How to see which player pressed a key first?

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#1

I am currently working on a volleyball game, and I need to see which player from team ‘Red’ was the first to press a certain key (for example F). I don’t know how to do this, and I can’t find any post about it explaining exactly what I want.

Help is appreciated! :slight_smile:

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#2

Is this during the whole game, or at a certain moment in a lobby as a timed comparison type of thing.
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#3

To determine which Team Red player was the first to press the specified key, you can add a timestamp to the message sent via the RemoteEvent. Then, on the server side, you can compare timestamps to identify the earliest key press.

-- Client script

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("PlayerKeyPressed")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local TeamRedKey = "f"

-- Function to detect key press
UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[TeamRedKey] then
        remoteEvent:FireServer(os.time())  -- Include timestamp
    end
end)

-- Server script

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("PlayerKeyPressed")

local earliestTimestamp = math.huge
local earliestPlayer = nil

remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, timestamp)
    if timestamp < earliestTimestamp then
        earliestTimestamp = timestamp
        earliestPlayer = player
    end
end)

-- After all key presses have been received
if earliestPlayer then
    print(earliestPlayer.Name .. " from Team Red was the first to press the key.")
else
    print("No player from Team Red pressed the key.")
end
#4

You make a RemoteEvent and a script that logs the key presses

You fire the RemoteEvent when user pressed F and then the server script does whatever you need to do

Example:

Localscript

local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(t,k)
	if not k then
		if t.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.F then
			game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Detect:FireServer()
		end
	end
end)

Script:

local firstPlr = nil

game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Detect.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr)
	if not firstPlr then
		firstPlr = plr
	end
end)