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Order shouldn't matter for the result. ie: 3ypg1 should be just as valid as 3pyg1. Not everyone scans images top-left, going right, to bottom-right.

What I'm saying is if you use the same password for everything, that makes it more likely they can get the gmail password.

Take, for example, the reddit password leak. A clever attacker can probably guess my email from my username. If I had used my gmail password for my reddit password, now they have access to everything. But, since I don't cross contaminate my password like that, I didn't risk my gmail account.

That seems backwards. The problem isn't your gmail password getting leaked, but some other site leaking your password. If that site also has a clue about your email address, now they have access to your email, since you made them the same password.

Do one thing well. What happens when I break the ring? I have to get a new key. Also, a keyring of keyrings is going to be quite a pocketfull.