-Keyboard walks, also sometimes known as waterfalls or "spatial pattern" passwords, are passwords generated by typing adjacent keys on the keyboard, with `[SHIFT]` held occasionally in order to meet common complexity requirements (i.e. capital letters + symbols). These passwords may resemble randomly generated strings but are not nearly as strong, as they often follow predictable patterns and are easy to guess despite meeting length and complexity requirements. Due to both the structure of the QWERTY keyboard and [human preferences for memory chunking](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0010028572900126), most keyboard walks consist of multiples of four characters (4, 8, 12, 16, etc.)
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