I've rarely seen anyone actually deadlift, my old gym had those stupid hex plates that make deadlifts a pain,
there was this wanker once doing 4 plates a side for singles about 15 minutes appart and dropping it as loud as possible and looking around to see who's watching the fucking prat.
In my works gym a few people deadlift, the most I've seen is 3 plates aside, once again for singles at least ten minutes appart. There is an older fella does light deadlifts with paper towels on his hands to stop the knurling hurting them haha