Glitch

A glitch is a fault in a software which produces an unexpected result, usually from errors in scripting. Like any video game, Roblox has a handful of glitches. While some glitches are harmless, short-lived, and sometimes even entertaining, some can occur for a long time, break functionality, and even harm the software (usually known as bugs).

This article lists only glitches that occur within the Roblox website and software, not within individual Roblox games.

Glitches vs. Hacks
Some people use these terms interchangeably. A glitch is generally accidental, and not abusable to further anything. A hack is generally done on purpose, and it is used to further something, or to show off that you can hack. Abuse of a hack can be a bannable offense if it is truly an hack and not a glitch. Abuse of glitches generally not so. Ex: The glitches below are things Roblox needs to fix. A hack is either a security breach or a "professional" exploit.

Invisible tool
Join a game which has high graphics and need a little time to load, then equip a tool before the game is fully loaded. Your tool may appear invisible for a few seconds. This glitch can be fixed once the game is fully loaded.

Headless
Wear the Robloxian 3.0 (Man) head and Robloxian 1.0 (square) torso. Make sure all your body colors are the same and you have no clothing templates on. Some combos make your head not be there in-game either.

(only works in-game)

Cut Warning Window
To do this, open a file that Roblox Studio does not support or cannot read. After that, it should load and then you'll see a emulation tab with a window that's supposed to be in the center but cut by the game view. You can also load a corrupted place or a blank file (which I used) to trigger this glitch. Notice how there's a error in the output.

Frozen Avatar
Sometimes when you join a game and try to walk before the game is fully loaded, your avatar's arms and legs won't move when you walk, similar to hovering, but on the ground. This glitch will be fixed once the game is fully loaded.

Fly-Walking
Putting a wielded/any attaching surface brick on the back or front of your leg can cause you to 'fly' when you walk forward. You move up while going forward. Gravity is unaffected, so you drop when you are not walking. This is only seen in building places because you generally cannot put a brick on yourself in any other game. It is preferably used with the r6 character model as well.

Large Chat Box
Sometimes, when you click on the chat box or press "/" to chat, the chat box will appear stretched out to the bottom of the screen. This error is common in some games including Entry Point.

Freeze Ray Holding
When this glitch occurs, a player does not hold a freeze properly. It can occur in-game, or in a player's avatar.

Endless Install Loop
This bug forces you to reinstall ROBLOX every time you click "Play" on a place. To remove it, you must uninstall ROBLOX completely and then reinstall.

Big Character
When certain items are equipped, most notably the ROBLOX Visor in 2007 or the Vampire Collar, the player's avatar is zoomed in upon the face. This does not affect your character in-game.

Small Character
When certain items are equipped, such as the Dusek Car, 2013 Sparkler, Turkey Canon, or the Sonic Boom Tuba, the player's avatar appears small. This does not affect your character in-game.

Tab Glitch
This is the most common glitch that appeared in 2011-2012. In 2011, if you pressed too many tabs and put something at the end, it results as the number appearing in your's and other players that have 13+ chat. The number is usually packed in boxes, but they blinked and were stationary at one place. An example is "Hello (tabs) Telamon: Hi people!"

White Screen
Sometimes, when the part the user's camera was focused on moved too fast, the camera would go white, and would not fix itself upon resetting. The only true way to fix this was to remove that player's local camera. The users' camera is now automatically removed when the user resets, so the user can reset and no longer have to worry about this.

Expanding on Expanded
(Baseplate is not the cause.) When you put a brick on a wide/lengthy brick, it will move for an unknown cause. Possible theories are border bricks on top and different form factors. You can see the brick move pixel (not stud) by pixel if you use the expansion tool and force it to move where it is already blocked by another brick. The worst thing is, when you move or delete a long brick that touches a piece that touches the long brick, the whole brick touching the long brick moves.

Clothes Glitch
This glitch causes your avatar to lose all clothing items besides hats, and have them replaced with toolbars, chats, terrain, and the cursor. It is most common on Macs and does not go away. It does not affect the head, only the legs, torso, and arms. This glitch might also occur while loading into games, when it does you can see the texture of someone else's hat or bundle on your body. However, once the game fully loads, it goes away.

Shift+Enter Glitch
In the chat, typing something, pressing Shift+Enter, and type another thing. Then pressing enter splits your chat box and bubble into two lines. This is similar to the tab glitch.

Endless Loading Loop Glitch
At random, when a game is starting up, it'll be stuck in an endless loop of loading, and the game will never load. This can be easily fixed by quitting and rejoining.

Stuck down Glitch
If the player falls from a large enough height, there's a chance that they'll get stuck in the ground once they land. They might also even fall through the ground if they are high enough up.

Magical Unicorn Glitch
There are some vehicles that, while the player is driving them, glitch out when they equip the Magical Unicorn. This is most notable on ROBLOX High School.

Invisible Character Glitch
If an explosion that can destroy humanoid parts destroys the Humanoid Root Part, your character will fall down, but you can still move as an invisible character.

Imprecise Floating Points
When objects (bricks, meshes, the chat bubble, etc.) and the camera are moved extremely far away from a place's origin, the objects will appear to be "corrupted" and cubic. In addition, physics will start to act strangely on objects this far out. This can easily be reversed by moving back towards the place's origin. This glitch is nicknamed "The Null Zone", "The Deadlands" and "The Far Lands of Roblox". This glitch is caused by the engine's inability to properly calculate large floating point numbers. This glitch occurs occasionally. You can try this in Kohl's Admin Epix Edition by using the :tothemoon command.

Wall Glitching
This glitch consists of holding the W in 3rd Position and then in FP, it is generally used in VIP places that have an invisible wall. This can also be caused by flying into a wall at a high speed. Alternately zooming in the camera/using your shift lock as soon as you have your camera in a wall corner when holding S.

Stuck Gear
Sometimes, when you drop a gear, it will be stuck on your arm and it won't go away. It doesn't show that you have equipped this gear, and that is why you can't get this gear re-equipped or deleted.

Gray players
If your internet speed is slow and the ping is too high then all players will become gray for a few seconds. This glitch is common in games that have advanced graphics that require a little time to load all the textures.

Infinite Death
When you die, you don’t respawn. You stay dead, resetting your avatar doesn’t work either. Rejoining should fix it.

Infinite Captchas
Sometimes you will get Captchas infinity after completing one captcha. Restarting the tab should fix it.

Gear down R6 glitch
Sometimes when you join a server and you equip a gear before the game is fully loaded, the gear may appear down.

This is similiar to the Gear down glitch, but when this glitch happens it usually happens in R15 games. When the gear down glitch is happening, your avatar may also experience the Frozen Avatar glitch.

No Delete Button
In June 2010, the delete button was removed. If anyone took something from an item, the player could not delete it. He/she could get as many items you can if you wanted to but it still won't show up the button to delete it. Players who have an item before this will show up the delete button. This has been fixed now and players who bought a hat during this issue will now show its delete button.

Friends Glitch or friend request glitch
In December 31, 2013, there was a rare glitch on roblox where user noticed that their friends request got accepted 3 or 4 times and when they check friends list they noticed that their friend had same avatar and username this was fixed quickly.

Sky Death Glitch
Around 2015 and 2017, there was a glitch where if you were still on forcefield and fell to the bottom of the sky where around the point you die, you could somehow walk on the bottom, however in 10 seconds your body could perish away, it was fixed on late 2017.

Hat Giveouts
A user named Nikayah created an exploit in which one of the hats, such as the Riddling Skull, was given out to over 1,000 users. ROBLOX has banned him and was unbanned with another exploit in early 2009. xSCENEx has also done this by giving the Teapot Turret to himself.

No Torso Glitch
This happened on December 15, 2010. This glitch allowed the player's avatar to have no torso. It didn't cause any problems with ROBLOX. His/her torso would be there if he/she joined a game. This was fixed and all players were updated back to normal on the 16th.

Gear Down Glitch
This glitch was only up for a few hours before it got patched. This glitch prevented the player's avatar to move its arm in the proper location while holding a gear. The gear down glitch was also present in 2006. Before the animations were created, as shown in the photo.

Infinite Daily Robux Glitch
The infinite robux daily glitch was only for BC members, it started on around 2011, users would change their time on IOS, Android, or PC, the time would be set to a future time like 2021 or 2020, then if the user was lucky enough, they were able to get thousands of robux without waiting all year, the glitch however may not be patched still but players who did the trick were terminated. Now you don't earn robux if you do the glitch, just a termination.



Double Gear
The double gear glitch allowed users to drop one gear, and select another gear while walking over the dropped gear, which would let them hold two gears at once. This was once possible on the main Roblox site as well, it occured if you did the multiple hat glitch but with gears instead. Most recently it occured with the Trophy of Participation 2016 where if you were wearing it before it was switched from being a hat accessory to gear while wearing another gear it would appear as if you were wearing two gears on your profile, this is not possible to repeat though and once you updated your character after this occured it would take off one of the gears.

Egg-Jump
This glitch got patched when removing hats got removed. A player wearing an egg hat could press '=' on the keyboard to remove the hat. Once the egg landed the user was able to jump on the egg and 'super jump.'

Chat Bubble
When you chat most of the time your screen would be white on and off for a couple of seconds due to your chat bubble expanding to a huge size filling your screen and flashing on and off for a couple of seconds, this happened across most games, being very annoying for players that roleplay or chat very often due to this constantly happening.

Camera Error
In 2017 some users got an error with the camera not following the character in Roblox Studio. It had been stuck in one place and won't be even able to move the character. This glitch is now fixed, however in some old abandoned games this glitch is still common except you can move the character.

Zoomed-Out Profile Camera Glitch
It was a rare glitch that can wear on avatar. If you wear some stuff in Avatar page, your camera can be ultimately zoomed out.

Wearing Unavailable Body Colors
Back before the character/avatar page was updated there used to be a method with inspect element of changing your character's body colors to ones that did not show up on the body color list such as the color Crimson. It would require filling in the ID and name of the brick color from the official Roblox wiki/Developer platform. Unfortunately once the character page update was set in this became impossible to do anymore, there are still many users wearing these unavailable body colors on their characters. Avatars with these colors could also not be saved as outfits.

Outfit Copycat Glitch
Between 2016 and 2018, there was a glitch where if you loaded in game next to a player, there will be a chance you would be wearing the same outfit as the other player. Sometimes the player may wear your outfit. The glitch was common in MeepCity, Get Eaten, lesser known RPG games, and games with discontinued scripting. The glitch was later patched, however sometimes you may still wear a T-Shirt the player has equipped but it is a very low chance.

Edge-Jumping
If a user stands near an edge and then jumps, the player will go flying away from the edge and possibly result in a death. This is due to the in-game physics. It also occurs when you walk into a corner at the right angle. This glitch has been fixed.

February 17, 2016 glitches
On February 17, 2016, an unknown bug in the Roblox system made tons of users spawn with no packages, no hats, no animations, and some have also reported spawning as a noob. This glitch was later patched hours later.

Chat-Filter Bypass
Unfortunately, this will likely never get fully fixed as there are so many ways to bypass it. If you type a sentence with a swear word or type it strangely, it is possible it will not get filtered. Later User 1uckwhat did this glitch.

The Bad Kids role from Cam_Rxn's Rare Roblox Names group contains many account having an innapropriate username thanks to this glitch, altough many of them were terminated.

Bouncing
Bouncing is an odd glitch that makes the player bounce off a platform upon landing. This glitch is most common in games with animations and are often laggy. Due to this, the bug may never be patched.

Mobile Players Randomly Can't Run as fast as Other Platform Users
Sometimes, People who play on Mobile, (Examples: Phones, Tablets) will have a slower walk speed in even when the thumb-stick is being moved and held in whatever direction all the way. They run estimated 20% slower than A Person on Xbox and PC (Computer). It happens at random and is not caused by internet lag.