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Youtube Custom Speed

by nizioleque

v1.10 Updated Oct 19, 2025 27.95KiB
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Description

Youtube Custom Speed lets you play any Youtube video at any speed you like, from 0.0125x to 16x! Use the options menu to set your preferred playback rate values. Then, change the speed using buttons at the bottom of the video. It also cooperates with the default Youtube keyboard shortcuts - Shift + , and Shift + . If you experience any issues, please feel free to email me with a bug report. ___________ Changelog 1.10 – 2025-10-17 • Support for new YouTube player UI 1.9 – 2024-05-26 • Support for non-English keyboards – thanks @MartinNiederl! • Fixed changing speed while typing in search box – thanks @MartinNiederl! • Added "Do nothing" options • Set constant width of the speed value in player UI 1.6.1 – 2021-12-03 • Initial release
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Reviews (20 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-02
Laurent “Vehens” Moens

does not work, the UI is not showing and the max speed is 2x as by default by youtube...

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-01
SteRuh

does not work

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-12
gy_sp33dy Gaming

the play back button doesn't even appear i added this and haven't seen it at all

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-03
Athmane Benarous

Has not worked since the introduction of YouTube's new player UI. The playback speed button simply doesn't appear.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-07
Noah S

Hey, I'm on Windows 11, and it seems the Hold Spacebar and Hold Click on any videos to get it in 2x speed easily feature is not Functional. Please fix that, it would be very appreciated! New, I found another problem. The arrow keys which normally do this > The right arrow key Fast forward 5 seconds and the left arrow key does the same but backwards, and the up arrow key turned the volume up the down arrow key turned the volume down, the up and down functions have been removed and made the same to the Left and right arrow keys. Useless Please fix that Updated: Changed my stars to 1 star because their was no response from a dev yet..

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-17
Mahdy Fouad

great. i hope it is not gone next month edit: not showing first time page loading

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-05
Raheem M

I am very disappointed it is a great idea, but there is nothing for youtube shorts! PLEASE add something for youtube shorts

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-22
Chuck Baggett ChuckBaggettWeb (ChuckBaggett web)

This extension would get 5 stars if it would appear and work on all videos. Unfortunately it appears on right after being installed and then vanishes and never reappears when looking at other extensions. This is in the Vivaldi chromium based browser in Windows 10.

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-09
Dave

Doesn't work anymore. buttons don't show up in the player at all

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-17
А. Т.

WHERE ARE MY HOTKEYS??? Why are the developers so...🤦‍♂️

★★☆☆☆2026-01-09
Mr. Garber

It works, but it forces you to 1.75 speed (ridiculously slow) or 3x (ridiculously fast) or a single custom setting only on new tab. In reality, some people speak so slow, 3x is too slow. While other people speak so fast that 2.25 is as fast as you can go. The sweat spot is variable, with .1x increments, usually between 2.2 an 2.8x, with outliers. So, I am uninstalling, and trying other options. Not useless, but not really better than nothing, unless the custom speed miiraculously matches the the pace of the speaker, how well they are microphoned, and how clearly they can articulate.

★★☆☆☆2025-10-26
ben e

`its a cool extension but i think you shoud add like a slider option becuase it would be easier to switch between speeds also i think max speed should be like 50 or 100 not 16 and minumum should be 0.001 also make it work with shorts

★★☆☆☆2024-07-11
H. Y.

When I click the ">>" or "<<" button twice, the page scrolls to the bottom. I hate this behavior.

★★☆☆☆2024-04-19
Critically Correct

worked perfectly fine but is now not working anymore just doesn't appear next to the autoplay button. Now it only works in combination with YouTube Speed Controls extension

★★★☆☆2026-02-18
ARAVIND PULLURI

please bring 4x

★★★☆☆2024-12-12
Rafał Nagrodzki

It's been working great for a long time but today I noticed it ceased to work completely (most likely due to changes in YT code).

★★★☆☆2024-07-28
Hemijska Olovk

Worked for most of the time. Sometimes, I would have to go to the previous page and back to the video for the buttons to show up. However, this extension doesn't work anymore: speed stays the same no matter what I press.

★★★☆☆2024-07-08
Khaled Abu Mazen

Doesn't appear on half the videos.

★★★☆☆2024-05-01
Andrew Hayes

Bug reporting opens blank page, so im writing here about annoying bug. You can't hold mouse button down to get 2x speed which is default Youtube behaviour with this extension turned on. Please fix this bug, im tired from turning extension on/off.

★★★☆☆2024-03-03
R

shortcuts won't work for me

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Permissions

storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 1.10
Updated Oct 19, 2025
Size 27.95KiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026