One of the most popular websites for watching or streaming video content is YouTube. We all watch YouTube videos at some point in time of our days or nights. Now, if you use a laptop or a desktop to watch your YouTube content, then I have got some pretty useful keyboard shortcuts that can hugely decrease your interaction with the trackpad or your mouse.
So, below are 5 pretty nifty keyboard shortcuts for YouTube that you might not know of.
While watching a YouTube video, you can use your num-keys (0-9) to jump to a specific percentage point of the video. For instance, if you press 1, the video will jump to the 10% mark, and similarly, if you press 5, the video will start playing from the 50% mark.
2. Increase or Decrease Caption size
Now, for the videos that support captions (auto-generated or official), you can press “c” to toggle the feature. However, if you find your caption size not up to your preference point, you can use the “+” or “-” button on the upper row of num-keys to manipulate the size of the caption font.
This is a pretty simple yet useful shortcut and might become a life-saver when a video you don’t like starts playing. You can just press the combination of “Shift+N” to skip to the next video.
I don’t know about you, but I sometimes like to watch long tutorials or how-to videos in 2x speed. Well, it covers the whole video in half the time. So, I find this keyboard shortcut to increase or decrease the playback speed of the video quite handy.
5. Fast Forward or Rewind Videos by 10 Seconds
This keyboard shortcut might be of use when you want to skip or rewind like 40 or 50 seconds of a video. You just have to press “j” to skip 10 seconds or “k” to rewind 10 seconds. So, 4-5 taps on “j” or “k” can skip or rewind 40-50 seconds of the video. Pretty neat, huh?
Now, this is not a keyboard shortcut. However, this can be immensely useful if you like to watch long videos on YouTube. With this trick, you can seek long videos, videos that are more than 1 hour, with extreme precision.
