diff --git a/libs/argv.c b/libs/argv.c
index 786761d..ab367f0 100644
--- a/libs/argv.c
+++ b/libs/argv.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ readargs(int argc, char *argv[])
 		} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-hp")) {
 		    menupaddingh = atoi(argv[++i]);
 		} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-pri")) {
-            parse_hpitems(argv[++i]);
+            hpitems = tokenize(argv[++i], ",", &hplength);
 		} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-ig")) {
 		    imagegaps = atoi(argv[++i]);
 		} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-la")) {
diff --git a/libs/sort.c b/libs/sort.c
index 683c976..128309d 100644
--- a/libs/sort.c
+++ b/libs/sort.c
@@ -1,22 +1,35 @@
-int
-str_compar(const void *s0_in, const void *s1_in)
+char **
+tokenize(char *source, const char *delim, int *llen)
 {
-	const char *s0 = *(const char **)s0_in;
-	const char *s1 = *(const char **)s1_in;
-	return fstrncmp == strncasecmp ? strcasecmp(s0, s1) : strcmp(s0, s1);
-}
+	int listlength = 0, list_size = 0;
+	char **list = NULL, *token;
 
-void
-parse_hpitems(char *src)
-{
-	int n = 0;
-	char *t;
-
-	for (t = strtok(src, ","); t; t = strtok(NULL, ",")) {
-		if (hplength + 1 >= n) {
-			if (!(hpitems = realloc(hpitems, (n += 8) * sizeof *hpitems)))
-				die("Unable to realloc %zu bytes\n", n * sizeof *hpitems);
+	token = strtok(source, delim);
+	while (token) {
+		if (listlength + 1 >= list_size) {
+			if (!(list = realloc(list, (list_size += 8) * sizeof(*list))))
+				die("Unable to realloc %zu bytes\n", list_size * sizeof(*list));
 		}
-		hpitems[hplength++] = t;
+		if (!(list[listlength] = strdup(token)))
+			die("Unable to strdup %zu bytes\n", strlen(token) + 1);
+		token = strtok(NULL, delim);
+		listlength++;
 	}
+
+	*llen = listlength;
+	return list;
+}
+
+int
+arrayhas(char **list, int length, char *item)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+		size_t len1 = strlen(list[i]);
+		size_t len2 = strlen(item);
+		if (!fstrncmp(list[i], item, len1 > len2 ? len2 : len1))
+			return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/libs/sort.h b/libs/sort.h
index d450e32..e83c7b2 100644
--- a/libs/sort.h
+++ b/libs/sort.h
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-static int str_compar(const void *s0_in, const void *s1_in);
-static void parse_hpitems(char *src);
+static char **tokenize(char *source, const char *delim, int *llen);
+static int arrayhas(char **list, int length, char *item);
diff --git a/options.h b/options.h
index 4a9eab4..669dbf3 100644
--- a/options.h
+++ b/options.h
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ static int casesensitive               = 0; /* Case-sensitive by default? (0/1)
 static int preselected                 = 0; /* Which line should spmenu preselect? */
 static int accuratewidth               = 1; /* Enable accurate width. May have a performance hit if you are matching a lot of items at once */
 static int fuzzy                       = 1; /* Whether or not to enable fuzzy matching by default */
-static char **hpitems                  = NULL; /* High priority items */
 
 /* Line options */
 static int lineheight                  = 5; /* Line height (0: Calculate automatically) */
diff --git a/spmenu.c b/spmenu.c
index 79e5df6..f8e50b5 100644
--- a/spmenu.c
+++ b/spmenu.c
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ typedef struct {
 
 static char numbers[NUMBERSBUFSIZE] = "";
 static int hplength = 0;
+static char **hpitems = NULL;
 static char *embed;
 static int numlockmask = 0;
 static int bh, mw, mh;
@@ -320,8 +321,13 @@ cleanup(void)
     #endif
 
 	XUngrabKey(dpy, AnyKey, AnyModifier, root);
+
 	for (i = 0; i < SchemeLast; i++)
 		free(scheme[i]);
+
+    for (i = 0; i < hplength; ++i)
+		free(hpitems[i]);
+
 	drw_free(drw);
 	XSync(dpy, False);
 	XCloseDisplay(dpy);
@@ -410,6 +416,8 @@ fuzzymatch(void)
 	/* bang - we have so much memory */
 	struct item *it;
 	struct item **fuzzymatches = NULL;
+    struct item *lhpprefix, *hpprefixend;
+	lhpprefix = hpprefixend = NULL;
 	char c;
 	int number_of_matches = 0, i, pidx, sidx, eidx;
 	int text_len = strlen(text), itext_len;
@@ -458,16 +466,26 @@ fuzzymatch(void)
 			fuzzymatches[i] = it;
 		}
 		/* sort matches according to distance */
-		qsort(fuzzymatches, number_of_matches, sizeof(struct item*), compare_distance);
+        if (sortmatches) qsort(fuzzymatches, number_of_matches, sizeof(struct item*), compare_distance);
+
 		/* rebuild list of matches */
 		matches = matchend = NULL;
 		for (i = 0, it = fuzzymatches[i];  i < number_of_matches && it && \
 				it->text; i++, it = fuzzymatches[i]) {
-			appenditem(it, &matches, &matchend);
+
+            if (sortmatches && it->hp)
+                appenditem(it, &lhpprefix, &hpprefixend);
+
+            appenditem(it, &matches, &matchend);
 		}
 		free(fuzzymatches);
 	}
 
+    if (lhpprefix) {
+		hpprefixend->right = matches;
+		matches = lhpprefix;
+	}
+
 	curr = sel = matches;
 
     for (i = 0; i < preselected; i++) {
@@ -515,10 +533,10 @@ match(void)
 			appenditem(item, &matches, &matchend);
         else {
             /* exact matches go first, then prefixes with high priority, then prefixes, then substrings */
-			if (!tokc || !fstrncmp(text, item->text, textsize))
-				appenditem(item, &matches, &matchend);
-            else if (item->hp && !fstrncmp(tokv[0], item->text, len))
+            if (item->hp && !fstrncmp(tokv[0], item->text, len))
 			    appenditem(item, &lhpprefix, &hpprefixend);
+            else if (!tokc || !fstrncmp(text, item->text, textsize))
+				appenditem(item, &matches, &matchend);
 			else if (!fstrncmp(tokv[0], item->text, len))
 				appenditem(item, &lprefix, &prefixend);
 			else
@@ -749,9 +767,6 @@ readstdin(void)
     	return;
   	}
 
-    if (hpitems && hplength > 0)
-	    qsort(hpitems, hplength, sizeof *hpitems, str_compar);
-
 	/* read each line from stdin and add it to the item list */
 	for (i = 0; fgets(buf, sizeof buf, stdin); i++) {
       	if (i + 1 >= itemsiz) {
@@ -763,11 +778,7 @@ readstdin(void)
 			*p = '\0';
 		if (!(items[i].text = strdup(buf)))
 			die("cannot strdup %u bytes:", strlen(buf) + 1);
-        p = hpitems == NULL ? NULL : bsearch(
-			&items[i].text, hpitems, hplength, sizeof *hpitems,
-			str_compar
-		);
-		items[i].hp = p != NULL;
+        items[i].hp = arrayhas(hpitems, hplength, items[i].text);
 		drw_font_getexts(drw->font, buf, strlen(buf), &tmpmax, NULL, True);
 		if (tmpmax > inputw) {
 			inputw = tmpmax;