I listen to a lot of podcasts and YouTube videos at 3x or 4x speed now, having slowly built up the skill over a few years. It's pretty nice now and saves time, and it's remarkable how well the human brain can adapt to such input.

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Rendello 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I watch most talks at 2x speed or 1.5x if it's a really technical topic. Bryan Cantrill excepted!

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a012 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m the opposite, I can’t stand the fast speaking videos. But I also speed up 1.2x to 1.5x if the videos were too slow.

	▲	thrownthatway 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m struggling to understand your definition of opposite here. Wouldn’t opposite mean you listen at sub 1x speed. Whereas as your definition seems to be ”I’m the same, but less so.”

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brador 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You recall nothing and you know it. You're just wasting time you could use for something useful or meaningful in your life. Kids call it "Anxiety cope" but I don't agree.

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ragazzina 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can you recall 3 lines of dialogue from the latest movie you watched?

	▲	brador 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you're listening to a podcast at 3x you're trying to learn something. No one is trying to learn watching a movie.

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satvikpendem 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe you can't but I can recall whatever I need to.

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thrownthatway 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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