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More than likely the surface is not level, and slightly lower towards your side, so effectively you are rolling the pencil uphill, gravity then causes it to roll back towards you. To the person who answered this. If you roll it in the opposite direction it will still roll back. try to do it now and anyway it doesn't just roll back but rolls there and back.

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