What Speed Do You Watch YouTube Videos At?

[Dunquixote]

Normal I guess; I didn’t know there were other speeds. I don’t use youtube a lot either. I don’t watch the whole video either and just skip to what interests me by moving the slider up a bit at a time.

 

[Corrie]

I watch Youtube at normal speed. Sometimes I'll speed it up for down to play around with songs but normally I just keep it as is.

 

[Xara]

i watch videos at normal speed 99.9% of the time, but sometimes i’ll set it to be slower than normal when listening to music for fun lol.

 

[Princess Mipha]

Normal speed all the time, except if the person in the video is talking suuuper slow.. then I might change the speed a bit, if it's too annoying.

 

[Alienfish]

Normal. Didn't even know you could actually listen on different ones.

 

[sleepydreepy]

Depends on the video and the occasion, but I usually like to speed it up. Sometimes I am too lazy to hit the play back button then speed button tho, so I just press the right arrow key to skip in increments of 10 seconds lmao.

Overall I don't watch YouTube that often anymore because I have a really short attention span. Sometimes I'll click on a super click bait-y video and skip around to the part in the thumb nail, or become bored if I can't find it and click out with less than a minute of actual watch time. The only videos I sit down and watch are gaming strategies/highlights of current games I am playing (these are usually 30 mins long which I would watch at normal speed) or various story times from random youtubers that are 1hr+ long in which I always speed up to 1.5 speed (an example being "theamandafiles" or other similar small/random YouTubers I like). Sometimes I will also watch educational videos about various organisms in the ocean since I studied marine biology for a little bit in college and really like it, and watch those videos at normal speed since they are usually about 5 minutes long (such as videos from the channel "deep sea oddities").

I recently posted on another thread about how I'm really into watching livestreams on twitch and just wanted to clarify that what I really like about it is that I can be doing other things while watching the livestream, which is something I can't do while watching normal TV shows or movies since I have to concentrate on the movie to know what's going on (which I sometimes have a hard time with hence my short attention span). So basically I found that watching livestreams work really well for me right now.

 

[Antonio]

I tend to stick with the original speed unless I feel like the pacing is too slow. If it's too slow, I'll speed it up accordingly.

 

[Soigne]

i listen to audiobooks at 2x their normal speed LOL but youtube videos i always keep on their normal setting.

 

[.: Meri :.]

Usually, I watch videos on normal speed. I may watch at faster speeds if I'm trying to get to the point of a video, or if I'm just trying to understand the gist of something, though. I'll also slow down a video if I'm trying to get a screenshot of something that happens quickly (but then I'll also mute the video if I'm doing that, because videos sound really strange slowed down, ahaha).
Once in a while I'll play around with the speed of a song, but typically only if someone recommends it first.

 

[Maymeows16]

Normal speed most of the time, unless I'm interested in one of the comments saying "play at certain speed" then i might watch it at that speed. It usually is funny videos though since that's usually where I find them at haha

 

[Shawna]

Usually normal, but occasionally, I speed them up or slow them down for amusement.

 

[Pupperina]

Normal speed, but I’ll skip through the videos if they’re not interesting. The only time I’ll change the speed is when I have to watch/listen to recorded lectures from my professors (most of them speak slowly)

 

[tomatospooks666]

i literally never watch yt videos at any other speeds except sometimes when i think a funny moment could be funnier slowed down or sped up.
i have adhd too, btw. well probably.

 

[Snowesque]

Who tattled... I cannot remember the last time I watched a video in normal speed. At this point, when I watch something I'm admittedly disappointed when I cannot speed it up. I think it started to happen when I had a lot of projects/homework years back, but still wanted to watch all the streams/videos I normally would, so I just sped them up. Nowadays it's time management and also because videos are usually drawn out due to how the algorithm rewards it.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

It depends on what I'm watching and who's speaking/who's the narrator. Music I tend to watch at normal speeds (or slower/faster if I'm playing along with something on my instrument). If I'm watching a lecture I tend to speed it up. If someone is a slow speaker I speed it up usually to 1.75.

 

[Hat']

Normal. I see so many of my friends watching at 1.5x but I could never! I would never be able to focus and I don't mind people who talk slowly.