The Easiest Way to Skip Ahead In YouTube Videos

[morosco]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:06pm

Want to skip ahead to 10%, 20%, 80% of the way through whatever YouTube video your college roommate sent you? Google made a shortcut that takes you there with the push of a button. Here's how:

Once you've paused your video of choice, type 1 to skip to 10% in, 2 for 20%, 3 for 30%, and so on. That's it!
Skip Ahead In YouTube Videos

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:20pm

I don't get what's so exciting about this.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:22pm

I simply click delete.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:26pm

I just don't understand what this has over just scrolling.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:32pm

How is this better that just dragging the line over?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:36pm

It says you can fast forward or rewind with "surgical precision" but isn't that only if you want to get to precisely to a point that's 10%, 20%, etc in?
Updated On: 10/26/10 at 01:36 PM

[morosco]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:41pm

YouTube barely works for me on Vista 64 bit. Ridiculous.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:41pm

And this solves that problem?

[morosco]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 1:43pm

No. Not at all.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/26/10 at 2:30pm

I think this is useful, though I wouldn't go so far as surgical precision.

On my laptops, if I drag the little button thing over, I have two wait for the video to catch up, which can take several seconds--and sometimes just causes the video to freeze.

I tried this method just now, and it works. But no, not surgically.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/27/10 at 6:19am

Morosco, just out of curiosity, why did you go with a 64-bit OS? Do you do graphics-heavy work of some kind?

[morosco]

Posted: 10/27/10 at 12:30pm

I went with a 64 bit operating system simply because I was naive and I didn't do research on 64 bit before purchasing. I've regretted my decision ever since.