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.

For example, the score of abad is 8 (1 + 2 + 1 + 4).

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.

Well, the solution to this is:

def highest_scoring_word(s):
def word_score(word):
return sum(ord(char) - ord('a') + 1 for char in word)

words = s.split()

max_score = 0

highest_word = ""

for word in words:

score = word_score(word)

if score > max_score:

max_score = score

highest_word = word

elif score == max_score and words.index(word) < words.index(highest_word):

highest_word = word

return highest_word

# Example usage:

input_string = "abad ace bat cat"

print(highest_scoring_word(input_string)) # Output: "ace"