Which is the most efficient out of Bubble Sort, Selection Sort, Insertion Sort for a identical set of elements?

Which of the sorting algorithm is (classical implementation with no enhancements) the fastest for a data set with all identical elements? And why?

How would one justify the answer to the above question logically? Logically as in without implementing the algorithms and finding the average time consumed for few sample data sets.

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• This is not homework. This was part of a question in an assignment I "did". I implemented all 3 algorithms in Python code. We were asked to justify our answer to this question and weren't allowed to run the algorithm for sets of data. I picked Insertion sort and gave some reasoning. My "underlying problem" is "Which is the most efficient out of Bubble Sort, Selection Sort, Insertion Sort for a identical set of elements?". I didn't include the code because I thought it would be redundant to write a python code for the most basic sorting implementations. Btw I don't think I violated any rules. – Ivantha Jul 4 '16 at 9:45
• What have you tried towards an analysis of the algorithms? Where did you get stuck? What is this "reasoning" you speak of? – Raphael Jul 4 '16 at 11:50

All elements being the same is equivalent to data being sorted. The class of algorithms you are looking for is adaptive sort, which benefits from presortedness of the input data - this is the justification - since data is already sorted we have to find algorithm that uses this fact. The classic example is the insertion sort, but also Timsort (a variant of natural merge sort) and other exist. All adaptive algorithms should show the best case performance as $\mathcal{O}(N)$, which in case of insertion sort is exactly $N - 1$ comparisons, where $N$ is the length of input data.
From the possible algorithms you have provided the best cases are: Bubble sort - $\mathcal{O}(N)$, Selection Sort - $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ and Insertion Sort - $\mathcal{O}(N)$.