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Years ago in a discussion (here, I think) on fountain pens people were complaining about their hands cramping up when writing. Someone suggested the following:
by bikenaga 3y ago
Years ago in a discussion (here, I think) on fountain pens people were complaining about their hands cramping up when writing. Someone suggested the following: Put the pen between your index and middle fingers.
The idea is that the lengths of the fingers provide passive support for the pen on both sides. By restricting the range of motion of the pen sideways, you don't have to exert as much force to control the pen to write.
I tried it and it's great --- I haven't done it any other way since.
I've learned lots of things reading HN but this might have been the best.
- brianush1 3y ago> Put the pen between your index and middle fingers. I'm genuinely curious, how else could you hold a pen?
- bikenaga 3y agoDoing it the "standard" way (at least the way we were taught in school) the pen rests between your thumb and index finger. In both cases, you "pinch" the end of the pen with thumb, index finger, and middle finger. But holding it the standard way, the length of the pen is largely unsupported (and so support has to be provided by "pinching" harder), whereas holding the pen between the middle and index finger provides passive support. From your question, did you always hold a pen between middle and index finger?