How To Set Skill Level In Sims 4

The Sims 4 skill cheats to make your Sim an expert at bartending, herbalism, and more

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These Sims 4 skill cheats will make your Sim to quickly master many skill with ease. Considering Sims 4 skills are usually hard to master, that's a Godsend for the time poor. Normally, your Sim needs to repeatedly certain activities - play a video game or practice violin, for example - in order to slowly fill a bar and master it in The Sims 4. Every time you fill that bar, they gain a skill level which eventually maxes out at ten. That means it can take can hours of actual real-world time to make a Sim a master at a certain skill. It doesn't help either that their needs will disrupt any skill practice - you don't want your Sim peeing their pants while trying to learn rocket science.

These Sims 4 skill cheats will automatically max out any Sims skill of your choosing, or quickly reach whatever level you desire, in case you want your Sim to get to the finish line on their own. Skill cheats are some of the most useful Sims 4 cheats to manipulate the game because they can help you speed up the more grind-y gameplay aspects. If you find yourself giving up on turning your Sim into a famous thespian, the Sims 4 skill cheats are here to save the day.

How to enable cheats in The Sims 4

Before you use cheats, you'll need to enable them in the game first. It's fairly straightforward and essential to using Sims 4 skill cheats as nothing will work until you do this step. Here's how to do it:

The Sims 4 PC cheats: Hold Ctrl and Shift, then press c
The Sims 4 Mac cheats: Hold Command and Shift, then press c
The Sims 4 PS4 and PS5 cheats: Hold down all four shoulder buttons at once
The Sims 4 Xbox One and Xbox Series X cheats: Hold down all four shoulder buttons at once

That should give you a text box where you can then enter in all the cheats you want.

The Sims 4 skill cheats

Here are all the Sims 4 skill cheats you'll need to max out a skill for your Sim. If any skill is missing from this list, try and swap it into the existing formula and see if the cheat will work for you! There are even some child and toddler skill cheats you can use to make your kids more social, creative, or smart.

Most skills have a max level of 10, but not all of the skills in the game. Wherever the max number is less than 10, we'll let you know what that max number is next to the skill. Also, some of these skills are specific to a Sims 4 Expansion Pack, so if you don't have access to snowboarding in the Snowy Escape Expansion Pack, the max snowboarding skill cheat wont't do anything for you.

Here's what you need to do to being. Type the following into your cheat box:

stats.set_skill_level [Skill Name] X - replace X with 1-10 (10 = max) to set your Sim's skill level, and swap [Skill Name] for any of the following skills

Major_Acting
AdultMajor_Fabrication
Major_Archaeology
Major_Baking
Major_Bartending
Major_Bowling
Major_HomestyleCooking
Major_Charisma
Major_Comedy
Minor_Dancing (max level 5)
Major_DJ
AdultMajor_FlowerArranging
Major_Herbalism
Major_Fishing
Skill_Fitness
Major_Gardening
Major_GourmetCooking
Major_Guitar
Major_Handiness
Major_HomestyleCooking
Major_Logic
Minor_Media (max level 5)
Major_Mischief
Major_Painting
Major_Photography
Major_Piano
Major_Programming
Major_RocketScience
Major_Snowboarding
Major_Skiiing
Major_Vet
Major_VideoGaming
Major_Violin
Major_Wellness
Major_Writing

The Sims 4 child skills cheats

Child_Creativity
Child_Mental
Child_Motor
Child_Social
AdultMajor_Knitting

The Sims 4 toddler skills cheats

Toddler_Communication (Max level 5)
Toddler_Imagination (Max level 5)
Toddler_Movement (Max level 5)
Toddler_Potty (Max level 3)
Toddler_Thinking (Max level 5)

Those are most (if not all) of The Sims 4 skill cheats that will have your Sim starring in films or painting masterpieces in no time.

If you want to cut any more corners in the Sims, we've got you covered.

Alyssa Mercante is an editor and features writer at GamesRadar based out of Brooklyn, NY. Prior to entering the industry, she got her Masters's degree in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University with a dissertation focusing on contemporary indie games. She spends most of her time playing competitive shooters and in-depth RPGs and was recently on a PAX Panel about the best bars in video games. In her spare time Alyssa rescues cats, practices her Italian, and plays soccer.