ATTITUDE 100 PERCENT (jerkiness 110 percent)

ATTITUDE 100 PERCENT

(jerkiness 110 percent) 

I'm really not a fan of this kind of content, so let me ruin the magic for you.

Coincidence or Not?

Wow! I never knew ATTITUDE was so important! Then again, IRRITATE is also worth 100 points on that same scale. Yup. 100 points. But why stop there? Give 110%, try out JERKINESS.

Cool, right?

Here’s how I found out:

Using JavaScript, I made a function to convert a single word into its “char sum”

 function charSum(rawWord) {

  var word = rawWord.toUpperCase();

var tot = 0;

for(var i = 0; i < word.length; i++) {

tot += word.charCodeAt(i) - 'A'.charCodeAt() + 1;

};

return tot;

 }

This is enough to get the value for a single word. charSum(“attitude”) will return “100”. Checking words one at a time would be very time consuming (you’re free to try if you like). Better to let the CPU handle this gruntwork. I downloaded a list of all English words and formatted them with help from Excel.

Given a ‘words’ array, (about 14k words):

var perfectWords = words.filter(x => charSum(x) == 100);

And, there you have it. The words that give 100%:

acceptors

accumulate

acknowledge

acquitted

adulthood

Afghanistan

aggresses

alternated

amputees

analysis

anasthetic

angulates

annually

apropos

aquamarine

asbestos

beetroot

bolstered

borrowed

botanist

boycott

Brezhnev

centipedes

chimpanzee

clippys

cutlets

Darmstadt

deasserted

Dempster

desegregated

drizzle

Edmonton

ferryman

fluorine

forsaking

gauntlet

gauntly

generating

geographer

Goldwyn

grumpy

guardings

harmonics

healthily

inferring

ingrown

inoculate

irritate

Komatsu

languished

leaseholds

misdirect

Mongolian

nonjoined

obscenely

offhandedly

outflank

overscale

papists

piggybacks

pitying

Pollux

predeceases

rasters

reattaches

receptor

reengineer

refinery

remailers

renamings

repugns

resents

restocked

roomful

sarcophagic

sculpted

semitone

sharpens

spiciest

squint

starfish

stools

subloop

Sumerian

tangents

telegrams

telescience

Tromso

truism

Tunbridge

turkey

twisted

unchaining

unclever

undress

unprimed

unrelease

Vanuatu

violins

Vivienne

wattles

Wednesday

whenever

whirling

whiskey

whistled

wholely

wholesale

windfalls

wonderbra

woodcote

wriggles

writing

Yankovic

Yarrow

Wow! WHOLESALE ASBESTOS is worth 200 points! :D