELECT
        u.user_id,
        username,
        ac.quickest_time AS intScore 
    FROM
        users u 
    JOIN
        (
            SELECT
                accepted_challenges.user_id,
                MIN(accepted_challenges.time_taken) AS quickest_time 
            FROM
                accepted_challenges 
            WHERE
                accepted_challenges.challenges_id = 1
        ) ac 
            ON ac.user_id = u.user_id

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