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

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

Sleep? I run Linux. It's on. Or it's off. So power? I guess?

my computer doesnt go to sleep.

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

Any key

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

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

Lawful Neutral, ctrl.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Numlock. Let's me know if the hardware is locked up, powered off, or just slow to wake.

I'm so surprised people have specific buttons? Is there a reason? I just mash my whole hand at the keyboard

space, ctrl, or sometimes the entire numpad at once. it's just one big button :P

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

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.

Mash low in the corner.

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

I know, much barbarian.

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

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

Mouse click gang

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 push the power button on the tower.

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