Do You Have A "test Phrase"?

[Aurko]

I generally start off with the pen, the ink, my name or the name of someone nearby, and a quick excerpt from whatever I happen to be reading. If none of my reading material is nearby, I simply use one of two pangrams: The quick brown fox OR the five boxing wizards. If it's a flex pen I stick to words with lots of loops, such as lilliputian.

 

I think this is a great topic, and it's interesting to see how others approach this!

[dashboi666]

"Hello, world" and "fine flexy fun".. besides the usual squiggles and cross hatching...

[JB213]

I usually test my pens and new inks while I'm watching a favorite show or movie, so my test phrases are likely to be lines from Sherlock, Firefly, the West Wing, Star Trek, or something similar. Last night I noticed Star Trek Into Darkness on Netflix, so I played with pens and inks while watching it, writing lines of dialog. ("Khaaaaaaaaaaaan!")

[CaptainBA]

I usually write the "quick brown fox" pangram but recently I've been using that and my favorite song lyric. "I'll keep on struggling because that's the measure of a man". Doesn't use all the letters of the alphabet but I like it more. Then a bunch of figure eights and whatever song lyric is stuck in my head at the time.

[ceac]

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[Ecriveur]

I don't know when it started but I've noticed that I have a couple of stock lines or phrases I use whenever I have to write something and it doesn't matter what. If I'm testing a keyboard, making up data for a software test or testing a pen for the first time I always wind up writing the first few lines of "Good Times, Bad Times" by Led Zepplin. I may start with something else but I always end up writing it eventually. I know when I was much younger it used to be "It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out!". Schulz was like a god to me when I was a kid.

 

So, what are your go to test phrases?

 

 

 

I don't have a test phrase. I just write random words based on whatever happens to be on my computer screens, or playing on their speakers, or just on my mind.

[Scootz]

Generally the alphabet, a description of the pen and the ink, and whatever random words or thoughts pop into my head.

[Freddy]

21 May 2014 Test Phrase.................................................

 

And I know..I know..I know..I know..I know..I know..I know..I know..

 

 

Fred

Good night everybody......................................................

[richtl]

Each pen gets broken in with a bit of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky." I enjoy hearing it in my head while I'm writing.

 

 

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

 

Rich

Edited May 22, 2014 by richtl

[Sailor Kenshin]

Each pen gets broken in with a bit of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky." I enjoy hearing it in my head while I'm writing. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe. Rich

I memorized that poem in grade school, lol.

[Freddy]

25 May 2014.....Testing..One..Two..Three..

 

 

Fred

Good nite everybody.....

[dsolmei]

I revert to high-school French: "Bonjour mes amis. Comment ca-va?"

[GTOZack]

"Geronimo" or " some random word that has lot of circular motion like Swiggly the piggy in cursive and most of time my signature

[Algester]

I still use Hello World... man... and the usual pangram that we all know and probably hate and love jumping foxes

[dragondazd]

moar pictures

[Charles Rice]

Usually the Gettysburg Address.

[Charles Rice]

although it isn't what Lincoln actually said - it was only a few days after the event that people started saying how moving it was, and he revised the notes he'd used on the day before they were given to the press for publication, and there are several different versions from the time!

 

 

I have read all versions. The changes were VERY minor. If you Google The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln you will see that there were only a few words added. Besides, Lincoln did not speak it exactly as he wrote it.

 

PS - He did not speak from notes, The speech was written out in full.

Edited May 26, 2014 by Charles Rice

[Freddy]

 

Replying to Do You Have A "test Phrase"?

 

Today Sunday June 1, 2014 Test Phrase....

 

 

 

Fred

 

Edited June 1, 2014 by Freddy

[Freddy]

Double Post, Folks...don't know why....

 

Fred

Edited June 1, 2014 by Freddy

[Maccabeus]

My pangram is: sexy qua lijf, doch bang voor 't zwempak (dutch).

When I'm in a good mood I write "strangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet". When it's recognized, there is something to talk about, when not, I'm the weird one and people leave me alone

 

"...and I am you, and what I see is me." Nice

 

Generally the name of the pen & ink, and "Jackdaws love my black sphinx of quartz," "Eva can I stab bats in a cave?," "Rats live on no evil star," or part of the 23rd Psalm. I really want to give it a feel, I'll try "The Egyptian quietly bagged bagels to analyze the syzygy of the dizzyingly illustrious xyst."

Edited June 2, 2014 by Maccabeus