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Thats how I can remember 25 character passwords with symbols and mixed case. I am not thinking "43#gj(eO3%". I'm thinking "4-4-shift3-g-j-shift9-e-shifto-3-shift5". So basically you have about 47 keys with nice characters and they each have two of them.

Just use a random password generator with those 47 characters and type it 25 times into a notepad to pound it into your muscle memory. (and if you're paranoid, clean up your memory and swap file)

For the ones you don't use every few weeks, keep them in a password database like KeePass with 2 factor authentication and keep the key file on a thumb drive on your keychain.



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