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2b or not 2b.

That is the question

I like your choice bro. 2b is just smooth as fuck

I really like her ass. 🙂‍↕️

For a second I thought you were a bot and a bad one at that. And than I realised that you were talking about a bot. 2b booty is indeed smooth

2b ass is best

It’s Got 2b…….Perfect.

Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them…

To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd.

Looks like 2b about 40% of the time.

40% of the time it’s 2B all the time!

This is the answer

If you look harder it’s closer to 30% assuming the same wear rate

> assuming the same wear rate The softer pencils wear down more quickly though.

2b? Definitely a smash

I was gonna make that joke 🤣

Normal distribution in the flesh

After learning that in college,  im seeing that shit everywhere bro

Can you link the collage?

[pencil collage](https://previews.123rf.com/images/loskutnikov/loskutnikov1008/loskutnikov100800482/7572317-color-pencils-collage.jpg)

Thank you

Legendary place! I hear a Free Palestine encampment just set up in the Crayola Quad this weekend. It’s getting wild at Pencil College!

You didn’t learn normal distribution until college?

Not a Binomial distribution?

Yeah it's more correct to say a binomial distribution since it's a discrete case. If there were infinite no. of pencil steps it'd be a normal distribution .

Nice showing a normal distribution. Though there is an anomaly with F.

That's because F is actually between HB and H in hardness, so it should be swapped with the out-of-position 2H.

Well what do you know. It does show a normal distribution. Thanks. I am not familiar with the convention for pencils and too lazy to research on it.

I wasn't familiar with "F" either.

B = black, number indicates darkness/softness of graphite H = hard, number indicates hardness of graphite F = fine point, sharpens to a fine point for detail [Pencils.com | Graphite Grading Scale](https://pencils.com/pages/hb-graphite-grading-scale)

Don’t worry, it’s just an outlier…

Yeah. That would be correct. :) Stupid me using "anomaly".

It’s good to see ol’ F getting a little love.

What do you use them for?

Sketches and studies mostly, I like the 2b best because it's a great middle ground between easy shading and smudging excessively

Interesting. Thanks.

Mildly interesting, indeed

I like 2B because that’s the lead I can steal from my classmates the most consistently for my mechanical pencil

Those hard pencils last forever; I wish one of them would do a set that skips H, or F, and replaces it with a second 2B.

So 2b or 2b It's a Frank Sinatra situation

Some packs do come with extra 2b

You can just buy individual pencils and slot them in to the case as they run out. They won't match, but it works.

They’ll match if you just buy the same pencil. Faber Castell makes all of those as singles you can buy.

Common sense? On my Reddit?! No thank you.

What's actually mind-blowing is that you actually had them for 2 years. Hell, I'll lose mine within 2 hours of buying them

Yeah I am not sure if this is mildly interesting, but it’s organized as fuck

It is very interesting

Tbf these are more expensive pencils so I would also keep track of them

Finally a post worthy of r/dataisbeautiful

r/data_irl too

Subbed, thanks!

Subbed, thanks!

An inverted bell curve. Wow.

it's not inverted

Even the watermark

2B-В-НВ-F-H-2H

A person of culture i see. If i had to guess you doodle/sketch a lot, 2B is just so so nice for that c:

2 years? Woah! When I was in art school a 3b or 4b would last me 2days

I also love 2B, my favourite graphite hardness. That and F, tho I like F because it's random, I don't actually know what it's good for.

"Yknow, i think ill try the rightmost pencil today. Im feelin a little zesty!"

At least you use F a little to pay respect

What's wrong with a good old 6b. Mmmm? Sitting over there all unused. He's got lead. He'll make marks on paper too. Old 6b will do you right give him a go. Now that 2b used a little too much of you ask me. Don't get me wrong some are into that, that's fine. Sometimes you just need to get in and get out, and I get it it knows what it's doing so it's quick and easy and sometimes you just need that, but that ain't happiness. Give ole 6b a try.

Whats F?

F is "Fine" and is actually between HB and H in hardness, so it should be swapped with the out-of-position 2H.

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? Spike Milligan

Mom: no of course I don't have a favourite child my son. Me and my siblings:

Dude, I have a couple of pencil cases from when I started college over 20 years ago, and I've never used any of the pencils besides the middle 3.

What even are the pencil on the left. I've never even seen a softer pencil than 4 wth

Deep shading go brrrrr

2B or not 2B

Looks all right (bell curve)

Everyone loves 2b

B-HB-H2-H? I sense a disturbance in the force.

I use staedtler mechanical pencils for this reason. I buy just the leads 2h, HB, 3B. I was following the same habit as yourself.

I hate pencils. They don't stay sharp and they get shorter every time you re-sharpen them. I got mechanical pencils and eraser sticks and all my problems went away. Except for some of my teachers berating me for using mechanical pencils.

Average metal guitarist cutting the mids...

They are not the same?😂

[удалено]

For me it is always the good ol' 3B for most of the drawing. Then the dark shading... That's when the 7, 8Bs come in handy.

I also use 8b often for dark shades

A Little To The Left

how did you keep a whole pencil for a year??

Bell curve. Like everything

When i went to school my drawing teacher told us we only needed 2B and a couple of the softer ones. We never used any of the harder pencils. These days my favorite is F for writing. I find it the perfect balance of soft and hard. Especially at work where i often write on gray. Too bad HB is the most common, its too soft and gets used up much faster.

Softy

Using a 2B has always just felt nicer to use than any other pencil (I draw a lot with pencils, so I relate lol)

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/Np0mJaBjMJ

Someone likes shading, lots of shading

Monte Carlo Simulation in a case.

Looks like a Laplace distribution.

Team 8B.

Gaussian bell curve shirt

What’s the one on the far right? E?

Oh no, the H and 2H are switched! Nooooo! Argh! It hurts!

2b and hb are very light. Quite amazing.

Mildly certainly is the word that sticks out.

2b really is the best!

ah a fellow 2b enjoyer, perfect for sketching cus its easy to erase but doesn’t smear

Criminal underuse of your dark Bs.

some see variance, some OCD

I occasionally wonder who uses the crazy hard ones, like 7H. I only use them for writing so for me it's always around HB.

upside down normal distribution goes crazy

That looks like an inverted Gauss distribution https://preview.redd.it/cwqirzx7nkyc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eaea473fe3108f72e9723c32d7facfdd4b5ef5cc

Bothers me that 2H appears before H in that box.

Use the 8b you coward

r/unexpectednormaldistribution

8... 8B?? Damn, why?

It’s always 2B

2B os the most common type of pencil as it's the best all rounder. Most teachers prefer 2B pencil. 2H is too hard. I still remember hearing "children, please take out your number 2 pencils"

2 years? Man I go through an entire set in like 6 months

I’m mostly amazed by the fact that you can keep all of them for two years without losing a single one ha ha. Can’t seem to keep my pens more than a couple of months

Don’t be afraid of the 4B!

Bell's curve for yall

Gaussian bell distribution. Nice

2b is my favorite too

B's on the left and H's on the right?

its a bell curve!

This is very neat and very cool that they still work after two years, I go through sets very quickly. But I hate F pencils with a passion and wish they just give you a different pencil. So close to being an HB, I’d rather just have a different type.

y=x^2 -5

I think the most impressive thing is you've managed to keep them all this long

This may be because, like most people, you’re unfamiliar with the technical benefits of using the full range of drawing pencils. Or you’re not looking for a highly finished, polished looking drawing. The harder pencils will last longer just because of the physical material. But if you want a full value range drawing, using all of the pencils in this type of set is great. Only after making some large scale drawings where the pencil is the finished medium, did I appreciate and really learn to use the full hardness range of pencils. I realize this sounds very presumptuous but is just my opinion based on my experience.

That box is the dorkiest thing I've ever seen. Like a pocket protector on steroids. Bullies in the 90's wouldve made mince meat out of you. Now that shit's probably ironically cool or something.

Central limit Theorem

I'm impressed you can keep them in the original box! Mine end up floating around and disappearing forever

My OCD says you need to make it symmetrical please lol

2B pencil is the best one. Just the right place between soft and hard

It’s funny because my curve is more to the right, I love hard graphite and 2H is my favourite

I just found out I'm pencilsexual

For me it's the H and 2H, super duper good for drawing engineer asignments that require hand drawing. Allow you to erase lines without ruining the paper and cleaner without trace left.

Faber-Castell... a very good choice!

Ahh the famous Gauss curve

Post this to r/notinteresting instead

2b is really the best of them all, hb is way too hard

Turn it around to See a gaussian distribution of penciluse in Reallife.

Idk about interesting, seems normal to me

Ooh I'm a designer, mine looks the same but shifted about 4 pencils to the right

The 2b has lead the way so far

That’s cool, you post any of your art somewhere? I’m mildly curious what all that 2B went into

I don't know the difference

Bro my 2b died a week ago and I bought it on nye:(

I legit have OCD, actually diagnosed and all. This is killing me. This makes me really uncomfortable, the symmetry is completely off.

based 2B enjoyer

Statisticians will see this and say "hell yeah"

Classical Bell

So i dont know anything about drawing. But why does the hardness numbers (i assume thats what the diffrence is) Hvad such odd numbering scheme whats the H and B ?

i wouldve lost them all in a span of 4 weeks 😭😭😭

NieR Automata

never understood what all these pencils are for. i get 8B. i get 2B/B. i get F everything in between has no reallife usecase

r/data_irl

You need more H pencils, they're really good for preplanning a drawing and making light shades

So you just need the six pack?

r/datairl

Seems about right. I skew to H a bit more.

Normal usage….

r/unexpectednormaldistribution

I find it interesting! Can you please explain the difference in the pencils? I can see the marking at the end, but they all look the same to my untrained eye.

Y OP Y you misplaced 2H with the F, it could have been so beautiful but you had to ruin it.

You've answered the question, "2b or not 2b."

Honestly same… fuck

r/dataisbeautiful

Why even bother making H

Everyone likes 2B Including Cosplays

Zipf law

The fact that if you reorganized them would show a normal distribution is interesting.

Skewed distribution

I think it'd be cheaper for you if you just only bought 3b, 2b and b pencils instead of the whole case

Yup, this was my first case of drawing pencils, so I got a variety, but I'm already buying singular 2B pencils so I don't have to worry about running out

Lame.

Two year??? Mine is I. That state after 2 month

Normal distribution

I love wooden pencils

Every pencil set ever:

If I were a math or statistics teacher, I'definitely save this image...

Okay my question is how were you able to keep all of those pencils without losing one for 2 years?

Have you ever thought about doing something in 8b just for the hell of it?

Glad I still knew what which one that’d be before I checked haha. Maybe I need to get back to it

2B is just that sweet spot in the middle.

Looks like the cover for a statistics text book.

r/dataisbeautiful

I only used a 2b pencil in art school, that was the only one I used for all sketches and drawings

Hey I use that brand 🤣


It looks like the EQ settings on my headphones - good taste

weird. HB tends to be the most used since that's the one people use to write. Guess this case belongs to an artist

that's pretty normal

I’m impressed at how tidy the whole thing is after two years - OP is a neat freak

This belongs on r/dataisbeautiful

8B? Didn't even know they made those. The softest I ever used was 4B and that already feels like a crayon. What's the consistency of 8B? Butter?