The Three Fastest Runners

Data questions · Intermediate · about 7 min

race_100m.csv has each runner's name, house and 100 meter time in seconds. Set answer to a list of the names of the three fastest runners (the smallest times), fastest first, like ["Name1", "Name2", "Name3"]. No two runners have the same time.

Example

The first lines of race_100m.csv:

name,house,seconds
Arjun,Red,14.2
Bea,Blue,13.6

race_100m.csv · 16 rows

name	house	seconds
Arjun	Red	14.2
Bea	Blue	13.6
Caleb	Green	15.1
Diya	Yellow	13.1
Eric	Red	14.8
Freya	Blue	12.9
Gautam	Green	13.4
Holly	Yellow	15.6

First 8 of 16 rows.

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("race_100m.csv")

answer = None

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