PhD student Timo Bingmann has created an amazing video showing sorting algorithms in action. And it's surprisingly awesome!

See sort algorithm. Quick Sorting a List This quick sort uses randomly chosen pivots (in red) to keep dividing the list into two until there is only one item on each side of the pivot left.

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending ...