If you're like me, you spend many hours each day tapping the keys on a computer to move your thoughts from brain to screen, and then to paper via printer - and loving the technology that makes it all possible. And yet, there's nothing like the joy of ink, flowing smoothly from a quality pen directly to the paper, to display those thoughts with a unique style and character. It's a low-tech pleasure no amount of high-tech can match. But I had almost given it up, in a blur of blotches and skips from pen after pen - until I bought my first two-pack of TUL's medium point black pens. I feel like there used to be a lot of good pens (if you were willing to pay more than 19 cents, at least), each as good as the one before - until the last few years when no matter what I tried or how much I paid, I tossed each pen in the trash; pen un-emptied, me frustrated. I had reluctantly begun to consider the over $100 pen market, unwilling to give up the pleasure of writing by hand, when I discovered the TUL. It performs exactly as promised - clean, smooth, and superior in every way to anything priced even close. Try it - you'll love it too. I get the biggest pack now, just to make sure I don't run out. You may prefer the fine point, which has the same reliable quality. I happen to like the fatter, more-like-a-fountain-pen medium point, and now - I don't buy anything else.