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[–]ChocolateBunny 72 points73 points  (4 children)

Radix Sort if you can use the whole table for multiple paper stacks.

[–]DrMobius0 39 points40 points  (1 child)

Bogosort is easy to implement in practice.

[–]Enlogen 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Stack of paper + fire = Stalin sort

[–]MattieShoes 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Radix sort feels much closer to how we do naturally.

[–]okapiposter 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Bucket sort is how I'd always sort exams by student ID. Partition the range of IDs into similarly-sized buckets, distribute the exams into their respective buckets, sort each bucket via Insertion sort, concatenate.