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by Biganon 1620 days ago
One could argue that you still need to remember your master password, and since it gives access to all your other passwords, it's all the more important to make it extremely strong. Therefore the randomness/memorability trade-off is still very important.
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Yes, but it’s not too hard to make one ridiculously long/complicated master password that is also memorable. It might take you a while to remember it — just keep it written down on paper somewhere private & safe and refer to it as needed. If you’re not being targeted then you’ll probably be fine.
It doesn't need to be complicated. Just long.

ie

theuniverseis99%emptyspaceatleastthatswhatiwastaughtbymr.cattoningrade6

easy to remember without paper and uncrackable. Pair it with a yubikey and that's your bitwarden master

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa is an equally long password, but much less safe than your example password because my password has far less entropy.