# Loop not working online

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**Category:** Online experiments\
**Created:** [January 10, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/loop-not-working-online/43445 "2025-01-10T18:52:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/loop-not-working-online/43445/6 "2025-01-11T22:52:21Z")

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If your first loop and routines are working and your second one is failing with similar routines, could you try reusing the routines from the first loop?

> [@Wakefield's Daily Tips](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/wakefields-daily-tips/43371/7):
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> Reuse your routines If you are tempted to copy a routine in your experiment because you want another routine to do a similar thing, consider whether you can simply reuse the same routine. Routines can be reused either by adding them again to your flow or by adding a loop to repeat them. The advantages of this are: Your psyexp file will be smaller. Large psyexp files can become unresponsive in Builder. If you want to make a change to the routine, you only have to do it once rather than ch…

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