I also find this to be the case. Specially on ramp-up the difference is night and day.
I also felt a motivation boost in certain situations.
As with everything, if it makes sense or not, depends on a lot of factors:
Who are you pairing with?
How long? (hours per day/days per week..)
What type of problem are you solving?
All these and more, need to be taken into consideration. Just forcing people to pair is probably not a good idea.
EDIT: Reading a bit more about pairing in general, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on the "one keyboard per pair". I like to keep two keyboards/computers per pair so that I can quickly jump between solo and pairing, to test ideas, investigate etc
I also felt a motivation boost in certain situations.
As with everything, if it makes sense or not, depends on a lot of factors:
All these and more, need to be taken into consideration. Just forcing people to pair is probably not a good idea.EDIT: Reading a bit more about pairing in general, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on the "one keyboard per pair". I like to keep two keyboards/computers per pair so that I can quickly jump between solo and pairing, to test ideas, investigate etc