A yarn winding method, which is applicable to a yarn winding device, which is installed in a texturing machine, a draw texturing machine, or a spinning machine, wherein traverse stroke is varied pulsatively, the traverse stroke, number of traverse strokes and winding speed are controlled by separate drive motors which are independent from each other, varying period of the traverse stroke, varying period of the number of traverse strokes and the varying period of the winding speed are basically in synchronism with each other, and at each traverse period, at least one of start points of the varying period of the traverse stroke, of varying period of the number of traverse strokes and of varying period of the winding speed is shifted from the other by a distance within a range of between 0 and 30% of the basic varying period.