I’ll take the good ole #2 pencil. Just enough tech and no more.
Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this
Submitted 2 weeks ago by KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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trumboner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
#6 is the closest to what got me through dozens of blue books.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pentel Twist-erase 0.7 is the proper answer.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
1
I’ve also used 4 and 8 which are both decent.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I usually write in pen, only reason I’d use pencil is if I know I need to erase.
So… #5 I think. Simple, reliable, easily replaced.
Pandantic@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Mine isn’t here, but 8 if I have to choose.
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The Dixon Ticonderoga is the only pencil I’ve used that doesn’t have an absolute shit eraser, so I pick that.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I haven’t been in school in over 18 years, but thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I never use integrated erasers apart from emergency like my standalome eraser got launched out of the test room and the staff won’t get it for me. Or for wood pencils when they are unusable for writing I’ll save them as erasers. I just hate having partial erasers or stuck half erasers in mechanical pencils.
TemplaerDude@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Pencils are terrible, pens are the superior writing implement.
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I really think I like GraphGear 500 more than 1000. I do not like Kuru Toga. Right now I am all in on Ohto.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No Rotring 600? For shame!
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Am I the only one who’se only ever used wooden pencils in my life? In my part of the word basically no one used those plastic ones.
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Give me the black version of number 1 or a uniball precise v5
curiousPJ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
#3 for me. Keeps my handwriting just a little bit more legible.
#4 doesn’t work for my writing style it seems. I end up wearing large flats on the lead anyways.
gon@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Out of the ones on this list, #1, but I think I’d prefer the GG500 actually.
terminhell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hope I don’t have much left to write if choosing #2(pun is a package deal). But it would be my pick.
antimidas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
1st one, with either .2 or .3 lead. That also happens to be what I main for writing already.
CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
#3 for writing.
Geodad@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I have 2 .3 mm Graph Gear pencils that I swear by.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why are we ignoring the diameter?
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The lead diameter.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ahh. Ok. I like fatty grips. So I was on a different wavelength.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
6, cause it’s a gel pen. For a pencil, not really bothered by these options…probably 2.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
6 is a mechanical pencil.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Oh. Looks like a gel pen I use.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
If it’s literally only one pencil for the rest of my life, probably the GraphGear 1000 since it would probably last the longest. If I can continue using multiple copies of the same kind of pencil, then it would be number 2 since that would be the most versatile and available one to use.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
reject mechanical, embrace wood.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Graphgear 1000, without a doubt. Such a great pencil, and I love that it is weighted. It feels so much more natural writing/drawing, at least to me, with the Graphgear.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The issue I have with it is it’s not built well. I’ve seen it break before from just normal use.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
7
HatchetHaro@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
i love my kuru toga, but i don’t really write much anymore. i do still like doing sketches in my sketchbook, so either 1 or 3
mrslt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re all wrong. I don’t see a Blackwing up there.
SuperApples@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
After 25 years of writing Japanese and trying many cheap and expensive options… 「Zebra Clip-on multi」 is my forever pencil/pen(s) now.
wieson@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Only Faber-Castell for me
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I never really got to use good mechanical pencils so I don’t know much except… Not 7.
EndHD@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I spent way too much time hunting down a Pilot Automac and finally got it. being stuck with anything here would be such a stark downgrade