High score system for racing game

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Hi guys & gals!

I am trying to implement a highscore system for my car racing game these days and manage to store player data in a struct variable when the player has crossed the finish line. In this struct variable I store “Player Name”, “Player Email” and “Lap Time” and save this data in a struct array inside a savegame blueprint. This seems to work pretty well, but now I also need a scoreboard for the top 10 players & can`t get my head around how to fetch data from the savefile and use that in a highscore widget. I know how to fetch data from the struct array in the savefile, but how can i then sort data by “best lap time” and put the best time in the correct order in the leaderboard etc.?

Really stuck here, so all help is very appreciated!

Roald

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Hello brokenpoly,

This tutorial helped me when I first started working with systems such as this. It should cover everything you’re trying to do. Please let me know if you have any questions about the setup.

Note: While Wes begins talking about the save game mechanics further into the tutorial, I would suggest watching the entire thing and following along as it would be easier to understand if you’re already familiar with how the rest of the project is set up.