Try New YouTube’s HTML5 Player

From college courses to TED talks, YouTube is a great source of educational lectures. The downside to this unique method of learning is the time it can take. If you need to cram a bunch of video into a short amount of time, Reddit user ladyzebra suggests switching to YouTube’s HTML5 player and turning the playback speed up.

To enable this, you’ll need to activate the HTML5 trial here. This version of the player supports turning up video playback to either 1.5x or 2x the normal pace. Depending on how slowly the speaker talks, you may be able to save up to half the time you’d normally spend watching the video. Most videos I found worked best at 1.5x speed, but there will always be that one person who talks impossibly slow that can benefit from the fastest option.

Quite interesting, don’t you think?

VIA | Reddit and Lifehacker