YouTube Quick Dev Reference

A visual cheat-sheet for the 18 keyboard shortcuts found on YouTube.com.

Keyboard Shortcuts

General I

Space — Play/Pause when the seek bar is selected, activate a button if a button has focus

K — Play/Pause in player

Left/Right — Seek backward/forward 5 seconds

J — Seek backward 10 seconds in player

L — Seek forward 10 seconds in player

Home — Seek to the beginning of the video

End — Seek to the last seconds of the video

Up — Increase volume 5%

Down — Decrease volume 5%

1-9 — Seek to the 10-90% of the video

General II

0 — Seek to the beginning of the video

Shift 1 — Move between H1 headers

/ — Go to search box

F — Activate full screen, press again (or Esc) to exit

C — Activate closed captions and subtitles, press again to hide

Shift N — Move to the next video

Shift P — Move to the previous video

I — Launch the Miniplayer

. — Move forward a single frame (while paused)

, — Move back a single frame (while paused)