Q&A for How to Guess a Password

It could. It depends on the person. Some people reuse the same password or variations of it, others use different passwords for everything.

You can reset your router. Often your password is listed on the router. Check out How to Find Your WiFi Password when You Forgot It for more advice.

Ask someone who has e-mailed you before what your e-mail is. When they send the e-mail, they have to enter your e-mail address, so it is most likely on their sent list.

Perhaps. If their old password was their favorite book, you can try another of their favorite books, or characters from the book.

On Snapchat, you have to sign up using a valid email. If you forget your password, Snapchat has a verification code used to access your account on multiple devices that can be emailed to you. Just click on the "forgot password" command and follow the instructions.

You can try sending an email/SMS to reset it, use common passwords you've used before, or if you wrote it down, try to find it.

Unfortunately you cannot get into your Snapchat account if you can't provide valid proof that it's your account.

Most websites offer a password recovery method. Usually, it involves a "parent email" if a child has signed up. If all else fails, contact the people in charge directly.

Yes. This will work with basically anything, even Snapchat.

If you mean the password you're trying to guess is from a password generator, it's very unlikely you'll be able to crack it. This is why people use password generators.

Ask your boss or someone from the IT department to help you recover your password.

If someone knows your password, you should change it immediately, and try to make it harder to guess. Ways of making it more secure include using uppercase and lowercase letters, but also including numbers and symbols.

Try a word that is related to the hint word. If not, the hint word may be the password itself.

Go to howsecureismypassword.net. They give results that show whether or not your password is strong enough.

If you are not the admin or there are other admins, find out who they are and ask them to reset your password. If you are the only admin, then you will probably have to reset the computer or guess your password.

Don't tell them after you change it. If they watch you, do it somewhere they cannot see you making the change or entering it at any time. If you write it down, stop doing that and start remembering it instead. or change it unknowingly. When making up a password, change it into something impossible for them to guess.

Try using the person's nickname or middle name with a couple of numbers after it, maybe with an underscore in between. Or try something they like doing - if they like music they could go as music_lover or something like that. Maybe a character from a book or move (maybe followed by a bunch of numbers).

Unfortunately, there's no way to guess. If your account was compromised, then most likely the hacker changed it to something completely unrelated and it might have random strings of gibberish or numbers in it. Talk to a teacher or other authority figure at your school so they can help you.

Think of information about your brother. His password might be easy to guess if he doesn't think anyone will hack it. For example: His birthday, favorite color, favorite sport, first name, favorite cartoon character, or his friend's name. These sorts of things are possible as passwords and as well as trying these by themselves, you could guess a combination too, to try to figure out his password. If he doesn't use anything related to him in his password, guessing it will be next to impossible.

Passwords are private, so they won't tell you the password to their account if they don't trust you with it. You might consider trying another way to guess the password. Think of something associated with you and your family, such as dates of birth, names, nicknames, and inside jokes. If your parents both have a certain hobby associated with them, you can try that as well.

Try simple patterns such as 1234, 4321, and 1010. If they have a favorite celebrity, you can try using the celebrity's birth year. It can also be a joke name such as 1337 ("Leet" in number form). You might also try random number combinations until something works.

There is no way to know.