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Wait... You guys actually only push one button?

I slide my entire hand across the keyboard like I'm waving to the computer haha

Backspace, because my cat likes to step on my keyboard and then characters are often left in the password field that need cleared.

Escape is kinda hardcoded as a safe button in my headspace and spacebar is just fun to press.

my computer doesnt go to sleep.

It must stay awake, at all times, awaiting my input.

I'm a mad man I click different shit every time.

Any key

Esc like 3-5 times (to also prompt the login input) or mouse wiggle

Space. On my mechanical keyboard it makes a nice thunk. You really know you've pressed it.

I have a BLE keyboard and a BLE trackball, so they lose connection when PC is sleeping. To wake it up I press the power button

I hit the "wake on lan" icon on my phone, since my computer is in a different room from my monitor and the usb doesn't work for waking it up directly. But if I could, left ctrl all day!

The power button. I've disabled usb-wake because my wireless mouse keeps waking up my computer

Caps lock because it doesn't do anything like enter or other keys might do and if I see the light blink then I know that the computer/keyboard is not frozen.

Left arrow up arrow right arrow. over and over and over again until the computer comes up

I push the power button on the tower.

Ctrl to wake the screen, system set to never sleep. Stupid Plex running on Windows addiction.

I press my whole hand into the keyboard hitting like 20 keys probably

i rapidly press as many keys as i can within a 1 second time frame

or i just slam the enter key a few times

My desktop pc doesn't wake up from keyboard inputs, so the power button. On my laptop I just open the lid.

Mash low in the corner.

Probably a combo of Ctrl-shift-alt-super-z-x-space

I know, much barbarian.

Mouse click gang

If it's suspended I usually open my laptop. If its just locked/screen off I put in my password and press enter because GDM doesn't need to be first "woken up" before entering the password.

So it's "the first letter in my password" which is .....

I always hit an arrow key. Just in case it's not actually asleep but just turned off the display, and I don't want to accidentally start typing into something without seeing the screen yet. It's like, 99% unsubstantiated paranoia, admittedly.

Getting ready for the downvotes… I put my finger on the touch-id sensor of the wireless keyboard.

On my Linux laptops, I usually swipe on the trackpad or track point. If that doesn’t do anything, one of the ctrl keys.

Haven't seen anyone else comment this, I mash all arrow keys

Originally I got into this habit thinking that arrow keys would do nothing, and in most interfaces they don't, but I have learned the hard way they certainly do stuff when watching YouTube.

However it's too late and too embedded in my brain to wake my PC by mashing arrow keys so that is my life

Backspace

I smash the arrow keys like I’m playing a synthesizer.

Mash the DEL key, because it skips the prompt to click OK to login, and takes me straight to password entry.