For Youtube (and most others) I usually just paste the URL to `mpv` (using youtube-dl under the hood) to take advantage of it's keyboard shortcuts for easy control over speed and position etc.

I might be playing through a video really fast, but suddenly need to repeat something so hit backspace to drop to normal speed, a press or two of left arrow to jump back (~5 secs each), then tap ] a few times to speed up again. Then if there's an interesting chart or graph shown, just f to toggle full screen, s for screenshot if you like.

Being able to navigate and control linear media with simple keyboard shortcuts feels liberating in a similar way to the first time you grok a powerful edit with just a few keystrokes in Vim or Emacs (except you're just consuming media of course).

Nicely done, I've always heard that we can listen about 4x faster than we can speak. Most podcast listeners I know do 1.5x - 2x speed, myself included.

Wow. I have trouble at 2x. You've got a gift, I think.

To get comfortable listening at 2x you can first try to listen at 1x and gradually increase the speed to 2x.

The mind just beees to get used to the voice and pitch of the speaker

It's just practice. I'm having now trouble with 2x... feels soo slow.

Thanks for testing this.

– Eduards