anyone figured out object selection?

[Mook06]

I often get to a point in an app where i need some sort of object selection that stumps me, ill attach a mfa example

basically i want 2 of the same objects to hit each other, but only destroy the slower object, and possible add 1 to the score of the player who got the "kill"

[Mook06]

ok i found a bit of a solution by using a single tester object that you can compare against, definitely not the slickest way of doing this
if anyone has a better solution feel free to post it, even if its just words examples not needed

also, why do strings not have Alt Values? i swear they used to have them