Listening at 3x speed and concentrating deeply on the material =\= listening at 3x speed while trying to multitask Most informative content is, I have observed

Listening at 3x speed and concentrating deeply on the material =\= listening at 3x speed while trying to multitask Most informative content is, I have observed, fairly slow and repetitious. This is a good way to produce content because it is fair to assume that most people will not be fully mentally engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. That’s not a bad thing - your audience may simply not understand the importance of what you’re trying to say until they’ve heard it once). However, viewers who want to fully engage with content may find themselves having trouble concentrating due to the slow speed of information. Personally, I use 1x for most entertainment and for informative material if I’m doing some other activity like chores or driving, 2x for entertainment content which has a lot of fluff (e.g. pretty much everything on YouTube these days), and 2.5x for informative content which I am giving my full attention to (although I often pause to consider what’s been said or rewind to rewatch a dense portion of the content at a slower speed). That’s a pretty good balance for me.