People who savagely strike the keys on their keyboard when they type. Why??!! Do you find it more effective somehow?

I hate such people. Please ffs be gentle with your keyboard

You don't understand my emotions. You don't know me.

*insert that one gif with the stick figure smashing the keyboard untill his hands bleed here*

Depends on the tone of the song that's currently playing.

You know the way most people aren't actually taught to type, yeah? They just pick it up over time. So it's generally formed habits. It wasn't that computers weren't around, but I learned to type mainly on an ancient manual typewriter - can you imagine what kind of habits that taught? But now I love low-rise chiclet keys. Newest MacBook is awesome but I can't afford one.

I remember my Mum first learning to use a computer keyboard. We had to turn off key repeat and she almost pushed the keys through the back of the board!

I like pressing hard on the keys to avoid the problem where I don't press the key hard enough for it to register. I hate when that happens so I'd much rather type harder.

I type hard to show dominance!

The key I notice hard typing on most on when watching people type is backspace. Some people delete characters like they're trying to erase all memory of an ex.

That habit comes from standard keyboards with rubber switches, where you never know when the switch is closed, especially if it's dirty, so you better press quick and hard.

Using a decent mechanical keyboard it's not necessary, because the switch closes deterministic. But I still find myself doing it sometimes, although I'm using a keyboard with brown cherry switches for quite a while. Especially the enter key has to suffer a lot.

sometimes its simply to release stress
when I'm kind of annoyed by a bug or feature and it wont get better no matter what I do i start typing harder just to tell the computer who is the boss

@CrankyOldDev I learned to type on an old Smith-Corona typewriter and I'm a heavy typist. I've always blamed it on learning to type on a fossil.

Maybe they misunderstood the term "hardcoding"...

I tend to type heavily on laptops with crappy keyboards since they tend to not register keys often. If it's a good keyboard, i type soft if I'm not angry...

More effective, not really. More satisfying? heck yes!