How do I get access to the Humanoid in a Player's Character? | Beginner needs Help

[worldly harbor]

Lets say I was making a +1 to a stat per second game, how do I get access to the humanoid inside of the character to change that stat?

[celest bridge]

local hum = character:FindFirstChildOfClass ("Humanoid")

(or character.Humanoid/character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")/character:WaitForChild("Humanoid"))

[worldly harbor]

ah, thanks

[lilac pasture]

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[worldly harbor]

how do i get the character?

[celest bridge]

player.Character

[worldly harbor]

oh should these script be a local script in the character?

[celest bridge]

It depends on what you want to do

[celest bridge]

If it is a local script
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer