My awesome username part 1

Computer Science Level 1

My username is "skullblade". If A=1, B=2, C=3...Z=26, and I calculated the sum of the letters in "skullblade", what number would I get?


The answer is 99.

Skull Blade by skull blade , 21, USA

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2 solutions

Brock Brown
Jan 4, 2015 
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decode = {}
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
for i in xrange(len(alphabet)):
    decode[alphabet[i]] = i + 1
print sum([decode[c] for c in 'skullblade'])

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Muhammad Usman
Sep 9, 2014

tedious solution

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