Gameplay videos. Music. Anything where the tempo and or physics actually matter.
I’m not a 2x man though. I’m probably usually around 1.2–1.5x. 2x just gets jittery. They’d have to be a really slow talker for that speed. I don’t usually watch content where people talk that slowly.
Music
That gets slowed + reverb
Talking about theory or ideas. If a video is a really wordy and theoretical one then I usually listen to it in the background. Ironically, I don’t really watch ANYTHING on YouTube anymore - I just listen to stuff
Usually ones that heavily involve music, because it really screws with the sound. Especially if there’s a lot of bass.
But I’m usually only watching at 2x because either I’m trying to watch something before work, or because the narrator is just speaking way too slowly.
I do watch some videos at 1.5x speed…
Louis Rossman ranting at 1.0x is the equivalent of anybody else at 1.5x
Music and How-tos when I’m actually doing the thing.
Everything that isn’t a tutorial where they are talking way too slow.
I watch videos on 2x speed when they are instructional.
If its artistic, a process video, or commentary i watch on 1x
Some film and visual effects breakdowns videos.
And when whoever is talking in the video presents some other clip and they 2x speed it. I have to slow to normal or slightly faster because 4x is genuinely too fast for me 98% of the time.
Louis Rossman
nah, I usually watch videos on 1x and skip through (how to’s and whatnot). if a video isn’t entertaining at the presented speed, I don’t watch it
I watch every Jake Broe video on 1.3. He talks slow.
Really, it depends. Theres plenty I speed up and plenty I watch at 1x.
It depends on content, topic, style, directing. Speedup is fine for most information consumption. When its a documentary, the directing and length often makes 1x more viable.