Can You Memorize Your Recovery Phrase?

[salad daging]

Just because a piece of paper doesn't take up much space it's not safe? For me there is still a safe place unless you know it yourself, we know where the safe place is to keep a piece of seed phrase notes.

I don't memorize seed phrases in my brain. It's human nature to forget especially for a long time unless you keep the notes by memorizing them in your brain then it's not a problem in my opinion.

It's just that it's enough, with a paper note because for me it feels safe.

[Dailyscript]

If sang repeatedly you can memorize it and it will remain the brain for as long as we want it. But i wouldn't let you to only rely to store your seed phrase based on the one you have memorized.

So in short, the best method to keep your seed phrase safe is to bury it in your mind, so you are the only one who knows that and could have access to it.

You are wrong, that is one of the worst ways to store your seed phrase and a fast way to lose your coins or lock yourself out of your funds. There is no way you can remember the words for a longer period of time, you're surely going to forget some words or wrongly arrange them, you may also suffer injury or disease that could affect your memory.

The best method is to have a physical backup and store it in a very safe location, adding extra layers of security is also recommended. If you want to commit your seed phrase to memory, it should be after you have done all this, you can now count what you have memorized as an additional backup.

I agree with you, these pattern doesn't last for long because saving your seed phrase is not something you do everyday. Saving it in a hardware wallet is one of the  best way and writing them down on peace of paper is one good way or in a document and keeping it in a disc.

[yudi09]

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?

Writing seed phrases on a piece of paper covered with plastic is considered safe in my experience. The placement of the place to store the seed phrase written on paper must be adjusted.

No. I can't memorize it. For me it is not effective for remembering a number of words. If I can memorize it, I'm sure it will slowly be forgotten as I get older.
Even safer, use special materials to write seed phrases that are tested to be fire and water resistant.

[m2017]

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 allow the use of memorization as a way to save the recovery phrase only as an additional method (several backup copies). Storage on hard media (or, in extreme cases, electronic, for example, flash drives and HDD) is mandatory. You can't rely on (human) memory alone.

If you memorize a recovery phrase, it is better to do it not by words, but in the form of a rhyme or song in which the seed phrases will be meaningfully embedded. This allows for better (faster) and safer memorization.

Advantages of this storage method:
- no one can get into your head and gain access to the recovery phrase (but this method is not secure to the $5 wrench method).

Flaws:
- if the storage medium (brain) is damaged due to injury or illness, restoring the seed-phrase becomes impossible.

Therefore, using this method as the main one when storing the recovery phrase looks very unreliable.

[MainIbem]

Writing your recovery phrase on a piece of paper is not really the best option, and trying to memorize your recovery phrase is even worse.

Writing it on a piece of paper might not be the best option but it depends on where the paper is saved  and if am to pick both I'll prefer writing it down on a piece of paper and storing the paper in a safe that's passworded, as we all know, most safes are both fire and water proofed and can't be easily penetrated without the owner giving you a password to it. Well, their are people with retentive memory that could easily memorise and remember their recovery phrase whenever but not everyone is born that way. Also one could remember it but find it difficult to arrange them orderly and one thing about the recovery phrase is that if you miss a word or forget how to arrange them orderly then you can't be granted acess to your wallet, so memorising it is a no no cause it has lots of disadvantages, I'll rather write it on piece of paper and save in a mini vault that's heavily protected or save it in my mail and secure the mail with a 2FA (2 factor authenticator) which i consider one of the best way of securing the recovery phrase.

[tsaroz]

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 can't and I don't recommend it to anyone. There surely are people who can do that but that's not the ideal way of securing it. Keeping it secure in your head might not be good idea as there are several ways it can go wrong. If it's a small amount, just keep a diary with details about it and the phrase and keep it secure with you. If it's a long term large hold, It's better to keep it written and at least at two different locations with the person closet to you aware of what it is and how to use it in case you are no more.
Putting a copy in the bank locker too can be a good idea. Some people even prefer halving the phrase and putting them in different places.

[fuguebtc]

I'm not sure if I can memorize my seed phrase, but let's try.

So my seed phrase is: fuck, pussy, gay, homophobic, vagina, penis, trans, asshole, dickhead, bitch, shit, slut. Wow I remembered all of my words, so definitely it's possible to memorize seed phrase.

Many people have good memory so remembering 12 words or 24 words is not a big problem for them, but you also need to take into account unexpected incidents such as accidents that cause temporary memory loss. How will you or your loved ones access your bitcoins?

This method has advantages because we can access our bitcoins whenever we want and the risk of information disclosure is almost non-existent. But that is not a method that brings absolute safety and not everyone has good memory to remember.

If the place you're keeping it is exposed, you're going to regret that later on. Please put it somewhere safer in your house and I know that each house has that kind of place.

If he live in Gaza, there are no safe place.

Depending on the geographical area, security situation, weather...we will have appropriate seed storage methods. If you live in a war zone or an area prone to floods and earthquakes, storing it indoors or burying it in the backyard would be a bad idea. We need to be flexible in choosing methods that suit our conditions, instead of being rigid and imitating the ways of others.

[Lantind]

I can't and I don't recommend it to anyone. There surely are people who can do that but that's not the ideal way of securing it. Keeping it secure in your head might not be good idea as there are several ways it can go wrong. If it's a small amount, just keep a diary with details about it and the phrase and keep it secure with you. If it's a long term large hold, It's better to keep it written and at least at two different locations with the person closet to you aware of what it is and how to use it in case you are no more.
Putting a copy in the bank locker too can be a good idea. Some people even prefer halving the phrase and putting them in different places.

Of course this is not an easy thing to do and if we advise other people to memorize it then they will say of course there are other more effective options to keep it well and of course we save it in a place that we can remember and it is not easy for others to know. other people.
Yes, it would be better for us to store it in two different parts and make it easier for us to remember, of course this is better than memorizing it.

[Lanatsa]

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.

Definitely not and i wont really be tending to do it because high chance that you would really be able to forget one of those words or phrase then say goodbye into your funds. Lets say that you would be able to memorize but there's really indeed a time that you cant really be able to completely tell all of those words and if that happens? then say goodbye into those coins. If you are comfortable on having this kind of approach then you should do it but it would really be best that you would be having that kind of back up because it will really be at least putting you uup on such safe condition just in case you have forgot
something and this is much more safer rather than on memorizing those things alone but in overall it would be best that you would be neither buying up a hardware wallet or even just simply storing it on a piece of paper on storing up those seed phrases.

The only thing on here is that you should really be that keeping things to be that safe in other peoples awareness because things turns out to be shit condition if you arent that
mindful about the security of your coins. So it would really be always best that you should always make a back up after a back up. Just make it sure that it is
away on others awareness then you are already that safe.

[bettercrypto]

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.

You can memorize your seed phrase, but we are always humans, and it is inevitable that we will forget it one day or another. There is no person who does not experience forgetfulness. So it's safer to write it down on a piece of paper, save it on a USB for the time being, or if you have a hardware wallet to buy, it's better.

Then, for an ordinary person, it is difficult to memorize the seed phrase. For my experience, I have tried that. Yes,  I will remember him in a few days, but after a few weeks or months, you will really forget the other words.

[Ultegra134]

I don't think there's actually a 100% foolproof method for securing your seed phrase. I'm sure that if we were to list all securing scenarios, the majority, if not all, would have a weakness, mostly in terms of human error. This is why I believe a combination of methods should be used. Writing it on a piece of paper is the most basic one; however, it can easily be lost. I used to save them in.txt files on my computer when I was younger; if I'm not mistaken, I lost every single one of them.

I personally wouldn't be able to memorize it; I have a short memory, and of course, it goes without saying that memorizing it won't be your only "backup.".

[Knight Hider]

I have 17 recovery phrases in use at the moment. I can't memorize them.

[Dunamisx]

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?

There is nothing bad in memorizing it, but i can bet you there could come to a point in time whereby you may not be able to remember them all or have them in their order of listings, the only recommendation i can offer from this is to source for an alternative means of storing those keys, safe keep them, by so doing, you now have two different locations where your seed phrase can eb found in case if one is challenged from having access through. 

[GbitG]

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.

Hmm yeah, mate it is possible to memorize recovery phrases, but to be honest, it is not the best thing to do. Because the memory of a normal human being is not strong enough to remember something for a long time, if, with the passage of time, you unfortunately forget the recovery phrase, your funds may be locked. Apart from this, if you miss up on the correct arrangement, then as a result, you can lose your fund or be locked.  So I think the best thing would be to write down the recovery phrase and keep it in a safe place so that no one can access it easily. So the benefit of this is that even if you forget, you can easily login to your wallet from the written form.

[lalabotax]

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.

Memorizing the phrase?
I'm so sorry, but I'm very bad at memorizing something details like that phrase. For me personally, that is clearly impossible. So, that's why I do it by backing up in several ways. So there's not just 1 backup. This will prevent complete data loss. because after all, whether the digital or offline world requires data input like that, it certainly has weaknesses and security systems are not always guaranteed to be 100% safe, right? So what we can do is make several backups just in case one of them is lost.

[Mate2237]

Why did you try it before coming to the public. At least you would have tried it and see how it works first so that when you create the thread it take another direction of thinking and not like this again. Op I don't know what others have said but as for me it is possible to memorize your seed phrase. But that is not also saved so the best way to secure your seed phrase is to write it in different places.

I have not even try it one day and not even planning to try it in any day. Instead I love to type it and print it or if it was possible I would have used washer plate to secure them.

[iBaba]

Just because a piece of paper doesn't take up much space it's not safe? For me there is still a safe place unless you know it yourself, we know where the safe place is to keep a piece of seed phrase notes.

I don't memorize seed phrases in my brain. It's human nature to forget especially for a long time unless you keep the notes by memorizing them in your brain then it's not a problem in my opinion.

It's just that it's enough, with a paper note because for me it feels safe.

Memorizing the seed phrase is a great deal of work that majority of the people will not be able to do. Secondly, after you must have finished Memorizing it, you still need to practice to get used to the seed phrase for the purpose of retention. Again, a vast majority of people who are able to memorize the seed phrase will end up not able to recall what they memorized earlier.

All these could be avoided just by writing the seed phrase in 3 or more different pieces of papers and storing them in safe places where you can always recover them easily. For instance, I can keep one in a safe box I must crafted on my roof, another buried in an earthen environment within my compound, if I own the house and others could be within the bedroom and so on. This would make it easier for me to retrieve any of them, when the need arises than to memorize and forget the seed phrase.

[tread93]

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 would advise against that as new tech is already emerging that can read brain waves and with all this AI tech coming out I could see there being avenues to even read your mind and take important private information away. Sounds so scary re-reading that but honestly you can never be too careful these days! I would highly advise against memorizing your seed phrase, but thats just me, maybe others have other input here...

[Essential10]

If you have a good memory you can memorize it. I think it's stupid to memorize the wallet passphrase just as an alternate backup, because you are fallible and anyone can forget it at any time. If you can use any method to store a seed phrase or private key, you may choose any method to store it, but the biggest responsibility is how secure your seed phrase will be depending on the method you use. But make it a habit to always check if your accesses are secure on a regular basis.

[davis196]

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.

Yes, you could try to memorize the 12 words, but what's the point? You could still forget several words. I wouldn't bother with memorizing my seed phrases.
Why are so many Bitcoiners obsessed with their seed phrases and private keys? Is anyone trying to hack you? Having decent knowledge about how to protect yourself from getting hacked and having a decent anti-virus should be more than enough for protecting your BTC wallet.
What do you mean by "my place isn't secured"? Do you live in a town with high levels of criminal activity? Do you lock your door every day?