Hack an elevator, go straight to your floor.
A very simple, straight-forward way to get your elevator into express mode. Very handy when you're late for an important meeting. WANT ANOTHER COOL TRICK? Try this one...chill a beer or soda in 2 mins using water, ice and salt. Sweet.
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Very cool, I'm using it next time
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Excellent! I'll try this when I get to work on Monday. If it works, I'll be getting a raise and lots of hot chicks will make love to me.
Though, seriously, it's a great "hack" and I hope it works.
It's a great way to be a dick too.
he kept saying to push both buttons at the same time, but, in the video, when he wants to go to the penthouse, he pushes one, then the other - what gives?
Doesn't work. :(
What buttons are you pressing there? Could you describe it in words?
Thanks
This video is a straight rip off of another site.
i pooped in the elevator
Major crock of BS. The one mode this works for requires a key. You need a key to put the elevator into 'independent' mode, and that's when you have to hold the door close button because the doors stay open. This video is a hoax. -a former elevator controls engineer
The more people you tell, the sooner it will get "fixed" out of modern elevators. So far, it's been usable for years... :( Spoil-sport! :)
This has been around for ages. Supposedly, it only works on Otis elevators.
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I hate that this was posted.
As if we don't put up with enough rudeness and selfishness on highways, now we are all going to be held up waiting for elevators because selfish morons are "expressing" them right by us.
Bad form.
Sweet!
This works...I use this daily.
No 13th floor? Watch the video it skips from 12 to 14.
Thanks!
This has been going since the 60's
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I've tried this on numerous elevators and it has never worked. I call B.S.
Thanks.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this "hack" doesn't work on all elevators. By default, express mode is disabled unless the owner/operator asks for it to be enabled.
1st comment!!
can anyone validate this?
He showed how to do it, but didn't show it actually working.
Bummer cause my village doesn't have elevator any where.
Thats something i really need in 51 office building. but will it be slandered?
fake.
did not hear it here but
tried it on 3 elevators LA and NYC
DID NOT WORK.
Good tip. I'll have to give this a whirl one of these days.
You are my hero. I will now ask for upper floors for most of my rooms. Thanks!
That place must be superstitious, it skips the 13th floor
So I dont suppose you guys could be bothered to actually show with the camera what buttons you're hitting to make this work? Or maybe post it to the comments or something?
It's really blurry and low-resolution, and shaky to boot, so its hard to tell. It looks like they're holding the 'close-doors' button and one other one, but the camera never gets close enough to tell.
And the video is only about 1.5" by 1.5" anyway, which just compounds the problem.
What is this wayside school? I don't think I saw floor 13 pass by on the display... XD
Cool trick. I'll try it next time.
that is so awesome
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Thats got to be a pretty insensitive thing to do... handy if you want to be a self-centered narcissist...
You suck!!
OK The building has 4 elevators.
i can easily make this video.
it's... bogus. it will accidentally work, some of the time, enough to perpetuate the urban myth. {sigh}
Great trick. I can't wait to try it.
interesting.. can anybody confirum this on other elevatros? havent used one yet
This is a pretty nifty (yes, nifty) trick.
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More dots, more dots, okay, stop dots!
Press de two dots, den you get dere. Pretty awesome trick.
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THANKS!!!
To those who are asking what happened to the 13th floor:
Almost all buildings in the U.S. skip the 13th floor. Pay attention next time and you'll see.
Im a elevator mechanic In nyc and this is BS. The only way to get a elevator to do this is if you have a fireman service key and turn on fireservice .
im in ur elevator hackin ur buttonz
Yup Already knew this one though.
I have noticed a lot of people commenting on how the control panel skips the 13th floor, that is due to the superstition that the number 13 is bad luck, most elevators skip the 13th floor (doesnt really "skip" the floor but calls it 14th).
See, this one: http://zonow.com/38
The "no 13th floor" effect is relatively common. Because of the silly "unlucky 13" superstition, 13th floor apartments or office space are harder to lease.
Solution? No 13th floor; revenue as projected, superstition pandered to.
of course this works in the middle of the night when no one is left in the building!
Okay, someone make a google map, or wiki, that shows where this actually still works. Because in most places that mode has been disabled.
While you are at it, map the red lights that turn green when you flash your highbeams. That has generally been disabled everywhere as well.
This works...
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i jerked off a monkey in a elevator. in seattle >:)
What's with all the people wondering about the 13th floor? It's *EXTREMELY* common for there to be no 13th floor.
That guy who says he's an elevator controls engineer can't be a very good one. This video was made in the apartment building where I live. I tried this and it works.
And yes, the building does not have a 13th floor. It was built in 1969 and for some superstitious reason back then most buildings were built with no 13th floor.
It works at times and doesn't at tiems. I've tried it. BTW, all the comments about no 13th floor obviously haven't been in many buildings. There are a LOT of buildings which do not have a 13th floor because of superstition. It will go from 12 to 14. Its common knowledge.
it works. ive tried it in several VERY crowded convention centers.
oh he forgot to mention this only works on modern elevators. Im guessing anything from the '90's up to now.
retards.
you didn't see him pushing both buttons at the same time because he's holding his "camera" in one of his hands.
he likely was pushing both buttons at the same time when you see the extreme close-up uf the button box.
stupid, stupid people.
at the end he should say
"WAH WAH WEE WAH! GROUND FLOOR!"
from what i know most buildings don't have a 13 floor due to superstition so that most likely why it didn't show up on the video now you don't have to ask anymore :)
There's not a thirteenth floor in many, many buildings in continental Europe.
No thirteenth floor.
most places dont have a 13th floor. i think they reserve it for supplies and laundry etc. etc.
To all of the people who are mentioning the 13th floor being skipped on the video I don't know where you live but I have never seen an elevator in the United States that had a floor numbered 13. I am sure there are some but I have never been one one.
I tried this once in an elevator in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and it worked.
dude you got our intern beat up AND it didnt work. How about a list of models it works with?
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For all of you posting about how there is no 13th floor in the video; if I remember correctly no elevator has a 13th floor on it. 13 has always been considered an unlucky number, so it has never been included on elevators.
I can't verify if this is true or not.
I call shenanigans
where are you people from that you never heard that many MANY buildings skip a 13th floor out of superstitions that 13 is unlucky?
very kewl info...
id only use it to be a dick too
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no elevator has a 13th floor. you've probably never noticed it but look at any elevator that has at least 14 floors. no 13...yes, due to superstition.
and yes, this probably only works in certain elevators.
where is 13 floor?
Does this work at an ATM? What about a gas pump?
It's only in the USA that the 13th floor is ommitted, nowhere else, which is why so many don't know what's going on there. It's cause there are so many superstitious tards there that they take the number out.
So, really, the 13th is 14th.
Friday the 13th is another example, etc etc.
does not work in most nyc vators.. cute though...........
just tried.. dont work... stick 2 card tricks and mentos!!!!!!!!!!!!
doesn't work with all elevators. My friends apt we were in a rush and needed to get to ground level but the elevator was scheduled to stop at many floors before our destination, all you do is press the alarm button and it will by pass and go straight to ground level.. I tried with my elevator in my building but unfortunately it didn't work, instead the help desk people came on and asked if everything was ok haha
Lol i have the monkey thing up in the corner at my house, the one on his desk (:
As far as i know, only the USA has the habbit of "forgetting" the 13th floor. It also makes for great conspiracy plots.
The rest of the world just is a little less crazy. (aka not that superstitious)
As an elevator repair person I will say U are half right. It is possible to do this but U must have a key. There is usually a key switch for "independent service". If U have that key, U turn it to the right to independent service. The doors will open and stay open. U then pick your floor, push and hold the button till the door is closed and U are moving. The elevator will then go to that floor, open the door and stay there till someone else does the same thing. It will totally ignore all other people in the other hallways pushing buttons. They will not like U. This is the way it works. There are other slight variations, but none can be accomplished without the key. An elevator cannot be hijacked in the mannor described.
Of course, every hack has an anti-hack. In this case it's the snot nosed kid that jumps in at the last minute and hits all the floors at once and gives that 'eat me' grin.
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It's not that buildings have no 13th floor, as most people have stated....all buildings with enough height have a 13th floor....but they call it the 14th, and yes, all due to superstition.
It's actually not only buildings but ships as well that don't have a 13th deck.
Just a little piece of trivia.
this hackee no workee.
Did it in 4 diff bldgs in atlanta
bull shit
I've never seen a building that skips the 13th floor. Here at MIT all our tall buildings have a 13th floor.
I guess the fact that MIT isn't renting its rooms out to anyone else and the fact that most people here are scientific and rational helps.
Maybe I'll check some of the buildings in downtown Boston.
Best way to get to your floor un-interrupted?
Use the stairs!
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OR... no one else was trying to get on the elevator when he filmed this. LESSON: ride the elevator at 3am everytime?
Wow, so useful - except all UK elevators have a NS button (NS = non stop)!
i don't believe this is as commonly available as it is made to sound. there is a reason they have key switches on elevator control panels: so these features don't work.
for all we know this guy was in an elevator already configured for express service, or he took the video several times until he got up and down when nobody was making calls on any of the other floors.
In Waikiki I lived on the thirteenth floor of a tall building..Royal Aloha, corner of mccully and alawai. Its an Older building I think it was built by a chinese family. Funny they didnt care about 13th floor being bad luck. I sold that condo for 100 grand profit after only one year. Ha. Thirteenth floor was always my lucky floor. Due to the quick sale, I was able to take military leave and missed going to Desert Storm. Wow. That plus a hundred grand bonus..not bad for an enlisted marine. Thank u china.
it works if you follow the instructions.
the thirteenth floor is very unlucky. many workers died back at the turn of the twentieth century building the first skyscrapers. happened on the 13th floor. so 13th floors we erased from existence, just like the ingredients for cheeze wiz and KFC's secret recipe. Oh, and of course the roswell crash happened on the 13th floor of a gov. structure that is no longer there... erased from existence in this space-time.
The trick I've heard about also involved holding the call cancel button. so you hit the floor you want to go to, then hold both door close and call cancel through the entire trip to skip other floors.
About the 13th floor, it's not much known but in some skyscrapers if you type 1 and 3 simultaneously as floor number and then hold on the close door button for a few seconds you get to the secret alien humans level where the human e-t do their weird stuff... :)
wow could i hear one more person tell me why theres no 13th floor? thanks BECAUSE I DIDNT GET IT YET AFTER HEARING EVERY PERSON COMMENTING ON THIS SAY IT
It skips the 13th floor. wtf?
All this talk of the 13th floor is crazy....
One place that has a 13th floor (verified by myself personally because I have stayed there, on the 13th floor, labeled as such) is the Luxor pyramid hotel in Las Vegas, NV. When I asked why this was one of very few with a labeled 13th floor, I was told that in Egypt, 13 is considered a lucky number [maybe back in the day {read: wednesday} maybe today..]
So do wit this info what you will. = )
Every building has a 13th floor. Don't believe me? then goto the 14th floor if no 13th is listed, jump out of the window, as you fall count the floors, see if you can get to 14!
great spend 5 mins on a comment for another hack and the comment does not appear, blogger blows.
Watching the video I noticed one thing that nobody else has commented on. The building has a penthouse on the top story.
The express feature may be turned on for the use of the people who rent the penthouse. While most elevators may have the feature turned off, I would bet a good percentage that have penthouses have the feature turned on.
I knew somebody who lived in a penthouse who shared with me that he had an express feature.
This might just me thinking this... not saying it doesn't work I haven't tried but it seems entirely possible that there was just no one trying to get on the elevator?
the video might be real. but there is more than 1 elevator company out there and it might not work with all of them
This does work. You press the floor number you want at the same time as the door close button and hold them for 3-4 seconds. If you push another floor button it will go to that floor too. This just tells the elevator to ignore floor where the button to request an elevator has been pushed. It works on about 80% of the elevators I have been on. I learned the trick 5 years ago when I was working as a security guard and it was taught to me by an elevator repair man so this is real!
It only works around 3am. ;-)
7/7/07 2:02 PM
Anonymous said...
"No 13th floor? Watch the video it skips from 12 to 14."
yeah, it's a superstition thing the companies have going... Some guy in daytona beach florida bunjie jumped off the side of his hotel, and he didn't realize the NO FLOOR 13 thing that the companies have been using for a while... anyways, he died, splat.
lol
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no 13th floor, but c'mon, people on the 14th: you know what floor your really on.
I am going to build a high-rise and every floor will be the 13th floor. It'll just be 13a, 13b, 13c, etc. Fucking retards. Oh, 13 is unlucky. Bigfoot and aliens will come and take my kidney and sell it on the internet and I'll never get my check from Bill Gates for forwarding his email.
This does not work as I tried to show off once when I was in the elevator and thought the person next to me was lil romeo, turns out he was just a tribute singer for lil romeo fans, he does concerts all over the country and was not impressed that my elevator trick failed so I gave up on the trick and decided to go see the singer do a tribute concert for lil romeo fans and he even gave me free concert tickets.
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OMG!! IT'S TRUE!!
When the door opened a strange world unvield to me. I decided to go in because i had nothing better to do and my shift didn't start till four. As i walked forward there were clouds of black covering my field of view and whispers all around me. The ground was cold and the air was dank and artificial. As I came to a dead end and i was overwelmed by feelings of dread. I quickly looked back from where i came from and suddenly fell into a dark hole. I kept falling and falling, but there seemed to be no end.
And i've been falling ever since. I've learned to cope it, but it get's lonley. I used to hopethat i would reach the bottom, but i'm afraid i'll go splat. So I 've been trying to send messeges to the outside world for hope that someone may read them. Please...Help!!
LOL thought i'd add some humor and creativity to the topic of floor 13, obviously this never took place, but it was damn fun XD.
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