How to increase leaderstat?

I;m trying to code out a script that increase the leaderstat "headsize" whenever the u key is pressed and this is what I have so far:

x = 0

function KeyPress(input, gameProcessed)

  if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.U then

		x = x + 1	
  end
end

game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(KeyPress)
	

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	

	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	leaderstats.Parent = player
	
	local headsize = Instance.new("IntValue")
	headsize.Name = "headsize"
	headsize.Value = x
	headsize.Parent = leaderstats
	
end)

The start works as it starts out with 0, but when I press the U key, nothing happens. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just blind to, but if you can help me out thanks!