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43 lines
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# L33tspeak Converter
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L33tspeak - the act of speaking like a computer hacker (or hax0r) - was popularized in the late 1990s as a mechanism of abusing ASCII art and character mappings to confuse outsiders. It was a lot of fun. One popular comic strip in 2000 showed just how far the joke ran.
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<p align="center">
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<img src="../../assets/L33tspeak.gif" alt="L33tspeak">
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</p>
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In **L33Tspeak** you substitute letters for their rough outlines in ASCII characters, e.g. symbols or numbers. You can have 1:1 mappings (like E -> 3) or 1:many mappings (like W -> `//). So then you wind up with words like this:
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```text
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BASIC => 6451C
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ELEET => 3L337 (pronounced elite)
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WOW => `//0`//
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MOM => (V)0(V)
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```
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## Mappings
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For this challenge we'll be using a subset of American Standard Leetspeak:
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```text
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A -> 4
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B -> 6
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E -> 3
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I -> 1
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M -> (V)
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N -> (\)
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O -> 0
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S -> 5
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T -> 7
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V -> \/
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W -> `//
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```
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Your **challenge**, should you choose to accept it, is to **translate to L33T**.
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## Example
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```text
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storm -> 570R(V)
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```
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