I’d rather fucking kill myself.

This is the real personality tests, fuck Myers-Briggs and astrology. I need to know your choices for stationary.

Definitely 2. Sharpening is such a nice break from writing.

I’m a pen/pencil freak who’s spent an amazing amount of money on them, and I’d choose 2.

3 Kuru Toga. Every time

Staedtler 35-05B but I guess 3 looks closest so I’ll take that

#3 for writing.

METAL KURU TOGA MY GOAT 👑 👑 👑 🐐 🐐 🐐 🔥🔥🔥

If I’m only allowed one type of pencil it’s good old #2 (I’m more of a pen snob)

You missed an option.

Can I just use a pen?

I do all my art with 5.

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.

The Pentel Graphgear 1000 is great. I love how it retracts.

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.