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Feel free to do the experiment, but attempting to walk without rhythm would, I imagine, lead to sudden jolts that would spill your coffee. Maybe if you were a carefully trained fremen and/or Christopher Walken.

The idea is to make a small change in pace, or stutter a step, every few steps. The big sloshing motions that end up spilling your coffee happen when you've taken many steps that re-inforce the sloshing motion, and a mis-timed step here and there counter that loop.

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