Ethereum

Very few people on the planet face a threat model where memorizing a seed phrase is worthwhile. Leaving a seed phrase accessible long enough to memorize it considerably increases the likelihood of it being compromised. Locking it up and hiding it immediately greatly reduces this possibility.

You are right about it not being difficult to memorize a seed phrase. It is not hard to do many things that are unnecessary and unlikely to be useful. Only an idiot would fail to realize that such an exercise is essentially pointless, and then proceed to brag about his ability to memorize a few words, while simultaneously demonstrating his inability to reason about basic things.

You logic and you will get the answer to your question

The first issue that comes to mind is if you end up in an accident with potential brain loss. The 2nd comes from the phrase, if you don’t use it, you lose. So if you aren’t thinking about your seed phrase often, chances are your recollection of it will become hazy. Just my 2 cents.

Your brain is very unreliable. How many times did you go downstairs and you forgot why?

I recently thought about it. Just in case you have to suddenly flee the country lol

Memory is a crazy thing. You can memorise great strings of text and numbers if you use them almost everyday/week. You can even memorise an entire song, ten or a hundred, and sing them by heart after years of not hearing them. Maybe you will miss a word or two, but hey, it's a whole damn song! But what if the song was just gibberish? What if it was just 20 something random words? Do you listen to those random words everyday? Say them out loud? Sing them to yourself? Guess I'll wait for you to tell us how that's going for you in a year or two.

Dumb, so many things can go wrong. This isnt it. Good luck.

I use my seed phrases once a year, maybe less, on random, and rotating non-schedules. I'm nowhere near smart enough to remember a half dozen various seed phrases with different random words and pull those up at will. I make a point not to "need" a seed phrase when I'm away from my office, either, so why would I ever need it memorized, even if I were smart enough to memorize?

You pretty much just want to flex your brain power and don’t really care to hear constructive responses back lol. Weird post

I do. I have no idea why other people don't

Multiple wallets, too much seeds

Forgot the comedy flair.

Here's my reasoning for not simple memorizing my seed:

https://justinholmes.bandcamp.com/track/lost

Bc dementia

Memorizing something like a seed as the only backup is an absolutely terrible idea. If you don't use it often, you will forget it.

Or what happened to me could happen to you. I have MS and had a really bad flare and lost some memories including my ledger pin. Luckily I had it written down in my safe and could recover my funds.

Human brains are squishy. If you got hit by a car, would you want your family or friends able to recover your coins? Because they won't be able to with a memorized seed.

Put 12 words in your safe and the other 12 words in a friend/family safe. No need for fancy Shamir secret sharing or anything like that.

I have over 100 seeds.

Also knowing my seeds allows me to compromise them.

Them being safely locked up in my offline password manager is just sooo much more secure.

What if you talk in your sleep? Alexa is always listening ;-)

I've done it since day one. And people I know are trying to build password recovery applications. When they ask me how do I store my seed phrase, I say I have it memorized, and they're stunned.

I don't get it. It's easy to do.

I've got to point this out, the people saying that there is a likelihood that someone gets a head injury, amnesia, and is then called upon in this state to have to recall their seed phrase are just grasping at straws to justify the belief. It's a weak argument as it is extremely unlikely to happen to 99.99% of the human population.

There's some cognitive dissonance there.

It's fine if you do, but relying on that as your only means of backup is a significant risk.

Please update in 5 years whether you still remember it.

I don't know why more people don't do it. Mine is stamped in titanium AND I've memorized it. Why wouldn't you do both?

My IQ is not that high.

I also have the 2FA recovery numbers memorized /s

Why not encrypt it and store it ? Too easy ? Or you are a MS Windows user ?

Now make that 5 different seed phrases for 5 different wallets. That's why people can't memorize theirs.

I know folks that don’t even know their social security number or checking account number from memory. Expecting someone to memorize their seed phrase would be near impossible for those same folks. lol

I wrote my seed phrase on paper, put it in a bottle and threw it in the sea, am I doing it right?

Memorising something so long will require almost daily or bi-daily reminding. You remember your card pin because it’s 4 numbers and you use it almost every day. 16 totally random and out of context words takes some doing

Don’t get hit on the head

I don't believe you remembered all 12 words....prove it by replying here

You can still lose it

they might memorize their Mnemonic, as that is literally what Mnemonic means