🪙 Swiping guide, 1 to 99

Swiping is knocking things off the Tall Ones' tables, and worse, for gold. Swipes can fail, less often as you level. Each level gives a little more gold from everything, and sometimes you swipe a Lucky Charm to sell.

The quickest route

Doing the action with the most XP an hour at each level, back to back, Swiping 1 to 99 takes about 155 hours (13,034,431 XP). Life skills carry on while you nap, action by action, so much of that happens while you're away.

Levels	Do this	Where	Time
1–10	Swipe a Pen off the Desk	Whiskerholm	6 min
10–20	Knock a Glass off the Table	Whiskerholm	12 min
20–30	Bat the Keys off the Hook	Whiskerholm	22 min
30–40	Raid a Rat Merchant's Stall	Drainmouth Camp	42 min
40–50	Pick an Otter's Pocket	Otterhaven	1.5 h
50–60	Lift a Hound's Collar Tag	Whiskerwatch	3.3 h
60–70	Snatch an Owl's Trinket	The Hermitage	7.5 h
70–84	Knock the Giant's Ring off the Counter	Crumbtown	29.5 h
84–97	Swipe a Caravan Purse	Pawmyra	87 h
97–99	Rob a Lynx Clan Cache	Pawmyra	24.4 h

Set your own levels and bonuses in the life skill calculator.

Every action

XP an hour at the action's own level. Actions marked * can fail; a failed one gives no XP, and they fail less as you level.

Level	Action	Makes	Where	XP an hour
1	Swipe a Pen off the Desk	Glass Bead, Lucky Button	Whiskerholm	10,568*
10	Knock a Glass off the Table	Amber Chip, Lucky Button	Whiskerholm	15,840*
20	Bat the Keys off the Hook	Moss Agate, Lucky Button	Whiskerholm	22,680*
30	Raid a Rat Merchant's Stall	Sewer Jade, Lucky Bent Coin	Drainmouth Camp	31,360*
40	Pick an Otter's Pocket	Coral Bead, Lucky Bent Coin	Otterhaven	39,312*
50	Lift a Hound's Collar Tag	Moor Garnet, Lucky Bent Coin	Whiskerwatch	48,567*
60	Snatch an Owl's Trinket	Owl's-Eye Opal, Lucky Signet Ring	The Hermitage	57,540*
70	Knock the Giant's Ring off the Counter	Sugar Quartz, Lucky Signet Ring	Crumbtown	67,458*
80	Swipe a Caravan Purse	Sun Topaz, Lucky Signet Ring	Pawmyra	76,680*
88	Rob a Lynx Clan Cache	Ice Sapphire, Lucky Hoard Gem	Pawmyra	84,454*
94	Pilfer a Grey Noble's Purse	Ghost Opal, Lucky Hoard Gem	Tufthollow	90,327*
99	Lift a Gem from the Hoard Vaults	Heart Ruby, Lucky Hoard Gem	Tufthollow	94,500*

Tips

Swiping makes less gold than fighting, but it is steady and safe.
A failed swipe gives nothing, and fails less the further you are above an action's level.
At a Swiping spot, tap Play for Sneak, a 30-second minigame. A gold score (90 points) gives +25% Swiping XP for 15 minutes while your cat keeps working, and the first gold puts a look in your wardrobe.
Each week's contest features one life skill; the three cats who gain the most XP in it win big gold prizes.

More on Swiping: its wiki page, and the other life skill guides.