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How do you write your 8s?

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Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
December 01 2012 17:35 GMT
#1
I have really got to change the tone of my blogs, so here's something random.

How do you write your 8s?

Most people I know write it like a vertical infinity.

For some reason, I changed my way of writing it a couple years ago, so it's actually just two circles stacked on top of each other. Apparently this is weird.

I don't know why, but I like the more roundedness of the two circles versus that weird connecting cross thing in the middle.


My regular 8 is on the left. What most people I know write is on the right. Sorry for the out of focus shots.
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Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
December 01 2012 17:42 GMT
#2
The one on the right, like everyone I've ever seen write an 8.

I think you'd see more varied responses if you asked about 2 (loop at the bottom left or no loop), 5 (one stroke from top right to bottom left, or two strokes, first top left to bottom left, then the horizontal bar on top), 7 (horizontal slash or not), or zero (slash or not).
WolfintheSheep
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada14127 Posts
December 01 2012 17:44 GMT
#3
I stack two circles.
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docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
December 01 2012 17:47 GMT
#4
Never really thought about it much, but I do the one on the right, stacking circles just feels funky.
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Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
December 01 2012 17:49 GMT
#5
Looks like you start from the center but I think its a tendency to start above for many as we are used to writing on loose leaf which has that straight guide line for us to form our letters or numbers.
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CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11595 Posts
December 01 2012 18:01 GMT
#6
stacking circles takes longer, and i'm quite lazy in my hand writing
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Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
December 01 2012 18:04 GMT
#7
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HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-01 18:06:37
December 01 2012 18:05 GMT
#8
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Why? Because the question of 2 circles vs vertical infinity almost ruined my life. I'm a recovering eightoholic.

e. Nowadays I steer clear from round shapes what-so-ever.
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imPermanenCe
Profile Joined July 2011
Netherlands595 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-02 10:51:10
December 01 2012 18:06 GMT
#9
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I took the effort here, man!

Unlike any of those 2!

edit: 500 posts woo!

in case upload's failing http://imgur.com/0qbHa
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HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-01 18:11:00
December 01 2012 18:09 GMT
#10
On December 02 2012 03:06 imPermanenCe wrote:
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I took the effort here, man!

Unlike any of those 2!

edit: 500 posts woo!

in case upload's failing http://imgur.com/0qbHa


you gotta have .png or jpg at the end, from imgur you get that by right clicking and "open picture in another tab"
so it looks like http://imgur.com/0qbHa.png
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e. also that looks just like Gooby would draw 5.
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StateofReverie
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United States633 Posts
December 01 2012 18:30 GMT
#11
the one on the right is faster because it is a continuous motion you make
shizaep
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada2920 Posts
December 01 2012 18:34 GMT
#12
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There's a lot of different ways to write numbers. I know "7"s and "4"s are always an area of high controversy too. I was trying to be neat here but I'm oftentimes just scribbling when I'm rushing and I always manage to confuse my "3"s, "6"s, and "8"s in various combinations.
You mean I just write stuff here and other people can see it?
Ettick
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States2434 Posts
December 01 2012 18:39 GMT
#13
I use the one on the right, just much faster and easier
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
December 01 2012 19:12 GMT
#14
right, except my lines actually connect lol
mmMacks
Profile Joined July 2011
United States38 Posts
December 01 2012 20:21 GMT
#15
how about the number 4? some people make like, a capital L and then cross it with a lowercase l, but other people dont pick up the pen. I do the former because the latter can be perceived as a 9.
N.geNuity
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States5112 Posts
December 01 2012 20:37 GMT
#16
I do the right method mentioned in the OP, though I often make my bottom circle extremely small and it ends up looking like a 9.

For a 4 I do the L and the I method.

However, my terrible handwriting leads to this handy dandy chart of deciphering my shit when it comes to my notes. It especially sucks when I have to write something like "mu is proportional to n^alpha" or something cuz I have no idea what the hell I write. (mu alpha n^alpha). Or psi and phi, holy fuck I cannot write those things at fucking all.

What I try to write vs how it ends up looking, as reproduced in paint to get the gist of it.
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Luepert
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1933 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-01 21:11:02
December 01 2012 21:09 GMT
#17
I used to do 2 circles, but I stopped when i was in like 4th grade. The real question is when you do the circles, do you start at the top or bottom? Most people start on top for circles, zeros and o's, my brother and I are the only people I've met who do circles from the bottom.

Edit: after a little bit of testing, I think another efficient way to white 8's is to do a 3 and then a rever 3, maybe not as efficient at standard but surely better than 2 circles.
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Najda
Profile Joined June 2010
United States3765 Posts
December 02 2012 04:26 GMT
#18
I'd be more interested to see who writes 4's with an open top or a closed top. It's weird how many ways you can write different symbols.
phosphorylation
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2935 Posts
December 02 2012 06:40 GMT
#19
the real question is how do you write your sevens
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rainfable
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States171 Posts
December 02 2012 11:37 GMT
#20
i write my eights the second way stacking circles takes too long for my half-asleep handwriting in class xD;

On December 02 2012 15:40 phosphorylation wrote:
the real question is how do you write your sevens


when i write neatly i cross my sevens. and when i'm really lazy i don't. :D
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Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
December 02 2012 12:07 GMT
#21
1: sometimes just a line, sometimes with serifs
2: I used to make the little curl thing but I stopped
3: not much variation here?
4: I don't close the top, but get pretty close (no right-angle-only 4's)
5: not much variation; I write everything but the top first, and then draw the top horizontal line
6: eh
7: I cross them
8: start on the right, make figure eight
9: circle first, then straight vertical line
0: sometimes clockwise, sometimes counter-clockwise (???) I can't actually decide what I do "most of the time"
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Nazza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1654 Posts
December 02 2012 13:37 GMT
#22
Write an S

then do a slash between the open bits
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
December 03 2012 02:01 GMT
#23
[image loading]

Top is how I was taught in school, bottom is approximately what I do now.

What happens to my 5's is I start out at the top right but about half the time the top part is too short for the rest of the 5 so I end up drawing the extra bit on at the end. Every time I do this my 5 slowly starts looking like my dad's (who does that all the time and that's how he was taught)

I don't cross my 7 because I have that thing on top left to distinguish it from my 1. And then I just started adding it to my 3's for some reason.
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
December 03 2012 02:11 GMT
#24
4chan is getting into a shitstorm about how they write their sevens
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HollowLord
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States3862 Posts
December 03 2012 15:14 GMT
#25
I have motor dysgraphia so I can't make it at all
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imPermanenCe
Profile Joined July 2011
Netherlands595 Posts
December 03 2012 17:49 GMT
#26
On December 03 2012 11:01 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
[image loading]

Top is how I was taught in school, bottom is approximately what I do now.

What happens to my 5's is I start out at the top right but about half the time the top part is too short for the rest of the 5 so I end up drawing the extra bit on at the end. Every time I do this my 5 slowly starts looking like my dad's (who does that all the time and that's how he was taught)

I don't cross my 7 because I have that thing on top left to distinguish it from my 1. And then I just started adding it to my 3's for some reason.

Wtf, your own hand writing is a lot fancier than what they actually taught you :D
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-03 20:18:22
December 03 2012 20:15 GMT
#27
On December 04 2012 02:49 imPermanenCe wrote:
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On December 03 2012 11:01 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
[image loading]

Top is how I was taught in school, bottom is approximately what I do now.

What happens to my 5's is I start out at the top right but about half the time the top part is too short for the rest of the 5 so I end up drawing the extra bit on at the end. Every time I do this my 5 slowly starts looking like my dad's (who does that all the time and that's how he was taught)

I don't cross my 7 because I have that thing on top left to distinguish it from my 1. And then I just started adding it to my 3's for some reason.

Wtf, your own hand writing is a lot fancier than what they actually taught you :D


I make up for it with extremely illegible letters.

Edit: Found the exact font they taught us to write in. Did anyone else here (most likely in US) have to do D'Nealian daily for like the first three years of school?
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Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
December 05 2012 01:30 GMT
#28
Yes. Fuck that shit and fuck cursive as well.
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jdseemoreglass
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3773 Posts
December 05 2012 01:57 GMT
#29
The number one has always bothered me. When it's in an equation or number, 95% of the time I just draw a straight line down. But when the one is by itself, like = 1, it looks fucking weird to me, some random straight line on a page, and I have to put a flat base and bent top onto it.
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hayata2.0
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada655 Posts
December 05 2012 02:43 GMT
#30
1: no serifs, just a line
2: w/ the loop
3: no flat top
4: right angles
5: top line last, being very careful to not leave a gap or any extrusions
6: standard
7: w/ a cross (I don't know why, I don't even serif my 1's)
8: I start in the middle, so there's less of a seam.

I'm more interested in 9's though, since I don't quite know why the teach the weird 9 with the 'kink' in in at school. Ever since I tried
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for the first time I just couldn't go back because it's faster, and just nicer overall IMO.

Also avoids the ugly/ambiguous y-like-looking-9 when writing fast ( [image loading] ) issue I had before I switched.
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