How to Leetspeek

Do you want to know how to use slang when you are texting or instant messaging. Here is an guide on how to leetspeek, or leet for short.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Phone
• Computer

1. With leet, you use numbers instead of letters, so leet would be texted as 1337. The number 1 is a replacement for the letter L, the number 3 is a backwards E and 7 replaces the T. Commonly, the 8 replaces the B and the 9 replaces a G and the the number zero replaces the letter O.

2. Instead of using an S for a plural a Z is used. Z can also be used elsewhere in a word, like mess would be mezz.

3. Misspelled words are not corrected. If Adn is typed instead of And, it is ignored.

4. Vowels are left out. Instead of the word renewal, it would be texted rnwl. You see this a lot on peoples license plates.

5. Capitalization is mixed. You will see this as often as you will see tHiS.

6. You can use characters to replace letters. Such as $ would represent money and \/\/ would be W.

7. Here are some common leet words you should have in your arsenalL
   
   kewl = cool
   roxx0rs = rocks
   m4d = mad
   noob = newbie
   d00d = dude
   u = you
   r = are
   bff = bestfriend forever