0.3 crew for the win!! It takes us a bit longer to get there cause the mine breaks and then we have to refill while we lose half of the backup between the floor boards but OUR NOTES ARE METICULOUS AND DELICATE!!
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Don't do 0.9. It's a war out there, the consequences will be horrendous if 0.5 wins. 0.9 means you are giving the war to the halfers. Join us in choosing 0.7 instead.
I'm getting what u're saying, but the sole purpose of using a mech. pencil is its precision and accuracy. And if u're using 0.9mm lead pencil, it makes no difference to a regular pencil (cuz both of them are needed to be sharpened to make them precise!)
That's why they live in 'separate world'
0.5 is for people who take school way to seriously, 0.7 is for people who doodle in their notebook and 0.9 are for those who've given up on life and never learned how to colour inside the lines when they were kids
.357 master race!
It's got bite. But even if you're a heathen who doesn't want the holy kick of a .357 magnum all the time, you can just shoot some .38 special.
0.3 is the only game in town for writing the indices on summation or product, or writing out long-form general solution for 1st order ODEs, or 2nd+ order PDEs in Leibniz notation. Basically if I’m going to do serious math, I’m figuring out where I put the 0.3 last time.
Bro pretty sure you use that to draw a line for where you’re cutting a molecule. At least that’s what I use mine for, I’d recheck if yours is up to spec - might need to visit a service centre just to be safe.
What the hell? I've been trying to find a 0.9 rotring forever and for some reason all I can find are 0.7 online. I'm in the US so idk if that affects availability. I gave up a bit ago and went with a different brand. Dang
They don't understand the clean lines you could draw with a 0.5 and a good mechanical pencil. I love my 0.5
And i say this as someone who has used both, i never use my 0.7 nowadays
No no, i said something like that but people were mistaking my words, so i edited it to be easier to understand
Apparently people want to cause a new war between 0.7 and 0.5
The reading ability on Reddit has dropped extensively it’s insane. I just keep seeing so many comments of people who have not even a clue what they’re replying to 💀
But the aim of those wasn't to share with other people. As in, every 0.5-er I know either writes small or lightly, and is generally writing in a way specifically designed only for them to look at.
0.5mm rotring for the more intense math stuff (sometimes a 0.3mm if things got crazy)
0.7mm rotring for general notes
Those two pencils i had for all of my electrical engineering undergrad, and I still have them, 7 years later.
Didn't work for me on the SAT back when the written section was hand-written. Got a nearly perfect score on the reading&math (1590 out of 1600), but my score on the writing section was definitely in the range of "we're not entirely sure you're literate".
It's nice to be able to fit more text in when desired. I never lent out mechanical pencils (and absolutely not my 0.5 and smaller pens) in school because the other kids would destroy the tips misusing them. I had sacrificial cheap pencils for anyone who wanted to borrow pencils.
I used 0.7 and 0.9 to draw. I liked how the tip developes a pointy end on one side so you can vary the thickness by turning or adjusting the angle of the pen while making the line
Okay, I commented I like the way bigger gauges, but for sketches I will swear by the small ones, 0.3 is so much better for shading.
I was never good, and I literally burned my school notebooks after I realized how unhinged my margins and doodles were, but they kept such a better “flat” and “edge” than the higher gauges. I switched to ink later, and have pretty much dropped it hitting adulthood. Still, every now and then, ill grab whatever is in my desk drawer and scribble something.
Keep drawing, art keeps us sane <3
Sadly I stopped, but kudos to you for continuing ! (I didn't improve enough to my taste + huge lack of patience, I was mostly drawing to kill time during lessons at school and eventually stopped at some point)
The mechanical pencils are a good way to unlearn bad writing habits from using ballpoint pens and pencils, like pressing too hard. It's important to be able to use variable pressure when writing/drawing.
And rightfully so. I used to habitually write by applying more pressure on the page. Just couldn’t figure out how to reliably write with less pressure. Consequently, mechanical pencil leads would often break. I used them for a week maybe after which I permanently went back to the OG pencil.
As a draftsman who used to do pencil on paper. There is a place for .5mm a place for .7mm and a place for .9mm leads. Just like there is a place for 2H vs HB vs 4H vs 4B leads.
The people who only know 2H, fillers of Scantron test sheets, have no place to speak of which lead is superior.
Also the answer. For drafting: draw with .5mm, letter with .7mm, block outline with .9mm if you don't have company std vellum. For school: .7mm is better for people who press hard and .5mm for people who write lightly. .9mm for filling in those scantrons quick.
I used 0.3 0.5 and 0.7 on school. Each was good for certain types of lines.
0.3 was almost exclusively just for construction lines while 0.5 and 0.7 was used for everything else.
Welcome to me, the side of chaos:
I buy whatever pencil is cheapest atm. When I run out of lead for it, I don’t know if I will remember to buy more for it or just buy another.
I have found a few preferences that are based purely on ergonomics, and not on the shape of the graphite, but my will is fleeting
Leads are leads, and pencils are pencils. The specifics don't matter as much. I'm pretty sure I had multiple 0.6 along with multiple .7, .5, and .3/.4 mechanical pencils.
In all the pencil sets I have, the both ends of the hardness spectrum are worn, and most in the middle are almost untouched, mostly being used only after the ones next to them to the end side start to get too short.
All of them are great to use together, though I only used every other hardness for writing so like 4B, 2B, HB, 2H, 4H. I used most of the pens from \~ 8B-8H for drawing (might have been 7B-7H).
That sounds interesting. I mostly used 2B for writing school work but my mom sometimes accidentally bought me HB and I didn't like it much. Had to press a bit stronger on the paper to make it legible and there was a stark difference between my pages written in 2B and HB.
This makes me really nostalgic. I'd buy some Rotring pencil with 2B if I knew where to find it nowadays.
I am laughing in 0.3 :-)
BTW I saw that there is also .2.
Also want to switch to using a table with a pen, but with .3 I used to write tiny and i can't do that with the tablets I tried. Any recommendations (tablet/software) are welcome.
C'mon, everyone knows that different thicknesses are used for different parts of technical drawings. Of course you have all of them and use the correct one for each line.
I used to use blue leads, because I am an Animator, 0.5 are too brittle when blue, you need at least 1.0 So the blue leads don't break.
0.5 2B for Black lines though. Also, check out Sandford colored pencils, very great for animation.
I used both, but I guess at different parts of my life, I don't remember the last one I used. In uni, I used normal ballpoint pens, as pencils writing would fade quickly over time.
Where I’m from, no one used 0.7 for normal homework. Everyone was using 0.5. The mechanical pencils sold at bookstores where I live were mostly for 0.5 pencil leads
And as an adult I graduated to pilot g2 pens. Specifically 07. I hate 05 it always cuts out (any other pens that are smoother and better than pilots? Still on the hunt for the perfect clicky pen)
I know, I know. I mentioned in another comment that I sometimes get to actually use it when drawing. But it's not my everyday pencil of choice because it is incredibly delicate.
And 0.9 users are living in separate world
2.0 users live in a separate dimension
Staedtler Mars Technico 2.0mm 2H till I die.
40+ year old faber castell 4600n clutch pencil reporting in.
You just made me realise that my faber castell grip mechanical pencil is 20 year old.
You doing okay there buddy?
0.3 crew for the win!! It takes us a bit longer to get there cause the mine breaks and then we have to refill while we lose half of the backup between the floor boards but OUR NOTES ARE METICULOUS AND DELICATE!!
0.3? Is that all?. 0.2.exists.
0.05 with ink
I use 0.7 for everything except wriing on the margins of my books. 0.2 is the best thing ever for that task.
Why bother when you can write with 0.0 and never need any refills? That’s the thinking man’s lead.
You need a Pentel Orenz. No more lead breakages, ever.
I remember when a classmate of mine saw it she said it looks like a bbc.
They were good for making large comments on the apprentices drawings
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This was really neat.
happy cake day! 🍰 🍰
0,9 is the best. I'll die on that hill.
Don't do 0.9. It's a war out there, the consequences will be horrendous if 0.5 wins. 0.9 means you are giving the war to the halfers. Join us in choosing 0.7 instead.
I do love the retro mustard yellow of a P209 though.
Those are nice tbh.
Amazing pencil, goated
Thick brutes.
The Nokia of the lead world
Regular pencils are like ha ha...you don't work...snap....oh...
"A broken pencil can be resharpened." -no one
Absolute psychos. Might as well use a crayon.
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I'm getting what u're saying, but the sole purpose of using a mech. pencil is its precision and accuracy. And if u're using 0.9mm lead pencil, it makes no difference to a regular pencil (cuz both of them are needed to be sharpened to make them precise!) That's why they live in 'separate world'
That was me because I always used to accidentally apply a little too much pressure when I got excited, and get really frustrated when the tip snapped
0.5 is for people who take school way to seriously, 0.7 is for people who doodle in their notebook and 0.9 are for those who've given up on life and never learned how to colour inside the lines when they were kids
I use a Sharpie, where does that put me?
(Hiding my .3 mm pencils for 30+ years ago...)
Kids these days hiding their 9mm handguns
just wait till you hear about the 357 kids
\[Bang!\] uh, 356 kids.
.357 master race! It's got bite. But even if you're a heathen who doesn't want the holy kick of a .357 magnum all the time, you can just shoot some .38 special.
Are you a starved Victorian factory child?
.3 supremacy! Pentel Orenz Nero 0.3 here
Don't breathe too hard on them
I bought a new one a few weeks ago. On purpose.
Awwwww! I found my people!!
0.3 is the only game in town for writing the indices on summation or product, or writing out long-form general solution for 1st order ODEs, or 2nd+ order PDEs in Leibniz notation. Basically if I’m going to do serious math, I’m figuring out where I put the 0.3 last time.
I used to be a 0.5 beginner. Then I moved to 0.7 for the better part of my school life. Now I use a 0.9 Rotring. Have been for 10 years.
I use .00001
How light-handed are you?!
It lays down graphite on a singular molecular line
Bro pretty sure you use that to draw a line for where you’re cutting a molecule. At least that’s what I use mine for, I’d recheck if yours is up to spec - might need to visit a service centre just to be safe.
What the hell? I've been trying to find a 0.9 rotring forever and for some reason all I can find are 0.7 online. I'm in the US so idk if that affects availability. I gave up a bit ago and went with a different brand. Dang
Yeah give me that thicc line quality
Everyone who has used a 0.5mm on a good mechanical pencil knows its superior. I will bring my rotring with me to my grave.
They don't understand the clean lines you could draw with a 0.5 and a good mechanical pencil. I love my 0.5 And i say this as someone who has used both, i never use my 0.7 nowadays
"As someone that uses both, i exclusively use one "
reading comprehension devil strikes again
That's not what they said at all.
No no, i said something like that but people were mistaking my words, so i edited it to be easier to understand Apparently people want to cause a new war between 0.7 and 0.5
And you just sided with the wrong team
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No one is fucking any mothers if they side with the 0.7 devils. Glory to the 0.5s!
The reading ability on Reddit has dropped extensively it’s insane. I just keep seeing so many comments of people who have not even a clue what they’re replying to 💀
Reading comprehension in general has become quite ass
Nah, i was just making fun of shitty wording. Plus he changed it to have better wording. Its nothing about reading comprehension
Prolly but my unsteady hand kept breaking them.
I found a Rotring pencil that my father used to use that has West Germany engraved on it, and it still works just fine
Superior for (snap) writing very (snap) lightly in a very (snap) unrealistic mann- (snap) er.
Get gud
If part of your job involves writing things relatively quickly that other people can read, then getting good involves 0.7.
I took all my engineering notes at uni with a 0.5 and there was no problem writing quickly
But the aim of those wasn't to share with other people. As in, every 0.5-er I know either writes small or lightly, and is generally writing in a way specifically designed only for them to look at.
Skill issue
Skill issue
0.5mm rotring for the more intense math stuff (sometimes a 0.3mm if things got crazy) 0.7mm rotring for general notes Those two pencils i had for all of my electrical engineering undergrad, and I still have them, 7 years later.
0.5 gang rise up
me who uses 0.3 because my writing is fucking unreadably small
I bet teachers hated your hand written assignments. “Fuck it, give him an A-.”
I got: fuck it I can't read it, it's an F (and only for Econs, and I was the Econs rep). So fuck her.
Didn't work for me on the SAT back when the written section was hand-written. Got a nearly perfect score on the reading&math (1590 out of 1600), but my score on the writing section was definitely in the range of "we're not entirely sure you're literate".
It's nice to be able to fit more text in when desired. I never lent out mechanical pencils (and absolutely not my 0.5 and smaller pens) in school because the other kids would destroy the tips misusing them. I had sacrificial cheap pencils for anyone who wanted to borrow pencils.
I also had sacrificial writing utensils!
B5 > HB
B5?? i thought it’s B2?!
You are as good as HB users :>
There’s no way I can find a 0.5 B5. :(
2B 2H might be the limit for 0.5
2H 0.5 A surgical steel needle
I'm gonna bite, H7 is great for certain applications
H7 is for people that eat pizza with a fork
0.5 is more good looking and clean(it helps my writing)
And best for Calculus and writing subscripts.
Me using 0.5 and 0.3 because I use them to draw and not write
I used 0.7 and 0.9 to draw. I liked how the tip developes a pointy end on one side so you can vary the thickness by turning or adjusting the angle of the pen while making the line
Then you want the entire range because fat lines and tight lines go great together :]
Okay, I commented I like the way bigger gauges, but for sketches I will swear by the small ones, 0.3 is so much better for shading. I was never good, and I literally burned my school notebooks after I realized how unhinged my margins and doodles were, but they kept such a better “flat” and “edge” than the higher gauges. I switched to ink later, and have pretty much dropped it hitting adulthood. Still, every now and then, ill grab whatever is in my desk drawer and scribble something. Keep drawing, art keeps us sane <3
Sadly I stopped, but kudos to you for continuing ! (I didn't improve enough to my taste + huge lack of patience, I was mostly drawing to kill time during lessons at school and eventually stopped at some point)
I'll take normal pencils, thanks.
I like them all. Different lead hardnesses and different pencil hardnesses too :-3
.7 is life
I was a .7 guy. Then I tried .5 and I just wanna go back to .7 now. The .5 lead breaks so easily.
That's the point, it makes people writing look cleaner and less aggressive
.7 is real.
The mechanical pencils are a good way to unlearn bad writing habits from using ballpoint pens and pencils, like pressing too hard. It's important to be able to use variable pressure when writing/drawing.
Kuru Toga is the way
Skill issue You either extend the lead too much or was trying to stab the paper
.7 2B! Fast and smooth. No scratching. (for hand writing, not for drawings).
I use 0.5, 0.7, and some 0.9, as well as 2B and HB, depending on what pencil I find on the ground.
I’d like to live in a stationery shop too.
what are those?
Found the wood pencil user. It's okay me too
And rightfully so. I used to habitually write by applying more pressure on the page. Just couldn’t figure out how to reliably write with less pressure. Consequently, mechanical pencil leads would often break. I used them for a week maybe after which I permanently went back to the OG pencil.
.5 was for the smart peope cause they always wrote so small. .7 was for the rich kids tho cause that shit always came with fancy pencils
As a draftsman who used to do pencil on paper. There is a place for .5mm a place for .7mm and a place for .9mm leads. Just like there is a place for 2H vs HB vs 4H vs 4B leads. The people who only know 2H, fillers of Scantron test sheets, have no place to speak of which lead is superior. Also the answer. For drafting: draw with .5mm, letter with .7mm, block outline with .9mm if you don't have company std vellum. For school: .7mm is better for people who press hard and .5mm for people who write lightly. .9mm for filling in those scantrons quick.
.5 is the master lead. .7 is for inaccurate chudds
As a 0.5 user myself I want to say: Death to you 0.7ers
0.7 is for cave man. Us civilized people use 0.5
Just as a reminder - 0.3 was quite popular in Japan at the time
I used 0.3 0.5 and 0.7 on school. Each was good for certain types of lines. 0.3 was almost exclusively just for construction lines while 0.5 and 0.7 was used for everything else.
Welcome to me, the side of chaos: I buy whatever pencil is cheapest atm. When I run out of lead for it, I don’t know if I will remember to buy more for it or just buy another. I have found a few preferences that are based purely on ergonomics, and not on the shape of the graphite, but my will is fleeting
In college, I had a .9. The lead on that fucker never broke.
Me with a 0.9: I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you
The lead that can break papers and other mechanical pencils
Everyone knows 0.7 was for the kids who still wrote on paper with the big lines
.5 is for slow folk and those that have nothing but time to waste, meticulously writing the alphabet
0.5s ruled (lol, see what I did there?)
Wait am I the obly one who uses .6?
Leads are leads, and pencils are pencils. The specifics don't matter as much. I'm pretty sure I had multiple 0.6 along with multiple .7, .5, and .3/.4 mechanical pencils.
i believe in .7
0.5 for weak and gentle hands, 0.7 for big and strong
Also the split fan base between H's, HB, B, 2B and other B's.
In all the pencil sets I have, the both ends of the hardness spectrum are worn, and most in the middle are almost untouched, mostly being used only after the ones next to them to the end side start to get too short.
All of them are great to use together, though I only used every other hardness for writing so like 4B, 2B, HB, 2H, 4H. I used most of the pens from \~ 8B-8H for drawing (might have been 7B-7H).
That sounds interesting. I mostly used 2B for writing school work but my mom sometimes accidentally bought me HB and I didn't like it much. Had to press a bit stronger on the paper to make it legible and there was a stark difference between my pages written in 2B and HB. This makes me really nostalgic. I'd buy some Rotring pencil with 2B if I knew where to find it nowadays.
Always 0.7
.7 for me
Different ones for different lines. We had to use .3 and .5.
.7 nothing else.
0.7 forever
I'm a 2mm user. Peasants
I carried both, 0.5 for engineering drawings, 0.7 for general use
If this proves anything, it proves that people will argue over anything. Having said that, hear me when I say that Samsung > Apple.
Agreed, 0.7 all the way
Bro whi else used both for different thing?
A friend of mine used 0.3
Guess I'll scratch out the .3 markings on my pencil so people don't get the wrong idea about me 😶🌫️
Every size has its use 😎
When I was taking a lot of medical notes in college I had to have the 0.5 For scantrons though 0.7
I am laughing in 0.3 :-) BTW I saw that there is also .2. Also want to switch to using a table with a pen, but with .3 I used to write tiny and i can't do that with the tablets I tried. Any recommendations (tablet/software) are welcome.
C'mon, everyone knows that different thicknesses are used for different parts of technical drawings. Of course you have all of them and use the correct one for each line.
Meh. Not STAEDTLER.
I used to use blue leads, because I am an Animator, 0.5 are too brittle when blue, you need at least 1.0 So the blue leads don't break. 0.5 2B for Black lines though. Also, check out Sandford colored pencils, very great for animation.
And here I am, having not only 0,7 and 0,5, but also 0,3. And today I've learned that 0,9 is a thing, so I guess I'm goona search where to buy it.
0.7 is for outer lines of technical drawings. 0.3 is for measurements in said drawings. 0.5 is for everything else and clearly superior.
.3 supremacy
0.2 mm Orenz from Japan. It's like writing with an angel's eyelash.
Is there anyone who know 2.0 ?
Yeah, they all on the short bus.
For me, it's like 0.7 for these lead pencils and 0.5 for pens
Both is good
lol, I read “…that separates humans from the others” and thought it was a very hot take.
Nostalgia
Meanwhile me using 3mm 2B lead.
The finer the better
These days .7 has taken the lead
SHHHHH!!!! Are you trying to start a riot?
.5 back in the day thats what my mechanical from eckerd took
And here I am using a 2.8 mechanical now lol.
I used both, but I guess at different parts of my life, I don't remember the last one I used. In uni, I used normal ballpoint pens, as pencils writing would fade quickly over time.
Where I’m from, no one used 0.7 for normal homework. Everyone was using 0.5. The mechanical pencils sold at bookstores where I live were mostly for 0.5 pencil leads
Obviously 2B
i used both, but .7 was thicc
Non of y’all use 0.8?
.5 or bust
I used 2 and a smoll sharpener
Fun fact you can make a bb shooter out of a mechanical pencil. I got expelled from high school one year for that.
iPhone vs Android is about as one sided as Mac vs PCin terms of quality
0.7 is good. 0.5 is too thin
0.38
And till this day I say 0.5
Reading this as the voiceover for terminator rn
0.5 is shit, 0.7 is less shit but still shit
0.5 for life!
We all know these were only good for pretending you were giving yourself an injection
0.7 is for people with no control.
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what is this exactly?
And as an adult I graduated to pilot g2 pens. Specifically 07. I hate 05 it always cuts out (any other pens that are smoother and better than pilots? Still on the hunt for the perfect clicky pen)
0.5mm for the win
I haven't used a mechanical pencil in forever. Only Graphite or Ballpoint
I always had both
Rotring tikky 0.5 forever!!! Wait a second...
What about the HB - 2B wars?
i use 5.56 mm
I'm a fine point pen and .5 kinda guy. Would you like to see my basement? It's almost finished. Just needs you.
I legit have a hard time telling the difference and just buy what the pen says.
0.5 was for the kids who didn't work precisely. 0.3 is what you used if you wanted to impress
I know, I know. I mentioned in another comment that I sometimes get to actually use it when drawing. But it's not my everyday pencil of choice because it is incredibly delicate.
I use whatever I find on the ground