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The shitty plastic holding seat and back together that most chairs seem to use is usually the weakest link that fails first.
It might be related to me being taller than most people (188cm, leverage multiplies force) and moving in chair a lot, most chairs being far too rigid to accommodate that.
The younger teen utterly trashed one of my ergonomic chairs that I'd had for five years at that point - back flapping loose, screws holding it together knocked out. She's 157cm (5'2") and weighs about 55kg (120lb). I have no idea how the hell she managed this.
I'm 194cm/95-100kg and have nothing like this sort of trail of trashed chairs. (One whose back plastic warped badly from being kept too near an open fire.) I'm thinking it's less height and weight and more sheer talent.
I'm about 1.87 m and I move a lot too, but I mostly move sideways rather than back-and-forth, and I don't lean on the back so much. (Or maybe they make better chairs in my country than in yours, but this doesn't sound likely.)
I'm about 1.95 m, move a lot, and haven't broken many office chairs.
Maybe the next LW Survey should ask how tall we are, too. We might see some interesting correlations. :-)
... and how many office chairs we've broken?