Question: I have a SortedDictionary where I am holding points of a particular player and his name next to it. What I need to do is to sort this in a descending order so that I have the winner in the first position of the dictionary. How can I do that?

Also, how can I get an item from the list without knowing the key?

```
SortedDictionary<int, string> dict = new SortedDictionary<int, string>();
dict.Add(player1Pts, playerNames[0]);
dict.Add(player2Pts, playerNames[1]);
dict.Add(player3Pts, playerNames[2]);

```

Thanks for any help!

Answer: 
First: A Sorted Dictionary will always be sorted immediately, when you insert another Value.

But note: Using the points as KEY means that you cannot have players with EQUAL points.

But if you want to go with that, you can simple use the Last() Method of your Dictionary to get the player with the most points:

```
SortedDictionary<int, String> t = new SortedDictionary<int,string>();
t.Add(5, "a");
t.Add(10, "c");
t.Add(2, "b");
MessageBox.Show((t.Last<KeyValuePair<int,string>>()).Value);

```

This Will Result in "c".
For first I think you should switch places of `<int, string>` player name should be key, and points would be values.

Then you can sort it by values:

```
dict.Sort(
    delegate(KeyValuePair<int, double> val1,
    KeyValuePair<int, double> val2)
    {
        return val1.Value.CompareTo(val2.Value);
    }
);

```

You can go through the dictionary by foreach to get keys and values:

```
 foreach (var pair in asd)
            {
                string some = pair.Key;
                int someValue =  pair.Value;
            }

```