This is the Lock Greatness Chart. It should be how you judge your locks. You can customize your lock Greatness Chart However the F you want to do it. You customize your greatness chart based on the locks you have in your collection, or based on the locks you wish you had in your collection, and don't let anyone tell you that your chart isn't good because you put a Kwickset as number 5 and a Medeco as number 2. Some people hate Medecos. I think my Lock Greatness is a pretty good place to start off, also, I wrote this in respond to this post.
This chart has nothing to do with a locks "terms of ease.. Security..[or] Innovation." ( viewtopic.php?t=26375 ) Its based solely on whatever you want to base it on. Its not a standard, or a common consensus. It is what it is.
Lock Greatness Chart:
1) really bad
2) bad
3) not so great
4) great
5) single greatest lock ever.
I would probably put most locks in the great or not so great category. Like all master locks go in the really bad category because I am tired of talking about them.
Every small locker combo lock can go into the "not so great area", because even though we talk about them all the time, there is something mysterious about them. And mystery is what makes a lock not "bad". And if a lock is not "bad" then it can’t be "really bad, so then it then has to be "not so great".
Safe combo locks on the other hand, are one of the very few that could go into the "great" area. This is because manipulating a safe lock is something I have only done once, and it happened to be broken. But before I found out it was broken, after I manipulated it open I had the most amazing feeling. Anything capable of producing an amazing feeling such as this can not be in the "really bad" area because then it would be next to 4 pin master locks, and if I had my way, all 4 pin master lock questions would be immediately removed from the site, and the user who posted them be banned forever. Its not "bad" either because we haven't talked about any locks yet that falls in the "bad" category although we will probably talk about that next. So that means it should probably go into the "not so great" category. But there is no way safe combo locks are on the same level with locker combo locks, so we should probably put it in the "great" level because they are even more mysterious then locker combo locks.
What about wafer locks you may ask? Simply "bad". I mean, this design has been around for over 100 years now. What a boring design. I mean, it was cool for the first like 20 years, before drills were invented, but come on. Its like the 21rst century. I don't want to see another wafer lock unless its on a high security safe in the bank vault I'm robbing.
So now I guess we will move on to the other "great" locks. I guess it would be alright to put all the "High Security Locks" in this spot. I mean, they definitely are not "really bad", because if you make anything "really bad" you are comparing it to a master lock, and that is the ultimate, I mean ultimate low. There are some wafer locks considered to be high security, but I wouldn't consider any wafer lock high security, unless the wafers are made out of gold, and the only reason I don't continue to try and gain entry to my target is because I rather steal the lock, then finish the job. To continue, some high security locks could most definitely be in the "not so great" category because really, all that is required of the "not so great category" is a little bit of mystery. Like a Schlage Everest. That’s no "High Security Lock", I will tell you that! It has a little check pin. Hell, I would consider that to be "not so great" any day. In fact, it could probably be considered "bad" by some, but i wouldn't go that far. Just because it has a little check pin, Schlage thinks it can tell you it has something called "Key Control" BLAH! There is no such thing as key control! Just the other day I took someone’s keys out of their pocket and they never saw who did it, do you think they were in control of their keys?
Now, finally, there is the "single greatest lock ever". Guys, you can't go around calling all your locks the "single greatest lock ever. This is only something you can call a lock you are really excited about. Like a Kwickset Smartkey. Now, I don't care a single bit if you think the Smartkey sucks, because Cause you know what, it probably sucks a lot. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I am using the Smartkey as my example, so shut up.
The SmartKey is the "single greatest lock ever" period. Its new, it has like 1000 moving parts. You can stick cool tools in it, its wide open for lock pickers like me to jump in and come up with an exploit before anyone else can even think. It also comes with a big red cradle you can stick the plug into. Do you have cradles for your locks? Didn't think so. Now, this is a lock capable of the "single greatest lock ever" level.
Maybe 6 months from now there might be another "single greatest lock ever", until then my statement stands. So back the F off. This is my lock.
I mean, the chart is a personal chart. A lock that is "not so great" for you, may be the "the single greatest lock ever" for someone else. So don't dis the chart.
