If you write wait() without any number in it, how much will it wait?

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#1

What I’m basically asking for is the default wait time if you don’t put anything inside the brackets.

Sorry if this sounds like a noobish question.

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#2

I’ve seen it answered before and its something like 0.05 if I remember correctly.

Wait is done in seconds, so that if you was to run a loop with nothing in the wait it would run about 200 times a second which for some scripts is enough to crash games.

A bit of advice, even if you want to run it 200 times a second, still put a number in there so you can be certain its doing what you want it to.

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#4

No, wait() yields the thread for 1/30th of a second or 0.03333 seconds.

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#5

wait() is not an exact science, neither is it with a number inside. You can get an average of wait() with this:

waited = wait()
for i=2, 50 do  -- skip one cycle because we wait above
	local new = wait()
	waited += new
	waited /= 2
	print("Waited " .. new)
end
print("Waited an average of: " .. waited)

I got the following output:

Summary 
  Waited 1.8574200374155
  Waited 2.2609276655935
  Waited 0.31333922615204
  Waited 0.047317504352577
  Waited 0.032834539640589
  Waited 0.033768102464819
  Waited 0.032842812972831
  Waited 0.033548362757301
  Waited 0.032377851693582
  Waited 0.033574175553895
  Waited 0.032724669786148
  Waited 0.032923560696418
  Waited 0.033695959006764
  Waited 0.032801446310714
  Waited 0.033847195522412
  Waited 0.032665432726844
  Waited 0.032834870573879
  Waited 0.033885914717757
  Waited 0.032825273508024
  Waited 0.032850424438493
  Waited 0.032967243891562
  Waited 0.033524204626701
  Waited 0.033046006015866
  Waited 0.033676433942219
  Waited 0.032918596697073
  Waited 0.032886165234231
  Waited 0.033813440325957
  Waited 0.032632008463679
  Waited 0.032863330837245
  Waited 0.033807152593909
  Waited 0.032766036448265
  Waited 0.032854726571259
  Waited 0.032817992975652
  Waited 0.033841569656488
  Waited 0.03278523057952
  Waited 0.033087372677528
  Waited 0.033489787564122
  Waited 0.040874894969875
  Waited 0.041746573268483
  Waited 0.032855388437838
  Waited 0.033768764331398
  Waited 0.032782914046038
  Waited 0.033000006287693
  Waited 0.033615211282722
  Waited 0.032835863373293
  Waited 0.032826928174472
  Waited 0.033789282195812
  Waited 0.032784568712941
  Waited 0.032772655114059
  Waited an average of: 0.032931571860888

It’s never exact. Regardless, you probably shouldn’t be using wait() anyway: Avoiding wait() and why
(this specifically:)

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#6

I don’t recommend using wait() without argument though, it can be a bit unreliable. If you want to wait exactly one frame, use RunService’s events.

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#7

Ah I see now. I will avoid using wait in the future then.

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