Sort a Dictionary

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Dictionaries do not have any real order & so attempting to use table.sort by itself probably holds no promise. You will definitely need to do a little extra work like you’ve been trying to.

For sorting of dictionaries I have always used this method that 1waffle1 goes into detail about here:

Dictionary Sorting

If you want to get a sorted array representation of the contents of a dictionary then store all of the key, value pairs in an array. local array = {} for key, value in pairs(dictionary) do array[#array+1] = {key = key, value = value} end table.sort(array, function(a, b) return a.value > b.value end)

I see no reason this could not work for your use-case because the sorted variant will still hold the indexes thus making it easy to reattach “OtherStuff” on a per index basis after sorting.