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Use these Best YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts to Save Time While Watching
YouTube Videos
While watching YouTube videos, you can press the Spacebar to play and pause
the video. But there are even more keyboard shortcuts YouTube supports
though. Some YouTube keyboard shortcuts let you do things you otherwise
won’t be able to do at all on YouTube.
If you’re the kind of YouTube user who spends a large part of their days
jumping from one YouTube video to another, knowing some of these YouTube
keyboard shortcut keys would be very useful.
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1. Pause and Resume Video
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2. Skip Forward or Backward
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3. Skip to a Different Point or Repeat
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4. Speed Up or Slow Down YouTube Video
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5. Navigate YouTube Video Frame by Frame
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6. Raise or Lower Volume
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7. Mute YouTube Video
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8. Play the Next Video or Previous Video
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9. Select Search Box
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10. Switch to Fullscreen
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11. Enable or Disable Closed Captions
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12. Open YouTube Mini-Player in the Bottom Right
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Pause and Resume Video
Let’s start with the most common and useful YouTube keyboard shortcuts. You
can press the Spacebar while watching a video to pause it. You can also
press the Spacebar to resume a paused video. What many people don’t know,
you can get the same results using the K key.
Skip Forward or Backward
Another set of well known YouTube keyboard shortcut keys are the forward
arrow and backward arrow keys. The video skips 5 seconds ahead or behind
depending on the arrow key. Once again, here’s something not many people
know.
You can also forward or rewind a YouTube video in 10 second increments by
pressing the J and L keys.
Skip to a Different Point or Repeat
This is not all YouTube offers in the way of keyboard navigation. You can
actually jump to a specific part of the video. A YouTube video, no matter
how long, is divided into ten parts. From the number row on your keyboard,
you can press any key from 0 to 9 to jump to the specific parts.
* For instance, pressing 0 will bring you to the start of the video,
i.e. repeat the video.
* Pressing 5 will bring you to the exact middle of the video.
* Press 9 and you will jump to the last 10th of the video.
Speed Up or Slow Down YouTube Video
YouTube has a lot of videos of just people talking. Sometimes they talk
really fast while often they talk really slow. Luckily, you can speed up or
slow down YouTube videos rather easily. This functionality isn’t made
obvious. But you can get to these controls by clicking on the gear icon and
selecting Playback speed. which requires at least 3 clicks. A much easier
way to speed up or slow down YouTube videos is to use YouTube keyboard
shortcut keys.
YouTube offers 8 playback speed options:
0.25x,
0.50x,
0.75x,
Normal,
1.25x,
1.5x,
1.75x,
2.0x.
You can switch between these using the following shortcut keys.
* Shift + period . or >greater than
* Shift + comma , or < less than
Navigate YouTube Video Frame by Frame
If you thought the ability to speed up or slow down a YouTube video was
impressive, prepare to be surprised. YouTube also lets you go through a
video frame by frame.
* First, you have to pause the video, which you can do using Spacebar
or K.
* Next, press the . (Period) to go forward a frame or press the ,
(comma) to go back a frame.
You can also hold down either of these keys to watch the video is super slow
motion in either direction.
Raise or Lower Volume
Most keyboards have some media controls keys to control things such as
volume. These are almost always smaller than the other keys and fixated on
the top row where you have to look down and find them.
Luckily, the online YouTube video player has its own volume control with
YouTube keyboard shortcuts. You can control it using the up arrow key to
raise the volume or down arrow key to lower the volume.
Mute YouTube Video
This is another useful YouTube keyboard shortcut but not many know about it.
You can actually mute or unmute a YouTube video by pressing the M key.
Play the Next Video or Previous Video
YouTube always has a list of suggestions whether Autoplay is on or not. If
the video you’re currently watching fails to hold your attention, you can
completely skip it and move to the next one on the list. To do this you just
have to use the Shift + N YouTube keyboard shortcut keys. This also works if
you’re watching a playlist. In a playlist, you can even go back to the
previous video by pressing Shift + P.
Select Search Box
While watching a video on YouTube you can simply press “/” and start typing
your search query. Pressing the “/” key brings the search bar into focus.
You can also select search suggestions using the arrow keys and hit Enter to
run the selected search. This is mighty convenient because you never have to
use your mouse or slide on the trackpad to click on the search bar.
Switch to Fullscreen
While playing a YouTube video you can simply press the F key to switch to
full screen. If the video is already in full screen, pressing F will switch
it back to the normal view.
You can also press the F11 on the keyboard to toggle between Fullscreen
modes in Windows PCs.
Enable or Disable Closed Captions
Many YouTube videos have auto-generated closed captions for people with a
hearing disability. Closed captions are also helpful when you’re in an
environment where you can’t really rely on audio. They’re also helpful if
you’re watching something in a language you don’t fully understand, or maybe
you don’t get the accent.
You can turn on or turn off closed captions with YouTube keyboard shortcuts
by simply pressing “C” on the keyboard.
Open YouTube Mini-Player in the Bottom Right
Another cool feature not many people know about on YouTube is the YouTube
mini-player. Yes, you can actually continue to browse YouTube while your
video plays without having to open another tab or anything. Press the letter
I, while the video is playing to move the video into the bottom right
corner.
So, there they are, some of the most useful YouTube keyboard shortcut keys
that we found. Whether you are a power user, a nerd, or a regular Joe who is
used to clicking things, these YouTube shortcut keys above should prove very
useful. Do you know any other useful shortcuts? Let us know in the comments
below.
https://mashtips.com/best-youtube-keyboard-shortcuts/
David Goldfield
Assistive Technology Specialist
Feel free to visit my Web site
http://WWW.DavidGoldfield.info
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