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''This article refers to the personal hiscore tables. For clan hiscores, see [[Clan Hiscores]]''
[[File:Hiscores.png|thumb|The RuneScape Hiscores prior 22 November 2011.]]

The '''[http://hiscore.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/hiscores.ws Hiscores]''' is a website feature in which members are ranked by their [[experience]] in [[skills]]. For players to appear in the hiscores:
*They must be a member* ([http://services.runescape.com/m=news/high-profile-dicing-accounts-banned on 20 August 2012], a news article hinted at allowing free-to-play characters back into the hiscores in the future).
*They must have a minimum skill level of 15 in the skill (2411 [[experience]] points).
*The account must not be banned or locked. Banned/locked accounts are removed from the hiscores. If an account is unbanned/unlocked, it appears on the hiscores again.
*Jagex Moderator accounts (on which they can change stats and spawn items) do not appear on the hiscores. All these accounts begin with the word "Mod" except for Andrew, Paul, and Ian. Jagex Moderators' real private accounts, however, do appear on the hiscores. These are just regular accounts with no special powers that Jagex Mods play on for fun, and there is no way to know that they work for Jagex unless they reveal this information (and they probably can't).

The hiscores has added a very competitive atmosphere to the game, causing players to continue training their skills after 99 in order to gain ranks, and inspiring websites and programs dedicated to tracking and comparing experience progress. Some players look up their own ranks and note how much experience they need to gain to reach a certain rank. Also, many players look up their friends in the hiscores often. Many of the top ranked players are often closely followed as well.

The hiscores are updated with a player's stats each time they log out or leave to the lobby. An exception is that a player's hiscores do not update if they are automatically logged out of the game due to a system update but if a player reaches the 6-hour auto-log, the hiscores update.

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Note: A player may remain on the hiscores after membership expires, but after a certain point the experience will cease to be tracked.

==Minimum levels==
The minimum level to be ranked in the hiscores is level 15, unless more than 2 million players are already ranked, in which case a skill level of 15 will not rank a player. The following table shows the current minimum levels for each skill to be ranked on the hiscores.

For a more detailed chart, see [[Hiscores/Extended table|the extended table]].

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!colspan="2"|Skill
!Minimum level to be ranked
!colspan="2"|Skill
!Minimum level to be ranked
|-
|[[File:Stats Overall icon highscores.png]]
|Overall
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Overall}}
|[[File:Attack icon highscores.png]]
|[[Attack]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Attack}}
|-
|[[File:Defence icon highscores.png]]
|[[Defence]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Defence}}
|[[File:Strength icon highscores.png]]
|[[Strength]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Strength}}
|-
|[[File:Hitpoints icon highscores.png]]
|[[Constitution]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Constitution}}
|[[File:Ranged icon highscores.png]]
|[[Ranged]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Ranged}}
|-
|[[File:Prayer icon highscores.png]]
|[[Prayer]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Prayer}}
|[[File:Magic icon highscores.png]]
|[[Magic]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Magic}}
|-
|[[File:Cooking icon highscores.png]]
|[[Cooking]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Cooking}}
|[[File:Woodcutting icon highscores.png]]
|[[Woodcutting]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Woodcutting}}
|-
|[[File:Fletching icon highscores.png]]
|[[Fletching]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Fletching}}
|[[File:Fishing icon highscores.png]]
|[[Fishing]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Fishing}}
|-
|[[File:Firemaking icon highscores.png]]
|[[Firemaking]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Firemaking}}
|[[File:Crafting icon highscores.png]]
|[[Crafting]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Crafting}}
|-
|[[File:Smithing icon highscores.png]]
|[[Smithing]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Smithing}}
|[[File:Mining icon highscores.png]]
|[[Mining]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Mining}}
|-
|[[File:Herblore icon highscores.png]]
|[[Herblore]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Herblore}}
|[[File:Agility icon highscores.png]]
|[[Agility]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Agility}}
|-
|[[File:Thieving icon highscores.png]]
|[[Thieving]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Thieving}}
|[[File:Slayer icon highscores.png]]
|[[Slayer]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Slayer}}
|-
|[[File:Farming icon highscores.png]]
|[[Farming]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Farming}}
|[[File:Runecrafting icon highscores.png]]
|[[Runecrafting]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Runecrafting}}
|-
|[[File:Hunter icon highscores.png]]
|[[Hunter]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Hunter}}
|[[File:Construction icon highscores.png]]
|[[Construction]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Construction}}
|-
|[[File:Summoning icon highscores.png]]
|[[Summoning]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Summoning}}
|[[File:Dungeoneering icon highscores.png]]
|[[Dungeoneering]]
|{{Hiscores lowest rank|Dungeoneering}}
|}

Activities set the minimum "level" differently, according to the activity scoring system. See the table below.

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!colspan="2"|Activities
!Minimum score needed to be ranked
|-
|[[File:Duel tournament.png]]
|[[Duel Arena#Tournaments|Duel Arena Tournaments]]
|1800 rank
|-
|[[File:Bh icon.png]]
|[[Bounty Hunter]]
|250 kills your [[Bounty Hunter#Targets|target]]
|-
|[[File:Bh rogue.png]]
|[[Bounty Hunter|Bounty Hunter Rogues]]
|250 kills other than your [[Bounty Hunter#Targets|target]]
|-
|[[File:Fist of Guthix icon highscores.png]]
|[[Fist of Guthix]]
|500 rating
|-
|[[File:Mobilising Armies icon highscores.png]]
|[[Mobilising Armies]]
|300 rank
|-
|[[File:Barbarian Assault Attackers hiscores.png]]
|[[Barbarian Assault]] attackers
|500 [[Barbarian_assault/Rewards#Earning_Honour_Points|Honour points]] In the [[Barbarian_assault/Gameplay#Attacker|Attacker]] role
|-
|[[File:Barbarian Assault Defenders hiscores.png]]
|[[Barbarian Assault]] defenders
|500 [[Barbarian_assault/Rewards#Earning_Honour_Points|Honour points]] In the [[Barbarian_assault/Gameplay#Defender|Defender]] role
|-
|[[File:Barbarian Assault Collectors hiscores.png]]
|[[Barbarian Assault]] collectors
|500 [[Barbarian_assault/Rewards#Earning_Honour_Points|Honour points]] In the [[Barbarian_assault/Gameplay#Collector|Collector]] role
|-
|[[File:Barbarian Assault Healers hiscores.png]]
|[[Barbarian Assault]] healers
|500 [[Barbarian_assault/Rewards#Earning_Honour_Points|Honour points]] In the [[Barbarian_assault/Gameplay#Healer|Healer]] role
|-
|[[File:Castle Wars Games highscores.png]]
|[[Castle Wars]]
|500 games '''played'''
|-
|[[File:Conquest hiscores.png]]
|[[Conquest]]
|1250 rating
|-
|[[File:Dominion_tower_highscores.png]]
|[[Dominion Tower]]
|50,000 total Dominion Factor
|-
|
|[[Crucible|The Crucible]]
|500 kills
|-
|
|[[Gielinor games|GG]]: Athletics
|100
|-
|
|[[Gielinor games|GG]]: [[Resource Race]]
|250
|}

==History==
The original hiscores table was updated weekly with players' ranks overall, levels, experience, and change in rank. It recorded the top 2,000 players.

The hiscores were [[Update:Hiscores Reborn!|redone]] on [[21 November]] [[2003]]. The update changed the maximum number of players on the hiscores to 250,000.

This was [[Update:Hiscores Improved|changed to a maximum of 500,000]] on [[24 May]] [[2004]].

On [[1 June]] [[2004]] [[Update:Friends List Hiscores|another update to the hiscores]] allowed players to see the hiscores of all the people on that player's [[Friends list]] on one page.

On [[25 August]] [[2005]], the number of people that were on the hiscores [[Update:Hiscores increase to 1 Million|was increased to 1,000,000]]. The change was due to a larger number of accounts, meaning many players were being left off the hiscores.

It was [[Update:New Look Hiscores|once again changed]] on [[30 January]] [[2006]]. The 'compare' function was added and the look of the hiscores page was updated.

On [[4 May]] [[2008]] at 17:39, 4 years, five months and three days after the release of this [[Free play|free]] skill, Runecrafting reached one million people on the hiscores.

On [[9 July]] [[2008]], the limit increased to 2,000,000 people. Although the [[Crafting]] skill had not yet topped out at 2,000,000 people above the skill level 30, later that day, the 2,000,000th person achieved 30 Crafting. [[Runecrafting]] remained the only free skill that had not filled the hiscores.

On [[12 April]] [[2010]] the [[Dungeoneering]] skill was released on free worlds meaning that currently [[Runecrafting]] and [[Dungeoneering]] are the only free skills that have not reached 2,000,000 players over level 30.

On 12 April [[2011]] a new clan feature was edit in game. Clans now show up in the highscores. Clans can get higher ranks the same as normal players do. So higher xp in a skill or overall means a higher clan rank.

It was announced on [[15 November]] 2011 that from week commencing 21 November 2011, the hiscores would be members only, in order to remove dormant accounts from the hiscores and give new paying members a chance to get high on the scores. However, this has met a lot of controversy on the forums.

On 22 November 2011, the hiscores was re-structured, making it a member's only feature. When a term of membership elapses, there was a 14 day grace period in which the account will remain on the hiscores. After this period, the account will not be shown on the hiscores until it is re-subscribed. Before the change the minimum requirement to be ranked in a f2p skill was 30+, now it is only 15.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="left">
Hiscores January 11 2011.png|Hiscores Main Page (pre clan update)
Hiscores personal.png|An individual player's hiscore rank (pre clan update)
Hiscores compare.png|Comparing player's hiscores (pre clan update)
OldHighscores.png|The old top-2000 in the early days of RuneScape
</gallery>

==Trivia==
[[File:Hiscores.jpg|thumb|Dragon Pickaxe can be seen next to gold ore]]
[[File:SAME NAMES IN HS.png|thumb|250px|Same names in the hiscores]]
*In 2006, before their release, an early picture of the [[Dragon pickaxe]] could be found at the top of the highscores.
*In early July 2008, there was a rumour that an icon for a [[Sailing]] skill appeared on the Hiscores. However, this rumour has been confirmed as false by [[Jagex]] mods. Various mods have said that a sailing skill is unlikely. However, it does bear some similarities with the concept of [[Player-owned Ports]].
*[[Hunter]], [[Summoning]] and [[Mobilising Armies]] were temporarily [[leak]]ed to the hiscores before they were officially released.
*Summoning was leaked on [[11 January]] [[2008]] when an "undefined" skill appeared in the hiscores.
*As of [[1 July]] [[2008]], when [[RuneScape HD]] was launched, the hiscores said "You have to be in the top two million in a category..." when you type a person's [[username]] who doesn't appear in the hiscores.
*As of 6 September, 12 [[free play]]ers have all 15 non-member skills at level 99, and 3 of them have reached 99 [[Dungeoneering]].
*On [[2 September]] [[2009]], some maxed players (2,376 total level) were shown on the hiscores as having 2,377 total level instead of 2,376.
*Mod Fetzki has stated that new features are planned for the hiscores, as mentioned [[Upcoming_updates#Hiscores|here]].
*As of 12 April 2010 the front page of the Hiscores displays the top 22 ranked players, instead of the top 21.
*Jagex moderators do not show up on the Hiscores. However, on 6 October 2010 a player found a glitch where Mod Matt P was displayed on the Hiscores. Most of his levels had the exact amount of experience required for level 99 (13,034,431).
*On May 2012 S_U__O__M_I [[wikipedia:Integer_overflow|wrapped around]] the overall XP counter. Because of this happening, it can be assumed that Jagex used 4 bytes to store the value of overall XP on the Runescape Highscores.

==See also==
* [[Skills level 99]]
* [[Extended Hiscore Table|Hiscore Table]]
* [[200 million experience]]
* [[Hiscores/Leaders|Current Leaders on the Hiscores]]

==External links==
* [http://hiscore.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/hiscores.ws ''RuneScape'' hiscores]
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