Essential YouTube Keyboard Shortcut Key to browse and watch videos
2 years agoYouTube is an online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google Inc. It is a most popular free video sharing website and the sencod largest search engine behind Google Search. IT is a open platform anybody can create a YouTube account by Google Account so that they can watch videos or create their own content.
Anyone with access to a computer or mobile dievice and an internet connection can watch YouTube content and share their own. When we watch youtube video on desktop or laptop computer mostly we use mouse to interact with YouTube video. You can use YouTube keyboard shortcuts to easily navigate the platform and control your video playback.
Most people know that pressing the spacebar will pause and unpause your video, and anybody with media button on their keyboard likely knows that they do based on the labels alone. However you may not know that there are many keyboard shortcuts are available on YouTube to control your video content.
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YouTube Keyboard shortcuts
Video Playback
| Toggle Play/Pause | k |
| Rewind 10 Seconds | j |
| Fast forward 10 seconds | l |
| Previous Video | Shift + p |
| Next Video | Shift + n |
| Previous frame (while paused) | , |
| Next frame (while paused) | . |
| Decrease playback rate | < (Shift + ,) |
| Increase playback rate | > (Shift + .) |
| Seek to specific point in the video (7 advances to 70% of duration) | 0....9 |
| Seek to previous chapter | Ctrl + ← |
| Seek to next chapter | Ctrl + → |
General Shortcuts
| Toggle full screen | f |
| Touggle theater mode | t |
| Toggle miniplayer | i |
| Close miniplayer or current dialog | Escape |
| Toggle mute | m |
Spherical Videos
| Pan up | w |
| Pan left | a |
| Pan down | s |
| Pan right | d |
| Zoom in | + on numpad or ] |
| Zoom out | - on numpad or [ |
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