The various keyboard shortcuts can be used while playing videos on youtube.It increases convenience and decreases the wrong clicks and hence interruption free viewing over youtube. The basic shortcuts used for youtube are given below.
| Play/Pause | Spacebar |
| Move forward by 10% | Right arrow key |
| Move backward by 10% | Left arrow key |
| Skip to 10%, 20%, 30% …। of playback time | Numpad 1,2,3 … 9 |
| Move to beginning of video | Home |
| Move to end of video | End |
| Volume up | Up arrow key |
| Volume down | Down arrow key |
| Fullscreen | F (doesn't work anymore) |
| Exit fullscreen | Esc |
| Toggle closed captions | C |
| Increase/decrease caption font size | +/- |
| Change background of caption | B |