Re: I've always preferred ..
@Queeg:
That's... a lot of effort for a password. (more so that what I used to use, which was a random keypress pattern ingrained into muscle memory. however, that has it's own issues... :)
My favorite secret type is a passphrase, if the system will allow spaces. Easy to remember, hard to guess, and as long as it's a decent character length, expensive to brute force.
Obig. XKCD: https://xkcd.com/936/
(FWIW, Active Directory running in 2000 Native mode and later will cheerfully allow spaces)