Memory Problem- Or how i learned to love the forgot password button and stop worrying
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Sleep more
yeah i often find myself remembering 64 digits of hexadecimal characters.
[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;16447609]I've used the same password for every single thing I've ever done.
Probably not good.[/QUOTE]
Me 2 and the pass word is bananafuck23
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[QUOTE=AimlessGiant;16447686]yeah i often find myself remembering 64 digits of hexadecimal characters.[/QUOTE]
Pick a shorter subset, just don't use the website URL or the account name backwards or anything predictable like that.
open notepad, mash the numpad, copy and paste. a good password that you already have saved somewhere.
[QUOTE=phasebot-alt;16447650]Just type out your password a dozen times or use a mnemonic and you shouldn't have any problems memorizing it.
Also, you people have weak passwords.
Try one of these: [url]https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
These passwords are even weaker than our passwords because they have to be written down somewhere or they will be forgotten. Its easier to find a sheet of paper than it is to unlock my brainsafe... oh yeah bananafuck23
make sure to call it notsomethingimportantlikepasswordsorthatkindofshit.txt
You could use keepass.
You probably have a great lack of sleep after all of that partying. I would bet that a few good nights rests would help immensely.
I have a bunch of different passwords and I run more into the issue of which one I used for a particular site.
After fucking around with certain drugs my memory really improved for some odd reason. I can remember 20+ letter/number combinations at nearly a glance when I couldn't even remember where I put my cars keys before.
I keep a blank business card with some common passwords I have for forums & sites inside my floppy drive, I glued a piece of plastic in there so the card will slot in an 1/8, leaving enough access to pull it out/close the little plastic cover.
And since I'm the only person near my system, it works wonders.
Until this day I've never had to use it, although I continue to jot down after I use a password (or one of the same similarity) on more than three sites.
So you won't forget your passwords as much, here's a system for a secure, easy to remember password:
First, you choose a color, then an animal. This will now be what you use as a base for all your passwords.
Then you put a two digit number after it, this will also be part of your base.
Now you take the initials of the first and last words of the name of the site (Like Facepunch is FP) Or if it's one word, the first and last letter of its name, like Steam would be MS. You put the first letter at the end and the second at the beginning.
So I go here, choose cow, 53 and green it would be pgreencow53f. I go on GameFaqs, it would be fgreencow53g.
[QUOTE=Slippers;16447087]Ill just start this off with
[b]I can't make a password without writing it down simultaneously as i enter it in.[/b]
Sometimes i just sit there and wonder what the fuck is wrong with my brain. Lately i have had immense short term memory problems. It is getting so bad i am forgetting a password as soon as i hit enter to change it. I feel so helpless with this problem. For example, i just decided to change my world of warcraft and email password and now i forget what i just fucking made them. I remember about how many words it is, what i was thinking, what numbers i added, and the length. But for the fucking love of god i can't remember what it was. Now when i go to forget password it asks me for the name i signed up with and i enter my name, it tells me the email/name combo is incorrect.
Another example, a few nights ago at a lan party [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=783380[/url]
The fact that my friend later that night guessed the password with the parameters i gave him (i remembered it involved youare*something*at*something). Turned out he guessed it was youarecrapatlife. The password hint was "what you are", and it was directed towards my friends.
This stuff happens all the time, not even with passwords, i just forget small things people tell me. Like orders or just planning. I feel like i got permanent brain damage because i spent a week getting blackout hammered for 7 nights in a row on vodka, whiskey, scotch, grappa, bols, you name it i drank it.
It feels like my brain is all lubed up and the passwords just slip right out leaving behind a trail where i could guess around what it COULD be but i never get it.
Are there any brain excersises i can do to remember stuff or at least to prevent forgetfullness?
[img]http://ezpainttools.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/08/28/frustrated_kid.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Yes, there are plenty of excersises you can do. However you're probably too lazy to do them more than for 15 minutes, So i'm not going to link any. Anyway, to solve the problem with your password:
When you create a password it needs to be based on something what you remember. For example words of your faivorite song.
For example:
[QUOTE=Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven]
[highlight][B]T[/B][/highlight]heres [highlight]a[/highlight] [highlight]l[/highlight]ady [highlight]w[/highlight]hos [highlight]s[/highlight]ure
[highlight][B]A[/B][/highlight]ll [highlight]t[/highlight]hat [highlight]g[/highlight]litters [highlight]i[/highlight]s [highlight]g[/highlight]old
[highlight][B]A[/B][/highlight]nd [highlight]s[/highlight]hes [highlight]b[/highlight]uying [highlight]a[/highlight] [highlight]s[/highlight]tairway [highlight]to[/highlight] [highlight]h[/highlight]eaven.
[B]W[/B]hen she gets there she knows
[B]I[/B]f the stores are all closed
[B]W[/B]ith a word she can get what she came for.
[B]O[/B]oh, ooh, and shes buying a stairway to heaven.
[/QUOTE]
(bolded one)TAAWIWO or the TALWSATGIGASBAS2H(highlighted one)
And for security reasons, words like to should be replaced with numbers.
However, if you find it hard to replace them with numbers. you can also add the year you were born into the password.
for example:
TALWSATGIGASBAS2H1988
or
TALWSATGIGASBAS2H88
use keepass
keepass owns
[QUOTE=VaultBoi;16447153]i always make my password a reversed username of the thing i am registering for[/QUOTE]
Now you are an easy target :clint:
I just use the password I had to remember for my school account for everything.
Mine's thispasswordisgreat
[QUOTE=AimlessGiant;16447619]stop smoking pot and lay off the alchohol.[/QUOTE]
This would be the best solution.... Alchohol and smoking is stupid.. I dont get whats so "COOL" about it.... jeez..
I usually have all of my passwords located inside of an encrypted txt file :D
[QUOTE=DrMortician;16448645]After fucking around with certain drugs my memory really improved for some odd reason. I can remember 20+ letter/number combinations at nearly a glance when I couldn't even remember where I put my cars keys before.[/QUOTE]
In other words the drugs have destroyed right side of your brain.
I use a unique pass for every site :frogc00l:
My short term memory is awful as well but I just use as few passwords as possible. My current password is happyfacelongtime please don't steal it I'm putting it here so I don't forget.
[QUOTE=Neolk;16447282]I always make my passwords the name of the sites. So for Neopets, my password would be neopets (example, [B][U]I aint no neo-fag[/U][/B]). Besides, theres always fire-fox password remembery.[/QUOTE]
Ok, Neolk.
[QUOTE=VaultBoi;16447153]i always make my password a reversed username of the thing i am registering for[/QUOTE]
someone try out using
iobtluav
for his password
All my passwords are random combinations of letters and numbers.
Or else I get paranoid.
Smoke more weed, it helps with memo- sry dude forgot what i was typing
[QUOTE=VaultBoi;16447153]i always make my password a reversed username of the thing i am registering for[/QUOTE]
Thanks for your FP account :v:
[QUOTE=One Long Sausage;16447164]I've been diagnosed with having a short term memory problem, I usually forget things like phone numbers and instructions after a few mins unless I keep repeating them in my head.[/QUOTE]
I forget orders like that but I'm really good at remembering numbers, like all of my passwords are complicated and if written down would make no sense but I remember them fine, the same with 16 digit credit card numbers.
My password is something easy to remember (it's password) I use it everywhere.
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