how fast are everyone's solutions passing the test script? im sitting 0.6 seconds (down from 19s before ), not too sure if I can get it any faster from here. TIA

I did a-z and im passing all the tests

with returning positive infinity, thats what im also doing for now. and for what its worth, to cover all edge cases, im throwing negative infinity for when the rank is 1. I am sort of just assuming that that is what we are expected to do, but ill b...

I was thinking about this myself, but computers are so fast that for sorting sub 100 elements it makes hardly any practical difference, so I went with merge sort only. Also, different sources on the internet say different numbers of n items are the...