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Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance

AlgoRythmics · demo · Watch on YouTube

Algorithms & data structuresMagic, puzzles & curiosities

What it is

Hungarian folk dancers from Sapientia University act out the quicksort algorithm step by step, with music. It is part of the AlgoRythmics series of sorting algorithms performed as dance.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a memorable and fun way to visualize how sorting algorithms work.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “my very favorite visualizations of sorting algorithms are the Hungarian dancers”

    Favorite sorting visualization: fun Hungarian dancers with music.

    Stratoscope, 2019-12 · Strong recommendation · in “A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]”

  2. “you might also like the Hungarian folk dancers demonstrating sorting algorithms”

    Hungarian folk dancers demonstrate sorting algorithms.

    bogomipz, 2017-02 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Illustrated Quicksort algorithm”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: quicksort, folk dance, algorithms, algorythmics, teaching

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