- I don’t know why, I’ve just been using them my whole life, and they’re comfortable for me. The platonic ideal of Pen. Especially the blue medium.
5
Always
With a .07 ball. I don’t tolerate .05 or .1 heretics in my G2 superiority worldview.
What does that make me (0.38 user)?!?
Also, I think you mean 1.0, 0.7 and 0.5
A lawyer
I have been known to hunt all over town for a store that sells this size, back before just ordering something online was so ubiquitous. This is the best size; my letters turn into blobs with anything larger
I don’t have words to describe how much I would hate to use one of those. I already feel like I’m scratching the paper with the 0.5.
And…yea. You’re right. I got my decimal point in the wrong place.
I had a proffessor in college that only allowed the use of 1mm black G2s. He was ancient and claimed he could not read anything else
Might as well use a fucking crayon.
I only like 1.0. I want that shit poured out.
My handwriting is borderline illegible already and I find with the 1.0 pens I just end up with blobs of ink.
I need all the different thicknesses for different writing tasks!! 1.0 is BOLD!
My beloved
Number 7 100%
if it’s a true bic. knockoffs might not work very well.
I used to live quite near to one of the bic factories in France. Ahhhh I’m obsessed with Bic pens.
Ahhh Bic, where it’s 2 main products are also the most stolen products.
Windsurf boards and razor blades? Yes Bic makes those.
My husband works at an architecture firm. They exclusively use #2 in 3 different colors. My husband has gotten in the habit of putting a few in his pocket during the day while he works and emptying his pockets when he gets home. We have WAY TOO MANY PENS!!! I’ve been bagging them up and giving them away!! They are nice pens tho… very good for drafting/drawing/etc. I just don’t need 300 of them. Beware that the blue ones tend to explode the most.
Oh my god, the explosions with the black ones are horrible, because you don’t realize until you start to grip and the ink just coats your fingers. I love them, but the horror will live forever in my mind.
I had a pen like that when I was very young, had to be maybe in the 5th grade. It exploded on me because I chewed on the end of it while thinking. Parts of my homework desk remained blue until I graduated high school, I’m lucky my teeth didn’t also.
Give me that smooth 5
As a shorthand writer I approve of this comment.
Pilot G-2, Obviously. #5.
5 is the objectively correct answer here.
Yeah, no contest at all.
It’s probably the choice I would have to go with, but when I was working with full boxes a lot, I started caring more about which pens were sturdy sharp enough to stab through tape and drag through it 50 times an hour and not end up looking at the end of your pen and find out the tip ripped off. Switching to a box knife over and over slows you down a lot and I needed the pen to cross out and document what was missing from the orders. Pens with caps are a pain for that as well, waste time.
I probably should have tried to find something like this: https://atechgo.com/products/multitool-pen-9-in-1-box-cutter?variant=31317899149448&srsltid=AfmBOorxxFa__k_qsBl8iPIi6kKPJc6A4Ah6nJ8WZ7gm3JZhWGj1qBZ_1AY
I used to have a need to open things a lot while on the other side of a security barrier (and metal detector.) I ended up getting a Gerber Shard to carry around on my keychain. Does most of my multitool, prying and even knife jobs without being sharp enough to get taken by TSA (or rent-a-cop or whomever.)
Damn that pen is actually super handy. My only issue I’d have is i really like having a fine tip pen I use a Pilot G2 07 black pen
1 but micro, not fine.
This is the correct answer
Only answer for left handers!
Clear winner.
Definitely 5, so much better than 99% of other pens.
not pictured, but uniball eye micro was my goat for high school and college. I had to do british standardized exams in high school which required black pen (not pencil). these guys write super smoothly and create really nice lines, but they take a sec or two to dry so you gotta be careful not to smudge.
I think #1 in the pic is a thicker version of these
I assumed 1 was this one! Still the goat, still have 3 on my person at any given time.
Why does half the ink leak into the grip though
Edit
uni-Flow Ink System ensures a consistent, delightfully fluid writing experience
Is what they say
5
Pilot G2 if I must, but the real answer is a Lamy Safari.
If 5 is the G2, then 5.
- The Bic Pilot G2 in 1mm writes like butter. Glorious. $4.95 for a 4 pack.
The price and quality are so hard to beat.
At school all the cool kids had these lol
or these
[I come from a very specific generation in French speaking switzerland, so this may not be relatable]
Germany too
Also Estonia, especially the erasable one
When I taught tertiary anatomy to sports science students. The school’s stationary cabinet was a box of lost pens that the cleaners added to. The school wasn’t great. Rather than buy new pens, we were to take from the box. I knew I wasn’t being renewed next year so I came in on the holidays and took every four pen in that box. About fifteen of them. It’s seen me good for for pens for about 13 years now. I still have a bunch kicking around. Mostly green/red left, but I use those to mark my ToDo lists with completed and delayed entries.
I wish they sold cheap refills for the 4-pens but when I looked I could only find ones around the same cost as a new pen.
I can only write with friction now, I have ADHD and I often skip letters when writing words so I always have to erase the letter I just wrote. If I’m not using friction it looks horrible
Ooh, Pilot Frixion, I like those. I did not expect myself to ever be able to get excited about pens, yet here I am.
I love lending out Frixion Clickers out to my DnD friends and seeing them struggle with the click before they realise that the pocket clip is the thing that goes click.
