I assume this was a joke :)

Bro

Who on Earth could mark this as Best Practices or even Clever?! Or do I lack a sense of humor?

Aww, it feels so relaxing to use python after using Java for a while.. it just relieves my coding stress..

most efficient i could find so far

There will be a preloaded dictionary dict_scores with all these values: dict_scores["E"] == 1

This is from the instruction.

most inefficient of all i could find

inefficient

Best practice (when you are paid by the hour :^) )

this works :) also made me smile , thanks! :)

Well that, but mostly to make the code actually readable and reusable.

OMG!

OMG!