How do you drive a manual car?

I was just bored and wanted know more about other CT users driving habits, particularly how they may drive a car with a manual transmission. Do you shift slowly and deliberately? Or is it your goal to out-shift a Dual Clutch box? I’ve sort of fallen into a habit of shifting fairly quickly, even when I’m just cruising along. I wouldn’t say I’m banging gears, just quick smooth shifts, nothing abrupt, but definitely quicker than most other drivers rowing their own gears (I’ve had more than a few of my friends comment on my shifting, and all of them drive manual daily). I want to say the reason I started doing this is because I’m subconsciously competitive. When ever I was at a red light next to an automatic car, if we took off at the same rate of acceleration, I would fall back with every gear change. This bugged me, so I started shifting faster. After a while, shifting got smoother, and it became normal. So now, whether I’m running late for work, or just cruising along, I shift quickly. It’s gotten to the point where I no longer slip the clutch out for smooth engagement, I more or less dump the clutch and match the throttle with the engine speed (while shifting, obviously dumping the clutch from a stop is not going to achieve a smooth take-off). There’s never any jolt, bucking, or chirp from the tires, just one gear into the next. So I want to know if anyone else does anything similar, or if anyone else gets slightly bothered when an automatic car pulling ahead because you had to change gears, or if I’m just weird.