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• Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pentel Twist-erase 0.7 is the proper answer.

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• Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1

  I’ve also used 4 and 8 which are both decent.

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• SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mine isn’t here, but 8 if I have to choose.

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• Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Dixon Ticonderoga is the only pencil I’ve used that doesn’t have an absolute shit eraser, so I pick that.

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  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    Gotta get yourself some of these

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    • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t been in school in over 18 years, but thanks for the suggestion anyway.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• TemplaerDude@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pencils are terrible, pens are the superior writing implement.

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No Rotring 600? For shame!

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• Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Give me the black version of number 1 or a uniball precise v5

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• curiousPJ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• gon@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Out of the ones on this list, #1, but I think I’d prefer the GG500 actually.

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• cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• antimidas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1st one, with either .2 or .3 lead. That also happens to be what I main for writing already.

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• CherryBullets@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  #3 for writing.

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have 2 .3 mm Graph Gear pencils that I swear by.

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• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why are we ignoring the diameter?

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  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The lead diameter.

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ahh. Ok. I like fatty grips. So I was on a different wavelength.

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• SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  6, cause it’s a gel pen. For a pencil, not really bothered by these options…probably 2.

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  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    6 is a mechanical pencil.

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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ideally one of these though.

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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh. Looks like a gel pen I use.

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• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  reject mechanical, embrace wood.

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• iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The issue I have with it is it’s not built well. I’ve seen it break before from just normal use.

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  7

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• HatchetHaro@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨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

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• mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re all wrong. I don’t see a Blackwing up there.

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• SuperApples@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only Faber-Castell for me

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• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I never really got to use good mechanical pencils so I don’t know much except… Not 7.

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• itsnotits@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tossup between 2 and 5. Forever locked in competition with their strengths and weaknesses perfectly inverted to each other. I used to use 5 for lineart and then shade with 2.

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• glibg@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  #2 is classic. #5 has never let me down. But ive never understood how people use #7: shitty wobbly tip

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• Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I cant use pencil. I have a bad habit of pressing down hard when writing and I just keep breaking the tip. So I always use pen. Get dat bic boi

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