I've had mixed results. For some formats (NTLM, SHA, OpenSSH, IKE, etc), John seems to be better just out of the box. I've compared it to Hashcat with a spefied

I've had mixed results. For some formats (NTLM, SHA, OpenSSH, IKE, etc), John seems to be better just out of the box. I've compared it to Hashcat with a spefied format, mask, and tune. For whatever reason, 50% of the time, John runs significantly faster without any arguments.