Agreed but you have to keep in mind what the algorithms are being used for. You're going to have better luck implementing Dijkstra's quickly in a competition t

Agreed but you have to keep in mind what the algorithms are being used for. You're going to have better luck implementing Dijkstra's quickly in a competition than you are A-Star. Not to mention A-Star is based mostly on heuristics and if you don't have time (or don't care) then bad heuristics makes it just as fast as Dikstra's.