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What's your preferred video watching speed?
I watch most Russian-speaking youtubers at 2x, with just a few fast talkers getting a 1.75x setting. Most English-speaking youtubers are watchable at 1.5x, the most articulate (or non-native Euro speakers) at 1.75x. This guy, however, takes the cake (pun intended). Somehow I can understand him at 1x, struggle to understand him at 1.25x and at 1.5x I might as well be listening to Prisencolinensinainciusol.
This sounds a lot like speed reading. You can increase your reading speed without losing comprehension based on information density. This means a lot of nonfiction books you can speed read because they typically spend 200 pages to convey 1-5 key ideas. But if you were going through a physics textbook, you can speed read all you want but you're not going to retain any information. I guess it depends on what kinds of videos are being watched.
Unlike speed reading, it's not easy to adjust your consumption rate on the fly. I find it very annoying having to rewind the video when watching at faster speeds if I miss something and want to rewatch it. If I feel I need to speed through the video I actually just use the right arrow key to skip a few seconds and read the subtitled text than increase the video speed. I think it really depends on the video. I usually read for knowledge and watch for entertainment, so I don't really increase the video speed because I'm trying to enjoy my time watching the video, not optimize for speed. I read fiction slower, too.
YouTube doesn't have a speed option faster than 2x, so you'd have to go a bit out of your way to get the videos to play faster.
I remember this when looking at my reading speed for various things
Fiction I typically read at 600 words per minute it's really easy to read and you don't need to remember every single sentence.
Textbooks though I'm reading at 100-200 words per minute. Typically every word matters and the information density is often high enough that reading 1 page creates a lot of noteworthy information.
I watch youtube video's with my hands on the J K and L keys and mash J/L to rewatch/skip various bits, and I almost always do 2x speed
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