Finding the position in a list where the maximum or minimum value occurs [duplicate]

Question

We can use Max[exampleList] or Min[exampleList] to find the maxima and minima of exampleList, however, is there a similar standalone function that returns something like {position in array, maximum value in the array} or {position in array, minimum value in the array}, i.e. both the position and value of the maximum or minimum element in exampleList? It seems awkward to have to write Position[exampleList,Max[exampleList]] or Position[exampleList,Min[exampleList]]?

Answer 1

Position[list,_?(#==Max[list]&)]

or shorter (per your comment...)

Position[list,Max[list]]

will do the trick, obviously change Max to Min for minimum...

Or, as suggested in comments

Ordering[list,1]
Ordering[list,-1]

Will give positions of minimum and maximum, respectively.

Computation times

order[n_] := Block[{},
  list = RandomReal[1, n];
  t1 = (Position[list, Min@list]; // RepeatedTiming // First);
  t2 = (Ordering[list, 1]; // RepeatedTiming // First);
  {{n, t1}, {n, t2}}]
tab = ParallelTable[order[Floor[1.1^n]], {n, 1, 100, 1}];
ListLogLogPlot[{tab[[All, 1]], tab[[All, 2]]}]

Ordering is much faster.