How do you write your 8?

Bit random. I wont take a picture, but I do the "circle of eight". i.e. I start at the top, go down in an S shape, then back up crossing through the middle and round to join at the top.

I start in the middle and work anti clockwise so up to the left round and down to the right, pen doesn't leave the paper.

This!

Pretty much the same as Panj

Make an S and do not wait, when it's joined you have an 8. That's the formation rhyme that we teach the kids at school.

Same as Panj too.

Same as Kharv

Same a Panj

The same as Panj

Is this a clockwise .v. anticlockwise/one continuous .v. two circles issue?

I do the same as Panj. Start at top right, make an S, then a practically straight line back to top right.

Same as Panj but I start more centrally and so don't get the little finishing flick.

How panj has. I never knew there were so many variations!

I start from the bottom, head right, go around the top, then back to the bottom

I'm curious Akrigg, is the Dutch 8 different?

Wow! Lots of replies.

Our discussion was: Everyone writes the 8 the same in the UK and that is: 2 ''circles'' of the same size. He couldn't read my 8 and i got defensive because to me it's a normal 8.

You proved Mr Akrigg wrong with those pictures because the 2 ''circles'' are not the same size and sometimes not even connected. ?

Same as in Holland whahahaha

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I hadnt thought about how different countries may write differently but now I think of it I seem to remember something like all French students are taught to write in a certain style.