Highest Scoring Word

gistfile1.txt

Solution for https://www.codewars.com/kata/highest-scoring-word/train/javascript

const high = (wordsString) => {
    const words = wordsString.split(" ")
    const alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split('');
    let scores = []
    let maxScore = 0
    let maxScoreIndex
    words.forEach(word => {
        let letters = word.split('')
        let score = 0
        letters.map((letter) => {
            score += (alphabet.indexOf(letter.toLowerCase()) + 1)
        })
        // console.log(score);
        scores.push(score)
    });
    // console.log(scores)
    for (let score in scores) {
        if (scores[score] > maxScore) {
            maxScore = scores[score]
            maxScoreIndex = score
        }
        scores[score] = `word : ${words[score]}, score : ${scores[score]}`

    }
    console.log(scores)
    return words[maxScoreIndex]

}

console.log(high('man i need a taxi up to ubud'))
console.log(high('what time are we climbing up the volcano'))
console.log(high('take me to semynak'))
console.log(high("xxa jaaajj"));