My son has been given this pencil to school introduction. The Griffix is just wonderful! Is well in hand and the mine is so soft that it is not always the same by scratching the paper at the high pressure, the writing beginners exercise times now;) Because of these (necessary) softness of the mine it is always down written very quickly. But: purchase and replacement easily worth over again because the font looks so good with this pen! In addition, my son is cool that he is always addressed why he already has a filler (the pencil just really like this!) So: Buy!