Ask HN: What speed are you watching you YouTube videos?

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by aquir • 5 years ago

2 12 5 years ago

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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• 5 years ago

It 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• 5 years ago

Great, 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• 5 years ago

2x unless it is music.

decrypt• 5 years ago

As 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• 5 years ago

usually, at 1.5

gquiniou• 5 years ago

1x because I am usually doing something else in parallel.

necovek• 5 years ago

Not 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• 5 years ago

The 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• 5 years ago

NewPipe 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• 5 years ago

It 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• 5 years ago

Almost 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• 5 years ago

Usually 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.

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