thanks in advance

i tried doing something by looking up the syntax however in the first foreach i get a cant convert char to string error

despite declaring path as a string

Kazaam nailed it, you're not actually reading from a file. Check out the File.ReadAllLines method for more details on how to do that easily.

Then, I'd suggest using lines.Select(x => ...) to turn each line of text (a string) into an object with what I guess is a score and a name. After that you can order the list before finalizing it with .ToList()