Table dictionary not going in order

[DeltOof12345]

I have already set all the indexes, why is it doing this?

This is for a cutscene.

local textThing = {
		["bro you're horrible at your job you're fired noob"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "Boss",
			["index"] = 1
		},
		
		["oh a naww your gonna regert that"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "You",
			["index"] = 2
		},
		
		["regret*"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "Boss",
			["index"] = 3
		},
		["boi if you do that again i swear"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "You",
			["index"] = 4
		},
		["get pooed on"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "Boss",
			["index"] = 5
		},
		
		["bruh thats it"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "You",
			["index"] = 6
		},
		
		["what u gonna do, take revenge?"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "Boss",
			["index"] = 7
		},
		["yes"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "You",
			["index"] = 8
		},
		["wgat"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.1,
			["Name"] = "Boss",
			["index"] = 9
		},
		["nothing!!!!!!"] = {
			["StopForGrammar"] = false,
			["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
			["Name"] = "You",
			["index"] = 10
		}
	}

Result:

 bro you're horrible at your job you're fired noob  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.742  regret*  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.742  yes  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.742  nothing!!!!!!  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.743  boi if you do that again i swear  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.743  get pooed on  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.744  bruh thats it  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.744  oh a naww your gonna regert that  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.745  what u gonna do, take revenge?  ▶ {...}  -  Edit
  23:29:49.745  wgat  ▶ {...}

[Wigglyaa]

How are you getting the index?

[DeltOof12345]

for text, properties in pairs(textThing) do
	typewriter.Typewrite(workspace.Info.Subtitle,text,properties.StopForGrammar,properties.TimePerLetter,(properties.Name or nil))
end

[bytesleuth]

Dictionaries have no order only arrays.

[DeltOof12345]

How would I make this in order?

[bytesleuth]

local textThing = {
	{
		["Text"] = "bro you're horrible at your job you're fired noob",
		["StopForGrammar"] = false,
		["TimePerLetter"] = 0.05,
		["Name"] = "Boss",
		["index"] = 1
	}
}

Make it into an array into this format, I’ve done the first one for you.

Then you loop through it.

for_, properties in textThing do
	typewriter.Typewrite(workspace.Info.Subtitle,properties.Text,properties.StopForGrammar,properties.TimePerLetter,(properties.Name or nil))
end

[SubtotalAnt8185]

It’s not an array, so it will not sort. The text should not be indexed by an index key, nor should you be using the bracket operator instead of the dot operator, which looks like:

local myDictionary = {
	Hello = { --instead of ["Hello"], since this uses up four less characters and improves script editor loading times and improves compiling performance.
		"World"
	}
}
print("Hello ", myDictionary.Hello)

[DeltOof12345]

Thank you everyone for contributing, but I have found a solution myself.

How do you sort items in a dictionary according to Number?

Ordered iteration through a dictionary is never guaranteed so attempting to apply a sort to it is pointless. You’ll need to create a proxy array for this containing all the keys of the dictionary and sort that array. Then when you’re performing iteration, you do it over the array and from whatever value is selected for the current iteration, perform a lookup against your dictionary. local dictionary = { ["A"] = 1, ["B"] = 2, ["C"] = 3 } local array = {} for key, _ in pairs(diction…

I used the index property to sort it.