Highest Scoring Word - Coding Dojo

HighestScoringWord.js

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+// https://www.codewars.com/kata/highest-scoring-word
+
+// Description:
+// Given a string of words, you need to find the highest scoring word.
+// Each letter of a word scores points according to it's 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.
+
+function high(x){
+  let highestScore = 0;
+  let highestWord = '';
+  const words = x.split(' ');
+  for (let i = words.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+    const word = words[i];
+    let wordScoreCounter = 0;
+    word.split('').forEach(letter => {
+      // a: 97 - 96 = 1
+      wordScoreCounter = wordScoreCounter + (letter.charCodeAt(0) - 96);
+    });
+    console.log(word, wordScoreCounter);
+
+    if(wordScoreCounter >= highestScore) {
+      highestScore = wordScoreCounter;
+      highestWord = word;
+    }
+  }
+  return highestWord;
+}