How do you write the number ‘1’?

None of that nonsense in the UK thank you very much. I do notice a slight inconsistency in your pic. The 1 in 2017 has been written normally. Wonder why that is!! I don't put a stroke through my 7s but I do put a diagonal stroke through my 0s (zeros). It's a software engineering thing. Helps distinguish between a 0 (zero) and a O (capital oh). Comes from the days software was handwritten on coding sheets and data entry clerks used to type it in to produce punched cards and/or paper tape.

@judyev I'm a true European after living in France for a year and it doesn't half confuse the life out of the Irish who don't know yet that they are Europeans. My 7s always carry a defining stroke and my 1s end up like tents.

We write 1. While I do not put a stroke through 7 many here write it like that.

This one is really poorly written and this is not the way ALL French write the number one. Judging for all what is written, I would say that the one who wrote surely is not someone of great education, the V looks like a U the E is open, very, very bad.

I have never seen a 1 written that way before. I have a French girl who works for me, and she does not write her 1's that way either. You would think with so much diversity here in the United States that I would have come across people of different nationalities who write that way, but so far I haven't seen anything like that. I do not put the stroke through my 7's, but I do see a lot of people who do write their 7's that way.

I wouldn't have recognized that "1" either, but even here on myLot I can see the resemblence. It's just that the little serif has been exaggerated on the handwritten "1" in the photo. I'm having trouble working out the third digit in the first sum. Is it a 5? As in, 16.50? I don't usually put the stroke through the 7 or the zero.

I always write the number 1 the same way as I write a capital I. As for 7, I never place a stroke through it.

I believe that I was taught to write "1" with a small uptick at the top and a horizontal 'foot' at the bottom. These days I write it very much as it is displayed in print here (without the horizontal stroke at the bottom). Although I was taught to write "7" as a horizontal line at the top followed by a diagonal down stroke, I do now usually cross my sevens unless I am writing very carefully because "1" and "7" can be easily confused if written quickly. I think that the form of "1" with a strong upstroke (so that it's almost a capital "A" without the cross bar) is used in most, if not all, of continental Europe and, likewise, the "7" is always written with a bar through the downstroke. Also, the comma is used as a decimal point (I've never seen the reversed comma used as it is here, though) and the full stop used where we would use commas to mark the thousands. I am confused by the character in the first line of the bill but I suspect that he wrote a "2" or a "3" and then corrected it to a "5" by adding a stroke at the top!

We write one (1) without any stroke.

Of course I will not write "1" in this wrong since it is quite confusing. My handwriting is very clear and neat and I will make sure everybody can understand what I write down. This is a way to avoid mistakes. By the way, I even can't recognize the numbers in this form. Is it 16.50 and 3.30? It looks so terrible.

I write the same thing like this "1."

I just write my ones as a single stroke, nobody every mistakes it for anything else. I do put a stroke thru my sevens.

I write the number 1 as a capital I. My 7 doesn't have a stroke either but it's pretty common to see it written with one, here.

It depends, mostly I just use a straight-ish line, but for forms and the like I use an upside 'T'.

I have seen some people write their ones like a seven also. I write my one like an "I" just a simple line down.

I can't recognize this kind of number 1 by any stretch of the imagination.It looks like the person of Chinese character.Nor do I put a stroke through the seven,I think it amounts to gilding the lily.

That is the typical way of writing 1 on the continent. We on the other hand have a much shorter line off the top of the l occassionally I will place a bar across the 7 just for clarification.

I've never seen a one written like that. I would have no idea what it was if you hadn't explained.

Yeah...l always don't write the way you have mentioned in this discussion.l put it in way like "l" .This number remind me one joke...This is a conversation between a teacher and a student...Teacher asked " What is the answer for 2+2 ???.Student replied "3".Teacher got angry and asked "who taught like this ".Student replied "My dad always do like this when paying tax"...Lol

My number one is just like the small letter L. A straight line, simple and short.