Ask HN: At what speed do you watch educational videos?

[bewe42]

When learning a new technical skill, I'm noticing that the time I spend watching videos instead of reading books is growing. But I almost always consume videos at a speed of 1.25x or 1.5x or sometimes even more. I don't think I lose anything by doing this, in fact, I feel I can learn quicker this way, especially if the video is of high quality (I could be wrong). I rather pause a video when I need to think about something than playing it at the original speed. I find that curious and wonder what this means for how we communicate and learn.

Are you doing this also?

[zacurry]

My preferred mode is book, especially for hard concepts.

I uusually view videos at 1.0x . I find them hard to learn from as my mind keeps wandering. I tried with 2.0x , it still didn't work for me.

[muzani]

I do it at the maximum speed whenever possible, around 2x. I can just pause and rewind whenever.

Personally not a fan of videos to learn. I usually learn faster from books because of speed reading. Speeding up videos makes them tolerable for me.

[afarrell]

I sometimes download them and play them with VLC at 90% speed so my note-taking and diagramming can keep up. Either that or I just pause repeatedly. If it is review, I’ll play at 1.5 or 2x though.

I wish online video platforms had a 90% option because it would make it more enjoyable for my wife to watch history videos with me.

[supermdguy]

1.5x to 2x, with pauses whenever I get confused. I think it's just because talking intelligibly is slower than thinking.

[Rainymood]

2x usually. Rewatch at 1.0x or 1.5x if I didn't get something.

[hkmurakami]

iirc 1.5x. 2x was too much for me.

[hawksy]

1.5 x

[professorlamp]

1.5x usually