Time trial leaderboard help

[JaylinTooGoated (Jaylin)]

Yo I’m fairly new to coding and I’ve recently been learning from the Lua learn game but they didn’t have a section on there for “time trial leaderboards.” For some reason my script here in serverscriptservice will not display the times on the leaderboard I made and I followed a tutorial from youtube word for word, letter by letter. I don’t know if something’s outdated or what but I’ve been struggling with this since early September. I’ve asked for help countless times but people just skip over my posts I guess so I just resorted to trying it on my own and it didn’t work out too well! Here’s the leaderboard script below. I’ll look at y’all’s replies (if there are any ) when I wake up and I appreciate you for reading! Thank you and have a wonderful rest of your night. If you need a little more info you can just click my profile and go to my activity and/or go to the thread below:

Confusion with making a time trial leaderboard!

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions: What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear! Making a leaderboard for my obby! What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible! Well I just don’t understand where to put anything inside of the leaderboard script! I’ve already made the leaderboard but I don’t know how to make a serverscriptservice script for it since I’m a beginner! I’ve searched on youtube how to do it and I even asked …

local leaderboardStore = dataStoreService:GetOrderedDataStore("Leaderboard")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

replicatedStorage.BestTime.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, time)
	time = math.floor(time * 1000)
	leaderboardStore:UpdateAsync(player.UserId, function(oldTime)
		if not oldTime then
			oldTime = math.huge
		end
		if time < oldTime then
			return time
		else
			return
		end
	end)
end)

local LeaderPart = workspace:WaitForChild("LeaderPart")
local surfacegui = LeaderPart.LeaderboardGui
local positionLabels = {
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(1),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(2),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(3),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(4),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(5),
}

local function updateLeaderboard()
	local leaderboardData = leaderboardStore:GetSortedAsync(true, 5)
	local currentpage = leaderboardData:GetCurrentPage()
	for i, data in ipairs(currentpage) do
		local time = data.value/1000
		local positionLabel = positionLabels[i]
		if positionLabel then
			local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetNameFromUserIdAsync(data.key)
			if player then
				positionLabel.Text = string.format("%d. %s - %.3f", i, player, time)
			else
				positionLabel.Text = ""
			end
		end
	end
end

replicatedStorage.BestTime.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, time)
	time = math.floor(time * 1000)
	leaderboardStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, time)
	updateLeaderboard()
end)

updateLeaderboard()

[KyleDominicus (Kyle)]

Hey! This may or may not be much help because I must confess I never use ordered data stores for my leaderboards, but I believe that your “data.value” should be “data.Value.” Capitalize the “V!”
I believe that is something I learned a long time ago; maybe my memory is failing me, but if I’m correct, that might just be your issue.

[SeargentAUS (Seargent)]

@JaylinTooGoated

local positionLabels = {
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(1),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(2),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(3),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(4),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild(5),
}

I think you may need to have the numbers in quotation marks

i.e.

local positionLabels = {
	surfacegui:WaitForChild('1'),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild('2'),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild('3'),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild('4'),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild('5'),
}

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Also, as the person above said, you should use a capital V for .Value. Although it will still likely accept it, lowercase value is deprecated and not recommended for future use.

[JaylinTooGoated (Jaylin)]

Yo I appreciate y’all for the help! I capitalized all the stuff and made sure all the parts of the script matched! But I got these error messages

[JaylinTooGoated (Jaylin)]

Preciate the help brother, I changed all the variables and stuff in the script and made sure they matched with the leaderboard part in workspace too but those errors above were displayed. Also here’s the changed script just incase y’all wanna know what I changed:

local dataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local leaderboardStore = dataStoreService:GetOrderedDataStore("Leaderboard")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

replicatedStorage.BestTime.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, Time)
	Time = math.floor(Time * 1000)
	leaderboardStore:UpdateAsync(player.UserId, function(oldTime)
		if not oldTime then
			oldTime = math.huge
		end
		if Time < oldTime then
			return Time
		else
			return
		end
	end)
end)

local LeaderboardPart = workspace:WaitForChild("LeaderboardPart")
local surfacegui = LeaderboardPart.LeaderboardGui
local positionLabels = {
	surfacegui:WaitForChild("1"),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild("2"),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild("3"),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild("4"),
	surfacegui:WaitForChild("5"),
}

local function updateLeaderboard()
	local leaderboardData = leaderboardStore:GetSortedAsync(true, 5)
	local currentpage = leaderboardData:GetCurrentPage()
	for i, data in ipairs(currentpage) do
		local Time = data.Value/1000
		local positionLabel = positionLabels[i]
		if positionLabel then
			local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetNameFromUserIdAsync(data.key)
			if player then
				positionLabel.Text = string.format("%d. %s - %.3f", i, player, Time)
			else
				positionLabel.Text = ""
			end
		end
	end
end

updateLeaderboard()