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Which is the best pen for UPSC Mains?

In terms of comfort while writing for long periods, a non-interrupting ink, glide over the paper, water resistance etc. 

curious_kid,puneet0594and14 otherslike this
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Gentle people, what about writing with a fountain pen? :P

Refilling, spilling, spluttering, the list goes on.

thesleepyhead,
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Gentle people, what about writing with a fountain pen? :P

Refilling, spilling, spluttering, the list goes on.

#feelinglikeapainter with 29 others 😂

Aurora,AJ_and4 otherslike this
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@calvinhobbes okay, thanks!


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@KropotkinSchmopotkin yep, like Luffy said, eye needle but 0.7. Not waterproof I think but still a decent pen.


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@calvinhobbes Can you tell how long 1 refill last for Uniball 215/217? GS ka ek paper me khatam ho jati hai ya paper ke baad bhi bachati hai


Easily lasts more than one GS paper. I used them to give my GS mocks, haven't got the opportunity to write mains. 

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Everyone's a Gangsta until this legend arrives XD

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@THE_MECHANIC there's an "energel roller 0.7" priced at 30 and comes in all colours. but never written with that pen in mains mock


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@AJ_ The Schneider 0.6mm was a fail. The pen is light and the writing is the smoothest ever but very thick and dark, and so may appear on the page behind it. As you can see from the squiggles below, the writing is thicker than all the pens I have (Air micro, Teramax, Eye fine, V5, V7) even the 0.7mm ones

 

EiChan,AJ_and2 otherslike this
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@KropotkinSchmopotkin you ordered it from official site or amazon


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@Luffy Amazon. Rs 700 for 4 pens. Ab afsar ban gaya to sign karunga bas usse. I don't think it will be my choice for Mains 


MaeveWiley,
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@KropotkinSchmopotkin you can order from its official site . It is much cheaper there or any other pen


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Luffysaid

@KropotkinSchmopotkin you can order from its official site . It is much cheaper there or any other pen


977 wa episode aa gya hoga :P


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@Luffy I couldn't find the option to buy on their site. I just found out about the existence of a 0.3mm version of the same pen on the site, but no option to buy. Moreover, it is currently unavailable on Amazon.


EiChan,
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Trimax

(After all this time? Always! :D)

Tried many. To replace trimax. From pilot, uniball, gel pen. But nothing did better than trimax for me (on basis of this combination "how it looks on paper + speed"). If some other pen was providing better speed than it lacked presentation aspect. And if some pen looked even better (uniball), then my speed got compromised. So, each time when I tried to replace trimax, I ended up coming back to it.

Maybe I am attached to it. Using it since school days when having pen like trimax, pilot etc used to be cool, and luxury to many like me.

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Never thought pens have such high importance in mains. I used cello bling ball pen. It was all different on UPSC paper. Did not give the darkness that it gave during test series :confused::rage:. Finally practicing with pilot v5 as my many friends who cleared multiple mains suggested this.

EiChan,
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All my recent experiments but I still can’t find the one

Go for elimination method. It will work. 

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@KropotkinSchmopotkin  on the contrary, I absolutely love this thickness. I would have instantly ordered had it not been so costly :(


EiChan,
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What's wrong with V5 except these two shortcomings?

1. Delicate nib - breaks often, specially for people with tight grip. 

2. Not waterproof. 


sjerngal,MoorkhDuryodhan
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What's wrong with V5 except these two shortcomings?

1. Delicate nip - breaks often, specially for people with tight grip. 

2. Not waterproof. 


No rubber grip, fingers ache after 3 hour exams (for people with tight grip). V5 RT and V5 Grip solve this problem but they often die prematurely (even without the nib breaking).

venkataharish,
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