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How to Make a Roblox Global Leaderboard GUI

A global leaderboard ranks every player by a stat like total coins, and the ranking persists across servers. The hard part isn't the GUI — it's storing sorted data with OrderedDataStore and reading the top players back. This guide covers the full loop: save a score, fetch the top 10, and render them as rows. Start from the leaderboard template for the row layout.

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local scores = DataStoreService:GetOrderedDataStore("CoinsLeaderboard")

local function saveScore(player, coins)
	scores:UpdateAsync(tostring(player.UserId), function(old)
		return math.max(old or 0, coins)
	end)
end

local function getTop(n)
	local page = scores:GetSortedAsync(false, n)
	local entries = {}
	for _, entry in ipairs(page:GetCurrentPage()) do
		local userId = tonumber(entry.key)
		local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetNameFromUserIdAsync(userId)
		table.insert(entries, { name = player, score = entry.value })
	end
	return entries
end

-- Server
local remote = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("LeaderboardUpdate")
task.spawn(function()
	while true do
		remote:FireAllClients(getTop(10))
		task.wait(60) -- refresh once a minute
	end
end)

-- Client: make one row per entry, parented to the panel
local function makeRow(rank, name, score)
	local row = Instance.new("Frame")
	row.Size = UDim2.fromScale(1, 0.14)
	row.Parent = panel
	-- ...rank label, name label, score label...
	return row
end