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I recommend headphones in a quiet room for this test.

https://beta.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td

My score was 27 of 32 correct. I thought I would do better than that, but I actually had to guess at some of them. Maybe I should rethink my tuning strategy.

I scored a 29 and I also basically guessed at perhaps 6 of them.

31 of 32. There were around 4 where (I maintain) there was simply no difference, I refused to select Up or Down so I hit U & D together and it moved on to another without telling me 'correct' or not. I have no idea how this affected the score.

FWIW, it does not load on my Firefox but ran it fine on Chrome.

You listened to 32 sounds. Of those you guessed 30 correctly!
Nice work! You did better than 97.25% of people. Your average speed was 1.2 seconds.

It will not download.

did it without headphones and with Bill Evans in the background. 28 out of 32 right. Average speed 1.1 seconds. Better than 74%

30 out of 32. 1.4 second average. Harder than I thought it would be. Guess that's where vibrato comes in handy!

You listened to 32 sounds. Of those you guessed 28 correctly!
Nice work! You did better than 74.31% of people. Your average speed was 1.1 seconds.

Interesting that it's from the Psychology Dept.

28 out of 32 for me

Harold Dye wrote:It will not download.

Takes a while to start up, and it requires a modern browser (uses HTML5).

32 out of 32 with 1 sec average. Now I know why I sound out of tune, but I don't understand why I sometimes don't hear my wife.

I got them all right but now I know why I run out of the room every time Natalie Merchant sings, and thanks for the tip that it won't run on Firefox!

31 out of 32, average 1.5 seconds. On the one where I guessed, I guessed wrong.
Kind of slow with the buttons until I realized it would be necessary to hover over u and d to get any speed.

31 of 32, I guessed on one . It was an UP sound which to me sounded exactly the same as the root sound.

You listened to 32 sounds. Of those you guessed 29 correctly! Nice work! You did better than 85.78% of people. Your average speed was 0.9 seconds.

WHAT did they SAY???? I wish they would speak up, for Pete's sake!

31 with .8 average speed.

Most seemed so so very obvious (a semitone or more different) I'd think anyone who has wrestled with cabinet drop or steel tuning would do nearly perfect on this test--- and be fast, too!

(and I'm reminded often by my wife that there is a big difference between "hearing" and "listening." And that it's easy to be "tone deaf" in way other than musical.)

...and here is the hearing test I don't like to know the results of: test your hearing frequency response and "ear age."

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hearing ... 1067630100

Well Bob looks like we tied.. I guess all the people that say I really sound good must be tone deaf. ha

You listened to 32 sounds. Of those you guessed 27 correctly! Nice work! You did better than 59.86% of people. Your average speed was 1.4 seconds.

Couldn't get it to load with FF, IE or Edge....

you guessed 28 correctly!
Nice work! You did better than 74.31% of people. Your average speed was 1.1 seconds.

Better than I thought. My ear is a weakness. A couple were guesses.

I also scored 27 which surprised Me,I thought I would have been pretty bad.

Tied with Bob and Greg!

You listened to 32 sounds. Of those you guessed 31 correctly!
Nice work! You did better than 99.54% of people. Your average speed was 0.8 seconds.

One of the very close ones got me, and yes, you need to be on those two keys. I suspect the close ones would be easier with a less pure waveform.

30/32, average 0.9 seconds (with a couple of guesses).

31 correct, average time 0.6 s. I did hear the other one correctly, but I pressed the wrong button

"You listened to 32 sounds. Of those you guessed 29 correctly!
Nice work! You did better than 85.78% of people. Your average speed was 1.3 seconds."

The ones I missed were definitely guesses.