mongo sort after limit after sort - Not working

Question

I have a collection, from which i get particular type of users using $query
Then I need sort them according to user_id ascending and limit them to 2000

From t

Answer 1

How about using skip():

$cursor = $collection   ->find($query)  
        ->sort(array('user_id'=>1))   
        ->limit(2000)                
        ->skip(1999);