Mastodawn

Practicing for the Guinness world record: I can now pick 9 locks with security pins *almost* as fast as the current record-holder can pick 8 locks without security pins (1 minute)!

Just need to drill this new technique into my muscle-memory and I think I'll have it.

My personal goals:

- 9 locks (with security pins) in 1 minute
- 21+ locks in 3 minutes
- 120+ locks in 1 hour

I think I can do all three.

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)1d ago

Here's one of my trial runs. I made 7 mistakes¹.

9 Brinks 164 padlocks, 5-pins with 2 spools each, single-pin-picked in ~1:12.

https://share.lpubelts.com/?id=d974b48f&name=Brinks_164_padlock

¹ my hands were sore after picking for over an hour straight...and I'm sleepy 🥺

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amd 1d ago

@alice I’ve never picked a lock before but there’s a bunch more time than I thought consumed moving the tension bar thing from lock to lock.

The manufacturing engineer in me wonders if there’s a better way to do that. Like taping it to your right thumb or something.

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)

@amd yeah, like half or more of the time comes from switching locks.