Free game · About two minutes

Can you crack the password?

Six guesses, one hint, and a password of the kind people really use. See how far you get.

Here’s the uncomfortable part. If you crack it, you did it by thinking like a person — a hunch, a hint, a bit of luck. A real attacker doesn’t guess at all. Software works through millions of combinations a second, starting with every password that has ever appeared in a leak, and it never gets bored on the fifth try.

So treat this as a demonstration rather than a test. It shows you what a weak password looks like from the other side of the screen — which is a view most people never get until it’s their turn.

Want to know how long yours would last? That’s the password strength checker — or skip ahead and generate one that would take centuries.