LOL, nice one
you seems really having fun doing it

I like it, verbose yet performant.

woah, nice to know the side effect man

Ahhh, such a clever, flexible and beautiful way to do it.
It can expand to use additional parameter for how many people to mention first.

indeed 'almost everyone', it's very readable and easily understood
we use predefined methods, of course we can define faster sort. eg. using .replace(/./g,...)

You doesnt have to sort the word on each loop.
cache the sorted word, then compare in the loop

Plus, I would rather avoid mutating string prototype,
if every developer mutates string prototype, it gonna be a sphagetti with spices

we have similar logic

we have similiar logic

we have similiar logic