Score player handle
A party game scores player handles: each letter is worth its position in the alphabet ('a' or 'A' is 1, 'b' is 2, ..., 'z' is 26), and every other character is worth nothing. Given a handle, return its total score. For example, 'abz' scores 1 + 2 + 26 = 29, and 'cab_7' scores 3 + 1 + 2 = 6.
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handle_score(handle: str) → intExamples
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["abz"]out29What a strong answer looks like
State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.
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["abz"]29not run yetsample