Rakka wrote: Time to pick
This is the sort of information that would only be handy for a bad guy or a special operator/spook. We all have our own times it takes to pick a lock. What I can pick in 10 seconds might take another experienced picker 30 seconds, and what takes me 3 minutes, someone here may pick in 25 seconds. We're all different, and all locks are different, hi-lo-hi pin combinations, sheer luck, how clean or dirty the lock is, etc.
It might be easier to put time frames on certain very well known locks such as the Master Lock No.3 Padlock, or a Schlage 5 pin residential grade 2 deadbolt, or American Lock 5200US padlock, Medeco deadbolt, and I think it would still be difficult to put times like Master No 3. [1 second - 50 seconds on average]; it would be easier to list them in order of super easy, easy, medium, hard, experienced picker, good luck] and there are already lists here of which common locks most folks tackle in which order. A lot of those lists are based on personal opinions and experiences and are more of a general guideline than a specific set of instructions that you have to follow in a certain order as your build your picking skills up.
To address your other questions about pin count, etc, that's something you get from experience, not a spreadsheet. I can walk up to a lock I've never seen before and tell you in seconds how many pins it has, you simply insert a pick into the lock, lift all the pins, and pull the pick out and count the number of pins that click down. other locks, you just know how many pins they have when you see the lock, all based on past work with the same model lock. Same goes for knowing that a Master No.3 will never had a security pin, but a Master No. 532 will always have at least 1 security pin.
keep practicing and have fun,
Squelchtone
