Ever wanted to skip around in a YouTube video without heading to the mouse? Reddit user Moriturii noticed that pressing keys 1 through 9 skips to 10% through 90%, respectively, and pressing left/right arrow keys jumps between those points.


You can see the shortcut in action in the video above. Try it yourself in the embedded video for a little Inception-style skipping-video-in-a-skipping-video recursion. There's not much to explain beyond that, except that 0 goes to the beginning of the video. It's a handy little shortcut to know if you're a keyboard lover.

While you're polishing up on your YouTube shortcuts, remember, you can also hit the spacebar to toggle play/pause, and press up/down to turn the volume up and down. The video just needs to have focus.


Update: When I was first testing it, it wasn't working unless I paused the video first. Turns out it doesn't need to be paused, however—which means I was probably just having problems getting my keyboard focus to the video.

TIL You can press 1, 2, 3 etc to jump 10%, 20%, 30% into the clip you are watching on youtube. [Reddit]