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my password: 2,408

password: 46,628,605

your password: 609

good password: 22

long password: 2

secure password: 317

safe password: 29

bad password: 86

this password sucks: 1

i hate this website: 16

username: 83,569

my username: 4

your username: 1

let me login: 0

admin: 41,072,830

abcdef: 873,564

abcdef1: 147,103

abcdef!: 4,109

abcdef1!: 1,401

123456: 179,863,340

hunter2: 50,474

correct horse battery staple: 384

Correct Horse Battery Staple: 19

to be or not to be: 709

all your base are belong to us: 1





Spaces are skewing the numbers lower. Remove them from any of those and see the number increase at least an order of magnitude. That “let me login” goes from 0 to 4,714 just by removing spaces (“letmelogin”).

I guess this means passwords with spaces are safer!

correcthorsebatterystaple (no spaces) 4,163

Password2020: 109,729

Edit:

louvre: 7,219


> all your base are belong to us: 1

Only 1, really?


Because of the spaces.

Without spaces, it's 681.




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