200 million experience

The maximum amount of experience that a player can earn in a skill is 200 million, an achievement that only a few players have reached with 6 of those players having reached this in 2 skills, as of 18 December 2007. This amount of experience represents a massive amount of time and work (as it can take up to multiple years), and those players who reach this milestone are (presumably) carefully investigated by Jagex to ensure that they have not achieved this through unfair means such as macroing or account sharing. If a player already has 200,000,000 experience in a skill and another player achieves 200,000,000 experience, the latter will not be ranked higher than the former unless the former is banned.

The majority of these players to reach 200 million experience did so in either Fletching, Cooking, or Thieving. These skills are considered to be the easiest to gain experience quickly in, as they require little attention. Many other skills are difficult to train as easily because they require more concentration, give experience more slowly, or are more expensive.

Despite this, many players are quickly overcoming the struggle for maximum experience. As RuneScape's popularity increases and more accounts advance further into the game, 200 million experience will become an increasingly reachable mark for many players which more players will aspire to and reach in more skills.

Milestones in 200 million experience
Below is a list of the first players reaching 200 million experience.

Many Runescape players have made a hypothesis that players with high Strength, Range and magic experience hit higher or more accurately if they have more experience in it from above 99. This has remained unconfirmed by Jagex.