OSRS Skilling Guide: Fastest Way to Level All 24 Skills

What to level first: quest XP and unlocks

Quest rewards skip the slowest early levels for free, so claim them before you grind. A few examples from the OSRS Wiki training pages:

• Runecraft: Temple of the Eye gives 9,210 XP, taking you from 10 to 27 and unlocking Guardians of the Rift.
• Woodcutting: Monk's Friend, Enlightened Journey, Icthlarin's Little Helper and one Recipe for Disaster subquest give 9,000 XP, enough for level 26.
• Fletching: five quests give 14,074 XP between them, enough for level 30.
• Construction: the Daddy's Home miniquest gives 944 XP (level 8) plus a crate of building supplies.

After quest XP, train the skills that make the others faster. Run energy recovers faster with every 10 Agility levels, which shortens every running skill, and Herblore stays locked until you finish Druidic Ritual. If you are planning a full max, our breakdown of how long maxing takes puts the hours per skill in context.

Bottom line: how to use this table

Read the table above as three separate questions rather than one ranking. The fastest column tells you what a full-attention session looks like, the cost column tells you whether the skill needs a bank before it needs your time, and the time column is only meaningful once you know how many hours a week you actually play.

The two figures that move are experience rates and prices, which is why every row links to the wiki instead of freezing numbers here. Check the rate the week you start a skill, not the week you planned it.

If you are picking your next skill rather than your next method, the honest ordering rule is unlocks first: a quest reward, a diary teleport or a support level often removes more hours from a grind than any efficiency trick inside it.