Using names.txt (right click and 'Save Link/Target As...'), a 46K text file containing over five-thousand first names, begin by sorting it into alphabetical order. Then working out the alphabetical value for each name, multiply this value by its alphabetical position in the list to obtain a name score.
For example, when the list is sorted into alphabetical order, COLIN, which is worth 3 + 15 + 12 + 9 + 14 = 53, is the 938th name in the list. So, COLIN would obtain a score of 938 × 53 = 49714
What is the total of all the name scores in the file?
Pretty simple. Python actually can sort names alphabetically by the simple function sorted(). That's easy to do. ord() is another function that converts a character into its ASCII decimal. Capital letter A starts at 65. Hence, if we want A to equal to 1, we would need to subtract ord() by 64. So B = 2 = ord('B') - 64. Then we just multiply by the position of each name which can be given by in a list!
Answer: 871198282
Runtime: 11 ms