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Why move every letter the same distance? A substitution cipher uses any shuffled alphabet as the key. To make it easy to remember, write a keyword first (dropping repeated letters), then the rest of the alphabet in order.

The keyword ZEBRAS gives:
ZEBRASCDFGHIJKLMNOPQTUVWXY
so A→Z, B→E, C→B, D→R …