calling all flag 4 people! #maths

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calling all flag 4 people! #maths

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@henrikthehun 　오래 전

I do it up then down-left then right

2026-09-02 07:28

@Merione 　오래 전

I'm not a flag-fourther, but I'm not an open-square-fourther either. My 4s start at the top and go down to the left diagonally until about halfway through the digit, then horizontally to the right (ideally with a slight upwards curvature, like a smile, to ease the pen motion), and then vertically down again, all in a single stroke. Am I the weird one?

2026-09-02 07:25

@klutterkicker 　오래 전

Literally the last one you said, I thought you'd miss it entirely lol

2026-09-02 07:16

@hunorfekete741… 　오래 전

I kinda draw it like phy
But mines doesnt connect the l to the top of the /

2026-09-02 07:03

@modlich_303 　오래 전

I just do like a
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2026-09-02 06:44

@scmtuk3662 　오래 전

What about the _other_ kind of 4 that looks ... um... well, like that: 4, but instead of the vertical line going all the way up to the diagonal line it's a small line, so it looks like a / with a +?

2026-09-02 06:25

@reubenthenerd1… 　오래 전

Using more than one stroke per number is strange. Then again, I write in cursive and cross my x as well as t.

2026-09-02 06:12

@tyruss1123 　오래 전

I don’t do the diagonal line thing but I think it’d be funny to see an attempt that draws from the midpoint of the plus four separate times, then adds the slash.

2026-09-02 06:11

@schuelermine 　오래 전

Normal sevens are also acute

2026-09-02 06:10

@You-Can-Call-M… 　오래 전

I do the flag pole first by going up and then I finish the flag part. It's all in one penstroke and there's not enough time in the budget to make it look better

2026-09-02 05:58

@Ah-ha-0 　오래 전

Just don't do flag four.

2026-09-02 05:53

@AbramSherwood-… 　오래 전

I just do it from the bottom like the first method

2026-09-02 05:31

@lajont 　오래 전

Lol it feels like you just refused to do the 4 in the way I do it. I usually draw it starting from the rightmost point and then just go ⬅️↗️⬇️ all in one stroke.

The only drawback is that some people might look at my 4s and assume they are 9s if I draw them sloppy, but the same people would also assume my sloppy 9s would look like 4s.

2026-09-02 05:23

@Sylvia-gh1cg 　오래 전

start from top, down left,right, raise pen, middle downstroke.. Note: I am lefty.
It's always been my most comfy way of doing it.

2026-09-02 05:10

@GracodanaAlpha 　오래 전

All in one motion from the bottom. The line across has to be flat or it looks atrocious to me

2026-09-02 04:37

@DanielLynchYT 　오래 전

Start at the bottom, go up, go down to the left diagonally, then finish the line by going right

2026-09-02 04:33

@ThatLilSeal 　오래 전

I go on the far right and the. Jusg follow the line from there

2026-09-02 04:11

@Flairex 　오래 전

In 3rd grade I wrote my 4 like this on the board and the teacher told the class "the 4 looks a little different because this is how you write 4s in Europe" idk why

2026-09-02 03:16

@sergiosarmient… 　오래 전

I love that single 3 in the mix.

2026-09-02 02:29

@Nas4tH 　오래 전

⬆️↙️➡️

2026-09-02 02:29

@milokiss8276 　오래 전

If you are writing your Flag-Four with two strokes, You have defeated the purpose of the Flag-Four. You had it right the first time - Up, Southwest, Right. Mine tend to have a slant to them, Due to the direction the right hand rotates. They are never pointing STRAIGHT up.
It is a 9 that is round. I start 9's from the bottom, Though I recognize that may be uncommon.

2026-09-02 02:14

@Aerendil97 　오래 전

The triangle first, then the vertical bar

2026-09-02 01:34

@MortalSnail 　오래 전

I write my 2s with a loop and 4s like that. I think I start from the bottom.

I have messy handwriting, and I do alot of math in my field, I just need to write numbers asap, and this feels natural.

I also write my 1s with a kink at the top to distinguish from an I and my 7s with a cross dash to distinguish from a 1. I write my 6s in one motion and my 9s as a circle then a line.
I cross my 0s to distinguish from an O, and I cross from top right to bottom left to distinguish from the greek letter ø(phi).

2026-09-02 01:12

@MuhammadyusufK 　오래 전

There are different ways of writing other numbers.

2026-09-02 01:08

@KeeleyChaos-of… 　오래 전

Start at the bottom

2026-09-02 01:03

@FosukeLordOfEr… 　오래 전

Not a flag 4 but when I went to draw a flag for I did the outer angle and then the line. Granted that’s how I draw my 4’s now just without the steep angle. So dunno

2026-09-02 00:58

@kaynkappa.___.… 　오래 전

im dying to know why is there a 3 up there

2026-09-02 00:45

@gumann46 　오래 전

1❌
cute 7✅

2026-09-02 00:34

@A-lik 　오래 전

⬇️
pick up pen
↙️➡️

2026-09-02 00:34

@lugiagaurdien7… 　오래 전

i always do it from the bottom

2026-09-02 00:33

@Disopi 　오래 전

Mine,
⬅️↗️⬇️

2026-09-02 00:21

@Voshed518 　오래 전

I go ⬅️↗️⬇️

2026-09-02 00:13

@cheetah_zs 　오래 전

Yeah I write it exactly like you thought I did

2026-09-02 00:11

@DavidStepanyan… 　오래 전

From below

2026-09-02 00:00

@Boltundz 　오래 전

I do it like how you thoughy

2026-09-02 00:00

@browngaymethod… 　오래 전

Neither?

2026-09-01 23:54

@LMcI01 　오래 전

The 2nd one. Draw the triangle and then the vertical line, joined to the top of the triangle and crossing the horizontal line

2026-09-01 23:51

@netherite9051 　오래 전

I just use both 4's with inconsistent ways of writing.

2026-09-01 23:49

@mattjw16 　오래 전

Personally, I start at the bottom going up they way you originally imagined it, but I’m not confident that this is considered “correct” in the classic 4 community.

2026-09-01 23:45

@RubberDuck_gmd 　오래 전

I do the flagpole but i seperate the top

2026-09-01 23:44

@sonnywilson748 　오래 전

Yeah I don't like the flag pole 4 because when hand writing it looks a lot like a 9 most the time.

2026-09-01 23:39

@TheSourovAqib 　오래 전

Weird how flagpole 4 is normal in text but looks weird in writing

2026-09-01 23:29

@ninthee7113 　오래 전

triangle first then line?

2026-09-01 23:29

@greenisacolr 　오래 전

I write my fours the way you do, but if I did it the other way, I'd go horizontal line, diagonal line, vertical line; all one stroke no lifting the pen

2026-09-01 23:25

@NerdBoiVR 　오래 전

What I do is I draw the pole top to bottom, then draw the flag diagonal first

2026-09-01 23:22

@genesimmon1721 　오래 전

This is a top priority. Oh, like this - 4 -

2026-09-01 23:18

@The_Unknown2ll 　오래 전

I start from the horizontal line but at the right part first, people do one stroke from the bottom but i do it in reverse
⬅️↗️⬇️

2026-09-01 23:12

@Kley_Dreemurr 　오래 전

Lowest effort possible, first one you did, don't lift up the utensil.

2026-09-01 22:57

@Zephyr80280 　오래 전

One stroke, horizontal line from right to left first then top then bottom

2026-09-01 22:51

@nkmusic2026-co… 　오래 전

As a person who writes the flag four I write it the first way

2026-09-01 22:50

@Retep512 　오래 전

It pains me how many fours here were written with the backwards form.

2026-09-01 22:35

@Reiskasi 　오래 전

I do the upper flag part first from like the diagnal to than the horizontal in one motion and then I do the Pole from top to bottom

2026-09-01 22:30

@astyutechick79… 　오래 전

HOW do you not guess the opposite way as the first one that you showed. You start from the right, draw the horizontal line, and then just finish the shape.
ONE single flow without lifting your pen.

It's super easy.

Btw, I actually draw 4 in both ways, either like I mentioned above or the way you do it.

2026-09-01 22:29

@drikodjiqers 　오래 전

I used write 4's like that but my writing evolved to be like indistinguishable from my 9's lol
I wrote it from the base then the sw-e part

2026-09-01 22:10

@timjim8524 　오래 전

i've always been a ⬅️↗️⬇️ and it looks bad ??

2026-09-01 22:09

@groundedgamr 　오래 전

Personally I begin with that little bit and follow through the rest of the four, I needed to start writing my fours like that because the better looking one started to look more and more like a nine due to my sloppy handwriting. I also put a line through my sevens and zeros

2026-09-01 22:00

@brianrobinson4… 　오래 전

Diagonal down first. Then horizontal left to right. Finall verically down. Sometimes, if the diagonal is too steep, it doesn't meet the vertical and it looks a bit like yours.

2026-09-01 21:57

@kingacrisius 　오래 전

I write it exactly backwards from the first way you did it. Left, up-right, then down.

2026-09-01 21:55

@damascuseveryt… 　오래 전

One stroke. Horizontal right to left, diagonal up, straight down. The one method you didn't do.

2026-09-01 21:55

@fullfurious129… 　오래 전

Same as you but in the opposite direction

2026-09-01 21:52

@BoiledCatfish 　오래 전

i do the triangle first and then a lign down

2026-09-01 21:39

@Wailinglyre 　오래 전

Start from the bottom, up, down left, right

2026-09-01 21:29

@25mm25 　오래 전

There are real people who use the flagpole method???

2026-09-01 21:28

@Manny73211 　오래 전

I know someone who does acute 7 + horizontal

2026-09-01 21:27

@ItsCforCattail 　오래 전

I just do ⬅️↗️⬇️

2026-09-01 21:27

@SmartGamer1234 　오래 전

yeah i write it starting from the bottom

the diagonal sometimes is too fast and it looks similar to a 9, but it’s fine usually
i write a 9 from the top down, so there’s usually an extra part of a line near the top compared to the 4

2026-09-01 21:23

@cubing-11 　오래 전

i leave out the sticky outy bit on the right side

lets give numbers to each vertex
1 is the top
2 is the left
3 is the centre
4 is the bottom

i go 1-2-3-1-4 without lifting my pen, which does mean i overlap a line

i honestly dont know why i do it like that and looking at it now, it seems pretty unorthodox.

2026-09-01 21:23

@Lucas_J_R 　오래 전

⬅️↗️⬇️

2026-09-01 21:21

@Kismet_The_Dra… 　오래 전

I do the triangle then pole, mine has the extended line/tail at the mid one

2026-09-01 21:21

@sanatmojumdar7… 　오래 전

Step 1: ↗️
Step 2: ⬇️
Step 3: ⬇️
Step 4: ➡️

2026-09-01 21:14

@gaijininja 　오래 전

Ah, I write both styes of four, and the flag pole style I write three different ways, but usually do the L shape and then the vertical line.

2026-09-01 21:11

@billclockwell 　오래 전

I go right to left

2026-09-01 21:09

@mito_thepowerh… 　오래 전

Well I do ⬅️↗️⬇️

2026-09-01 21:08

@ojasavee 　오래 전

Yeah bro do the triangle first you just wrote a flag four!

2026-09-01 21:08

@Hadnut0 　오래 전

Yh I write it like that, but also 1, I, and l are all just a line and 7 and Z have lines in the middle?

2026-09-01 21:02

@Gamblinggarbag… 　오래 전

Im left handed so its easier for me to start from the right and just use one stroke

2026-09-01 21:02

@Andalian2 　오래 전

Post first from top to bottom then go right center to left then up to the right

2026-09-01 20:52

@Stampede773 　오래 전

Old fashion Italian: Ⅳ ?

2026-09-01 20:43

@NinjaLaughlin 　오래 전

I write my fours like you, but in one stroke like an upside down h

2026-09-01 20:43

@paultapping951… 　오래 전

Yes. I also crossbar my 7s and 0s

2026-09-01 20:43

@PhantHope 　오래 전

I start with the little line line on the pole then go around making the flag then pole last

2026-09-01 20:36

@amirmuhammadow… 　오래 전

I do it like 4

2026-09-01 20:35

@sebastianmoyan… 　오래 전

I start at the top and make the diagonal line with the horizontal line besides it in a single movement. And then I complete the four with the vertical line.

2026-09-01 20:31

@DiffuseVerity 　오래 전

i do it that one way you showed it in the video

2026-09-01 20:29

@5u6iImansBro 　오래 전

The Rightmost line

2026-09-01 20:23

@sasson10 　오래 전

I do the first one you showed, going from the bottom of the pole and into the flag, I prefer it since it lets me write the entire 4 without lifting my pencil off the paper, just like every other digit
Edit: ...except for 7, because I'm used to writing my 1s with a post, I write my 7 with a longer post and a cross to distinguish them

2026-09-01 20:04

@kamo7293 　오래 전

I see at the top you are looking at other fours. one of them looks like arabic/urdu script

2026-09-01 19:59

@kamo7293 　오래 전

I draw it like your four but angle it. so < first then |

edit : mine would be the sloppy cross

2026-09-01 19:58

@carppppppppp 　오래 전

I fo the same as you (the only correct awnser and you should he burned to the stake if you do it any other way but not really you can draw fours however you want but still) except the bent side crosses through the vertices line

2026-09-01 19:51

@fantomgaming13… 　오래 전

pole then flag, i've never even thought about how i wrote numbers until now

2026-09-01 19:51

@PersonOfRandom… 　오래 전

I usually go opposite of your first example - starting at the right and going left in order to have a reasonable width for writing

2026-09-01 19:47

@anchoredisland… 　오래 전

depends on countries as well

2026-09-01 19:43

@KindredBrujah 　오래 전

You could also start with the middle tail and draw the first line horizontally right-to-left. Not sure why you wouldn't consider that.

2026-09-01 19:29

@sepehrhaghverd… 　오래 전

From right with a continuous motion

2026-09-01 19:27

@KallMeKelp 　오래 전

Oddly enough, I used to write my 4’s like that, using one line, but I don’t remember which end I started with.

2026-09-01 19:26

@geothermie_ 　오래 전

I write the true 4 (vertical bars not touching) but my guess would be they write it the same but slanted so trangle first, then vertical pole

2026-09-01 19:26

@Eeeee787 　오래 전

I dont do the flag 4 but i do the pole first, and then the L

2026-09-01 19:19

@pete_____2318 　오래 전

I do this lol I do method 1 xd

2026-09-01 19:01

@Cybercraft3101 　오래 전

normally I do the triangle and then bring the flagpole down

2026-09-01 18:55

@not_that_anna 　오래 전

Please no one panic, but I do it without lifting the pen :) and I start from the top of the triangle retracing some parts as necessary lol

2026-09-01 18:46

@ElchiKing 　오래 전

I write an open triangle, if that makes sense? i.e. I start at the top, 45 degree angle down left, straight to the right and cross out the horizontal line with a vertical line in the middle, which usually doesn't exactly close the triangle, but is close enough.
It's much easier to aim for a down stroke in the middle than exactly at the end of a line which makes quick writing easier.

2026-09-03 05:21

@Ескендір-б5р 　오래 전

"You are a disgrace to the entire art community, and the entire world would rejoice, if you never touch that piece of paper again EVER!" some unknown probably

2026-09-03 03:12

@Sassy_Gay_Aunt 　오래 전

I start right to left with the horizontal, then create the rest of th flag and pole w/o picking up my pencil/pen :3

2026-09-03 01:17

@iamadumblittle… 　오래 전

Down up bottom left left

2026-09-03 00:14

@dirt_dert_durt 　오래 전

You're missing out on the potential of the curved diagonal that doesn't quite connect with the post. More stylized than the boxy four, more open than the flag 4. The Goblet Four

2026-09-02 21:21

@Ovoparity-jh6b… 　오래 전

Im suprised noone in the comments dies it like me , I come from the top down then come back up to the top of the line and go down diagonally and cross it through , i always lose marks to misreading my own and a 9 though...

2026-09-02 21:17

@XisAngel 　오래 전

I do it like the first one you showed. Feels natural to me cause thats whay Ive been doing all my life, the upside being I dont need to lift the pen off the paper

2026-09-02 19:17

@este_2013 　오래 전

I do the 4 in one continuous stroke: start top, go down left, round back horizontal right, slash down a little tail
It looks like a rounded flag with the top of the pole missing

2026-09-02 18:47

@WebMafia 　오래 전

excuse me, "acute 7"? that's a 1

2026-09-02 18:46

@dapotatoking46… 　오래 전

Idk what the nickname for the open four is but i write it the same way

2026-09-02 18:42

@PiEnthusiast31… 　오래 전

1.⬇️
2.↙️➡️

2026-09-02 17:00

@GalacticPlayz2… 　오래 전

There's a 3 in there

2026-09-02 16:22

@EuloDulay 　오래 전

Present,as a member of the WFS(Weird Four Society),I can confirm most of our members write their fours who you imagined it

2026-09-02 16:12

@Ehaanthegamer 　오래 전

Like that.
⬆️↙️➡️

2026-09-02 16:11

@sain3ty3578 　오래 전

⬅️↗️⬇️ smooth and efficient, better than your first one(just the opposite)

2026-09-02 16:02

@silent596 　오래 전

The easiest way is the way that is just comfortable to you. Everyone writes a little differently, hence why handwriting can vary so much. The way i do is the same as the "normal" 4 but doing a diagonal line instead of a straight to get the "flag."

2026-09-02 16:00

@shresthkumar43… 　오래 전

⬆️↙️➡️

2026-09-02 15:36

@kooskoos1234 　오래 전

did you never consider starting from the right point

2026-09-02 15:32

@notoriouswhite… 　오래 전

Flag first then post, same as the other style but the top intersects

2026-09-02 15:00

@ender2028 　오래 전

I prefer any method that does it all in one motion, every number can be done without picking up your pen/pencil so breaking that to do the 2 stroke 4 bothers me

2026-09-02 14:00

@artist-inserth… 　오래 전

I used to be a flag 4 person I always did it in one stroke and I dor the horizontal line first
like:
left, diagnal right up, down
if that makes sense
the horizontal line always over-extended the vertical line and the slope always had an inward bend like a closed bracket )

2026-09-02 13:43

@ddminis4813 　오래 전

The first flag pole 4 method you showed

2026-09-02 13:39

@stechuskaktus8… 　오래 전

Firget the flag 4, people who glue ↄ and c together instead of drawing an x really scare me.

2026-09-02 12:56

@Kohanut 　오래 전

I do a u then a flagpole down

2026-09-02 12:52

@RoninRedacted 　오래 전

You've gotta use a diagonal line up and right to start, gives it ✨ class ✨

2026-09-02 11:06

@Erik-iu9zt 　오래 전

With my left index finger, 2 rows up.

2026-09-02 10:39

@falpsdsqglthns… 　오래 전

i write it like how you did at the beginning lol

2026-09-02 10:33

@bosstoober8782 　오래 전

I do the post then the flag

2026-09-02 10:21

@olanmills64 　오래 전

I sometimes write my 8s with two circles, but I sometimes do the lemniscate-style version with a single stroke. I don't know why

2026-09-02 10:15

@DiamondIceNS 　오래 전

I was raised a flag 4 person and I did it the way you don't like, but I switched to open 4 after college after long realizing that I always drew them like shit, and the open 4 is easier to distinguish even when it's drawn poorly.

I also switched from unbarred 7's to barred 7's for a similar reason.

2026-09-02 09:49

@atomicbanana55 　오래 전

One stroke from the line extending to the right side of the triangle to the left, diagonally up to the right, and then down

2026-09-02 09:19

@correctedgamer… 　오래 전

t first and connect the leftmost and top

2026-09-03 19:46

@bumbleandsimba 　오래 전

I start at the far right and go along

2026-09-03 19:07

@MatthewGones-d… 　오래 전

I do the post first

2026-09-03 19:04

@mk1interactive… 　오래 전

for me its the pole first then the flag

2026-09-03 19:02

@lpmaiscriativo 　오래 전

nah i do the way u did it at the start

2026-09-03 18:23

@inutamer3658 　오래 전

Flag 4s should be illegal. The open 4 leaves so much room to drink out of

2026-09-03 18:08

@jvke.rejoice 　오래 전

⬅️↗️⬇️

2026-09-03 17:59

@judewaide8328 　오래 전

Flag then pole

2026-09-03 17:02

@SonyaNovikov-b… 　오래 전

I start at the end of the cross, go up diagonally, and then down to finish the flagpole

2026-09-03 16:00

@damianich4824 　오래 전

Accute 7? That's what my 1 looks like lol

2026-09-03 15:24

@pickle879 　오래 전

2026-09-03 14:06

@epicsun9256 　오래 전

As an ex-flagpole four believer, I did the horizontal with line on the end then did the vertical

2026-09-03 14:04

@jacobwasherelo… 　오래 전

I use yours lmao I like it more

2026-09-03 12:43

@EarthGuy-n2c1w 　오래 전

personally i am a triangle first then post

2026-09-03 12:32

@andrewmartin23… 　오래 전

start in the middle, do not lift pen, do not double back, do not pass go

2026-09-03 11:58

@The_jester1DTR 　오래 전

Start from the right, then move left, up diagonally right, then down.

2026-09-03 11:57

@8stormy5 　오래 전

Post, then flag. Top-down.

2026-09-03 09:52

@ItsAlexYT1 　오래 전

I used to do up, down left, and right in one motion but I’m working on doing your methods lol

2026-09-04 08:23

@pvanukoff 　오래 전

Closed "flagpole" 4 can easily look like 9 if you are sloppy with it.

2026-09-04 08:08

@Breadbreadbrea… 　오래 전

Its the first one ok

2026-09-04 06:45

@ashfreeman6754 　오래 전

up -> diagnal down left -> right

2026-09-04 04:52

@brianshrode72 　오래 전

As a flag 4 person, I do it the same way you do your 4, just with the diagonal. Start at the top, go left-down, then go right. Pick up the pen, go to the top, and do the vertical line.

2026-09-04 03:22

@eewoudvoorthui… 　오래 전

Im bad with writing curves so sharp angles are quicker for me since its easier to make a line
I do the fantastic 4 method (starting from the bottom)

2026-09-04 01:09

@AstroOne-33 　오래 전

i do the first one you showed

2026-09-04 00:13

@MaharlikaFurry 　오래 전

I get used to slant line first, horizontal line second, then vertical line last. All in about six hundred milliseconds.

2026-09-03 21:35

@seventhtenth 　오래 전

flag looks too much like seven with line in it which i use

2026-09-03 21:29

@moonshinershon… 　오래 전

... Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

2026-09-03 21:21

@Boxland_ 　오래 전

I carefully draw each individual point on the shape. After just an infinite number of steps, I have a perfect 4.

2026-09-04 20:44

@Warthog71129 　오래 전

I do my fours the first way you did it (starting from the bottom and doing a continuous line), but all my numbers are the odd versions; strikes through sevens and zeros, stuff like that.

2026-09-04 15:31

@alexstucky 　오래 전

I separate my lines instead of connecting them typically, so my 4 is a big half triangle going down, and then a small vertical line at the bottom that crosses it.

2026-09-04 12:12

@blazeplayz9703 　오래 전

One stroke: ⬅️↗️⬇️

2026-09-04 12:09

@dragonpuppy999… 　27일 전

4's go ↙️ ➡️ ⬇️
(Start at the top and form the "Flag", then draw the pole)

2026-09-05 19:23

@HexoHorizon 　오래 전

I do the flag 4 but reversed from how you did it. I start from the back.

2026-09-05 11:30