Divide & Conquer: How to solve maybe the hardest puzzle level in SMM1

In this puzzle level from Super Mario Maker 1, the player needs to develop and execute a comparison-based sorting algorithm that is efficient enough to sort 30 randomly shuffled POWs in 500 seconds: Course ID: CFD1-0000-03D0-3983 Course title: Divide & Conquer! Ceave Gaming's awesome video explaining the mechanic that is used:    • Why this Two Pixel Gap is Among the Most C...   Sadly, there's no way to make such combinatorial puzzles anymore in SMM2, because the mechanic has been "fixed". Sorry for all the Super-Expert no-skip runs that this level has ended! My next video, the Making-of "The Cluttered Chaos-Calculator 2" is still under construction...