3 or 5. I need to click the button on top 10 times a second. There’s no way I’m giving that up.
As someone who enjoys the sound of another person obsessively and rapidly clicking their pen nearby, I would just like to say thank you. As a token of my appreciation, I would like to award you with the medal of clicking. So, if you would be so kind, please DM me your full legal name and address along with several recent photos of yourself from various angles as it will help with the delivery process and not so I can brutally kill you because that incessant clicking sound drives me into a murderous rage. Again, thank you and congratulations.
Sounds trustworthy to me.
fooled me man, I thought for once in my life someone was thanking me for clicking my pen. I got scolded all the time in class 😭
I wasn’t really trying to be mean. Please have a sincere thank you from me for one single click, provided it makes you happy enough to smile ☺️
I yam inVINcible!
gets frozen
This and the stupid pocket clip on every other pen there is gonna tear up my hand. see how 5 is rounded? fucking genius
Got converted to the pilot G-2 club (5) by someone who goes through an ink refill a week with them. They are precise, reliably dark, and silky smooth to write with. I am actively disappointed when forced to write with average pens instead
1-7
My handwriting is shit no matter what kind of pen I use.
- Good and reliable. Any with ink like 5 are annoying to use left handed.
I’m left handed and stick with the dry ass bic crystal. Everything else smears or just stops working in the middle of a letter.
4 has a quick drying ink that works pretty good for southpaws
I haven’t tried it. Thanks for the tip!
- writes smooth, is fidget toy
Where’s my fountain pen? Say Lamy Safari.
These are all newbie pens.
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Respect. Although, I prefer a TWSBI 580.
Had a TWSBI (ECO I think, the 580 is put of my leage IIRC) lovely and with a spring loaded pump, much fun until kids dropped it and bent the nib beyond repay. They are super expensive 🫠 like like a new pen…
4 by a wide margin.
1 is good but it skips more in my experience.
2 is probably better for art. The long thin tip is less obstructive to vision, but it’s fragile enough that I wouldn’t want to lend it.
3 It’s a gel pen, which is a good compromise between rollerball and ballpoint in many ways. However, if you can handle the problems of a gel pen, you can handle a rollerball and get better results.
5 (see number 3)
6 The writing equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. I can feel the texture of the paper on my teeth when I write with a felt-tip pen. No cost or performance benefit over other options, to my knowledge. Probably just an outdated technology.
7 The best general-purpose pen in terms of cost per mile. Prone to smudging even years afterward, it’s probably the lowest quality and least secure option here. Very easy to wash out, even accidentally with hand sanitizer.
4 is the supercar of the disposable pen world perhaps overshadowed only by the rare disposable fountain pen. Least likely to skip, by far. The specialized ink soaks into paper and becomes insoluble to water, alcohol and acetone once dried. Won’t leak on an airplane like some pens. Problems include smearing wet ink and bleed-through. Smearing is mostly a skill issue for right-handed writers. Blotters are always an option, too. Bleed through is about paper quality and technique.
I didn’t come to Lemmy to be sold a new pen, but today you’ve convinced me to try the supercar of the disposable pen world.
4 is so smooooooooth
With 3 and 5 you’re missing out on the click action and the nice finger grip. I love me a good soft finger grip.
2 - Pilot Precise v5 plz
Fuck yeah. I buy so many of these because people steal them from me. They’re so good I ain’t even mad.
5
I’m gonna be chaotic and say that I have no preference unless any are felt tip. I don’t want those.
Felt tip hate FTW
They are good for certain things, but they are atrocious as a general purpose pen.
Thanks for the additional perspective. What’s their best use case?
I like them when I need to write on corrugated cardboard. Better than ball points anyway. Don’t need as much pressure to write so I’m not accidentally poking through the cardboard.
That’s all that comes to mind. I just assume there are other use cases.
Fair enough, but if I have to write on cardboard, I’ll probably use a giant felt tip like a sharpie.
Really useful when doing artwork because you can angle and bend the thickness really well.
Okay, that tracks. Thanks for the art lesson!
#7, because it doesn’t say I will be magically provided any pens, and that’s the only style I know how to easily obtain. Which is important because I lose pens often.
I was going to say 7 because that’s literally the only kind of pen I use for writing on paper.
Cheap, lasts ages, and if I lose one I can just nab another from IncognitoMosquito’s desk :-)
5 is what I write with every day
- It writes well and is fairly ubiquitous.
1,4,5 or nothing.
I gotta know why you selected two uniball rollerball pens and one pilot gel pen but not the pilot rollerball pen.
I’ve used several of those uniballs to the last drop. What looks like a G2 would simply be the runner up… After that I’ve not regularly used a pen that wasn’t garbage or a basic bic.
