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Ask HN: What speed are you watching you YouTube videos?
I sort of got used to watching most of YT videos on 1.5x but more like 2x speed. Now "normal" speed sounds like it's slowed down.
- NoOn3 5y agoIt depends on the complexity of the material presented in the video. Sometimes 2x, sometimes 1.5x or sometimes even repeatedly pause videos to understand better.
- aquir 5y agoGreat, it's not just me then! It would be interesting to see some analytics from YT makers...does YT logging the (average) playback speed for the videos for statistics?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago2x unless it is music.
- decrypt 5y agoAs a hard of hearing person, I mostly depend on subtitles to follow along. So, 2.5x is my usual speed, sometimes 3x depending on the content.
- slipwalker 5y agousually, at 1.5
- gquiniou 5y ago1x because I am usually doing something else in parallel.
- necovek 5y agoNot sure if not watching them counts as 0x or infinity? But for those videos that I do watch outside of Youtube, it depends a lot on the narrator and their pace.
- furgooswft13 5y agoThe woman has started watching her YT talking heads at 2x speed, ugh. The only thing more annoying hearing constant idiotic blather is hearing it in chipmunk.
- speedgoose 5y agoNewPipe allows to speed the video even more when it is silent. It's a very nice feature that got destroyed when Google decided to cut the download speed of third party YouTube clients.
- mvanga 5y agoIt really depends on the complexity of the topic and the accent of the speaker. Most videos I watch at 2.8x. Otherwise it's 2x.
- HardwareLust 5y agoAlmost always at 1.25, unless it's for a couple of specific channels where I like to hear the guy speak in a normal voice.
- _ah 5y agoUsually somewhere between 1.75 and 1.9, depending on the content. There's something weird that happens moving from 1.9 to 2.0 where I feel the audio quality degrades dramatically.