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Train yourself for 1.75x (or higher) speed.

• zamadatix 8y ago
  For those who haven't tried: document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 3.14 or an extension if you want to go faster than 2x. You can just up arrow on your next session. Getting to 3x consistently can be a hard barrier to break for some talking patterns like this guy's where he has periods of very slow speech and long breaks followed by periods of quick pace explanation with details but the payoff is relatively high. I was inspired to give higher speeds a shot when I read a post by a blind user describing how many use >500 WPM text to speech (which sounds completely indecipherable at first) to navigate computer interfaces quickly.
  • JadeNB 8y ago
    > For those who haven't tried: document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 3.14 or an extension if you want to go faster than 2x. You can just up arrow on your next session. Or the even easier: youtuble-dl plus VLC, with a slider for playback speed.
    • naikrovek 8y ago
      VLC can open YouTube natively. Open network stream, paste YouTube URL, click "Play"
• gumby 8y ago
  high speed + captions helps. I wish they would simply embed the captions on the page so I could skip the video but that would reduce those sweet sweet ad views. (of course YT caption quality is notoriously poor, but TBF it's a hard problem. And often you can get the gist of the message quickly, which is frequently all you want anyway).