Everything at 1.5 x speed

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Does anyone else listen to podcasts / radio catch and TV at 1.5 x speed or more?

I can’t bear to watch at normal speed anymore. Will only watch on Netflix because it has that option. Disney+ doesn’t.

It all seems so slow and laborious at normal speed.

Work, yes.
Some podcasts.
Daily reading, yes.

I'm going to have to give netflix a try. Not sure how I feel about watching fast TV.

Tried 1.5 on an audio book once, sounded like Alvin and the chipmunks, soon switched back to 1 speed

Factual / training stuff, yes.
Drama / entertainment material, absolutely not. And I would really worry about someone who did!

I am listening to A Tale of Two Cities on Audible and had to slow down the speed as it was going in one ear and out the other. The narrator was talking too fast. Ridiculous. Opposite problem for me!

I use 0.8 speed.

It’s funny how different we all are, because my adhd means I need to listen to everything twice at a normal speed. No way am I going to take anything in that pace.

I listen to podcasts and audiobooks at 1.5x, not TV though.

I go a step further and listen at 1.75! If they have a clear speaking voice I can sometimes cope with 2x. I listen to a lot of papers on speechify and also audiobooks and podcasts. Most recently listened to Yanis Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism and I could only deal with his accent at 1.5 otherwise I wouldn’t have understood.

It doesn't seem to be available on all Netflix apps. I use a Firestick and never saw it on Samsung TV either.

I listen to audiobooks at 1.5x, so it does seem like a feature I'd use if it was available.

I listen to some audiobooks a bit faster, it depends on how fast the narrator speaks. But I listen to news podcasts where they already speak really fast so don’t think I’d concentrate at 1.5x!

yes for online training courses, ‘read aloud’ on work documents, and some podcasts.

For OU lectures and videos I do about x1.25

I like that BBC Sounds has x1.2 which I feel just brings it up to normal speed. Training videos I watch on x1.5 or x2. I wish I could speed up a lot of people in real life to be honest, and I've felt that way since childhood so it's not a reaction to using the feature in recent years.

We have 4 or 5 preachers at church and they all have their own speed setting on YouTube playback! I have ADHD and I can't bear slow talking.

You’d really worry? Because what?

I do this and I have ADHD. I’ve never know someone without it to use the 1.5 button.

[All the following witter relates to watching / listening to things for PLEASURE, not simply imbibing information.]

Ummm, I guess I would be concerned that they were messing with the dopamine receptors in their brain, in a way that would be damaging in the short and long term for their attention span.
Concerned that it doesn’t do good things to us to rush through aspects of life that we are engaging in to be restorative.

Concerned about the underlying stressors that might be present in the life of someone who would want to experience a film they were watching for pleasure at 1.5 speed.

It would make me ask about issues to do with control. And how they feel about their ability to feel frustrated or uncomfortable and to sit with that and be curious about it, without seeking to avoid or change it.

I would be wondering where the time pressure is coming from and whether the person feels that it’s in line with their values and the life they’re trying to create.

I would wonder what the person does for rest. To rest their brain. Wonder if they rested at all maybe?

I would feel it’s a bit of an indictment on our society and the breakneck pace of life that we’ve allowed or encouraged to develop.

I would feel sad in a weird existential way for filmmakers who put so much love and care into their craft, where every scene, every lingering tracking shot has a meaning.

I suppose as with all these things, it’s the meta-message. What it is saying if we’re now at a stage where watching or listening to content for pleasure at 1.5 speed seems like a normal and healthy thing to do.

But I do accept I might just be deeping it 😄

I certainly don't, i just want to fit more in to the day

I would feel sad in a weird existential way for filmmakers who put so much love and care into their craft, where every scene, every lingering tracking shot has a meaning.

That is just not true. A huge amount of popular TV and film is made to grab attention. Money speaks. It’s not a coincidence that Oscar winning films are rarely very popular or successful at the box office, it’s by design.

How do you know, have you done some kind of research 😂, what a weird thing to know about everyone, I don't think I've ever had a real life conversation about what speed I do my listening at, how bizarre

1.5 is a little fast to be comfortable for me but 1.3 or 1.4 is fine for most audiobooks and podcasts

If it’s something educational I find it better to watch/listen at double speed twice than normal speed once.

I recently saw an IG reel about processing text when the words flashed individually rather than as a block of text. It was so much easier and quicker for me to read. Apparently because following a sentence on a page is harder for neurodivergent minds to do.

I don’t read much anymore because it’s too taxing as an ADHDer.

I thought it was just me..

Interesting pov. It’s not really about time pressure at all.

Interesting that unless everyone is content listening to recordings at the same speed, then it’s a problem. That the pleasure of watching is automatically eroded. That the person who watches at a faster speed cannot relax or rest. Perhaps for you. Not for me.

That somehow it’s not restorative to listen to drama or thrillers at a faster speed. To me, it’s not rushing. It’s more of a normal pace of conversation / dialogue. More like real life.

Must we all be the same? And if we are not the same, then it’s a negative? Because I prefer watching programmes at a different speed to you? And hardly breakneck.

If this really worried then you have a lovely life with not much worry in it.

I listen to all podcasts at 1.5. Netflix I wasn’t aware you could do that, but I deal with the slowness of programmes by fastforwarding through non-talking bits and multi-tasking by scrolling internet at the same time. I find going to the cinema pretty difficult as I’m obviously unable to speed things up, I end up doing OCD-like counting of words and letters to fill the impatient gap in my brain. I do sometimes find other people’s conversation too slow and get impatient. I read extremely fast, and read a lot.

Not diagnosed ND, but do have a lot of autistic and ADHD traits. I don’t think I’d qualify for diagnosis though. I think my need for ‘speed’ is part practical and part anxiety driven, as in wanting to keep my brain permanently full of distraction.

I can’t watch Derry Girls at 1.5 x speed!!!

The problem is the content providers wised up years ago, and now put 2x more shite around then content than before.

It's an arms race.