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How do you write/draw an X?

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  • edited January 2019
    7
  • 8 but is there any reason behind this ?
  • 8 but is there any reason behind this ?

    Thinking just the same.....7 anyway.
  • McBobbin said:

    8 for me. I'm a southpaw/cackhanded wandering if there's correlation? One thing I've noticed from a couple of left handers of my acquaintance is that they do ticks backwards. The big bit then the little bit. They should be hung as witches.

    I’m cackhanded and an 8 too.
    Also, when I mark a student’s work, I draw my ticks backwards (I do the small bit first, then the long bit, but the small bit is on the right - the only reason is that it’s quicker for me to do it that way and that’s vital when marking 200 odd test papers over a weekend!)
  • McBobbin said:

    8 for me. I'm a southpaw/cackhanded wandering if there's correlation? One thing I've noticed from a couple of left handers of my acquaintance is that they do ticks backwards. The big bit then the little bit. They should be hung as witches.

    I’m cackhanded and an 8 too.
    Also, when I mark a student’s work, I draw my ticks backwards (I do the small bit first, then the long bit, but the small bit is on the right - the only reason is that it’s quicker for me to do it that way and that’s vital when marking 200 odd test papers over a weekend!)
    I go from left to right too when doing a tick

    Didnt know there was a different way of doing it, it felt awkward trying to do an invisible tick from right to left on my desk a second ago - Certainly going to get questions when others come into the office shortly and see all these imaginary ticks and crosses thats for sure
  • 5 for me
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  • Only on Charlton life will I ever see a group of people discussing how they right the letter ‘x’ on a Monday morning.


    I’m a 7 too.
  • aliwibble said:

    For upper case 7
    For lower case 9 (as Lord Romford suggested, it's a hangover from doing A-level Maths)
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    Snap.
  • 6, lot of freaks on here...
  • 3, is the magic number
  • edited January 2019

    3, is the magic number

    Are you left handed?
  • edited January 2019

    If writing an x while writing a sentence, I’ll do number 8, but if writing an x while using algebra, I’ll do a ‘curly’ x, sort of like two letter ‘c’s, back to back. (I’ve always been told that mathematicians do this to help distinguish between an ‘x’ and a multiplication sign, which seems feasible, but I don’t know for sure if it’s true...) :smile:

    This. 8 for me. I blame A-level Physics and Econometrics at Uni.

    (The psychiatrists will probably say that those that say 8 are more likely to commit mass murder or something!)
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  • Unless there is some reason for asking the question I really don’t get it.
  • 3, is the magic number

    Are you left handed?
    Yes, does that impact?
  • always a 7
  • No. 8

    Did anyone else have to write an X either on paper on invisibly on the table before responding?

    I was drawing an invisible X in front of me. Which did look a bit weird!
  • McBobbin said:

    8 for me. I'm a southpaw/cackhanded wandering if there's correlation? One thing I've noticed from a couple of left handers of my acquaintance is that they do ticks backwards. The big bit then the little bit. They should be hung as witches.

    I’m cackhanded and an 8 too.
    Also, when I mark a student’s work, I draw my ticks backwards (I do the small bit first, then the long bit, but the small bit is on the right - the only reason is that it’s quicker for me to do it that way and that’s vital when marking 200 odd test papers over a weekend!)
    I go from left to right too when doing a tick

    Didnt know there was a different way of doing it, it felt awkward trying to do an invisible tick from right to left on my desk a second ago - Certainly going to get questions when others come into the office shortly and see all these imaginary ticks and crosses thats for sure
    No, right to left. Like this:
  • 3, is the magic number

    Are you left handed?
    Yes, does that impact?
    Only in as much as it means you follow the same pattern as me (I'm right handed), but in reverse, which might be because you are a left hander?
  • McBobbin said:

    8 for me. I'm a southpaw/cackhanded wandering if there's correlation? One thing I've noticed from a couple of left handers of my acquaintance is that they do ticks backwards. The big bit then the little bit. They should be hung as witches.

    I’m cackhanded and an 8 too.
    Also, when I mark a student’s work, I draw my ticks backwards (I do the small bit first, then the long bit, but the small bit is on the right - the only reason is that it’s quicker for me to do it that way and that’s vital when marking 200 odd test papers over a weekend!)
    I go from left to right too when doing a tick

    Didnt know there was a different way of doing it, it felt awkward trying to do an invisible tick from right to left on my desk a second ago - Certainly going to get questions when others come into the office shortly and see all these imaginary ticks and crosses thats for sure
    No, right to left. Like this:
    I second @McBobbin... What the hell is that!!
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