well, im new to forums for pen spinning, this is actually the first ever one ive been to. I have been spinning since july 27 of this year so thats almost 5 months. I have never used a modded pen or even a normal pen to spin. Ive always used unsharpened pencils to spin. so far the tricks I know are the thumbaround, fingerpass, sonic, charge, reverse charge, reverse thumbaround, twisted sonic, infinity, figure 8,and thumbaround harmonic. so is that good or bad for 5 months? i hope to get way better than I am now and I eventually want to become good enough to be in competitions and that kind of stuff.