How would you grab the highest value in all models with the same value, and declare the person who has achieved that as a winner?

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#1
  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to wait 60 seconds, get the player who clicked a part with a ClickDetector the most and declare them as a winner through a StringValue in ReplicatedStorage.
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots/videos if possible!
    I can’t seem to do this task.
  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I have tried:
    1: To do it myself (I couldn’t think of a good way to do it)
    2: Looking on Google for some solutions (almost everything was about tables)
    3: Looking for solutions on other scripting sites for Roblox. (again, almost everything was about tables)
    Thanks,
    OldBo5
#2

tables are by far the best way to do this, whether that be arrays or dictionaries,

With both, you can iterate though a generic for loop

Array Example

local Clicks = {[25] = "plr1", [22] = "plr2",[69] = "plr3"}
local TopScore = 0
local TopPlr

for i,v in ipairs(Clicks) do
   if i > TopScore then
      TopScore = i
      TopPlr = v
   end
end
print(TopPlr,TopScore) --plr3, 69

Dictionary Example:

local dict = {["plr1"] = 25, ["plr2"] = 22, ["plr3"] = 69}
local TopScore = 0
local TopPlr

for k,v in pairs(dict) do
   if v > TopScore then
      TopScore = v
      TopPlr = k
   end
end
print(TopPlr,TopScore) --plr3, 69
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#3

As @theking48989987 mentioned, table definitely are the best way to do this- using values simply creates more work than it solves- you would have to insert a value for every player that join; you would have to specify every value as its own variable or in a table, etc.

Try to avoid using workspace values in a scenario like this where you only need to do the job in one script.

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