I actually try to remember as few of my passwords as possible. Take away my password manager and switch my keyboard from QWERTY to DVORAK (and scramble the number pad), and I'm not getting into anything other than my email and 1 bank account.
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I pick one gnarly one, I memorize it, and leave it to a password manager.
Password manager. For things that I forsee I will end up needing to type often, I might choose a passphrase made of actual words. Some password managers can do this, or create passwords made of syllables you can pronounce. It's way easier to type correctly.
When I'm without a manager, I just look around for random objects, especially things with numbers and special characters.
Let's just say the book known as A Pickle for the Knowing Ones is surprisingly useful as a book cipher book if the book cipher is designated to construct passwords.
I'll do as long a sentence as I can easily remember. Something silly, a memorable movie quote, an explanation of what the profile/app is for, a reminder for why I use the profile/app, goal I have in the area of life I need to use the app for.
Since most password fields require special characters, I'll slap an exclamation point or question mark at the end to complete the sentence. Sometimes I'll think to use a sentence that already has a number and type the digit instead of spelling it out. Or I'll just use a 2 for too or to.
Not-real example based on a not-real goal
idriveaHummer2workinthefuture!
Until password managers became a thing, I just used 1 password for everything and it was just a serial number for a specific model of floppy disk.
I use a password manager, and for that I take an uncommon saying, transcribe the first letter of each word in a leet-like code with a couple of modifications. This gives you a very long and secure password.
In the couple places where I don't use a password manager, I make up a silly sentence and use the first letter of each word and then mix in numbers and symbols. I guess that means the letters I use end up not being evenly distributed, but I think it'll be alright.