Keys vs Picks — Which opens faster?
I have to pick at least 5 locks before my partner opens 5 locks with the keys.
(I included an extra 5 locks on my side, just in case, because I was feeling cocky 😋)
Oct 28, 2026, 2:58 AM@alice fun couple's evening
@alice This is so impressive, both of you! The skill and dexterity is just so mesmerizing!
... and the AlicePics tag on this is just great :D
Oct 28, 2026, 3:07 AM@alice Ah yes. 'Which key opens this lock again?' vs 'Fuck it, wheres my lockpick set?'
@alice Nice bit of tension knowing that the person with the keys should speed up towards the end because of fewer wrong key choices.
@alice giving those extra crappy Master Locks to your partner really wasn't very fair, was it? 😆
(I had to use those at work until we switched to Abus. Better qualitiy, shitty company)
@alice
Next time, she gets the keys on a keyring so it's harder to keep track of which was already used 😋
(But it's already pretty impressive :neocat_heart:)
I remember the first time I picked a lock on night shift. It was with a hammer. Since then, I was able to learn how to pick locks nondestructively LOL ...and soon I was assigned locksmithing duty, changing locks, managing master keys, etc...
@alice I think if I were to open the locks with the keys, I'd try my key in each lock instead of try one lock with each key, but I'm not sure that would actually speed up anything. Just a thought. What do you think, could that go faster?
Oct 28, 2026, 4:03 PM@alice Can I hire you to follow me around all day at a community event in December and just pick locks for me? We rent a building with a lot of doors and about 20 different keys. Even after years of organizing that event, there are still some doors for which I have to try every single key (often more than once because the locks get stuck and it feels like I have the wrong key). Multiply that by a whole week of people asking if I can get stuff for them and I'm sure I spend hours trying keys.
Oct 28, 2026, 5:22 PM@alice impressive!
i wonder about the rules tho. had you agreed that the next lock can be tried only after the previous lock has opened? because i wonder if it would be faster to pick one key and then try it on all the unopened locks, instead of picking a lock and trying every key on it
@alice
Watching you pick those is making me completely rethink my picking strategy and also now I need to find some new picks (my picks were stolen from me in a burglary)
@alice my pee can unlock any lock! 😎
@alice 😳 deft 😳 hands 😳
@miniBill well, I wasn't allowed to use other body parts, or I might have gotten all 10 open 👅
@alice
... 🤔
No, I genuinely don't get it 😅
@miniBill god, now I'm going to have to post a video of me picking a lock with my tongue huh? 😅
@alice wait, I thought the tongue was... but then how... and if the lockpicking then...
*fweeeeee* (sound of cartoonish steam out of my ears)
Nov 4, 2026, 6:53 PM@lxo it's *thousands* of hours of practice, but yeah, *most* locks you can buy in stores are fairly trivial to pick with some practice.
The parallel to cybersecurity is when folx assume something is secure because the person who sold it to them said so, not because they've tested it under fire.