Another Java Challenge

Challenge:

Given the following information:

a = 26, b = 25, c = 24, d = 23 ..... x = 3, y = 2, z = 1

What is the sum of each letter of this sentence: "The quick brown fox jumped over the cow"?

Answer:

public class Revalphabetcodes {

   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String element="The quick brown fox jumped over the cow";
        int cycle=element.length()-1;
        int sum=0;
        while(cycle>-1){
              if(Character.getNumericValue(element.charAt(cycle))!=-1){
         
            sum+=36-Character.getNumericValue(element.charAt(cycle));
                }
             cycle--;
            }
        System.out.println("sum is: "+sum);
        }
   
}