Click ` (the grave accent key) to flick between normal and 2x speed, or ctrl + ` to play at 3x speed.
Note: After initial install, you may need to reload YouTube pages that were open (this only happens on initial install)
Control the speed of YouTube videos using the ` key.
Flick between normal (1x), 2x and 3x playback speed.
Usage:
- Click ` (the grave accent key) to flick between normal and 2x playback speed
- Click ctrl + ` to flick between normal and 3x playback speed.
Latest reviews
- (2023-09-11) Chris Christopher: I prefer the McSpeedy bookmarklet since it lets me use a slider to find the optimal speed to watch a speaker. I can go from 0.25x with 0.25x increments beyond 3x to 3.5x and 4x and even to 16x if I want to skip over boring parts of shows.
- (2023-08-18) Schwurbel Durbel: Not working
- (2023-07-23) Aadit Singal: I love it.. It also fastens the yt ads. But how do I use it on other platforms like udemy, and other video sites?
- (2023-07-17) Sam Hughes: I'm on the verge of removing this plugin, because of how annoying it is to comment on youtube videos. You can't configure it or selectively enable different options, so it's both 3x speed and the other weird, undesired functionality, or else just dealing with Youtube's 2x speed. Clearly the author does not comment on videos much. The plugin includes the ability to tap a number key N, and jump to that N/10th of the video. I have never once intended to invoke this functionality, and I often invoke it accidentally while commenting. I love having the option to 3x through a boring segment or to just see if there's anything useful in a video or if I like the video, but the presenter is just talking god.awful.laboriously.slow.
- (2023-06-12) Josiah Torres: It works:)
- (2023-06-10) Ashish Naik: So, it either doesn't work or the controls are far too confusing as when I followed the instructions outlined in the overview, it simply would not speed up my video; obviously, I was greatly distraught and in tremendous distress. For now I will have to live with a mere 2x speed[ :( ] Any help resolving the issue or a future update will be greatly appreciated :D
- (2023-05-18) G Hy: it works :)
- (2023-04-19) m.nageh: it has a really bad bug, if you pick a video after searching in YouTube and open it in the same tab the extension won't work unless you refresh the tab !
- (2023-04-17) Reese: Just what I needed, super simple to use, thank you
- (2023-04-15) Ilia Ovsiannikov: Works fine in Microsoft Edge
- (2023-03-26) Divyanshu Ojha: please don't add this extension, totally worst .
- (2023-03-18) CSGO HERO: fake not working don't waste ur time
- (2023-03-16) Wiz Labs: niceeeee
- (2022-12-12) no namer: It works well, but I do wish the subtitles synced up better.
- (2022-10-25) Michael Bahnmiller: Please add a 2.5 speed and/or custom speeds!! (I do like the idea of 0.5 speed gradients.)
- (2022-10-02) Vaishakh 2424: Brilliant restart the browser and it would work nice even skips the ads :0 :)
- (2022-05-23) Sia Luna (코딩 너구리): please make x2.5 speed
- (2022-05-22) Daydric Alukard: Just works, too easy. but When there is a chapter function, it does not work. 잘 작동합니다. 사용도 편합니다. 유튜브에 챕터 기능이 있을 시 작동하지 않습니다. 새로고침하면 작동하기도 합니다.
- (2022-05-15) Hriday Gohel (Hr.G AwesomeHeart): try pressing Ctrl + shift + ` (key below escape)
- (2022-03-25) Nicolas W: 3 stars bc i'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but it's not working, i'm doing ctrl `
- (2022-03-17) Ne Xus: WHERE IS THE F*#%*#G ` BUTTON??? WHICH SHORTCUT I SHOULD USE, I DON'T UNDERSTAD!
- (2022-03-06) Lawrence Cao: IF you want an extension that actually works and has a customizable speed use this one https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk/related?hl=en
- (2022-02-06) Sir Garrick Michael Affe Hochmann: Works well but would be nicer to have customizable speed
- (2022-01-30) nitin vyas: NOT ABLE TO USE IT . WINDOWS 8
- (2022-01-24) santanu das: please add 2.5
- (2022-01-15) Osa Omoigui: it works but u have to close n reopen chrome for it to run
- (2022-01-09) Elizaveta Kokosova: garbage
- (2022-01-08) Emily: doesnt work
- (2021-07-11) Michael Propach: Finally can watch vids at x3 speed.
- (2021-06-13) Isaac Shelton: Seems to work well
- (2021-04-14) Saood Ahmad Bilal: works
- (2021-03-04) Ivan guevara: 3x speed
- (2021-01-24) Graham Sell: Does exactly what I wanted. Allows 3x speed with a simple command instead of having to mess around in Javascript on the fly.
- (2020-11-14) Craig Jones: having no shortcuts for this drives me nuts as i constantly switch between music which i want 1x speed and content videos where i'd dreamt of 3x speed. the only feedback i'd give is that the shortcut of + and ` is a two handed command, it may be easier to Command (or Cmd) ⌘; Shift + ` to keep this one handed.
- (2019-01-06) Michael Fresco: I'd be nice if I could add my own speeds. I like 1-1.5-2-2.5
- (2018-09-23) Sabreen Sayed: Very good, Just when I type space in the comments it controls the video play/pause instead of typing. Tired of switching it on and off. EDIT: Yes thank you for the fix! :) The app does what it intends to well. As a suggestion, I would love it if you could have speed gradients of 0.5 instead of 1 somehow, or else include the speed x2.5 via another shortcut. I think x2.5 is better for some videos instead of x3.
- (2018-02-11) Kendel Duke: i am going to like it anyway