gotcha, i think i understand now

You're wrong, read the description again, not a kata issue.

Each letter of a word scores points according to its position in the alphabet: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc.

I'm passing the initial test but get an error in the sentence "what time are we climbing to the volcano". The word "climbing" is scoring higher than "volcano" based on the charCodeAt() unicode return value but the test expects "volcano" to be the returned word. Am I missing something on how we are supposed to be gathering a sum based on the word's total unicode value?