Sorting Algorithms Explained Visually 

If you think Bogo sort is bad, you haven't heard of miracle sort. This works by checking if the array is sorted, if it's not: check again. You have to wait for some miracle to happen, so the memory is getting corrupted in some way.

Bogo sort is both the slowest and fastest sorting algorithm. Depending on your luck you can have it sorted at the first try or never, and me personally I like those chances

The best algorithm I know is the Stalin sort. It simply removes the elements that are not in order. Not only is it an O(n) algorithm, but it also SAVES memory when you run it! It's really great!

Mistake at 4:08 where you say merge sort results in quadratic time when you're talking about selection sort

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You should have mentioned Quantum Bogo sort, splitting the universe into all possible combinations of the shuffled array and destroying every universe where its not sorted. It has an O(1) time making it the best sorting algorithm

Algorithm timestamps: 1:37 - Bubble sort 2:33 - Insertion sort 3:32 - Selection sort 4:11 - Merge sort 5:26 - Quick sort 6:53 - Radix sort 7:54 - Bogo sort

You should have covered quantum bogosort: 1. Use some quantum source of randomness (e.g. radioactive decay) to shuffle the list. If we assume that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true this will result in one universe for every possible list order. 2. If the list is not sorted, destroy the universe (this is left as an exercise to the reader). 3. The only surviving universe is one in which the list is sorted. This sort is not stable, but this problem can be easily fixed: just use the same randomness source to generate random source code and destroy the universe if the generated code is not a stable quantum bogosort.

Job interviewers should understand the last line of this video. "So basically, everything you learned in this video is useless on a practical level"

This is like learning the most boring topics in the form of a kindergarten musical math lesson. Absolutely loved it !

I like quantumsort. It does nothing but check to see if quantum fluctuations have caused your data to spontaneously sort itself

It's also worth considering how data might be added to the array causing a need to re-sort. If data is rarely changed, the sort algorithm doesn't need to be most efficient. If data is regularly added or removed, how it's added/removed can be important combined with the sorting algorithm.

I made little markdown explanations in Obsidian for most of these algorithms because our professor had a very questionable teaching method that resulted in like 60% of students confused and clueless. Shoutout to the big brains behind mermaidJS, I wouldn't be able to explain merge sort without your graphs!

It's funny how my window screen hasn't loaded yet and there's your voice. Thanks for sharing.

I think radix sort does extremely well when the input data is massive, like 10M+ values.

Interesting, but which array method will help me center this div?

In pandemic i viewed a LOT of sorting videos, they are mesmerizing in their own way.

Radix Sort, doesn't split in buckets of 10, the general meta is to use a base of 256 and there are two implementations, one with buckets and one with counting, I recommend creel's video on the topic, it's really descriptive.

Thank you for this video, the sound aspect is really interesting . And the conclusion is gold 😆

Creel's multi part series on sorting algorithms was really excellent and gave a lot of great details, but this was a nice and condense video!

wow, my favourite programming youtuber shows videos my buddy from university made a decade ago - never expected that 🎉

This is timely as I am currently prepping for a tech interview

I work at the library and was looking for better ways to sort books! The intro confirmed I was in the right place!

amazing video as usual!!! by the way at 4:08 you said merge sort but it was the big O notation of selection sort that you were describing

this was the best video i have ever seen this hour. nice!

Sponsorship!! Congrats Fireship 🎉🎉

6:30. Us chilling to watch it on TV. Thanks fireship You never dissapoint 🔥

I once wrote a sort where I would check the array for consecutive numbers, break if the next is lower than the previous and put all these blocks in a new array. Then run over the array again inserting values at their "correct" position in the new array.

Because of this kind of videos, I ended up designing my own version of Merge Sort, called YAMS (Yet Another Merge Sort)... It's satisfying.

definitely the best video on sorting ever !

Three sorting algorithms can teach you about practical, theoretical, and then mind-bending sorts. Whether you're preparing for interviews -- at any level -- or curious about the topic, try these: Timsort, a hybrid of insertion and merge sort, may have executed in production more times than any sorting algorithm ever. Variations of it are the standard library for Python, Java, and Rust. It works, and those two are a gentle introduction to sorting. Bucket sort rips up the math you learned, if any, in Timsort (by executing in O(n) time). It can be helpful for interview questions. You might never implement this, but it's a lovely idea. Bitonic sorting is what happens when you take advantage of parallelism -- and the result is awesome! The speed-up is better than linear (e.g. 2 cores running 2x fast), if that's what you were expecting. Look it up!

The explanation was on point. you did miss out talking about run time of all sorting methods after selection sort.

This was awesome, thank you.

For Quick Sort at 5:59 he forgot to finish the partition() function with “return partitionIndex;” Great video!

Nice Video! I wish this Video existed, when i hand Algorithms and Data structures in Unitversity...

Thanku for posting this video milord

Ending was master piece

Your Bogosort implementation is even more stoopid than it needs to be 😂 The sorted() function at 8:17 could simply return false immediately, but instead it assigns false - then pointlessly checks the entirety of the rest of the array for no reason! Well done 👏

I love this guy. Nothing can prepare you for the end of this video. 😂

Great video!

The quicksort algorithm implemented in Haskell: qSort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a] qSort [] = [] qSort (x:xs) = qSort small ++ [x] ++ qSort big where small = [a | a

With the sound effects for the sorting algorithms, I am reminded of the NES game “Life Force”, which brings back great memories.

RADIX SORT: A Man, who's work doesn't seem useful, but surprises everyone at the end.

This is brutally COOL

Those animations are trippy. It's like watching and listening to a computer think.

I was always waiting for the day fireship covered algorithms. Did I know I was waiting? No. Was I pleased. Yes indeed

If your sorting positive integers, you can use the integer as an index into a counting array initialized to zeroes, then make a single pass to count how many times each number occurs, then restore the array from the counting array. You make 3 passes. Pass 1: Init counting array to 0's, Pass 2: count how many times each value occurs, Pass 3: Rewrite array from counting array. If you have negative integers, find the largest negative number, then use the positive value to offset all of the numbers. When you restore from the counting array, subtract the offset. Finding the correct offset is an additional pass. The offset can work in the opposite direction if the smallest number is very large. Offset the smallest large number to 0. This sort is good when the range of numbers is small. The larger the range, the larger the counting array needed.

Bro just got sponsored by Jetbrains 🔥

Good to know the class I'm currently taking is completely useless as well! Just kidding. Thanks for this awesome video ahead of my exams next month

You are the best!

Bucket sort is a solid O(n) sort that everyone should know about. It has limited use cases. Another sorting technique is to take advantage of multiple cores and sort in parallel. A good default choice for sorting is quick sort as it will often be more than fast enough. If you want to have some fun. Ask any programmer how long it will take to sort one million integer or float values. The answer is almost always a surprise. Hint, it is fast enough that when processing tons of data a sort then process algorithm is often a big performance improvement over other options such as tree based systems.

I loved this video, Jeff plz create a crash course series on youtube on "DATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS" plzZZZ

that ending was glorious

Quantum Sort is the clear winner, the array is both sorted an not sorted at the same time, so you simply return the sorted array. Order of magnitude is O(-1)

Great Video Sir , I appreciate you for all the knowledge given by you and for all the efforts that you put in these videos. Sir ,I just wanted to mention one thing that as Books refer to some knowledge and for Indians, book refer to our Goddess Sarawati. So just requesting you not to tear them like this.

this brings me back to when youtube randomly recommended a sound of sorting video

Thank you 🙌

The end was epic.

damn, this video is very nice

Would you mind enabling downloads here? Makes it easier to watch when the network is slow

love the videos, although i did get nerd sniped by the confusing results between insertionSort and selectionSort benchmarks. while it is cool to swap two values in javascript using array destructuring it causes significant overhead (allocating unnecessary arrays) when compared to a temp variable swap solution. this causes your insertionSort and selectionSort benchmarks to be different by about 2x even though their time complexity is similar and on a fair benchmark should result in roughly the same time taken to complete. i think that's what's causing the gap in performance between the two

holy fuck a WHOLE NOTHER FIRESHIP CHANNEL?!

2 years late but appreciating it anyways

Didn’t understand nothing but the animation are just gorgeous

Well that went way over my head.

4:07 Minor correction to the viewers. Here he's talking about selection sort and not meme sort. After this, there is the merge sort section

Did you hear about CNsort? The Chuck Norris Sort Algorithm (CNSort) is a groundbreaking sorting method that operates on the principle of sheer intimidation. In the world of computer science, algorithms are supposed to logically organize data, but CNSort takes a different approach. Here, arrays don't dare to be unsorted. As soon as the CNSort is invoked, the elements in the array glance up to find Chuck Norris staring them down. Overwhelmed by his formidable presence, the elements immediately line up in perfect order, each one too afraid to be out of place. Efficiency is key: CNSort achieves a sorting time of O(1), because no element wants to waste Chuck Norris's time by being out of order.

4:08 It should be "Selection sort also results in quadratic time complexity."

RADIX SORT is like a student, who (seem to) doesn't study all year, but outperforms in Exams :)

I would also recommend you to explain merge heap in your video.

you can conduct an in-place merge sort by conducting the merges in place

Insertion sort should be O(N log N). I agree that your implementation of it is O(N^2), but it's very easy to make an insertion into a sorted array an O(log N) operation. Edit: to be clear this can't be done with arrays, because while searching a sorted array is still O(log N) insertion is O(N). So you'd have to copy over the data to a balance binary tree and then copy it back, trading space complexity for time complexity.

Are there any hybrid methods? Is there utility in starting with one type of algorithm and then switching to another once the data is more uniform / sorted for example?

LOL, never heard of bogo sort until now. I guess, I learn something today.😁

0:09 Love how Shellsort is outperforming Quicksort quite dramatically in the example :D

This needs to be updated because of the latest *OpenAi breakthrough* in dorting algorithms 💡

These algorithms are all way so efficient! I have written an algorithm with worse time complexity than tree(n). Who doesn't want to make more than grahams number of comparison just to sort two elements?

Radix sort is my favorite

And my dumbass has watched this twice right now and still doesn’t understand a thing but I’m all for it

What would be the best way to sort posts for an instagram like App. Im doing a simple JS sort algorithms in the frontend after the end-user fetches all the posts from the server, the I do alot of filtration to make sure none of the blocked or hidden posts are visible to this end-user and group them based on this sort algorithm in the frontend. But I'm wondering what would be a better way to do that keep in mind it's a simple Firebase App without serverless functions or NodeJS. (React-native)

so satisfying

omg I found the second fireship channel

How about counting sort ? Its the sorting in which you have to increment the elements of the vector that have the given values as its indexes. For example We have the folowing elements : 3 6 2 9 5 1. To sort them, we use a vector V that has all the elements 0 and you have to increment the values V[3], V[6] etc. and then just display the indexes of the non-zero elements

Well, Bogo sort is the theoretically fastest algorithm :) It's also the one that in theory could not be done before the heat death of the universe if you are unlucky enough.

Time sort - for each element make a thread that will wait element value number of seconds and append the value to the new list

Your quicksort works in O(N^2) if the data is constructed in special way. Pivot should be random

Watching those pancakes getting binned at the end hurt my soul

I hate being that guy but mid should be start-(end-start)/2 to avoid Int overflow. Love the videos, you probably know this anyways.

2:01 The ES6 way to swap two values in an array in one line with no temp variable: [arr[j], arr[j+1]] = [arr[j+1], arr[j]]

The radix sort you discussed is not a radix sort it is buckets sort. Radix sort is that where you use count sort on every parts of an elements.

For selection sort cant you do minimum and maximum then you can work your way from both left to right as well as right to left

Great❤❤❤

Imagine an alternate universe that's identical to our own, except bogo sort always finishes first try.

08:21 bogo sort makes some sick beats, tho.

There's some issues with this video but it's a nice introduction I guess. Would've been cool to mention in-place merge and binary search insertion though. Follow-up video maybe?

I don't even code and I found this interesting

AHH!, Finally pure programming (sorting) 🎵 LoFi 🎧 Music (Kind of).

4:25 actually mergesort can be easily implemented as iterated algorythm.

Oh can imagine it now, senior coming up to me yelling at me, why did i implement this sort when its so slow. And i just turn towards him and say: "I am feeling lucky today".

My favourite sorting algorithm is `Stalin sort` : Simply iterate over each element in the list. If the current element is smaller than the last, _simply remove it!_ Stalin sort will always produce a sorted array in O(n) time complexity!