HiScores

The hiscores are an implementation in which all players are ranked by their experience in skills.

For players to appear in the hiscores,
 * They must be in the top 1 million (for any skill)
 * They must have a minimum skill level of 30 in the skill they have in the top million players (13,363 experience points).
 * The player must not be banned.
 * The player cannot be Jagex staff.

The hiscores have caused a very competitive atmosphere, and players are very critical of others based upon their ranks. High ranked players, such as Zezima, Uloveme, Svulle, Yogosun, N0valyfe and Thehate are often sources of discussion, both positive and negative. The hiscores are updated with a players' stats each time they log off.

History
The original hiscores table was updated weekly with players' ranks overall, levels, experience, and change in rank. It recorded the top 100,000 players.

The hiscores were redone on November 21, 2003. The update change the maximum number of players on the hiscores to 250,000.

This was changed to a maximum of 500,000 on May 24, 2004.

On June 1st, 2004 another update to the highscores allowed players to see the hiscores of all of there people on that player's Friend's list on one page.

On August 25th, 2006, the number of people that were on the highscores was increased to 1,000,000. The change was due to a larger number of accounts, meaning many players were being left off of the highscores.

It was once again changed on January 30th, 2006. The 'compare' function was added and the look of the highscores page was updated.

On June 12, 2007, Zezima became the first player ever to hit one billion experience in all the skills combined.

Skill level of a 1,000,000 ranking player
The table shows the level of a player with a rank of 1,000,000 for each particular skill. A player needs at least this level to be in the top 1 million in that skill in order to appear in the hiscores. If a player falls below the top 1 million, then that skill falls out of the player's hiscores.

Most players develop their combat skills as well as Mining/Smithing/Crafting and Fishing/Cooking.

Skills that directly affect combat level (Magic, Attack, Strength), skills that are easy to level up (eg Cooking), skills that center on extraction of resources (eg Mining) and skills that are heavily trained or used by bots (like Woodcutting) tend to be very high in the high score and therefore players must acheive higher levels in these skills. Skills that cost a lot of money to train (like Construction), skills that are available only to members (like Herblore), or skills that are slow to train (like Farming and Runecrafting), often have fewer players reaching high level and therefore easier to reach in the high score with lower level.

Skills with fewer than 1 million players above level 30 are marked with a dash. See the next section.

Level 30 rankings
The second table shows the ranking of a level 30 player for those skills with less than 1,000,000 players. Obtaining level 30 in any of these skills will place a player in the hiscores as long as they stay in the top 1 million.

Skills marked with a dash have more than 1 million players with levels over 30. See first table above.

Sometimes the top million scores require more than level 30 to appear. (e.g. Magic, in which hiscores appear at level 53.)

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