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pozidriv practically doesn't exist outside Europe. It still requires proper down pressure which sometimes (ladders) is hard to come by.

I prefer (inner) hex for bolts and torx for screws. Torx is ok for bolts too (mostly m4/m5). Standard hex is fine for wood anchors as well. A rather important downside of torx: you can put a smaller torx driver - say T15 in T20 (and esp. T8 and in T10) - that ruins both the bit and the screw head. Hex doesn't suffer from that issue.



> pozidriv practically doesn't exist outside Europe.

I had to think for a while to remember the last time I saw a Phillips screw here in the UK. Then I remembered - it was about a year ago when I had to take something apart, and I cussed the thing out for having a screw that almost matches the screwdrivers that everyone has, and who even has Phillips screwdrivers these days anyway?


They still sell Phillips screws in the UK. Drywall screws for example are Phillips (IME).


The UK is very much Europe (I totally didn't mean the EU)




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