Harrington and Soare introduced the notion of an -tardy set. They showed that there is a nonempty property such that if then is -tardy. Since they also showed no -tardy set is complete, Harrington and Soare showed that there exists an orbit of computably enumerable sets such that every set in that orbit is incomplete. Our study of -tardy sets takes off from where Harrington and Soare left off. We answer all the open questions asked by Harrington and Soare about -tardy sets. We show there is a -tardy set that is not computed by any -tardy set . We also show that there are nonempty properties such that if then is properly -tardy.