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

2 points by aquir ↗ HN
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.

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NoOn3
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
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?
decrypt
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.
gquiniou
1x because I am usually doing something else in parallel.
necovek
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
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
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
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
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
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.