Power levelling

Power levelling or grinding is the term referred to when speaking of a player who is trying to raise their level in a certain skill in as short a time as possible, without care about what resources they may gain or the amount of money they spend as well as experience.

A good example of this is when a player is training Mining and drops the ores they mine so they can collect more without completely filling up their inventory. This allows them to raise their level without the need of going to sell it or deposit it in their bank. This saves travelling time, which makes the levelling faster.

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Players often train their combat skills by:
 * Killing bandits
 * Killing yaks
 * Killing moss giants
 * Killing giant spiders
 * Killing rock crabs
 * Killing Armoured zombies
 * Killing Experiments
 * Killing Mighty Banshee
 * Killing Flesh Crawlers
 * Killing hill giants

Construction
Players often train their Construction by:
 * Making oak larders
 * Making oak doors
 * Making Mahogany tables

Cooking
Players often train their Cooking by:
 * Cooking Apple Pies
 * Cooking lobsters
 * Cooking swordfish
 * Cooking monkfish
 * Cooking sharks
 * Cooking rocktails

Cooking gauntlets will help prevent burning lobsters, swordfish, and sharks at certain levels. It is believed that Cooking gauntlets help when cooking Monkfish; this is however, is a myth. You do not have to do the quest Swan Song in order to cook monkfish.

Crafting
Players often train their Crafting by:
 * Crafting any type of dragonhide vambraces
 * Crafting leather coifs
 * Crafting Green dragonhide body
 * Cutting Gems

Firemaking
Players often train their Firemaking by:
 * Burning willow, teak, maple, mahogany, yew, or magic logs

Fishing
Players often train their Fishing by:
 * Fly fishing at Lumbridge River, Gunnarsgrunn or Shilo Village
 * Catching Leaping fish at Otto's Grotto and dropping or banking them at Barbarian Assault

Fletching
Players often train Fletching by:
 * Fletching yew longbows
 * Fletching magic shortbows
 * Fletching magic longbows

Magic
Players often train their Magic by:
 * Casting ice barrage at bandits
 * Casting ice barrage at the skeletons in Ape Atoll Dungeon
 * Casting High Alchemy on items like yew longbows
 * Casting death rune-using blast spells
 * Casting crumble undead on low level zombies
 * Casting combat spells in Fist of Guthix
 * Casting combat spells at magic dummies in Lumbridge.
 * Casting stun on any attack stone (Clay attack stone, Limestone attack stone, Marble attack stone)
 * Casting Camelot Teleport repeatedly (If they have level 45 Magic or higher)
 * Casting String Jewelry on unstrung Gold Amulets (After 80 Magic or higher).

Mining
Players often train their Mining by:
 * Mining granite and dropping
 * Mining iron ore and dropping
 * Mining Gold ore and Coal and banking in the Living Rock Caverns
 * Mining Gold ore in the Arzinian mine
 * Mining Tin Ore at Port Khazard Mine a few spaces from a bank deposit box

Prayer
Players often train their Prayer by:
 * Using dragon bones or other high experience bones on a gilded altar


 * Using the Ectofuntus
 * Buying bones from the Grand Exchange and burying them
 * Killing relatively low-level Hill Giants for their big bones as well as their profitable drops

Ranged
Players often train their Ranged by:
 * Using red chinchompas on skeletons in Ape Atoll Dungeon
 * Using red chinchompas on mummies in the Chaos Tunnels
 * Using red chinchompas on Nechryael in the Chaos Tunnels
 * Using cheap, fast ammo such as iron darts on Ogres in the King Lathas Training Camp.
 * Using Dwarven Multicannon on Ogres in the King Lathas Training Camp.

Runecrafting
Players often train their Runecrafting by:
 * Crafting runes at the Ourania Runecrafting Altar using Ourania Teleport.
 * Crafting Lava runes with Magic Imbue.
 * Being a runecrafter in Air running.

Smithing
Players often train their Smithing by:
 * Smelting gold ore with goldsmith's gauntlets
 * Smithing iron platebody from iron bars bought from the Grand Exchange
 * Smithing adamant platebody from adamantite bars bought from the Grand Exchange

Thieving
Players often train their Thieving by:


 * Playing Pyramid Plunder
 * Pickpocketing Knight of Ardougne
 * Pickpocketing H.A.M members
 * Playing Sorceress's Garden (this also trains Farming)
 * Thieving Menaphite Thugs with use of a Blackjack
 * Thieving Coshing volunteers in the Thieves' Guild

Woodcutting
Players often train their Woodcutting by:
 * Chopping Willow trees at Draynor Village and Lumbridge
 * Chopping Willow trees at Barbarian Assault
 * Chopping Teak trees at Ape Atoll, south of the Castle Wars arena, or Tai Bwo Wannai
 * Chopping Ivy
 * Sawmill training

Power levelling cost
Power levelling cost refers to the loss in coins per experience point using a certain method to power level. Generally speaking, skills with a higher power levelling cost are harder to train.

Power levelling cost for free players
Below is a table showing the power levelling cost using different methods to power level. In the method of loss section, Drop means dropping the produced item, which results in no loss of money as the loss is theoretical; Destroy means the original item is destroyed in the process, resulting in actual loss of money; and Transform means the original item is changed into another item, ready to be sold.

You can increase the value of your training by using skills to train other skills. Classic examples include cooking the fish you catch, and burning or fletching the logs you cut, but there are many more combinations out there.