How do I get a player's move speed (only one number not Vector3)

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#1

Hey, how do I get a single-number player velocity? I just need to know how fast the player’s moving, but not the walking speed. Because the player needs to accelerate before moving at max speed. I want to make it so that the player can only jump really high when moving really fast and not just idle or walking.

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#2

One way involves taking the magnitude of HumanoidRootPart.AssemblyLinearVelocity. Also possible to exclude the Y-value and only read plain movement velocity.

Example in a local script (excluded vertical factor):

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local hrp = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

while true do
	task.wait(.2)
	print(
		(hrp.AssemblyLinearVelocity * Vector3.new(1,0,1)).Magnitude
	)
end
#3

But how do I detect if that’s the max speed the player can go? Can you determine it using the walk speed?