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Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • MasterFlamingo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Five. Tired but true.

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Number 7. A pleasure to write with, cheap enough so you don’t get mad when you lose it. Eraser that doesn’t suck.

    Pocket clip does tend to shear off, though.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Where’s the BIC pencil?

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    • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      #5

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      • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Just because it has “BIC” written on it, does not make it a BIC pencil.

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  • oyo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Zebra M-402, which I’ve used exclusively for at least 20 years. (The same one.)

    Followed closely by the Ticonderoga.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Option 0: Keyboard.

    I cant write for shit, generally hurts my hand for anything beyond a short note.

    If i don’t have access to a keyboard something has gone catastrophically wrong in the world and I’ve likely got bigger problema.

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  • Condiment2085@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I guess I’m the only one but 7 is underrated

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    • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I used to use them to before I tried the kuru toga

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    #1 got me through college

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  • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not sure I’ve ever seen #5 with the clip still intact.

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    • deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Mine always stays intact. Until i let literally anyone borrow it. The worst is when you get it back and instead of being totally snapped off, it’s just bent up to a 90⁰ angle, and then you have to snap it off yourself because you can never get it to lie flat again after that. That’s why I would always keep a spare with the clip already fucked up in my bag when someone inevitably asked to borrow a pencil.

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  • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    5 all day every day… .5mm would be more betta though

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I used number 5 throughout high school and university and they always served me well. Sometimes I thought about trying the fancier ones with gel grips, but old reliable BIC was always there for me. I trusted the BIC.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    # 2 (lol), but only if I can provide my own type of pencil. Runner up gg1k.

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  • codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Props for #2 being a #2, but of these I usually go for 6. My personal favorite though is Pentel twist erase.

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    Though all the kuru toga enthusiasts here have convinced me to give them a try.

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  • swag_money@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    1. it rotates the graphite as you write so your lines are always sharp. it’s an absolute game changer and now i can never go back to a standard mechanical pencil
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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Kuru Toga Advance please.

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  • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    6 is where the fuck it’s at, shit looks comfy as fuck and I will fight everyone else here I don’t even care if you agree with me

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  • Octopus_Man@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    #7

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  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    6 every time.

    Also fuck 7, those butcher broke so easily.

    I had one similar to (not literally exactly) 6 back in high school, and some really dumb jock took it from me and I’ve wanted it back ever since.

    The Bic one is okay, but pushing directly on the eraser to push the lead out isn’t ideal. I always thought that was a design flaw. Having the button on the side of the pencil but away from the index finger is ideal honestly.

    And even though we’re not deciding based on lead size for this, I prefer the finer.5 to the more common .7.

    Plus the top has a pretty large eraser that you can twist to expose more, so it had a mechanical refillable eraser too, which was pretty cool.

    And I got mine in my favorite color, and that fucked just took it.

    I was a super sheltered kid, coming fresh off being completely homeschooled (except for a Christian kindergarten), and that year of school was my first social contact with other people outside grocery stores and church. So I didn’t do much about it, as I didn’t have a clue about how anything in real life worked. I wouldn’t figure a lot of it out for still another 16 years, but that’s a different story.

    Also at this point I haven’t actually written anything at all with a pencil, pen, or marker for… 15ish years now? Outside of signing my name anyway.

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  • airportline@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The Pentel Graphgear 1000 is great. I love how it retracts.

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  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    /#6 because I need all that extra eraser

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  • binom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    none of the above of i may. i choose this:

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    • peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hott

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    1, I have one of them branded from my prior work, it’s an excellent pencil.

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh no… I’m that weirdo that likes the Papermate mechanicals.
    They are just so simple and reliable. You could crush one and still get it to write again if you needed too and it had the eraser (that sucked) built right in that you never used but felt good looking at it and squeezing against your thumbnail when you were bored. Just had to put better quality lead in it.

    But man Zebra makes the pens and pencil I would actually intend to use if I was planning it.

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  • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    8 that style was lucky for me in my college years.

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  • letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As long as it Just Writes™ I don’t care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don’t want to try writing only to find it’s dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I’ve left the lid off then that’s my bad, but if I haven’t then it should just flipping work.

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  • randombullet@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Number 3. I already did two degrees with it.

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  • v7x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Number 1.

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  • itsnotits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    #3 for the always-sharp tip, but #4 is a close contender for the protection against snapping lead. (I own both of these pencils.)

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Where are my fellow Blackwing pencil enjoyers?

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Alvin DM07. No other, maybe #3 because I liked that the lead automatically rotated on each press. But Alvin all the way.

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  • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I really like 4.

    Mainly for the reason that it auto rotates the pencil lead every time you lift it off the page; thus preventing flat spotting your handwriting

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