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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.


  👤 _ah Accepted Answer ✓
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.

👤 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.


👤 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.

👤 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.

👤 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.

👤 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.

👤 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.

👤 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.

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

👤 bitxbitxbitcoin
2x unless it is music.

👤 slipwalker
usually, at 1.5