How to find key length of a Vigenere chiper? I am trying to decrypt a Vigenere chiper, I saw a lot of youtube videos but I still can get a good value for the key length. 
In theory I have to get the repetions of letters shifting the text one place every iteration and then see how many steps there are between the biggest numbers, but it gives me no common path.
First find repeating substrings, longer repeating substrings are better. Look at the differences between the index of repeating subsring pairs. Calculate GCD of the differences.  If it is a reasonable key length you probably have it. If it came out 1 try dropping some outlier spurious substring occurences. If it came out too large to be a reasonable key you may need to find more repeating substrings allow shorter substrings to be considered. 

Motivation:
We expect many repeating substrings of common char-grams, in English for instance : th,the,ing and more if these appear in a difference which is a multiple of the key length the cipher text fragments will be identical as well. However such a repeating cipher text is unlikely to appear from encripting some other text in another column.