Speed tracking script isn't tracking speed

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I am making a script that tracks the player’s current speed and shows it on the leaderboard, but the player’s actual speed and the leaderboard value don’t change, and I don’t know why.

Character.Humanoid.Running:Connect(function()
	while true do
	  wait(1)
	  WalkSpeed = WalkSpeed + 1
	  localplr.leaderstats.Speed.Value =  localplr.CharacterWalkSpeed
   end
end)
2

There isn’t enough information provided in this thread so it’s relatively hard to determine what your problem is. I’m going to make a few assumptions based on the code you’ve already provided.

The first thing is addressing your use of a while loop: don’t create a non-terminating while loop. What you should do instead is add a condition that checks whether the humanoid is still moving or not. Whenever Running fires, it spawns up a new non-terminating while loop.

The second thing is where the script is coming from. If you’re attempting to make this change from a LocalScript, you’ll have no dice in the change showing up to other players so you won’t be able to make a leaderboard for steps. I encourage you to look towards RemoteEvents for accomplishing this.

Aside from that, it’d be appreciated if you provided more of your code and possibly hierarchy shots so you can be further helped.

3

Here’s a quick script I wrote up to basically mimic what you’ve made, but better.
Oh yeah, I also got rid of CharacterWalkSpeed (because i don’t know what it is)

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local Leaderstats = Player:WaitForChild("Leaderstats")
local Speed = Leaderstats:WaitForChild("Speed")

local Running = false

Humanoid.Running:Connect(function(Speed)
	if Speed > .1 then
		Running = true
	else
		Running = false
	end
end)


while wait(1) do
	if Running then
		Humanoid.WalkSpeed = Humanoid.WalkSpeed + 1
		Speed.Value = Humanoid.WalkSpeed
	end
end

You should most likely run this inside of a server script, as localscripts are… well… local.

4

I definitely agree with you, I should’ve included more of my code. On the other hand, thanks for your suggestions!

5

Thanks for the suggestions! I’m only using a LocalScript because I’m using LocalPlayer, so I guess I’ll have to use Remote Events.

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