# Get every Nth doc with sorted result
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-every-nth-doc-with-sorted-result/23051
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 2, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-every-nth-doc-with-sorted-result/23051 "2015-04-02T02:21:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Ted\_Smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ted_Smith)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-every-nth-doc-with-sorted-result/23051/1 "2015-04-02T02:21:09Z")
Hello:
I have a query sorting over a field and returns all hits (I set size to max)
Is there any way in query to specify that I only want
the first, 6th, 11th, so it would only return these, instead of return
all of
them that I have to skip unwanted.
Thanks very much
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-every-nth-doc-with-sorted-result/23051/2 "2017-07-06T00:22:08Z")