use strict; use warnings; use List::Util 'sum'; use Data::Dump qw[ pp ]; sub gen { my $href = shift; my %score = %$href; my $norm = sum values %score; my @series; for (1 .. $norm) { my ($max, $elem) = 0; for (keys %score) { ($max, $elem) = ($score{$_}, $_) if $score{$_} >= $max; $score{$_} += $href->{$_}; } push @series, $elem; $score{$elem} -= $norm; } return \@series; } pp gen( { A => 4, B => 2, C => 3, D => 1 } ); pp gen( { A => 5, B => 4, C => 3, D => 2, E => 1 } );