10x Your Playback Rate
Consuming pre-recorded conference talks, video tutorials, and podcasts at accelerated speeds is possible and addictive. Each week I send a newsletter containing at least one recent conference talk I've watched, and I wouldn't be able to do this without the following hack:
Most videos players (YouTube, Vimeo, QuickTime) let you increase the playback rate, but often these controls are hard to find or have an arbitrary ceiling like 2x. If there's a video element in the DOM, I like to bump up the rate in the DevTools console like this:
document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 3
'3' equals three-times the normal speed, and that seems to be my limit for the moment.
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