How to only watch the best bits and other tricks to upgrade your YouTube experience

Whether you are occasionally browsing YouTube or spending hours watching videos every day, mastering efficient video navigation skills is crucial. A quick browsing of videos will allow you to watch more videos or make more time to do other things.

The YouTube platform (owned by Google) provides many practical tips, which are far more than simple click play and viewing. The skills of different devices are also slightly different.

1. Quickly jump to the exciting clip

You can click and drag the progress bar below the video (mobile user can click and drag) to jump. YouTube also added a "high replay rate" chart to display clips that users watch repeatedly. Usually these are exciting parts of the video, which can help you save search time. This feature is still being launched gradually and you may not be able to see it for the time being, but will soon be open to all users.

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2. Navigate with subtitles

Many YouTube videos have subtitles, some are added by the creator, and some are automatically generated by YouTube. On the computer side, click the three dots below the video, and then select "Show subtitles"; on the mobile side, click the video description, and then select "Show subtitles". The subtitles will display the timestamp and text content. Click the timestamp to jump to the corresponding position.

3. Adjust the playback speed

This is a relatively old-fashioned feature. You may not have noticed before: click on the gear icon (browser) below the video or the gear icon (mobile application) on the video control overlay to find the "Play Speed" setting. You can adjust the speed to twice the speed and watch the video quickly - as long as you can keep up with the video content.

4. Skip (or back) quickly

Quickly browse YouTube videos on your mobile phone. You can double-click the right side of the video and jump forward for 10 seconds, and double-click the left side of the video and jump backward for 10 seconds. You can also adjust the jump duration to up to 60 seconds: On the YouTube app home screen, click on your profile picture (top right corner), and select Settings, General, and Double-click to jump.

5. Video loop playback

Whether it is a relaxing playlist or a tutorial that requires repeated learning, it is very convenient to play videos in a loop. In the browser, right-click the video that is playing and select "Loop Play"; in the YouTube mobile app, click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the play window, and select "Loop Video".

6. Jump through chapters

Many longer YouTube videos have chapter markers that divide the video into different sections. These chapter markers are listed below the video description, but in the YouTube mobile app, there is a faster way to jump: double-click the video with two fingers, slide left and backward, and slide right to advance.

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7. Save a specific time point in the video

Sometimes you are only interested in part of the video, and to avoid re-seeking every time, you can get YouTube links with timestamps in your computer browser. Find the relevant location in the video, right-click, select "Copy the video URL for the current time", and save it to a document, email, or bookmark.

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