A good habit to get into when first learning .Net is to check out other methods and properties in the class you are using (or planning to use).

See Console Class in msdn.

There are 4 methods related to reading, including the ReadLine method you are using.

See if any of the other read related methods will do what you want (see the description on the right of each method).

Hint: there are two of them that will do what you are looking for. One of them might work better than the other.