MousePotatoPower

There are lots of password checking websites/utilities that can be found on the internet.  And they all use a different set of rules for determining if your password is strong or weak.

Password Strength Checker uses it’s own set of rules, but it is the most thorough set of rules that I have seen.  Check it out and rate your passwords.  My strongest password only rates 38%.

Tip: you get severely penalized for having a chain of similiar characters (lower-case, upper-case, or numbers). abc, xyz, dnr OR MTV, PNP, JKL OR 123, 1982, 143, etc.

Another tip: if your password can be found in a dictionary, change it immediately.  using a word that is in a dictionary is about as insecure as you can get.