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hyporational comments on Open Thread, October 13 - 19, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hyporational 20 October 2013 03:20:40PM *  2 points [-]

If I really had to type them in myself every time I wanted to use them, 16 random characters absolutely. Repeatedly typing the 8 words compared to 16 characters probably takes more time in the long run than memorizing the random string. Memorizing random letters isn't significantly easier in my experience than memorizing random characters.