The Sims 4: Complete Guide To Skill Cheats (2024)

There are a lot of skills available in The Sims 4. So many, in fact, that it's possible to not learn them all. If you are aiming to have the best Sim though, you may try to have them learn every skill out there. With a relatively short lifespan, cheats can help your Sim become the best.

In this guide, we are going to cover all skill-related cheats out there. In general, you can use these cheats to increase a Sim's skill to a desired level; you can even max out the skill, having them become an immediate pro.

How To Enable Cheats

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If you've used cheats, then you are familiar with how to enable them. If not, we will go through the steps real quick. First, press the following buttons depending on your console.

Doing this will open a white box, where you will need to type in "testingcheats true". A message should appear, saying that cheats are enabled; when this pops up, you are good to go!

How To Use Skill Cheats

The skill cheat format remains the same for every skill in the game, you just need to tweak the skill in question. The basic cheat layout can be seen below.

• stats.set_skill_level [Skill] [Level]

Let's use the Video Game skill as an example. If you wanted to boost your Sim's gaming skills to level ten, you would enter the following cheat. Immediately after using this, the skill will become level ten, and you will receive all associated rewards.

• stats.set_skill_level Major_Video Gaming 10

You won't have to guess how skills are displayed, we will go over those next.

Cheats For Every Skill In The Sims 4

Not all skill names are simple. Additionally, there are different types of skills, like major and minor. Below, you can find the cheat to boost each skill to its maximum level, separated by type.

Major Skill Cheats

These are the typical skills that you think about, such as Cooking or Piano. Each skill requires "Major_" directly before the skill name to indicate its type.

Minor & Misc. Skill Cheats

These skills don't fit into the major category, and look a bit different from them. Additionally, some of these skills go above or below ten levels, so you will need to alter the number used.

Child & Toddler Skill Cheats

Lastly, there are cheats that you can use for children and toddlers. These only pertain to these ages, which means that using one of the cheats on an adult will result in nothing.

Can You Lower A Skill?

You can also use these cheats to lower a skill. Thankfully, they are used the same. For example, if a Sim is level eight of the Video Game skill, you can use the following cheat to bring them back to level four.

• stats.set_skill_level Major_Video Gaming 4