This surprisingly difficult web game, from the Music Lab at the Harvard University Department of Psychology, checks how well you can distinguish tones by pitch. Place on your earphones and judge– as quick as you can– whether certain tones are higher or lower than others.

Just be all set to disappoint yourself. I scored in the 59 th percentile and I still feel like I have actually somehow failed at music. However if you desire to feel much better about your tin ear, test out whether you (or your audio system) can tell the distinction between high-bitrate music and low-bitrate music Because if you can’t, then hey, you’ll never ever need to pay for the more pricey top quality music streaming services!

The Harvard site also lets you take more culturally intriguing quizzes, where you try to determine the function of music from various cultures. (We believe the tone quiz will also add to research study about various cultures, which typically utilize various tonal scales.) And if you have actually taken any other great listening tests online, share them so we can all get actually mad at our own ears.

Tone-deafness test|Harvard University Music Laboratory (by means of The Edge)