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I can do the F mini pretty well most of the time — not fast, but I am beginning to get it. The full barre F — like all of the barre chords that require a finger to cover all 6 strings across the neck — I just have not been able to get any of them yet. I can get get some at 4 strings and occasionally a 5 string barre (if the other fingers aren’t too contorted), but the full 6-strings are totally not happening. 6 strings on my index finger is over half-way between the 2nd joint and the knuckle. I just haven’t been able to get enough leverage to hold all 6 strings at once — no matter how hard I press down — getting lots of “thuds” on the G, D, & He strings — and I get cramps in my hand and wrist when I work on them or more than a just a couple of minutes. 😜
Hope the mini chords will work for you. I definitely do better at them, but I am still trying to work on the full barres a bit at a time. 😉