I'm left-handed and learn my best by watching people do things, so I watch a lot of YouTube cooking videos. Sometimes it can be challenging as with most people being right-handed, it can be exhausting watching keen knife work trying to mentally flip/mirror what you are seeing on screen.
For awhile now I've been using a Chrome (also works in Chrome-dervied browsers such as Brave) extension that mirrors YouTube videos. I've tried a few of these and this one seems to be very stable, actively developed, as well as not sketchy. (For example, it only has permissions to modify youtube.com; others request permission to modify any website.)
The extension is YT Mirror: https://chromewebstore.google.com/de...gfeiiebgjfollb
And it does exactly what you'd think it would:
One thing I like is that it only mirrors the video; the other elements on the page are not flipped (which can be a bit maddening if not headache inducing).
I found it really useful in this hand roll video in which the orientation of everything is done in reference to your dominant hand:
(The "normal person" view, of course, is this:
)
With this particular extension, you toggle it on or off by clicking the YT Mirror button that now appears in your video controls in the lower right of the video, just to the left of the CC toggle:
And as with any Youtube-related extension, it may not work forever; if the developer abandons the project, they often stop working with the next YouTube change. This one was last modified in October, so it seems to be an active project.
If you have another browser, there are others like this out there. They seem to be rather popular among K-Pop fans who use the extensions to mirror the music videos so they can learn the dance moves.
For awhile now I've been using a Chrome (also works in Chrome-dervied browsers such as Brave) extension that mirrors YouTube videos. I've tried a few of these and this one seems to be very stable, actively developed, as well as not sketchy. (For example, it only has permissions to modify youtube.com; others request permission to modify any website.)
The extension is YT Mirror: https://chromewebstore.google.com/de...gfeiiebgjfollb
And it does exactly what you'd think it would:
One thing I like is that it only mirrors the video; the other elements on the page are not flipped (which can be a bit maddening if not headache inducing).
I found it really useful in this hand roll video in which the orientation of everything is done in reference to your dominant hand:
(The "normal person" view, of course, is this:
With this particular extension, you toggle it on or off by clicking the YT Mirror button that now appears in your video controls in the lower right of the video, just to the left of the CC toggle:
And as with any Youtube-related extension, it may not work forever; if the developer abandons the project, they often stop working with the next YouTube change. This one was last modified in October, so it seems to be an active project.
If you have another browser, there are others like this out there. They seem to be rather popular among K-Pop fans who use the extensions to mirror the music videos so they can learn the dance moves.
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