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

8 pointsby bewe429 yıl önce8 comments

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?

10 comments

zacurry9 yıl önce

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.

muzani9 yıl önce

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.

afarrell9 yıl önce

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.

supermdguy9 yıl önce

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

Rainymood9 yıl önce

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

hkmurakami9 yıl önce

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

hawksy9 yıl önce

1.5 x

professorlamp9 yıl önce

1.5x usually

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hiaux09 yıl önce