Not sure I've ever seen #5 with the clip still intact.

If I am somehow without my 0.9mm Graphgear 500 then I would have to go with 1.

Honorable mention: at one of my D&D sessions they had non-mechanical D&D pencils where each side had a number, effectively turning it into a d6.

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.

Just gimme the damn wood pencil, #2

Zebra M-402, which I've used exclusively for at least 20 years. (The same one.)

Followed closely by the Ticonderoga.

I used number 5 throughout high school and university and they always served me well. Sometimes I thought about trying the fancier ones with gel grips, but old reliable BIC was always there for me. I trusted the BIC. In a world of uncertainty, the BIC will never let you down (or run around and desert you)

Option 0: Keyboard.

I cant write for shit, generally hurts my hand for anything beyond a short note.

If i don't have access to a keyboard something has gone catastrophically wrong in the world and I've likely got bigger problems.

5 all day every day.... .5mm would be more betta though

3 Kuru Toga. Every time

I have been using 3 for the last 6 or so years. I also like 1 and 4. Can't go wrong with 2.

I guess I'm the only one but 7 is underrated

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I am a simple man. I see Ticonderoga, I choose Ticonderoga. I like ships and I cannot lie

#1 got me through college

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Where's the BIC pencil?

I usually write in pen, only reason I'd use pencil is if I know I need to erase.

So... #5 I think. Simple, reliable, easily replaced.

2. Mechanical pencil lead scratching on paper makes my ears tingle

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Am I the only one who’se only ever used wooden pencils in my life? In my part of the word basically no one used those plastic ones.

But why no

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