As the array is never empty, a cool hack is to initialise 'small' with int.MaxValue

So you don't have to read twice the first value of 'args'. Your solution becomes compliant to more collection's types

code litery like

here is an extera iteration of the loop

Good work! Wasn't aware of "foreach", will definitely be using this from now on when convenient.

My solution was almost identical. not the shortest of the posted results but functional .

"You can assume, for the purpose of this kata, that the supplied array will not be empty."

From the description.

if args is null or empty this will throw a null reference exception or index out of bounds respectively