Nice. (The sorting)

😄👍

And yet, lots of other people did figure this out, so what does that say?

Don't. You found a solution and then you went back and optimized it after the code was already working. That's a good thing and nothing to feel bad about.

I thought it would be interesting to sort your reply:

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