I stopped using solid core after continually snapping leads on vero builds when I was boxing things up and trying to cram everything into place. I discovered a large-ish spool of 24awg stranded in a box of guitar parts and went through that; I liked the flexibility and not worrying about things breaking at the bends, but 24 slips into the pads on most PCBs a little too easily.
22 solid is perfecto for breadboard though.
I’ve moved to dupont jumpers and never looked back, any hurdle that makes breadboarding harder is just another excuse for me not to do it lmaoThe trick is to hold the wire just below the bend. I use micro pliers.
That's the wire I just got. Barry's 4th sale.I use the hook up wire GPCB sells