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I Installed proxychains and tor to test them. I heard that proxychains and tor will redirect the message into multiple nodes before getting to the desired destination.

So I thought that it is logical that the TTL of a packet will be less if we use proxy chains, because it will pass through more node. But when I tried the ping command with proxychains and without proxychains, I got the same TTL as a result

So that made me thing that may be proxychains and tor aren't working properly. What can I do to confirm that they are working ?

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Ping will not help you debug your connection. You are using Tor as a SOCKS proxy. A SOCKS proxy acts at layer 5 of the OSI model (session) to act as a proxy for TCP and UDP connections, of which ping's ICMP requests are not.

If you want to test it, you could point your browser to a website like ipchicken.com or dnsleaktest.com which may help you identify where you appear to be browsing from.

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On terminal run the command: 

 proxychains curl ifconfig.me/ip

If you get a result other than your real public ip then you're set.

FYI you can find out your real public ip by the same command curl ipconfig.me/ip.

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