Silca Super Secret hot melt. I’ve been using it on road, TT, and cx bikes for the past three years. Wish I would have converted sooner.
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Silca Drip Wax since this summer, was previously on Ceramic Speed for a couple of years. Run both gravel and road steeds on drip wax, no hot immersion wax yet. Pretty pretty happy with it. Silca seems to run smoother than CS all conditions.
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Another waxer
Super Secret hot and drip as needed. Road and gravel.
Was a White Lighting user a long time ago
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Synergetic for the Gravel and Winter bike.
UFO wax drip for the summer road bike. Silca version is fine as well. Usually applied to a treated wax chain.
UFO indoor wax for the Zwift bike.
In my experience, wax does not cut it for filthy UK mixed conditions at least if you want a quiet bike for more than a few km.
Synergetic is good, need to wipe off excess and clean your bike but you have to do that anyway in winter/offroad most times…
Refuse to mess around rotating chains and other immersion wax faff. I’d rather change a chain a bit more often when it is worn or before (and probably starting to rust anyway).
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It’d be interesting to see the most hated lubes too, my nomination being for White Lightning which didn’t last even a full day in dusty conditions in the Indian Himalayas. At the opposite end is Singer sewing machine oil which results in black muck everywhere, and then there’s WD40, which isn’t really a lube…
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Silca me baby! Wax in the summer wet for the winter.
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No, anything goes! Whatever is your fave 
My mechanic also recommended MorganBlue Race Oil which is another one to check for me.
Personal bikes have
Road - Silca Super Secret emersion wax, two chains in rotation and the Silca drip wax as a top up*
Commuter/Gravel bike - CeramicSpeed Endurance wax, again two chains in rotation and the CS UFO drip as top up*
*I find I rarely need to top up with the drip was. My my x2 waxpots are regularly running for customers chains, I’ll pop my chains in for a rewax after 3-400 miles.
For customers not waxing, I use Morgan Blue Race oil or suggest they use Silca Synergenic if they are looking for a recommendation.
Rock N’ Roll Extreme for me here in (normally) fairly wet New England
One application of Silca Super Secret drip lasted on my new bike in mostly dry conditions for nearly 2,000 km.
While I submitted the form that Suvi posted at the top, I’ll put in a plug for Boeshield T-9 for bikes that live in wet or humid spaces for most of their lives. My household’s commuter bikes live outdoors in the humid climes of Washington, DC. T-9 is a perfect solution for their chains: it’s a great protectant (developed for jet aircraft) and an effective lubricant, is long lasting, runs quite clean (as it’s a wax at heart), has no PFAS (which I like), and it keeps rust very much at bay. Is it as wattage-saving as wax? No. But does it keep those “feral” chains running smoothly and for a long time? Yes.
I’ve also used Synergetic on these bikes but rust was always an issue over time. Not so with T-9.
Heh - this could open a can of worms! 
My nominations for this illustrious category:
- White Lightning (want to turn your chain into a candle over time? White Lightning will do it!)
- Muc-Off Wet Conditions or Dry Conditions lubes (smell great but are grit-and-grime magnets)
- Tri-Flo (great for lubing cables and pivots, a magnet for crud on chains - also PFAS aplenty)
- Chain-L (oily, messy, and waaaay overpriced)
White Lightning was the pick of Adam Kerin and I when we needed a lube to act as a wear accelerant for the “best chain” article back at CyclingTips. Good stuff that, drivetrain manufacturers should recommend it more, it’ll help with sales. 
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^ How very unsurprising. Back in 2006 I rode “MTB Himachal” a stage race in the Himalayas, and used White Lightning as it was supposed to be clean. It never lasted a whole day, and the chain was certainly “clean” of any sign of lubrication a lot of the time. Lots of squeaking was had, plus innumerable pinch flats from near-continuous babyhead rocks on fire road descents.
Which White Lightning lube did you use?
Silca hot melt wax. It’s so clean and I love never having to clean and degrease my drivetrains ever again! Using super secret drip wax to top up on multi-day bike tours.
I never found Chain-L messy back in the day. Certainly not clean like modern wax standards though
It was Epic Ride. I shudder to think that I used to sell that as a good product while working in bike shops in the 2000s.
In the UK there’s a very cheap, strong cider called White Lightning that has a similar smell and consistency to the lube. I always wondered if it was the same stuff. Sounds like it could be
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