Skill mastery


 * See Hiscores for the relative total rankings of the different skills.



The maximum skill level a player can advance in a skill is Level 99 (with 13,034,431 experience points), although players can have up to 200,000,000 experience in any skill. Thus, if a player has level 99 in all the skills, the maximum total levels are 2,376 levels (that is 24 skills multiplied by 99).

Pay-to-play players reaching level 99 in a skill are entitled to wear a Cape of Accomplishment for that particular skill. This cape can be bought from a specific skill master, for 99,000 coins. When operated, this cape allows a player to have a temporary level of 100, and the player performs a unique emote. Furthermore, if the player reaches Level 99 in more than one skill, the player's skill cape becomes trimmed and any more skill capes the player obtains will also become trimmed (along with the newly received cape, of course).

Cooking and Fletching give fairly quick training, with a cost of 1-8 million coins depending how you train these skills. Another little-known skill that gives quick experience is Thieving (see the amount of people with 99 Thieving compared to Cooking and Fletching). Level 45-99 Thieving can be done in 2-4 weeks, depending on how long someone plays each day. Furthermore, getting level 1-45 Thieving can take less than a week. It will cost more if players want faster experience in Cooking and Fletching. Strength is by far the most trained, resulting in the highest number of 99s. However, gaining 99 levels is not easy no matter which skill, and thus classified as a major achievement. This is why wearing the Cape of Accomplishment is something to be proud of.

The skills that are considered cheaper or profitable to gain level 99 are Mining, Woodcutting, Fishing, Hunter and Runecrafting. A player can do this with a minimal amount of money or while making profit. However, levelling up these skills can be time consuming.

Before the Skill interface update, players with a level 99 skill could view the experience needed to earn level 100.

In RuneScape Classic, the maximum total level was 1,782; the addition of Runecrafting (1881), Slayer (1980), Farming (2079), Construction (2178), Hunter (2277), and the newest skill, Summoning, brought the maximum total levels to 2,376.



First players to achieve level 99
When level 99 stats first started appearing, players with such stats were often well known around the RuneScape community. However, as more and more people obtained level 99, it is often agreed that such players do not stand out much anymore. However, other members of the RuneScape community still consider it a major achievement.

Below is a list of the first players reaching level 99 in a particular skill.


 * {|class="wikitable"

!Achievement !Date achieved !Player
 * 99 Woodcutting
 * 28 August 2001
 * Everdred
 * 99 Firemaking
 * 2001
 * Cowchicken
 * 99 Magic
 * October 2001
 * Bluerose13x
 * 99 Smithing
 * 13 December 2001
 * Bluerose13x
 * 99 Cooking
 * January 2002
 * Tks
 * 99 Fishing
 * January 2002
 * Tks
 * 99 Mining
 * 2002
 * Joe Bill64
 * 99 Ranged
 * 2002
 * Snake Slava
 * 99 Agility
 * 23 March 2003
 * Thehate
 * 99 Crafting
 * 30 March 2003
 * Ltangel
 * 99 Fletching
 * 2003
 * Chilipeppers
 * 99 Prayer
 * May 2004
 * Lilyuffie88
 * 99 Slayer
 * 9 July 2005
 * Zezima
 * 99 Farming
 * 27 September 2005
 * 0xpx0
 * 99 Construction
 * 6 June 2006
 * Cursed You
 * 99 Hunter
 * 2 December 2006
 * Darkforest67
 * 99 Summoning
 * 8 February 2008
 * Nercychlidae
 * 99 Attack
 * Zonghui
 * 99 Defence
 * Zonghui
 * 99 Strength
 * Ladykilljoy
 * 99 Hitpoints
 * Zonghui
 * 99 Thieving
 * Swedemike
 * 99 Herblore
 * Halw Gnun
 * 99 Runecrafting
 * Kale Stille
 * }
 * 8 February 2008
 * Nercychlidae
 * 99 Attack
 * Zonghui
 * 99 Defence
 * Zonghui
 * 99 Strength
 * Ladykilljoy
 * 99 Hitpoints
 * Zonghui
 * 99 Thieving
 * Swedemike
 * 99 Herblore
 * Halw Gnun
 * 99 Runecrafting
 * Kale Stille
 * }
 * Zonghui
 * 99 Thieving
 * Swedemike
 * 99 Herblore
 * Halw Gnun
 * 99 Runecrafting
 * Kale Stille
 * }
 * Halw Gnun
 * 99 Runecrafting
 * Kale Stille
 * }
 * Kale Stille
 * }

Multiple level 99 skills

 * {|class="wikitable"

!Achievement !Date achieved !Player
 * 99 in all melee
 * Zonghui
 * 99 in all skills (1980)
 * 9 July 2005
 * Zezima
 * 99 in all skills (2079)
 * 4 October 2005
 * Zezima
 * 99 in all skills (2178)
 * 11 June 2006
 * N0valyfe
 * 99 in all skills (2277)
 * Thehate
 * 99 in all skills (2376)
 * Kingduffy 1
 * 99 in all free version skills
 * 28 January 2008
 * Syzygy
 * }
 * Notes :
 * 99 in all skills (2376)
 * Kingduffy 1
 * 99 in all free version skills
 * 28 January 2008
 * Syzygy
 * }
 * Notes :
 * Syzygy
 * }
 * Notes :


 * 1. Cowchicken and Dragoon 787 reached level 99 Firemaking on the same day, but it is commonly accepted that Cowchicken reached it earlier.


 * 2. Snake Slava was banned for macro use after Jagex mistook his English-Russian translator for cheating software. To prove that he did not cheat, he actually brought his computer to the Jagex headquarters.  To prove that he could achieve it again, he trained his second character Snake Slavik to 99 Ranged as well before anyone else could do so.


 * 3. Cursed You was banned for real world trading, not for causing the Falador Massacre.


 * 4. While Zezima was the first player to reach level 99 in all skills, he quited with Summoning level 94, he has later played when he is really bored and is now level 95.

Common 99's
Strength is currently the most common 99 skill in the game, followed by Cooking, Fletching and Attack.