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IT guy here.
Nope, my phone uses facial recognition to unlock, and my computer passwords are wither random letters and numbers or a full passphrase, both of which use multiples of the same letter and different capitalizations.
Example:
Random string, similar to passwords I have used in the past:
"r82ZwQqDW"
Looking at a keyboard where you could see all characters used it would look like this:
dqrwz28 + shift
Figuring out the password above from these letter by logic is basically impossible, so they have to brute force it, only they don't know the length of the password, which uses more time.
Passphrases are even better, using something like:
CreepySmilingHorseSnortsLead2016!
Just look at all of the reused letters!
No way someone would guess that the characters acedghilmnoprsty0126 + shift would spell the password above.