Delete repeated results from MySQL query

Question

A MySQL query retrieves:

totalpoints --  name 
55 -- John Doe
55 -- John Doe
55 -- John Doe
55 -- John Doe
55 -- John Doe
21 -- Jean London
21 -- Jean London
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Answer 1

Very easy. use following query:

SELECT totalpoints, name
FROM table_name
GROUP BY name
ORDER BY totalpoints DESC