Update:Hiscores Improved

This official news post is from before the launch of Old School RuneScape and is copied verbatim from the RuneScape website. It is copyrighted by Jagex.
It was added on 24 May 2004. Snapshots of the web page are archived here.

Players will be glad to hear that today we have expanded our RuneScape hiscores list to show the top 500,000 players in every skill.

We have made this change as the competition was getting extremely fierce for a place in the hiscores in certain stats. You now have a greater chance of being able to see how you rank against your friends and enemies in your favourite skill!

Please note that you still need at least level 30 in a skill to appear in the relevant table. Also players who have not yet played since the change will not appear in the table until they login, so it will take a few days to fill up.