What are the fastest ways to level up in Skyrim?

What are some really fast ways to level up in Skyrim such as Smithing and Lockpicking? I am too low of a level for where I am at.What are the fastest ways to level up in Skyrim?
Everyone always says iron daggers are the best way to level up smithing, but crafting gold and silver rings is at least as fast, if not faster leveling, just as easy to get the materials for, and gets you much more gold when u sell them.



Gold and silver ore are as easy to find as iron ore (kolskeggr mine in the west near markarth, and lost prospect mine in the east near riften have a lot of gold ore between them) also Sanuarach Mine, inside of Karthwasten, has 7 gold and silver ore veins. And when you sell, you get 150 gold for the 2 rings you create with your gold ingots, instead of 10 gold for the dagger you create with your iron.



also, one thing that a lot of people overlook is how easy dwarven metal is to come by. Go to understone keep in makarth, and visit the dwemer museum, and zel-nchaund or whatever its called. make sure you take a companion for the unlimited carry, but i came away with around 500 ingots of dwemer metal, and you can pick up another 400+ from mzulft. if you have some iron ore too, you can craft a dwarven bow for 2 dwemer ingots and one iron ingot. this gets you 270 gold - i just sold 200 of them for around just under 40,000 gold (because you dont get full value from merchants). Hell of a lot better than crafting iron daggers. And you wouldnt really use the dwemer metal for anything else anyway. (steel plate armour is better than dwarven, and easier to come by)



The dewemer museum is also one fo the best things for getting your lockpicking skill up - there are dozens of chests, with locks from novice to master. even if you're breaking lockpicks, you're still levelling. just be sure to take a companion, cos there is SO much loot. Also the thieves guild in riften (in the ratway under the city) has a room with a few chests for lockpicking, as well as a trainer (to train for free, just pay for training then pickpocket your gold back) the other way to level lockpicking is simply to visit a city at night and just pick every lock you find, you'll level up in no time
Pick the chests using the skeleton key in thieves guild. this will get your picklock up and the skeleton key never breaks and is like a picklock. smith iron daggers for fastest smith xp and then enchant them for profit and fast enchanting levels (but only use petty soul gems). For speech go to this elf who works the barin the black briar meadery in Riften and ask him about the black briars. you can ask him about the black briars as many times as you want and levels up sppech very fast (need 25 speech to start). For conjuration find an enemy that gets stuck and cannot attack you and then use the bound sword spell and then put it away and repeat. this will level conjuration at a decent rate.What are the fastest ways to level up in Skyrim?
For lockpicking the best way to level it up is simply by using it. You don't need to put any perks in the skill to be able to pick master locks. All it takes in time an patience.



For smithing, this skill is alot easier to level up. Simply try collecting materials you are going to need to craft. Any pelts you find from animals, ore that you mine or just crappy weapons. The pelts can be made into leather, the ore can build various weapons and armor and the crappy weapons can be improved via the grinding stone to give you level ups.



However be forewarned. If you level up using these skills and you power level yourself. You will find yourself at a high level with no combat skills. I suggest picking your damaging skill of choice (destruction, 1 hander or 2 hander) and level up the old fashion way. Also with smithing it is a good idea to also try out enchanting. This way at max level you can put 2 enchants on one item. Very useful.
I noticed there was no comment on heavy armor, so i throw my two cents in. I am lvl 33 and my smith/ conj are maxed out, and i can grind decent exp by finding a giant, activating my berserker rage and getting the flip kicked out of my by a giant for a minute. At level 82 heavy armor im still getting two points in it per berserk rage. of course this should really only be done if your armor rating is though the roof. I have 704 armor rating so by 60 seconds end, a giant has done two thirds my health. Hope this was helpful.What are the fastest ways to level up in Skyrim?
For smithing i just use iron ingots and leather strips and make heaps of iron daggers, but i usually steal the iron ingots. For lockpicking go to the thieves guild and theres a room with lots of chests for you to practise.
Buy up iron ingots and iron ore and leather strips. Then go craft a load of iron daggers and then sharpen them. Rinse and repeat and you'll level up insanely quick.
Getting arrowed in the knee, I hear.