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Up to the moment there are88 certain metals out of the entire118 known elements in the Periodic Table. and they are classified as following:
6 Alkali Metals
6 Alkaline Earth Metals
38 Transition Metals
8 Post-transition Metals
15 Lanthanides
15 Actinides
The following elements still can be considered metals (But not with the same certainty as the above88 ones)
7 Metalloids
6 Transactinide elements (Still under experimentations)
This adds up to nearly101 metalic element in the periodic table.
On the other hand, there are only7 non-metals besides the4 Halogens and the6 Noble gases.
There are88 metals in the periodic table.