I would suggest that the Dixon Ticonderoga is the most reliable, most cost-efficient, and easiest-to-use writing utinsil in the history of humanity.*
Each other option has more points of potential failure and additional complexities over the Ticonderoga. While more complicated tools may net you some improvement in writing style or sharpness, they are massive trade-offs in more basic areas.
This would be much the same question if it were “what car would you drive for the rest of your life” between fancy ones like Ferraris and Lambos to cheaper, more reliable ones like Corollas and Civics. Everyone likes the look of the Ferrari – but the only car for the rest of your life? It’s got to be reliable, or you’re going nowhere. You want to be able to keep driving.
The Ticonderoga guarantees you can keep writing.
*intentionally overselling it for humor. But it is a nice, simple, good-quality pencil.
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.
- ole reliable
My fidgeting while I was in middle school led me to break every kind of mechanical pencil I used, except for 5. I forced myself to only use those in high school and college so I would always have a reliable pencil.
Yeah, 2 if I need a traditional pencil, and 5 for everything else
I already own that exact same Kuru Toga, so this one’s a no-brainer.
Anyone who deliberately picks the Sharpwriter or the Bic needs keeping an eye on; we need to keep those kinds of people on a list.
I think people use the sharpwriter because US standardized testing requires a #2 pencil and the sharpwriters are cheap.
Same for Bic
The bics also have nice colors. And you can often find one left behind on the desk from last class.
it‘s going to be a very long list, lol
#8 all the way.
If I had to do sketch design drafting in college with a pen or wooden pencil and not a 0.5 mechanical, I would have probably become a school shooter.
Agreed, I like both their mechanical pencils and pens, even if visually they are a bit too close.
Yeah, #8 and it’s not even close for me.
I’ve been using Zebra pens and pencils almost exclusively for the last 20 years. My only complaint with the pencil is its eraser. If you need to erase something small it’s fantastic, but I always keep a separate eraser handy.
Honestly that’s a complaint I have about nearly every pencil, not just the zebra. They’re almost always hard and smudgy because the pencil has been sitting out either in a warehouse or on an office supply shelf for like 5 years.
I’d rather bring my own hi-poly brick eraser, or even better, a hi-poly retractable eraser that is a lot easier to control and keep a fresh, smudge-free surface on.Twist-erase 3 is bae
0.5mm for #1 or #3.
Get that grubby ugly 0.7mm lead outta here.
But why no
It’s there. #6
Oh, the “elite” looks so different I didn’t recognize it. I blame looking at it on a phone! 😓
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
#2
My handwriting is awful. #2 for me.
7th one
I do all my art with 5.
2
3
3 Kuru Toga
- Mechanical pencil lead scratching on paper makes my ears tingle
