When you go to mine a vein, count how long it takes for your character's pick-axe to actually hit the vein. It should take around .8-1 seconds.
At this point, you have to get this part exactly right! Just as your pickaxe is hittin the vein you have to have something attack you, or something to push you far enough away from the vein that your characters cancels the process without you actually moving yourself.
Make sure to live after the battle and the next time you go to mine the vein it will give you one skill point
Note:Once you mine a vein without using this exploit it will stop giving out skill points
Also, an obvious but much, much, much more difficult to acomplish and it isn\'t repeatable is mining while having red latency, or a \'dead\' area (when no monsters spawn).
The first option is much more efficient and can be done easily. Just get your friend to make a member of the opposing faction and then he can go to where you are, and you can time it out. If that seems like too much work then you\'ll have to get a mob to chase you at the right distance so you can swing your pick before it actually hits you!