Leet Speak in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Convert text to 1337 by the row. Encodes or decodes leet speak down a column — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

leetspeak.xlsxsample data

C2fx=VERVE("leetspeak", A2, B2, "field", "changedCharacters")

Text

Mode

Changed Characters

This is a simple piece of text

encode

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Clean a column of text

Fill =VERVE("leetspeak", "This is a simple piece of text", "encode", "field", "changedCharacters") beside messy text and get the normalized, analyzed, or translated version back — data cleaning without leaving the grid.

Analyze at scale

Score or classify a whole column of responses, reviews, or messages in one fill instead of one-by-one.

Compose with other formulas

Nest Leet Speak's output inside your existing SUM, IF, or CONCAT logic like any other cell value.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("leetspeak", "This is a simple piece of text", "encode", "field", "changedCharacters")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("leetspeak", "This is a simple piece of text", "encode", "field", "changedCharacters")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Text
=VERVE("leetspeak", "This is a simple piece of text", "encode", "field", "text")

Leet Speak, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Leet Speak into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("leetspeak", "This is a simple piece of text", "encode", "field", "text") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Leet Speak?

Leet Speak returns text — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I fill a whole column of Leet Speak at once?

Yes. Put your text values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Leet Speak cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Leet Speak work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Leet Speak

Clean a column of text

Analyze at scale

Compose with other formulas

Leet Speak, answered

Put Leet Speak in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

Scaling up?