Test Your Sense of Pitch

[zethus909]

The test tests your ability to hear differences in pitch.
http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_pitch.php?cent=50
http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_pitch.php?cent=20
http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_pitch.php?cent=10
http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_pitch.php?cent=5
http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_pitch.php?cent=2
http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_pitch.php?cent=1
How precisely can you hear pitch differences. 50 cents? 20 cents? 10 cents? 5? 2? 1?

[Reefius]

I easily passed the 5% test, but at 2% it all just sounded the same to me and I had everything wrong.

[chk071]

70% at 2c pitch, 80% at 1c pitch. Everything above i got 100%. I think it's really just about perceiving very subtle changes. Did it on laptop speakers. 1c is hard though (i didn't really try hard for the 2c test, probably could do that better than 70%). But possible for a trained, and sensitive ear, i guess.

Edit: Just passed the 2c test with 100% at 10 tries. Not too difficult.

[stilluntitled]

Shit, I won't share my results. Does anyone know how can one by amusical (I cannot order the tones) and nevertheless quite enthusiastic about music?

[Gamma-UT]

Shit, I won't share my results. Does anyone know how can one by amusical (I cannot order the tones) and nevertheless quite enthusiastic about music?

It's largely a question of practice. The more you play, the more you hear. Eartraining speeds up the process.

[Gamma-UT]

I easily passed the 5% test, but at 2% it all just sounded the same to me and I had everything wrong.

Try it with sawtooth (the easy option that's linked on the page): the harmonics are much easier to pick out in general. If you've been doing OK down to 5c on sines, you should find the 'easier' setting is, um, easier. It gets tricky with pure sine tones below 5c.

[chk071]

A problem with this test is that the pitch changes while the tone is playing. It probably would be decisively harder, if it played a tone, paused, and then the tone played again, same pitch, or changed. The way it is now with this test, you're able to hear a "knick-knack" which indicates the pitch change. If you concentrate on hearing that, even hearing 1 cent pitch change is possible in many cases. It surely would be way harder to hear that, if the pitch wouldn't change in the continuous tone.

[Gamma-UT]

A problem with this test is that the pitch changes while the tone is playing. It probably would be decisively harder, if it played a tone, paused, and then the tone played again, same pitch, or changed. The way it is now with this test, you're able to hear a "knick-knack" which indicates the pitch change. If you concentrate on hearing that, even hearing 1 cent pitch change is possible in many cases. It surely would be way harder to hear that, if the pitch wouldn't change in the continuous tone.

If you're hearing a transition other than the pitch change itself using laptop speakers this is probably due to phase shifts (which is why the site recommends a single speaker or headphones) or distortion in the speakers themselves. I've found I can boost my hearing to 20kHz with the latter effect (at least as far as the test is concerned).

[Gamma-UT]

Accidental double

[Xykrotik]

Oh wow this looks interesting. I've been trying to develop better relative pitch and eventually close to perfect pitch but the differences in notes is something I've been curious about. Knowing what I can hear will help me better hear different note if I know what to listen to.
I would definitely recommend doing this with a decent pair of headphones to really detect a difference