If you haven't seen it yet, the gear on their player offers a number of playback speeds (including 2x) and seems to remember the setting across videos. I suspect it does that because they're reusing the <video> element for playback until a fresh page load, because it's not persisted as much as just not reset between videos
I watch video at 2x and made a simple bookmarklet to control speed for video/audio https://github.com/emehrkay/media_speed