Can You Memorize Your Recovery Phrase?

[MarissaLopez]

Just remembered that I have written the recovery seed phrase of my Electrum on a piece of paper somewhere in my place. I'm wondering what could go wrong since my place isn't too secured.  How about trying to memorize it? Is it possible?

Would you try?
What are the benefits? ... and the setbacks.

Well often times I'm Good at having things stuck to my memories like a pinned Post but nevertheless anything can alter it, probably mentally and psychological effects so I would say a pen down information saves a lifetime tho it may depend on where you decide to write it down that it's safer...

And having saving things in my memories too I prefer writing them somewhere as backup.

[Katherine_Alicia]

Memorising them (I have a couple of "wallets") was the first thing I did before I put any funds into them. I turned the words into short sentences that I recite daily. I also have them written down and check against them every few months.
The reason is that should a situation ever occur where I was forced to leave where I am now, I would hate to have to carry that paper with me, and worse have to try and remember those words in the last minute under stress.

Other than my Public keys and those seed words, I don`t even own a physical wallet since I have no plans of spending any BTC for a good 10+ years.

[Jon_Hodl]

This is just based off of my own personal experience but since your memory is not perfect and you are not infinite, it is best practice to just write your seed phrase down on something that will last longer than a lifetime like a stainless steel plate.

I personally use PunchPlate but there are other tools that are just as good. Here's my own method: https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/security/write-your-seed-phrase

Best of luck.

[munwoka]

Just remembered that I have written the recovery seed phrase of my Electrum on a piece of paper somewhere in my place. I'm wondering what could go wrong since my place isn't too secured.  How about trying to memorize it? Is it possible?

Would you try?
What are the benefits? ... and the setbacks.

Good thinking to prioritize your recovery seed phrase's security. Memorization has its pros and cons. Benefits include: enhanced security, convenience and peace of mind. However consider the setbacks: memory failure, cognitive overload, brain wallet vulnerabilities. Remember, security is personal. Choose what works best for your comfort level.

[Z-tight]

Memorising them (I have a couple of "wallets") was the first thing I did before I put any funds into them. I turned the words into short sentences that I recite daily. I also have them written down and check against them every few months.

This is the only situation that makes sense to memorize your seed phrase, that is when you have backed it up safely on paper or on a stainless steel offline, you can now use your memory as an additional backup if you like. However, memorizing your seed phrase as your only backup is not recommended, and you are surely going to lock yourself out of your funds, sooner rather than later.

[Jawhead999]

Memorizing 12 words isn't that hard, as long as you spend time to memorize it, you will.

However, memorizing seed phrase should be "one" of many ways to recover your coins, which mean you should do any other backup ways. If you only relying on your brain, then you're high likely will lost access to your coins.

No one know what happen to you in the future, so prepare the worst.

[Synchronice]

Just remembered that I have written the recovery seed phrase of my Electrum on a piece of paper somewhere in my place. I'm wondering what could go wrong since my place isn't too secured.  How about trying to memorize it? Is it possible?

Would you try?
What are the benefits? ... and the setbacks.

I am probably the only advocator on this forum of memorizing wallet recovery seed phrases. I think that if you write down your recovery seed phrase and memorize it every day for minutes, multiple times, it will be imprinted in your brain, like some lyrics that you learnt at school that you still remember exactly. When you memorize seed phrase, you don't have to worry about safe place, about theft, etc, because it's in your head and no one can steal it from your head.
By the way, the downside is that if you get a serious head injury or brain surgery, there is a very high chance that you won't remember your seed phrases but on the other hand, if you had such an accident, you wouldn't be able to remember where you have saved your recovery seed phrases.
I have memorized my seed phrases, that's all I can tell.

[Suman1]

You should write down it, keep it secret and store it in a safe place. If you don't prefer phrases based encryption then you can go with MPC MPC-based software wallet like Bitget wallet. It's a User-Friendly and secure platform

[mvdheuvel1983]

Memorising them (I have a couple of "wallets") was the first thing I did before I put any funds into them. I turned the words into short sentences that I recite daily. I also have them written down and check against them every few months.

This is the only situation that makes sense to memorize your seed phrase, that is when you have backed it up safely on paper or on a stainless steel offline, you can now use your memory as an additional backup if you like. However, memorizing your seed phrase as your only backup is not recommended, and you are surely going to lock yourself out of your funds, sooner rather than later.

The best way is so far is to write them down on paper as earlier mentioned then back it up offline in something better but personally I think I have other better ways of saving my seed phrase which is storing them in a save device which I only have access to and also paper duplicate in case of any future occurrence. I wouldn't wish any one to have a lost of funds as a result of keeping their seed phrase in their brains, a lot of things get in and out the brain on daily basis and one can easily replace a word to another when reciting them.

[OrangeII]

Instead of memorizing, I'd rather note it down and store it in a safe place, even with its own code that only we know. However, we cannot trust our memorization. In fact, when it is wrong in one word, it will be difficult to restore it, especially in the matter of sequence. Apart from that, we need to memorize it every day, which means, you need to check every week the Recovery Phrase you have to make sure. Personally, I prefer to keep it in a trusted place.

[tech30338]

not a good way to secure a recovery phrase, there might some incident where we are going to forget something eventually, and its against what people is telling us, secured means we need to keep it in a safe place, not memorized it, its a first way to lost a money, and this practice will eventually make you broke, when it comes to cryptocurrency, one small mistake will cost you everything that's a fact.

[Z-tight]

I think I have other better ways of saving my seed phrase which is storing them in a save device which I only have access to

How do you know this device is safe, is it connected to the internet? If this device isn't airgapped and completely disconnected from the internet, then it is never safe to store your seed phrase in it. Only you may have access to it locally, but attackers can steal your coins over the internet if it is in an internet connected device.