# Airtable and List

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [October 21, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/airtable-and-list/918499 "2020-10-21T05:06:54Z")\
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I found this solution much faster for Google Sheet, but I haven’t tried it on AirTable. For AirTable, substitute the Get Column block for the List of Values block in the example.

> [@Data Source Performance Workaround FOUND!](http://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-performance-workaround-found/756227):
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> Anyone who has tried to use the data source GET VALUE block to retrieve an entire row from a google sheet data source will have noticed the abismal performance. I’ve developed a work-around with resonable performance, albiet block intensive. The basic process is: For each column in the data source, manually use the LIST OF VALUES block to copy the entire column into a local list Use the LENGTH of one of the created lists for a COUNT WITH block and build a JSON object using the CREATE OBJECT a…

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