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There have been times that I’ve had to close my eyes and completely rely on muscle memory to enter a long password. Last time it happened was after a 2 week vacation.

That kind of timeframe isn’t abnormal for the speed of law.

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This happens to me a lot. I need to have access to keyboard for being able to type some older password. Same thing with pin codes.. Funny how brain works.

Impressive! After all these years I still need to look at the keyboard.

I find it somewhat disconcerting that my fingers remember my passwords better than my brain does!

Muscle memory still happens in the brain. A better description might be unconscious memory. I believe the proper term is "procedural memory". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_memory

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