The video shows the process—and matched “ audibilization “—of fifteen different sorting algorithms dreamt up by computer scientists. While they all use different approaches, like divide ...

In their book 'Algorithms to Live By', British scientist Professor Brian Christian and science writer Tom Griffith said sock-pairers should try using an algorithm known as a radix sort.

The algorithm Christian recommends here is a radix sort. "The basic idea of a radix sort is that you want to create categories apart - so let's say colour.