User blog comment:Zelron/The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn rumors (Imbedded deep the secrets sleep)/@comment-5012992-20121022195128/@comment-3492791-20121023025710

If you're referring to a physical feeling like that idea that the controller vibrates when you pass over the correct spot, I believe that is entirely false as i've done it hundreds of times and never once has my controller vibrated to a noticeable degree.

Regardless of any "delicate touch" it still all comes down to guesswork, with a general hot-cold response. Two people with equal lockpicking stats have the exact same chance of finding the "sweet spot" regardless of the skill difference between them. Once you find the sweet spot it comes down to precision guesswork. I will admit, being pretty good at the lockpicking, that once you find the sweet spot that some measure of personal skill might come into play (mostly just knowing how far to move based on the reaction you got and the level of the lock), but everything before that point is pure random unstructured guesswork.

Also, I don't even know what lockpicking in Skyrim is, because that is not how you pick a lock.