Find the maximal element by its last part:

Do the same using the operator form of MaximalBy:

All maximal elements are returned, in order of appearance:

Obtain the first three maximal elements:

Prune an association to its maximal values:

Obtain the first four maximal elements or as many as are available:

MaximalBy works with symbolic expressions, using canonical Order by default:

Find maximal element in a list of comparable quantities with various units:

Comparing by QuantityMagnitude loses the unit information:

Find numerically largest element:

MaximalBy works on QuantityArray:

MaximalBy will order dates according to canonical order by default:

Convert the dates to absolute times to sort them numerically:

Equivalently, convert the dates to DateObject form and use NumericalOrder instead of Order:

Take the letters of the Polish alphabet:

Transliterate them to the Hiragana script:

These are the five largest Polish letters according to canonical order:

These are the five largest Polish letters according to the rules of the Polish alphabet:

These are the five largest Polish letters according to canonical order of their Hiragana transliteration:

These are the five largest Polish letters according to alphabetic order in Japanese of their transliteration:

Construct a TabularColumn object with 100 words:

Select the five longest words:

Normalize the result to a list:

Find the four rows in a Tabular object with largest values in a given column:

Use general functional notation instead of the column name:

Use function of both columns:

Take a dataset of the solar system planets:

Find the three planets with the maximal number of moons:

When there are common values of f[e_i] for different elements e_i, the original order will be kept:

Find the four longest texts available in ExampleData["Text"]:

Find the five constellations with maximal number of bright stars:

Take a dataset of the solar system planets:

Find the two planets with the maximal mass:

MaximalBy[{e₁,e₂,…},f,n] compares values f[e_i] using canonical Order:

TakeLargestBy[{e₁,e₂,…},f,n] compares values f[e_i] using NumericalOrder:

For a specific ordering function p, MaximalBy[data,f,n,p] is equivalent to TakeLargestBy[data,f,n,p]:

For association, the function f is applied to values:

By default, the maximal element is determined using canonical Order, not numerical ordering:

Compare numerical values of the elements of the list: