Two. My experience with mechanical pencils is that they’re often unreliable and a waste of time. I hate having to reload my pencil, I hate when it breaks if you accidentally make the tip longer than it should be, I hate when you accidentally put one more in the pencil and it gets clogged, I hate having to carry refills all the time, I hate buying an expensive pencil and worrying about losing it (as opposed to just buying a dozen regular pencils for backup)…
Just hand over the regular pencil and a decent sharpener.
Bonus points for #2 being #2
If you feel they are unreliable, it may just be that you aren’t using good ones. I use 3 on a regular basis (for Japanese) and never have issues with feeding or lead breaking; I also only have to refill it every few weeks.
I’ve had the same mechanical pencil for ten years. It’s comfortable, reliable, easy to reload, but if I had to choose one for the rest of my life, I’d still go with the traditional wood/graphite pencil. It’s cheap, it’s everywhere, it’s durable, and not a great loss if you lose it.
What pencil?
Plus a good ol Dixon Ticonderoga can write on stuff other than paper. About the only time I use a pencil is when doing carpentry and mechanical ones just snap.
“Decent sharpener” aka box cutters.
It also always ends mid-word/stroke, and you start etching the paper with the metal end. Very annoying.
Why do I feel like I’m participating in market research
Got em guys. I took down Mr. Bic
If that were the case, I would imagine that they would have picked a website with a much larger user base.
Why
For more accurate/representative research data.
But Reddit is saturated with others already doing market research. Lemmy is young and fertile, ready for a creepy old ad man to prey on.
I never said anything about reddit
I heard you whisper it
Yes you did. Indirectly. It’s the ultimate market researcher aggregate. There’s no other place
Gimme one of these bad boys and utility razor.
This image perfectly stretches in the thread display. Incredibly satisfying.
2
Same. I press too hard to use mechanical pencils
I just like being able to use a duller point sometimes when I’m drawing.
i also enjoy being able to do some shading if i wanted to draw something
#2
My handwriting is awful. #2 for me.
- By a country mile
I have 3 of them, one of which is metal and cost me more than I’d like for a pencil but holy hell is it nice to write with.
- A good engineering pencil can be used for anything.
2
Number 2 is the only one that can write effectively on wood. I may not build a lot, but when I have tried to use a mechanical pencil for marking wood, it was a total fail.
Ticonderoga #2, an absolute classic.
I’ve never touched a mechanical pencil that didn’t suck. 7 is awful, I don’t understand what people like about it. The only choice on this is 2.
Someone do this, but with vibrators.
“you can only write with ONE type of vibrator, ignoring diameter”
Only one?
downvotes
I’d rather fucking kill myself.
With a pencil?
A fookin’ pencil!
