Test for Tone Deafness

[SA-708]

I got 72.6%. I know I'm not tone deaf, having played baritone sax and sung bass for years, but I think my hearing loss (middle ear conduction issues) got in the way.

 

[dumptruck]

Even if the pattern was the "same" you wouldn't hear a difference. If you noticed most of them were "different"...there were only a few that were the "same"! If you got the "same" ones mostly wrong or selected "same" for a majority of the different ones then your score will show your deficiency.

No, 18/36 are same. It's 50-50 if you guess, which makes calculating statistical significance easy for the experimenter.

 

[bburroughs]

Got an 88.9%. Some of the samples used percussive sounds that were fairly non-pitch-specific, and I found those to be the hardest.

 

[dr*audio]

I'll try this later on a good system.

 

[dr*audio]

I only got 75%. I think it is memory more than anything else, because I have been figuring out songs by ear for years and I am very adept at it. But some of those tone arrays went by quickly and had lots of notes in an atonal sequence, making it difficult to remember. I think I use the musical sense of a melody or chords to remember it, rather than the actual notes themselves.
A friend of mine came up with a good tone deafness test for singers. Give them a note and have them sing the first few notes of happy birthday. Then give them another random note and have them do it again. Do this a few times and you find out right away if someone doesn't have a clue.

 

[Apoplectic]

72.6% here. Tonedeafness runs in the family, so I think I did pretty good.

 

[rwartner]

As a child, when I stood next to my father singing in church I realized he could only sing a couple notes badly.

Now I am his age and when I look into the mirror in the morning it scares me to see my father staring back at me.

Worse I inherited his singing ability. I don't need to take a test to know how tone deaf I am. I stick to listening to music.

 

[cherbhy]

87th percentile for me. I'm 21 though, hearing does worsen with age. Thanks for posting this, I really really enjoyed it!

 

[Eudaemonic]

I scored 77.1, IIRC, but wasn't concentrating so well (I'd just gotten a phone call from a used car salesman, bitching about the bad review I posted online). I think I'll try again tonight at home. I have a Demon D-C1 on my desk here at work (won't have any work to do until next week), so I don't think that had anything to do with my score.

 

[spaceman]

72%, but the test was pretty flawed, as has been said. But I guess there's nothing to really complain about, if they tell you you're "normal". :scratch2: