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Twitter is a great place to spend some time, of all the social media platforms – despite not being the most used platform, Twitter seemingly is one of the influential ones and definitely the most interesting one. Remember the Yanny and Laurel debacle that left tweeps on each other necks over which word they heard, well, here’s another one to kick start your year.
One Twitter user posted a question, “Which way do you draw an X?” Followed by an image of a number of ways to draw an X:
Also this is so interesting to me – which way do you draw an X? Colored line being the first stroke pic.twitter.com/a0WTl8WT7P
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— sixers smasey (@SMASEY) January 20, 2019
Before we get into the responses, go ahead an draw an X then let us know in the comments below which way you do it. Personally, I am an 8. Right stroke first, downwards, then Left stroke downwards and I am not alone, my colleague also does the same but that’s just the two of us. The rest of the team all fall under number 7 – the most common way to write X as per the replies.
The tweet above quickly went viral as most people were surprised that there were different ways to draw an X, while some were confident in their X-skills, others were confused and some just trolled.
The confident ones:
7 is the only way
— messy old asian (@tribranchvo) January 20, 2019
WTF? Who doesn't do 7?!
— Marc Roberts (@MarcSRoberts) January 20, 2019
8
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 20, 2019
8 all day
— Ned Cregeen (@NCregeen) January 20, 2019
Number 8 but the plot twist is that I mostly write my Xs like this: pic.twitter.com/Gk8dP2Tvq2
— Nightskin – Melanin in the creases of my palms (@MizzayTee) January 20, 2019
5!
There are other ways? https://t.co/2P1ibE2tLZ
— Hannah Wilks (@newballsplease) January 20, 2019
Then there was this mess:
6
— Leify (@LeifTheTank) January 20, 2019
Actually im 7
— Leify (@LeifTheTank) January 20, 2019
No wait im 8, lol
— Leify (@LeifTheTank) January 20, 2019
I'm a 2 should I got to the hospital
— Emily Andras (@emtothea) January 21, 2019
me realising there are other ways to draw an 'x' ?
— Shego (@LadyBellatrix) January 20, 2019
sat here testing myself pic.twitter.com/3B9RQETgSC
— ً (@bcfchxrry) January 20, 2019
Finally, the trolls:
8.
People who draw bottom to top are also the ones that put their toilet paper on the holder the wrong way.
— Eddie (@NinjaJenssen) January 20, 2019
i do 6 but im also a proven stupid idiot
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) January 20, 2019
Anyone who doesn't do 7 is a freak
— ℤ????'? ?????? (@ZappasMuzzie) January 20, 2019
8. Obviously. The rest of you are all deviant freaks.
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) January 20, 2019
This is how you draw an X. pic.twitter.com/m1u61LBS1q
— Neorice University (@Neoriceisgood) January 20, 2019
@SMASEY tries to give a conclusion based on the replies her tweet got, saying that Americans do 7 & 8 while UK does 5 & 6, but I am none of those, if anything, I should fall under UK but here I am with an 8…
General consensus is that Americans do 7 & 8 while UK does 5 & 6. Probably how we were taught. Not sure about other countries
— sixers smasey (@SMASEY) January 20, 2019
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