Saving best times

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I want to know what would be the best solution to save times on my timer here.

I used this tutorial as a basis for my timer:

Timer code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
//using TMPro;

public class Timerscript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Horns;
    public float timeInMinutes;
    public float timeInSeconds;
    private float timerduration;
    public GameObject GameOverScreen;
    public Transform trackedObject;

    [SerializeField]
    private bool countDown = true;

    public float timer;

    [SerializeField]
    private Text firstMinute;
    [SerializeField]
    private Text secondMinute;
    [SerializeField]
    private Text seperator;
    [SerializeField]
    private Text firstSecond;
    [SerializeField]
    private Text secondSecond;

    private float flashTimer;
    private float flashduration = 1f;
    void Start()
    {
        /* The plus one increment is due to the timer always incrementing by one second when the game first starts*/
        timerduration = timeInMinutes * 60f + timeInSeconds + 1f;
        ResetTimer();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (trackedObject != null)
        {
            if (countDown && timer > 0)
            {
                timer -= Time.deltaTime;
                updateTimerDisplay(timer);
            }
            else if (!countDown && timer < timerduration)
            {
                timer += Time.deltaTime;
                updateTimerDisplay(timer);
            }
            else
            {
                flash();
                Object.Destroy(Horns.gameObject);
                Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
                GameOverScreen.SetActive(true);               
            }
        }
        else { /*Debug.Log("Horns is Dead"); return;*/ }
    }

    private void ResetTimer()
    {
        if (countDown)
        { 
            timer = timerduration; 
        }
        else
        { 
            timer = 0;  
        }
        setTimerDisplay(true);
    }

    private void updateTimerDisplay(float time)
    {
        if (time < 0)
        {
            time = 0;
        }

        float minutes = Mathf.FloorToInt(time / 60);
        float seconds = Mathf.FloorToInt(time % 60);

        string currentTime = string.Format("{00:00}{1:00}", minutes, seconds);
        firstMinute.text = currentTime[0].ToString();
        secondMinute.text = currentTime[1].ToString();
        firstSecond.text = currentTime[2].ToString();
        secondSecond.text = currentTime[3].ToString();
    }

    private void flash()
    {
        if (countDown && timer !=0)
        { 
           timer = 0; 
           updateTimerDisplay(timer);
        }

        if (!countDown && timer != timerduration)
        {
            timer = timerduration;
            updateTimerDisplay(timer);
        }

        if (flashTimer <=0)
        {
            flashTimer = flashduration;
        }
        else if (flashTimer >= flashduration / 2)
        {
            flashTimer -= Time.deltaTime;
            setTimerDisplay(false);
        }
        else 
        {
            flashTimer -= Time.deltaTime;
            setTimerDisplay(true);
        }
    }

    //public string GetTimeString()
    //{
        //return TimeFormatter.Format(currentTime);
    //}

    private void setTimerDisplay (bool enabled)
    {
        firstMinute.enabled = enabled;
        secondMinute.enabled = enabled;
        seperator.enabled = enabled;
        firstSecond.enabled = enabled;
        secondSecond.enabled = enabled;
    }
}
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Hello @ManardoLenari,

To save the time you can use PlayerPrefs:

PlayerPrefs.SetFloat("BEST_TIME", timer);

And load it like that:

float timer = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("BEST_TIME", float.MaxValue); //float.MaxValue as default value

if what you want is to save only the best timer you can just make a comparison:

float bestTimer = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("BEST_TIME", float.MaxValue);

if (timer < bestTimer) { // if my time is better than the best time saved
    PlayerPrefs.SetFloat("BEST_TIME", timer);
}