I love these pens, they are comfortable to use and hold and write very smoothly.I take notes very fast (I'm not saying my handwriting is any good at that speed though), so need a pen that writes smoothly, instead of scratching its way across the paper. I also need one where the ink dries very quickly, so it doesn't get smudged. These fit the bill perfectly. To my untrained hand (definitely not a professional writer), they feel and write exactly like the more expensive pen they are clearly modelled after. A friend of mine had one of the more expensive ones, we both compared them and couldn't tell the difference between them.When I compare these to the previous needle point gel pens I used (same 0.5mm size), they are so much better and seem to last so much longer. I really liked my old pens, but I could easily go through 1 in a week quite easily, so was quite often having to buy more. With these, several weeks later and I'm still on my first one. I thought that the needle-point on my old wrote smoothly, but compared to these, using the old pen now feels like I've gone back to roman times and am chiselling messages on stone.The price for a pack of 16 is good, and doesn't work out too much per pen, unlike some of the brand-name ones that don't seem to last anywhere near as long.I'd love to say I'm definitely buying these again as I really like these pens, but with how long they seem to last it could be a while before I need to. Hopefully they're still in production then. If they are, then I'll almost definitely be buying another set.