A question about collision checking

Are you guys limiting/filtering your collision checking by picking objects first?

For obstacles the player can interact with I usually pick the instances with onScreen, pickNearest or by checking the distance first, before checking collision.

What kind of tricks are you guys using?

Normally I only use pickNearest.

Does it make sense to use onScreen if you are already using pickNearest ?.

I meant this or this, but I guess if your player can travel outside the screen bounds and you don't want the collision to occur outside the screen then you would need it.