Magnetic interaction, to have any practical force, has a typical range of up to a few millimetres. Hand-held magnets that attract or repel with serious strength over several feet or more are pure fiction, sorry.
Magnets can be bigger, as with eg. those in MRI machines, which are phenomenally strong - but are massive, weigh many tons and run on superconductor coils submerged in liquid helium [or liquid nitrogen?] - and still only pull things strongly over a fairly short distance.
The reason is that the strength of attraction of magnets falls with the square of the distance; eg. an industrial lifting magnet rated to lift 5000Kg with a high safety margin when in contact with a large piece of metal (or at no more than 1/10th millimetre) will have a pull of around 1Kg or so at 10mm distance; 100x distance, 1/10000th the pull....