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Sorting race

Eight Ways to Put Chaos in Order

30 Minutes of Hypnotic Sorting · 29:06 · 5 Nov 2026

Eight chapters of sorting algorithms — 30 minutes of order growing out of chaos to one ambient track. Put it on to focus, study or unwind. Headphones on.

Focus with this film
The rule

Different algorithms sort the same shuffled data. Each one puts chaos in order its own way.

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8 chapters

  1. 0:00 Four Racers, One Deck
  2. 3:41 The Ring of Pivots
  3. 7:26 Sorting Without Comparing
  4. 11:11 Shrinking Gaps
  5. 14:27 The Heap
  6. 17:48 The Merge Waterfall
  7. 21:33 Sorting in Parallel
  8. 25:18 Full Circle