Are you an obsessive paranoid like me and want a behemoth password 99.9% guess-proof and looks like a string encrypted by a computer, while remaining easier to remember than a phone number?
Now, I can't really think of a situation where you'd actually need the full version of this, except maybe if you have an extremely intelligent friend who keeps guessing your passwords right or are playing some hacking simulation (or just any game) with some sort of password guessing, but when I thought this up I thought it was a neat trick.
First, think of a phrase or something easy to remember, like the planets of our solar system.
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
Now, think of a rule to take out a letter from each word, for example, each first and last letter of each word, and that will be the content of your password:
MYVSEHMSJRSNUSNE
Hard enough? Let's multi-layer this sucker.
Next, remember a second rule to put numbers in your password. Let's make it numbers descending from 9 after each planet name:
MY9VS8EH7MS6JR5SN4US3NE2
And finally, remember a third rule to make your password case sensitive. Let's make it so every third letter is lower-cased:
MY9vS8Eh7MS6jR5Sn4US3nE2
So all you have to remember is a phrase/list, and 1-3 rules (depending how advanced you want it):
1. First and last letter of each planet name.
2. While typing, after every planet comes a descending number starting at 9.
3. Every third letter is lower-cased.
Now go win you some bets.
If you can remember it, you can throw people off your patterns by making a fourth rule to hide a trick:
MY9vS8Eh7MS6jR5Sn4US3nE25
Keep in mind that this isn't practical for regular use, it's still a pain to type and not mess up, most sites don't allow that many characters to be in your password, and this doesn't protect you against crackers.
It's very similar to algorithms in some games that create multi-layered rock-solid encrypted savefiles.
I am somebody who can't remember numbers worth a crap, so tricks like this are extremely helpful to me because they make them into patterns, which I can remember just fine. If you're stumped on what your new password for say, World of Warcraft should be, you can use this trick to create a concrete-yet-simple password as well.
Here I use easy to remember patterns to encrypt my name into an easy-to-remember password:
1O3R5O7
That is, second letter of each of my names with ascending numbers that skip a number.
By the way, don't try this trick with my account. I use a completely different system then what I wrote here.![]()