I did that at my first full-time development job. There was a 50 line method to refactor and it was making calls to some other methods so I printed maybe 5-6 pa

I did that at my first full-time development job. There was a 50 line method to refactor and it was making calls to some other methods so I printed maybe 5-6 pages of code. It helped to get away from the computer because I could focus only on the logic that I was refactoring rather than worrying about making tests pass or seeing it work in a web browser. It's easier to solve a problem when you remove all the fluff and noise. On the other hand, you won't know if you have a good solution until it's implemented. A bit of a trade-off.