MySQL, Get users rank

Question

I have a mysql table like below:

id     name     points
1      john     4635
3      tom      7364
4      bob      234
6      harry    9857

Answer 1

 SET @rownum := 0;
 SELECT rank, score FROM ( SELECT @rownum := @rownum +1 AS rank, `score` ,`user_id`
 FROM leaderboard 
 ORDER BY  `score` DESC , `updated_timestamp` ) as result WHERE `user_id`=$user_id
 LIMIT 1