# Quicksort: Every CS Student's Favorite Algorithm, Scratched Up

> Implementing QuickSort in Scratch. Its only real-world accomplishment? Wearing out my mouse's scroll bar.

- Page: https://blog.chaoticgood.computer/content/notes/literal-scratch-quicksort
- Author: Spencer Elkington
- Published: 2018-07-18
- Updated: 2026-01-28
- Tags: engineering/languages/scratch, projects/teaching, projects/undergrad, writing/fragments

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As an addendum to the [Scratch Piano Application](https://blog.chaoticgood.computer/content/notes/literal-scratch-piano), I also cooked up an implementation of QuickSort. At my partner’s recent swim meet, I sat next to a couple kids who’ve been learning Scratch and they were showing off some games they’d made.

they did not seem impressed by this

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