YouTube Playback Speed Chrome Extension

YouTube videos at the speed of podcasts.

I often watch tutorials on YouTube, but I’m also impatient. To save time I like to watch them at 2x speed – as is commonplace with podcasts and audiobooks. It takes a bit of getting used to but you can get through a lot very quickly when you speed things up. But often I feel that 2x isn’t enough. I could save even more time if it went quicker.

Enter the YouTube Playback speed chrome extension. A couple of days ago someone on my Twitter timeline shared this and it’s changed my YouTube viewing habits forever. Now all the 1 hour plus videos I had been putting off because I couldn’t commit to watching them in one go have been watched! It’s brilliant.

Obviously there’s times when this isn’t appropriate, but for content where you want to consume and move on? It’s worked perfectly for me!

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