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more top scores

But you need more than one top score

As soon as the top score appears, people start to wonder what the
second and third highest scores are:

You are missing some Surf-A-Thon What about second
nd
scores here... the 2 and third place?
rd
and 3 scores are a 1. 9.12
mystery.
2. ???
3. ???

It seems that the organizers didn’t tell you everything you
needed to know. The contest doesn’t just award a prize for the
winner, but also honors those surfers in second and third place.

Our program currently iterates through each of the lines in the Looks like you need extra
results.txt file and works out the highest score. But what it variables for the second and
actually needs to do is keep track of the top three scores, perhaps third highest scores.
in three separate variables:

highest_
score third_
highest
second_
highest
“9.12"
?

?

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