Create an appropriate UNIQUE key and then use INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.
The original poster mentioned something about scoring, but it's not present as a column in the table... This should check if the new score is less than the current score, if it is then the new score is assigned to the field in the update, otherwise the current score is used.
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