“Highest Scoring Word” is a coding puzzle that people can be attempted in the following languages: javascript, haskell, ruby, python, crystal, csharp, java, r, cpp, c, elixir, powershell, php, kotlin, scala, nasm, rust, and go.
- Difficulty: 6 kyu
- Stars: 935
- Votes: 3164
- Category: reference
- Tags: Fundamentals, Strings, Data Types, Arrays, Numbers
- Source: codewars
Description
Given a string of words, you need to find the highest scoring word.
Each letter of a word scores points according to its position in the alphabet: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc.
You need to return the highest scoring word as a string.
If two words score the same, return the word that appears earliest in the original string.
All letters will be lowercase and all inputs will be valid.
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