I love this solution

Pretty, kind of clever, but not the cleverest nor very performant. Why iterate twice when you can have a single for loop?

Instead of one run in search of the maximum and minimum , it is run twice here.

Because sorting the array once is slower than iterating through it twice.

Why not sort the array once and then take the last and first elements?

this is easy to understand but it's probably slow

Too easy

This solution enumerates parsed array twice. Not very nice...