use Sort::Key::Multi 'ii_keysort'; ... cmpthese(-10, { ... SKMii => sub { my @s = ii_keysort { /(\d+)([A-Z])/; $1, ord $2 } @data } } ); #### SN_nsort 46.9/s -- -81% -89% -90% -92% -96% -96% SKN_natsort 244/s 420% -- -43% -47% -58% -79% -81% ST_sub 427/s 812% 75% -- -7% -27% -62% -66% GRT_sub 460/s 881% 89% 8% -- -22% -60% -64% GRT_sprintf 587/s 1152% 141% 37% 28% -- -48% -54% GRT_pack 1136/s 2323% 366% 166% 147% 94% -- -11% SKMii 1272/s 2614% 422% 198% 177% 117% 12% --