How do you draw an X? (1 Viewer)

[andy699669]

Right hand 7.

 

[Mr. Cheese]

Number 5 Righty

 

[Denali]

What if you draw out the number eight, then erase the upper and lower rounded parts?

 

[p5woody]

right handed - 7 - I thought I was an 8 but then actually tried it and I was wrong.

 

[Poker Zombie]

No. Cheaper this way. I can afford moar chips.

...and just like that, Jonsey's name was scratched off the invite list...

 

[Poker Zombie]

For what it's worth, you are all neanderthals. This is how you write an "X"

 

[Jonesey07]

...and just like that, Jonsey's name was scratched off the invite list...

I'm just ready to play again. It's been WAYYY to long.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

What if you draw out the number eight, then erase the upper and lower rounded parts?

Then the Alaskan cold has clearly gotten to your brain...

 

[Schmendr1ck]

For what it's worth, you are all neanderthals. This is how you write an "X"

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Truth.

I probably bang this key at least a couple hundred times for every handwritten 'x' these days.

 

[Geremie]

Am I the only one that does the 4 stroke "X"?

 

[Anthony Martino]

Righty and #8, really surprised to see so many folks doing it wrong

 

[BGinGA]

I googled "how to print the letter X" -- the 'experts' say #7.

 

[rimmerryan]

I googled "how to print the letter X" -- the 'experts' say #7.

Yup... and how it is taught in school!

 

[derekdd23]

I googled "how to print the letter X" -- the 'experts' say #7.

My wife is an OT in the school districts here so it is her job to teach handwriting the proper way. She said that #7 is the only correct way and that she is not surprised that I draw an X abnormally

 

[TheBigTater]

Had to check but I do #8
(right handed, can't write squat with my left hand except scrawl)

 

[rimmerryan]

My wife is an OT in the school districts here so it is her job to teach handwriting the proper way. She said that #7 is the only correct way and that she is not surprised that I draw an X abnormally

I am still surprised at the number of responses #8... starting on the right side of the letter and coming backwards seems awkward?
When writing in cursive it is also done as a #7 as well.

 

[bigdonkey]

I googled "how to print the letter X" -- the 'experts' say #7.

Was there any reason given?

I do #8, which leaves my second stroke leading right into the next letter.

I guess #7 makes some twisted kind of sense if you print the same as cursive, making your left-to-right downstroke, finishing the word, then coming back to complete the right-to-left downstroke. Freaks.

 

[Anthony Martino]

I googled "how to print the letter X" -- the 'experts' say #7.

the Xperts you mean?

 

[dmalhi1]

7

 

[rimmerryan]

Just did a survey in my class and the majority in the room was a #7 as well... just sayin'.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Just did a survey in my class and the majority in the room was a #7 as well... just sayin'.

If 7 is good, 8 must be better.

Just like the other day one of my drivers responded 10-5 which must be better than 10-4 so we're using that now!

 

[Toby]

I'm in the 5 camp

 

[Poker Zombie]

Was there any reason given?

I do #8, which leaves my second stroke leading right into the next letter.

I call shenanigans.

If you were concerned with optimal pen movement, you would only do #8 if your pen ends the previous letter at the top. Since most letters are completed at the bottom (by your own admission the bottom right leads into the next letter) then your preferred method should be #6.

Since #6 has a pathetically small percent of the votes, I think we can shove "efficiency" right out the window.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

I think #7 is most efficient for cursive because the first stroke flows into the next letter. I finish the word, then come back and cross the Xs, cross the Ts, and dot the Is.

 

[Forty4]

I think #7 is most efficient for cursive because the first stroke flows into the next letter. I finish the word, then come back and cross the Xs, cross the Ts, and dot the Is.

Good thing @jbutler isn’t here, his head would explode with all this talk of cursive.

 

[bigdonkey]

I call shenanigans.

If you were concerned with optimal pen movement, you would only do #8 if your pen ends the previous letter at the top. Since most letters are completed at the bottom (by your own admission the bottom right leads into the next letter) then your preferred method should be #6.

Since #6 has a pathetically small percent of the votes, I think we can shove "efficiency" right out the window.

After my response, I (pathetically) put further thought in to the matter, and was trying to decide b/w #5 or #6 for efficiency. The finishing upstroke on #5 would leave me in the best position to begin the vast majority of letters that follow, more than enough I believe to make up for the somewhat more efficient initial upstroke on #6.

 

[rowlin]

Does bigdonkey's efficiency argument for #8 work, at least for movement along the x-axis, when writing in all caps?

 

[Numerobis]

I voted 7 (RH) which is how I write it most of the time,

then I realized that I sometimes write it 6 since it's quicker when attached to certain letters, like axe (6) or expect (6) but oxygen remains a 7. Crazy

 

[anotherdaydown]

7, right-handed.

 

[rovertech]

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It’s #8 for me