200 million experience

The maximum amount of experience that a player can earn in a skill is 200 million, an achievment that only 17 players have reached with 2 of those players having reached this in 2 skills (both of them have 200 million experience in Fletching and Cooking as of April 2nd, 2007. This amount of experience represents a massive amount of time and work (multiple years), and those players who reach this milestone are carefully investigated by Jagex to ensure that they have not achieved this through unfair means such as macro or account sharing.

The majority of these 17 players to reach 200 million experience did so in either Fletching or Cooking, with 9 players having maxed their Cooking experience, and 5 having done so in Fletching. These skills are considered to be the easiest to gain experience quickly in, as they require little attention. Players have only managed to reach 200 million experience in 7 of the 23 skills, with the others besides Cooking and Fletching being Attack, Defence, Ranged, Firemaking, and Thieving. Many other skills are difficult to train as easily because they require more concentration, give experience more slowly, or are more expensive. Other skills that have been released more recently such as Construction or Hunter have not been available long enough to have been easily trained to 200 million experience.

Despite this, many players are quickly overcoming the struggle for maximum experience. There is currently a player with over 195 million Thieving experience, another with 182 million Woodcutting experience, and one who has already gained 200 million Cooking experience has over 181 million Fletching 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.