Common Password Patterns to Avoid

Modern password crackers are trained on billions of real passwords and know every common pattern. This table documents the patterns that make passwords weak: keyboard walks (qwerty, 123456), leetspeak substitutions (p@ssw0rd), appended numbers and years, dictionary words with symbols, and more.

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