I wish my video playing device has some hardware buttons for smoothly setting speed from 0.25x to 10x, Youtube can not play sound if the speed is more than 4x.
Also I want some handy way of going few seconds ago and relisten that short interval with less speed. Sometimes only one word is misheard but returning to that moment might be a problem on some devices.
If you're talking about a computer, this exists via a Chrome extension (Video Speed Controller: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...). You can set a preferred speed that you can access by just pressing "G" on your keyboard. I've set mine to 2.4x, but you can go even higher than 10x. You can also reset speed to 1x by pressing "R" and rewind 10 secs by pressing "Z."
Apart of me thinks that maybe you're trying to be provocative, but you don't actually believe that second bit, do you? It really makes me wonder what kind of books you've been reading.
For technical stuff I think it's pretty accurate. If you're trying to adjust the sound on your computer, a manual explaining the computer is going to be 99% useless except for that one page that talks about adjusting the volume.
Ive found that if i spend just a few minutes defining what i want to gain out of any content, i can learn at 100x the speed of just thoughtlessly consuming.
Sometimes even infinite times if I realize the content isn't worth consuming at all
I think the benefit comes from exercising(training) the brain to identify/translate/transmit sensory data (video/audio) faster. It's like having a conversation with an 80 yo grandma vs. talking to a fast witty talker. The brain needs to adjust to the word rate. I think this is one way to develop speed "on your feet" as the saying goes.
The submitted title ("Watching a video at 2x the speed can double your learning speed") was editorialized in a way that strongly affected the comments—it made the thread more shallow and predictable. That's one reason the site guidelines ask you not to do that.
"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
Edit: it's worth pointing out that the submitted title at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32815915 ("Marmots appear not to age while they are hibernating") was actually good and in keeping with the same guideline. In that case the original title was linkbait and therefore needed to be changed, and the submitted title appears to be an accurate and neutral representation of the article, not a cherry-picked detail as it was here.
You can read a lot faster than you can talk. Which also means you can comprehend a lot faster than people can talk to you.
Or in other words speed up the video playback to match your typical reading speed.
Some people are very mumbly and hard to understand at higher speeds. But most of the time it works great. Bonus points if the video includes closed captions.
I've had a number of teens tell me that they watch TV shows and movies at 1.25 or 1.5 speed. So it's not limited to educational content.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 58.1 ms ] threadTo do what you're asking would be left arrow (back 5 seconds) and shift+comma (reduce playing speed).
As a bonus you get extensions/add-ons that improve the whole experience.
It's sad how (unsolvably?) lame YouTube is on a phone, once you get used to this.
Wish this existed for my phone!
Sometimes even infinite times if I realize the content isn't worth consuming at all
"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: it's worth pointing out that the submitted title at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32815915 ("Marmots appear not to age while they are hibernating") was actually good and in keeping with the same guideline. In that case the original title was linkbait and therefore needed to be changed, and the submitted title appears to be an accurate and neutral representation of the article, not a cherry-picked detail as it was here.
You can read a lot faster than you can talk. Which also means you can comprehend a lot faster than people can talk to you.
Or in other words speed up the video playback to match your typical reading speed.
Some people are very mumbly and hard to understand at higher speeds. But most of the time it works great. Bonus points if the video includes closed captions.
I've had a number of teens tell me that they watch TV shows and movies at 1.25 or 1.5 speed. So it's not limited to educational content.