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Tip for everyone participating in round 1: double-check your solutions with longer sequences. I suggest at least 100 elements, possibly 10k if your algorithm is very sophisticated. Try random data, already sorted data, reverse-sorted data, and random data with few unique values that are repeated of...

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So we have enough interest. Cool! Nobody expressed a wish to host yet, so I will take the first turn. I have always loved sorting algorithm animations, for example at https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms. I even wrote a sorting algorithm library at one point, which I never published....

On the old forums, there was Programming Wars (unfortunately I could not get hold of it on archive.org). If there is enough interest, I would enjoy doing something similar here, though not necessarily as competitive. Suggestion for rules: The game should go in non-overlapping rounds, each hosted by ...

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Hey folks! Nice to see so many familiar names in the member list. Thank you for creating this new place, The Snide Sniper. I didn't plan this, but people in Forum Games have already begun importing threads from the old forum, and I'm not in the least bit surprised about it. [...] Could be a place fo...