counting text values up to a certain amount of times that letter appears

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I am looking to count how many times an "x" appears in a row up to 5 times. If it appears more than 5 times I want to stop counting that letter. What formula should I be using?
 

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Hi and welcome

=MIN(5, COUNTIF(A:A, "x"))
 
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