Every morning when I get out of the shower, I remember Daddy’s advice.
“Before drying off with a towel, use your hands and whisk most of the water off your skin, then use your towel.”
Daddy was a Lieutenant on a Cruiser ship in the South Pacific in World War II. Towels had a hard time drying in the steamy depths of a ship, so the more water you could remove with your hands, the less the towel had to absorb and the quicker it would dry.
That’s still pretty good advice.