How do I make repeatetly mashing a key make a timer go faster?

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#1

As the title says, I want to make mashing a key (like E) make a timer (5s) go by faster.

For example, I did something in the game and now I have to wait 5s, however, if I start mashing the E key, the timer will decrease in length, making the total wait time 1s instead of 5s

I tried using for loops, but, i can’t really wrap my head around it.

Any help is appreciated

#2

By mashing do you mean pressing the key once it decreases the timer, or having to repeatedly press the button otherwise it goes back down?

#3

I’m more or less talking about repeatedly pressing the button, but the timer doesn’t go back down, in this case, it just decreases the time by like 0.1s with every key press.

#4

is this locally or for the whole server?

#5

just calculate how fast the player is pressing the key, every second (or whatever interval you want), add one to a variable that contains the number of key presses and check that number every time and reset it every second.

#6

In this example I use a remote event to trigger the timer, please ask me if you are confused on some parts.

local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local rs = game:GetService("RunService")
local timer = 5
local minusamount = 0.1
local keydown


game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	repeat
		wait(1)
		if keydown then
		timer = timer - 1 + minusamount
			print(timer)
		else
			timer = timer - 1
			print(timer)
		end
	until timer == 0 or timer < 0
	print("done")


uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, processed)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E and processed == false then
		keydown = true
		wait(0.1)
		keydown = false
	end
end)

uis.InputEnded:Connect(function(input, processed)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then
		keydown = false
	end
	end)
	
	end)

This script is a localscript and is located in starterplayerscripts

#7

Sorry for not responding earlier, I was a little busy

Anyway, this code seems pretty good, I’ll try to translate it to a server sided script to avoid exploiting

#8

Did it end up working for you?