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by maaarghk 4401 days ago
Hahahahaha. This is a total embarrassment and it is why we can't have nice things. There is always this for a decent alternative:

https://howsecureismypassword.net/

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Password1234567890

It would take a desktop PC about A quadrillion years to crack your password [Tweet Result]

OK, but if you keep reading:

"Your password looks like it might just be a word and a few digits. This is a very common pattern and would be cracked very quickly."

'abcdefghij' would take 9 hours to crack?
Thankfully correcthorsebatterystaple takes a quintillion years. I'm safe.
I thought they did a bloom search over the top 1000 most common passwords or something, I guess if you feel very strongly about this you could contact the creator :)
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

46 quintillion years

score!