In my creative writing practice, I retype a piece at least once in the process of revision¹ which forces me to consider every word along the way. I’ve heard of people doing this with other peoples’ writing, something I’ve never had the patience for, but I can imagine that again, the process of getting words (or code) from the page through the eyes→brain→fingers to the keyboard does require some mental consideration of what you’re doing.

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1. This has its roots in my high school writing practice where I wrote using a manual typewriter (sitting on the floor of my bedroom in my parents’ basement) and the only way to revise my copy was to retype a clean version of it.