At first glance the answer is obvious, but if you try to think about how you could abstract your code, then that is what makes it 6yu in my opinon

Came here to see how many others said this. Maybe it's harder in other languages? I did it in Python and passed on my first attempt.

don't print the result

even 9kyu if it existed

Because of number of letters.
If you just sum ASCII numbers for each letter in a word "aa", you'll get "97 + 97" = "194", in the same time for word "w" you'll get "119", i.e. "194" > "119".
It's a wrong answer.
According to the task, you should consider letters position in the alphabet: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc. : so you supposed to get for "aa" -> "1 + 1" ="2", and for "w" -> "23".
"23" > "2". The correct answer is "w".

cool kata :))

nice kata, but definitely not 5kyu

Very nice kata, had a lot of fun :)

I really feel like this should be 8kyu kata, but i know u cant change the rank.

I know you cant change the rank but still, this is too easy for 6kyu :D