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zxcvbn actually correctly identifies that password as being the result of the user hitting multiple adjacent keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Still passes the strength check though because it doesn't identify the more complex pattern of moving top to bottom, then left to right across the keyboard, alternating shift with every column.


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