Test Your Sense of Pitch

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Post by herendin » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 9:18 AM UTC

Test Your Sense of Pitch
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Re: Test Your Sense of Pitch

#2

Post by s_kilk » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:28 AM UTC

23 out of 26, not too bad.

Re: Test Your Sense of Pitch

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Post by gadders » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:30 AM UTC

24/26, which is amazing as when singing I can't carry a tune in a bucket. For fun, my 9 year old daughter will sing a note and get me to try and match it, and then laugh at my efforts.

Re: Test Your Sense of Pitch

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:38 AM UTC

26/26, although to be fair I have played various musical instruments since a very young age. I was actually expecting the distortions to be a lot more subtle. Fun test!

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Post by rahimnathwani » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:50 AM UTC

26/26. I had to guess one of the answers, as I wasn't sure whether it was a tune I hadn't heard, or whether it was just really badly played.

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Post by ssharp » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:52 AM UTC

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #4

26/26, although to be fair I have played various musical instruments since a very young age. I was actually expecting the distortions to be a lot more subtle. Fun test!

25/26. I was trained as a drummer and taught myself guitar and some piano. I think the only one I missed was #13, which only sounded like it had one off-note, still sounded in key and might have been a nice harmony off the melody.

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Post by rahimnathwani » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:52 AM UTC

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #4

26/26, although to be fair I have played various musical instruments since a very young age. I was actually expecting the distortions to be a lot more subtle. Fun test!

I'd love to see something which started off with these blatant distortions, and then progressed so I could train myself to hear better (assuming that's possible).

Even better if it could, based on that, what percentile I am compared with other 40yo males.

Re: Test Your Sense of Pitch

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Post by DangerousPie » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:53 AM UTC

24/26 -- I guess this test is tailored to Americans quite a bit... As a European I recognise a few of the melodies, but for some of them I just have no idea what the true melody is supposed to be.

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Post by throwaway02938 » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:57 AM UTC

Most common score is 26/26

Histogram: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673726/figure/F...

Re: Test Your Sense of Pitch

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Post by jimworm » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 11:05 AM UTC

It's important to remember that this test only focuses on the pitch of the notes. Some of the tunes cut off before the phrase finishes, which feel weird and wrong but isn't part of the test.