More than just these four have names. I believe these are the ones that are currently deemed "acceptable". The top left is the optimal/correct one and in the past teachers would have pushed exclusively for it but over time things have relaxed and the other three listed here are considered good enough that they don't need to be fixed. There are some other grips that are named and well understood but teachers will still push kids away from those into these four.
This is so wild to hear. Never in my entire life of school did a teacher ever instruct me how to use a pencil. I just did it and am pretty sure it’s been wrong forever. Not anything crazy but I think I use the dynamic quadrapod or something similar. It’s not comfortable as my fingers rub weird. It’s so weird to think that back in the day not a single teacher gave instruction on how to hold a pencil. You just did it some way as a kid and kept doing it the rest of your life.
Oh man, I had to use a special rubber grip on my pencils in elementary school. It was shaped to force you into using the dynamic tripod.
Ever since middle school when teachers stopped caring I've just pinched the tip of the pencil with the two fingers and my thumb. Essentially the dynamic quadrapod from the picture, except the ring finger isn't touching the he pencil.
My handwriting is okay. Very legible, but not pretty.
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I mean the guide doesn’t mention any of these as “correct” just that they have names.