Fort Knox level account protection here

Why go though the trouble of typing up a hard password with a variety of hard symbols when one symbol will render the entire password useless. Locking your account should only take like 30 seconds at most. I would set up a general unuseable password for all my accounts on a wordpad to save time. Thanks a million though! I will be using this as my permanant account guard. ^__^

How much safer would it be to use special characters like !@#$%^&*()_+./;'][? And do upper case letters make a difference?

Any single special character will make the password 100% safe. The main problem is if the hacker cracks your email, I think.