Anything you do regularly or daily, it’s worth spending a few minutes to work on your form, sooner is better before the inconvenience becomes the norm.
I do this with shoe laces, more recently with my new bike lock. Was kind of weird and slow and clumsy for me to open and close, so I spent 5 minutes figuring out the feel of the key and the rotating mechanism and now I can do it quickly and easily with one hand (45s->10s).
It amazes me how people don’t slow down to figure out the little things. One of my ex-girlfriends would always struggle to unlock the door to our old apartment. It was a janky lock. Coming home late, drunk, in the cold, in the rain, and she’d sit there for 2-3 minutes getting frustrated trying to get it open. The first time I unlocked it I was like “oh, this lock sucks, let’s see how it opens”. You insert the key, but it goes too far - the cylinder won’t rotate unless the key is backed out about 1mm from where it bottoms out. So, just insert the key, and press on the lock with your pointer finger as you apply gentle torque and it’ll open easily. Takes less than 5s, every time. I tried to show her this and explain the process, but she didn’t have the patience - “I know how to open a lock!” So I let it rest.
Baffles me though, some people would rather spend 30m/week fiddling with something that 5 minutes of deliberate attention would solve once and for all.
I do this with shoe laces, more recently with my new bike lock. Was kind of weird and slow and clumsy for me to open and close, so I spent 5 minutes figuring out the feel of the key and the rotating mechanism and now I can do it quickly and easily with one hand (45s->10s).
It amazes me how people don’t slow down to figure out the little things. One of my ex-girlfriends would always struggle to unlock the door to our old apartment. It was a janky lock. Coming home late, drunk, in the cold, in the rain, and she’d sit there for 2-3 minutes getting frustrated trying to get it open. The first time I unlocked it I was like “oh, this lock sucks, let’s see how it opens”. You insert the key, but it goes too far - the cylinder won’t rotate unless the key is backed out about 1mm from where it bottoms out. So, just insert the key, and press on the lock with your pointer finger as you apply gentle torque and it’ll open easily. Takes less than 5s, every time. I tried to show her this and explain the process, but she didn’t have the patience - “I know how to open a lock!” So I let it rest.
Baffles me though, some people would rather spend 30m/week fiddling with something that 5 minutes of deliberate attention would solve once and for all.