Put yourself in the computer's shoes, and also clarify what you need to accomplish. You are asking it to sort the entire list of 2000 records, but (if I understand) you only want a handful of those.
And it has already gone through all the records once before the sort. If you asked a human to do that, it would be a risky interaction. There might be raised voices when they present the neatly arranged file cabinet with files in a special order, and you deliver the punch line that you only need to pull a few. If you only need to pull 5 records, most people don't want to go through all 2000 files - twice.
So generally, don't use a sort after doing a complete loop on a big text list, use another method. Do unto your computer as you hope it will do unto you when they run the world. :)
(But I would be interested in the speed of your original code on LC 9 vs LC 6.7, just to see how engine optimization is faring. I'm surprised it took a minute.)
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