[frosted-flakes]

Because sometimes you do need to type it. I'm reminded of signing into a Kindle e-reader with shared (family) account and a long randomly-generated password with lots of symbols (I could not change the password). The Kindle has a terrible keyboard and obscures the password input, so what could have taken ten seconds took ten minutes and many attempts.

I use “correct horse battery staple”-style[1] passphrases now because they're still long and secure, but also memorable, so I don't have to enter passwords character-by-character, and I've memorized all of my most-used accounts now and don't need to look them up. 1Password can even generate these types of passwords automatically.

The only annoying bit is when services have arbitrary restrictions like “no spaces”, or “mix of capitals, lower-case, numbers, and symbols”. In those cases I use hyphens instead of spaces, or stick “A1!” on the end.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/936/

[anaerobicover]

The "correct horse battery staple" style was (originally?) known as Diceware: https://theworld.com/~reinhold/diceware.html The FAQ is interesting reading.

[pferde]

Fair enough, although as someone who uses a 60 character long home wifi password - and have had to type it out manually more than once in the past - I think it's still worth it, because such cases are rare. :)

[m-p-3]

And on mobile you can connect using a QR code so it's a simple way to avoid that as well.