Seven Habitual Behaviors of Highly Effectual Lock Pickers

[thewizardofal]

I find myself useing these technics ,to be a good lock picker you have to.I feelas though I useing the force, or willing locks open. Cool tips!

[Festus]

It's amazing any of us reproduce at all, isn't it?

If you think about it, getting a girl into bed is very similar to picking a lock. Hell, even once you've got them in bed it's still like picking a lock, but instead of a pick, you've got eh..

ahem

Anyways, if you wanted to go hardcore on the practice, maybe you could just put locks everywhere. Chain a lock to your toilet seat. Put deadbolts with double-keyed sides on every door in the house. Put a keyed-switch on your alarm clock. Immerse yourself in locks. Make locks a part of your every-day survival. It's hardcore, but I bet it would be a good way to stay sharp.

[Havoc]

I was thinking along a similar path to that. I was just thinking earlier that when I'm comfortable with picking the more common locks, I'm going to stop using my keys.

[ax0n]

Re: The original post, those are great tips.

I come from the side of information security, and if you generalise those tips, they can be applied not only to getting into secured computers (and enhancing the security of the same), but for solving most any kind of puzzle. After all, that's what lock picking boils down to, isn't it?

[phil the drill]

whats the point when you can drill 'em and bill 'em.

[digital_blue]

TROLL WARNING:

That's two so far. Keep it up smart guy.

[gratefuldeadbolt]

8. Not being satisfied with the picks they purchased... but modifying them to "read" the pins in a way the picks they purchased cannot. How many picks have you modified?

for example a hook pick may that you purchased may have a "rounded" end. Perhaps a "flat' or even concave end may help "read" the pins better.

9. Every lock they attempt to pick they "lift" all the pin stacks as high as possible with extreme tension.... letting the stacks fall as they "release" tension" to get an idea of which stacks will pick "first"!

[grim]

Seven? 7? you cant use 7, I copyrighted it. I'll sue ya. Maybe ya shoulda tried 8, like #8 sand your picks, and make your own picks,

and i've copyrighted the letter E both upper and lower case. for your unlicensed use of my intellectual property (8 times!) you owe me $80K US.

i'll be expecting your check soon.

[DietBroccoli]

that readin tenant is what brought me here in the first place lol. and as for the picturing the lock thing, i seem to have an uncanny talent for that. it's almost like i see the lock cut in half and sideways while i'm picking it <_< i dunno what methods (care to share how it works for you?) other people use but most of my friends have a very hard time with that.

i even picked my first lock in under 30 seconds ^^ my dad tossed me a lockpick set and a master lock (cause i asked for one for my birthday) and it was endlessly gratifying to feel the tension wrench twist around for the first time. (although i read a lot about how to do it online first so i guess that takes some of the glory away from it)

[Clead]

that readin tenant is what brought me here in the first place lol.

Me too. The web is a wonderful place.
I do the visualization part pretty well in other tasks, so that should help me out here.

[rat eater]

Nothing I like doing better than working on a lock with a lot going on around me, its not hard I have 3 teens left at home. I have found if you pick a lock when every thing is calm, then it must be calm on the job (never happen) so I watch TV or play with my kids they all want me to act my age. Why

[wolfy_9005]

hehe

Most of them are true.

number 1 is the most important. Also learn about the different metals used in the lock. Some locks may use "soft" metals, to make it feel different, or may alternate with pins of hard and soft. Google is probably the best place to find stuff. Just google til your internet company rings up and ask's why your so obsessed with lockpicking for

[dog boy]

There are times when the only thing that keeps me from throwing a lock across the room is picking open an easy one. I am pretty sure this is the only reason kwikset makes locks.

[Joegekko]

I'm not a highly effective lock picker yet, but they are good to know

[Homarus]

I am usually pretty good at visualizing things, and I thought pin stacks wouldn't be any different, but apparently I am visualizing what I want to happen rather than what is actually happening--like in bowling, or billiards.
Also my local library is pretty scarce on locks and related materials. They have a couple of books by Bill Phillips, and I read through those. I have also been trying to make my own picks out of items at work, but I don't really know how to "optimize them" other than just copying the shapes of a hook, and a half diamond.
A few posts back it was suggested that there be a step #9 on "reading the lock" and I don't have any sort of feel to go about that.

but I'll keep reading, and practicing, and in fact I'll have to come back and read the seven steps on a regular basis.