Historical estimate
Guess “qwerty”
- Probability:
- 0.0413%
- Odds:
- 1 to 2,420
- dBan
- −33.8 dBan
In the RockYou 2009 corpus, “qwerty” appears 13,456 times among 32,603,388 password occurrences.
Calculation
p = 13,456 / 32,603,388
Assumptions
One password occurrence is sampled uniformly from the 32,603,388 occurrences in the pinned RockYou 2009 frequency archive. The guess must match the string exactly. This historical, service-specific corpus does not represent every present-day password. Online protections and two-step verification also affect account security.
Security advice
If you use this password, replace it with a unique password generated by a password manager. Avoid familiar patterns such as keyboard runs, names, and birthdays. Use a passkey when available, and enable two-step verification where passwords remain.
Sources
- SecLists: RockYou passwords with frequencies RockYou 2009 corpus: 32,603,388 password occurrences across 14,344,391 frequency rows
- Tatli (2015): Cracking More Password Hashes With Patterns Table VII corroborates the qwerty count
- NIST SP 800-63B: passwords and authentication
- NCSC: passkeys are the future published 23 April 2026