How old were you all when you started?

[unjust]

about a month ago, so 29 i think. i've done lock installation and some various bypass (legal, on locks i had access to but had fogotten my key at home) over the years, and sprung a few cabinet locks and the like since i was probably ~12. but formally with picks and study just recently.

[pauly003]

I started 3 months ago and i am 23. I imagine if you start your kids picking at 3 they will be masters by my age.

[Thano]

been dabbling with it since I was maybe 4 or 5. Using makeshift picks out of what was handy at the time. Mostly raking since I didn't understand what was really going on inside a lock. Haven't done much for the past few years. I'm 18 now and am finally use "real" picks.

[dmux]

24

[NickBristol]

I started to pick properly at the age of 28, but had bypassed the odd padlock that was laying around the garage from age 14 or so. Bypassed the odd door with a size 9 1/2 special tool too. Now 30 and using picking skills every few days for work. Spent most of the last couple of months learning to pick lever locks and now opening the common BS locks on the bench and just recently on the customers door.

[f0ku5]

I started to pick properly at the age of 28, but had bypassed the odd padlock that was laying around the garage from age 14 or so. Bypassed the odd door with a size 9 1/2 special tool too. Now 30 and using picking skills every few days for work.

+1 Funnily enough.
Except I still do it just as a hobby.

[jitter]

I think I may win the old man award. I started a couple of months ago at age 35.

[maxxed]

Picked warded padlocks at 10 or so, wafer locks at about 12. Started working as a lockie at 18, man that was a long time ago.

[11mike11]

lets see i was 12 when i found out u could actually pick a lock so i started liking it then. I took apart an old door lock my dad had to see the inside and the pins went everywhere so that was the end of that lock . I never really got good at it but now i can buy a lockpick set (which i have done) hoping it works alot better then the paper clips i used back then =D.

[drunk.with.love]

I think I may win the old man award. I started a couple of months ago at age 35.

actually my english teacher wins that one, he started picking when he was 50 something (just and interest he had that turned into a hobby)


i'm just starting right now with real picks (almost 16 still a couple months) but i've had to pick my front door a couple times (dysfunctional garage door !$#% hahah)

[bumpit]

17 I started a couple months ago and have learned lots. Thanks to the people of lP 101

[salockie]

I am 35...been a lockie since I was 16

[Tozzy]

Started picking locks a few weeks ago (been picking my nose all my life ) and I'm 19 in just under a few weeks (no need to give the exact date of my birthday ). I can't really see myself picking for the trade, but maybe if it gets a bit easier and I learn the skills, then I might consider it. I love DIY too, but I'm no good because I'm too slow at it . At least with picking, you sort of have to be slow and careful lol.

[YuNdI]

16, I only started picking a few weeks ago... I always wanted to pick locks after watching movies like James Bond but just never got to it. Now I've started, it really isn't as hard as I thought it would be, just need to practice, practice and more practice

[random]

Just started a couple of weeks ago....30 years old