Yeah, I just did it again and tried to pay attention; went up to 83%. I still spaced out though lol, imho it's much more about focus/memory than about recognizing pitch, at least for me. There were a lot of false alarms for me, probably because the simpler ones would stand out a TON, but when there were longer passages, I just lost focus or couldn't remember.

MasterOfPuppets

Romania6942 Posts

February 02 2013 21:13 GMT

#63

Paradox much? How do I fill in the form if I don't know my score; yet in order to know my score I must fill in the form -_-

monk

United States8476 Posts

February 02 2013 21:26 GMT

#64

1. It's supposed to be your best guess.
2. It's optional.

iamke55

United States2806 Posts

February 02 2013 21:33 GMT

#65

Guessed 69.4% because I thought it was really hard, got 91.7%. I took piano lessons for 5 years when I was younger.

Edit: just noticed my dark templar icon... goes well with my sig!

micronesia

United States24736 Posts

February 02 2013 21:34 GMT

#66

On February 03 2013 05:00 L_Master wrote:

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It could affect your ability to be in tune. What I would expect is that someone scoring well on this test is that they would recognize easily if they are off in pitch when singing something or singing alone with something.

Our voice sounds different to us than it does to others, though. The way in which it sounds different will vary from person to person, independent of the results of this test, I believe.

farvacola

United States18838 Posts

February 02 2013 21:58 GMT

#67

On February 03 2013 06:34 micronesia wrote:

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Our voice sounds different to us than it does to others, though. The way in which it sounds different will vary from person to person, independent of the results of this test, I believe.

Yes, but the very idea of pitch is that of an objective metric with which to measure a certain aural quality of a piece of sound (most of the "differences" in hearing your own voice versus a bystander hearing it deal with timbre and tone more than pitch). In other words, a singer with perfect pitch sings a G, and although that G does not sound exactly like the one played on a pitch pipe, it is still most certainly a G. Similarly, although two people might hear the same note differently, it's pitch is going to be one of the aspects that two listeners agree on most strongly, given that they both have good senses of relative pitch.

On that note, it is worthwhile to keep in mind that "perfect pitch" is rather rare and means that an individual is able to create and recognize a healthy musical note without external assistance from something like a pitch pipe or piano. "relative pitch" is a skill that most musicians and fans of music tend to develop as they become familiar with musical phraseology and tonal space, and means that an individual is able to recognize and at times fill in musical intervals (fill in blanks of this McDonald's slogan, "Ba da ba __ __, I'm lovin it")

forsooth

United States3648 Posts

February 02 2013 21:58 GMT

#68

I only took it once but did try to pay close attention. For the record, I can't play any instruments and I don't sing very well.

jpak

United States5045 Posts

February 02 2013 22:03 GMT

#69

75% correct. I think I mistakenly thought that two phrases were different when they were really the same.

BrTarolg

United Kingdom3574 Posts

February 02 2013 22:07 GMT

#70

86.1% :o

Many years of piano

OmniEulogy

Canada6593 Posts

February 02 2013 22:10 GMT

#71

88.9% I've been forced to take piano, drums, and guitar lessons from the time I was maybe 7 years old and I'm 22 now. Can't really play any instrument very well though lol ^^

I thought I hit like 70% at best. Was very happy to see 88% lol

NKB

United Kingdom608 Posts

February 02 2013 22:14 GMT

#72

Oh yeah, I am more than a bit tone deaf

lol

ailouros

United States193 Posts

February 02 2013 22:17 GMT

#73

75%. I'm not a musician but I make some electronic music. Listening to sampled loops over and over and over was very similar to this so I think that helped me out.

Rimstalker

Germany734 Posts

February 02 2013 22:32 GMT

#74

I can not possibly remember the sequence of even one of those samples. I have NO idea how big of a difference I am listening for, I found it so frustrating that I bailed out.

My audio-buffers seem tiny. I have actually failed the test to become an air traffic controller because I could not memorize sequences of letters that I only were able to hear. If I can SEE things, I almost have perfect recall.

kenkou

United States235 Posts

February 02 2013 23:11 GMT

#75

94.4%, and I have no musical background. My penis feels big.

Demonhunter04

1530 Posts

February 02 2013 23:34 GMT

#76

On February 03 2013 02:23 Zandar wrote:
A fun test to check if you are tonedeaf.

http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

below 55% you can consider yourself tonedeaf.
Excellent musicians seldom score above 80.

My brother who can play everything from Bach on the piano scored that.
While poor little me only scored 58% lol. Seems he stole all that dna from me the bastard

I doubt that excellent musicians score that low. I've never studied music, and never played an instrument, but I scored 83.3%. I should add that I lost focus a few times and had to guess, too.