What to use to connect points on perf board

Using Arduino General Electronics
#1

Hi guys

I'm working on a small perf board 5x7cm and I've got the components laid out buy a few connections to make between holes and I was wondering what is good practice.

For example I had a long raceway of about 10 holes so I used a cable, peeled the tips and connected the ends. That way I avoid wasting solder.

But I have other connections to make that only span about 2 or 3 holes. In a past project I used the clipped ends of a resistor, laid it over a 4 hole stretch and added solder at every hole in between but it was a waste of solder. The advantage of it was that I could bend the solid wire into L shapes or X shapes and connect many points of the board.

Is stranded wire the usuales of connecting points on a perf board? What else do you suggest for small 3 to 5 hole connections?

#2

Bare solid wire.

#3

Ok so in this case, the red lines are connections I need to make. The 3 light blue dots on the bottom left is a mosfet. The red horizontal line at the bottom right needs to connect from A-F on line 17. It runs from the currently-empty hole of the mosfet, through the 220Ohm R all the way to the right connecting to the 10kOhm R.

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So I got this solid wire sticking into F but since Ive already soldered the 10k Ohm R on the right, I would simply connect the bare wire over the R leg, as I would also do in the case of the 220O R?

Thanks

#4