diff --git a/lib/Cake/Routing/Route/CakeRoute.php b/lib/Cake/Routing/Route/CakeRoute.php
index b40529c9c9c..74595c40092 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Routing/Route/CakeRoute.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Routing/Route/CakeRoute.php
@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ protected function _writeRoute() {
 		foreach ($this->keys as $key) {
 			unset($this->defaults[$key]);
 		}
+
+		$keys = $this->keys;
+		sort($keys);
+		$this->keys = array_reverse($keys);
 	}
 
 /**
@@ -420,7 +424,6 @@ public function match($url) {
 		$named = $pass = array();
 
 		foreach ($url as $key => $value) {
-
 			// keys that exist in the defaults and have different values is a match failure.
 			$defaultExists = array_key_exists($key, $defaults);
 			if ($defaultExists && $defaults[$key] != $value) {
@@ -517,16 +520,10 @@ protected function _writeUrl($params) {
 		}
 		$out = $this->template;
 
-		if ($this->keys !== array()) {
-
+		if (!empty($this->keys)) {
 			$search = $replace = array();
 
-			$lengths = array_map('strlen', $this->keys);
-			$flipped = array_combine($this->keys, $lengths);
-			arsort($flipped);
-			$keys = array_keys($flipped);
-
-			foreach ($keys as $key) {
+			foreach ($this->keys as $key) {
 				$string = null;
 				if (isset($params[$key])) {
 					$string = $params[$key];
@@ -537,7 +534,6 @@ protected function _writeUrl($params) {
 				$replace[] = $string;
 			}
 			$out = str_replace($search, $replace, $out);
-
 		}
 
 		if (strpos($this->template, '*')) {
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/Route/CakeRouteTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/Route/CakeRouteTest.php
index 16bed4cd6f5..375cf4d5969 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/Route/CakeRouteTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/Route/CakeRouteTest.php
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ public function testRouteCompilingWithParamPatterns() {
 		$this->assertRegExp($result, '/posts/view/518098');
 		$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/posts/edit/name-of-post');
 		$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/posts/edit/4/other:param');
-		$this->assertEquals(array('controller', 'action', 'id'), $route->keys);
+		$this->assertEquals(array('id', 'controller', 'action'), $route->keys);
 
 		$route = new CakeRoute(
 			'/:lang/:controller/:action/:id',
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ public function testRouteCompilingWithParamPatterns() {
 		$this->assertRegExp($result, '/cze/articles/view/1');
 		$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/language/articles/view/2');
 		$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/eng/articles/view/name-of-article');
-		$this->assertEquals(array('lang', 'controller', 'action', 'id'), $route->keys);
+		$this->assertEquals(array('lang', 'id', 'controller', 'action'), $route->keys);
 
 		foreach (array(':', '@', ';', '$', '-') as $delim) {
 			$route = new CakeRoute('/posts/:id' . $delim . ':title');
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ public function testRouteCompilingWithParamPatterns() {
 			$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/posts/11!nameofarticle');
 			$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/posts/11');
 
-			$this->assertEquals(array('id', 'title'), $route->keys);
+			$this->assertEquals(array('title', 'id'), $route->keys);
 		}
 
 		$route = new CakeRoute(
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ public function testRouteCompilingWithParamPatterns() {
 		$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/posts/hey_now:nameofarticle');
 		$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/posts/:nameofarticle/2009');
 		$this->assertNotRegExp($result, '/posts/:nameofarticle/01');
-		$this->assertEquals(array('id', 'title', 'year'), $route->keys);
+		$this->assertEquals(array('year', 'title', 'id'), $route->keys);
 
 		$route = new CakeRoute(
 			'/posts/:url_title-(uuid::id)',
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ public function testComplexRouteCompilingAndParsing() {
 
 		$this->assertRegExp($result, '/some_extra/page/this_is_the_slug');
 		$this->assertRegExp($result, '/page/this_is_the_slug');
-		$this->assertEquals(array('extra', 'slug'), $route->keys);
+		$this->assertEquals(array('slug', 'extra'), $route->keys);
 		$this->assertEquals(array('extra' => '[a-z1-9_]*', 'slug' => '[a-z1-9_]+', 'action' => 'view'), $route->options);
 		$expected = array(
 			'controller' => 'pages',
@@ -864,8 +864,8 @@ public function testMatchSimilarParameters() {
 		$route = new CakeRoute('/:thisParam/:thisParamIsLonger');
 
 		$url = array(
+			'thisParamIsLonger' => 'bar',
 			'thisParam' => 'foo',
-			'thisParamIsLonger' => 'bar'
 		);
 
 		$result = $route->match($url);