I got used to listening to people in 1.5x and 2x as a video editor, and now it frustrates me when I can’t speed people up IRL.
Thus the ruining of life. I’m also crippled by this affliction <3
Interestingly enough, I don’t seem to have that exact problem. The content speeds I’m comfortable with are highly variable, and I think it has something to do with attention bandwidth.
My default speed for videos is 2.5x when I have it on a big screen and I can pump the audio directly into my head via headphones. Without the headphones, anything over 2x usually feels too fast, so I guess filtering ambient noise is using 0.5x worth of brain power. When I lose the visual component (as with audiobooks) to anchor attention onto, I’m most comfortable at 1.5x.
In real life conversations, so much of my attention is on other things (like what my hands and eyeballs should be doing) that 1x is back to feeling normal.
The only thing it maybe hurts is watching videos with other people, but I don’t do that a lot and can usually still get away with 1.25x or 1.5x. Also, I sometimes get the feeling that I’m talking too slowly, but I think I’ve always felt that.
Anything above 2x is me ignoring the audio and just reading the subtitles.
I suppose I’m in the minority here, but I avoid video or audio content entirely in these situations. I don’t want to listen to somebody babble on about something, whether it’s a news story, a documentary, an opinion piece, whatever. Just give me an article or even a blog post that I can read at my own pace, and easily scroll up to refer back to previous parts.
Ctrl+F is my best friend, and you can’t do that in a video or podcast.
You and me both, cousin.
my partner does this, it drives me nuts lol. makes me leave the room
Not a fan of doing this, personally
Depends on content.
Easy digestable content? 1.75 or 2 Technical? 1 to 1.5 Lifestyle vlog I enjoy watching? 1
