Highest_Scoring_Word.md

CodeWars Python Solutions

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Highest Scoring Word

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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Given Code

def high(x):
    pass

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Solution 1

def high(x):
    alp = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    counter = [sum([alp.find(i) + 1 for i in w]) for w in x.split()]
    return x.split()[counter.index(max(counter))]

Solution 2

def high(x):
    return max(x.split(), key=lambda k: sum(ord(c) - 96 for c in k))

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