What's your score?
Take the adaptive pitch test and find out!
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87 percentile, about .7125 Hz at 500Hz, I got lower-but my windows are open and I have a parking lot outside...that starts getting really tricky at .375Hz
This is a great test! It shows how closely you have to listen to your intonation (and what you could get away with).
The first time through cold, I got 74th percentile. The second time, warmed up and realizing you can hit the replay button, I got 94th percentile, 0.4125 Hz. Ilya, Hilary get on here.
I was .45, which is surprising because I'm a bit hearing impared. I did the test twice, the second time I turned the volume up so I could actually hear it and I did much better.
0.525 Hz, p87.
If we get enough responses, we can make statistics for V.com members. Hypothesis: V.comers can tell apart smaller differences than the statistics indicated in the web site.
1st time round 49th%, then I noticed the replay key, 2nd was 74th%. Much worse when the 2nd note was sharper than the 1st, I think I got all correct when the 2nd note was flatter.
very upset with my results...below 50%
strangely, I scored 80% on the rhythm test
maybe I should trade in my violin for a drumkit!
.825 Hz, 74%ile
I'm quite surprised .825 Hz is only the 74%ile! This must be quite skewed by musicians because I don't believe 1/4 of the general population can do better than that!
I can't stream anything on my computer, so I can't try the test. I remember doing this sort of thing is grad school with a teacher who was very devoted to electronic composition, though. Can anyone give a quick comparison between the HZ you are quoting and the cents that tuners show? Thanks, Sue
In the vicinity of the test frequency of 500 Hz, 3Hz is about 10 cents.
According to wiki one formula is ~3986 log f1/f2. So at 500Hz (which I think this is) if your score was .5Hz that would be around 1.7 cents. If your score was 1Hz it would be around 3.5 cents.
The second time through on the small Hz, I tried to decide if I could hear the first note as like a leading tone to the second note. It's testing your problem-solving rather than only your hearing, maybe.
Also, the results you get has got to be dependent on the quality of your playback stuff. My computer is connected to a stereo, which is connected to regular bookshelf speakers. If you didn't do well on your speakers, try something else.
Well, whatever it does, an extra turn of the scroll looks really pretty.
http://www.violinviolacello.com/MagginiViolinScrollSideLarge.jpg
My score is 2,4 of identfying HZ apart... Still confused what it means. Will take it once again...
2nd time - 0.6 HZ apart...
interesting, but wonder how meaningful it is in reality, to tell teeny weeny bits apart.
one thing telling though, is that some do better the second time around, perhaps suggestive of how we should practice. if we don't pay full attention listening when we practice, doesn't matter how good the ears are, does it?
there are many variables in this "test":
-your current cognitive state of mind
-the adequacy of your speakers
-background noise
-volume control on speakers
-testing has its inappropriateness regarding the
attributes of test takers. as an example,your
IQ is a number on 1 IQ test---if you take
a different test,then your IQ may increase
well beyond even your expectations !
-in short,no one has the answers to the
questions of life and chances are they probably
will not in future.
-numbers,as a result of a test remain
insignificant--yet they represent a measure- to
which we can pinpoint a numerical value of a persona
-its every ones best shot,even though its riddled
with fallacy......
.7125 87%
I had a ball taking all the tests, woot.
I got 1.2 Hz on the pitch test (oops, should have started playing the violin earlier...)
80% on the rhythm test
80.6% on the tonedeaf test (89% the second time I took it, but that's cheating.)
and 100% on the musical-visual test (yay me).
And no, I didn't take them in that order. Fun tests, though.
EDIT: found the replay key. Now it's 0.56 Hz or something.
EDIT: okay now it's 0.3 Hz. I am having way too much fun I am going to stop now.
There must be something wrong with my Flash installation-- it won't take me to the other tests' pages! Could it be because I declined their stupid, invasive advertising???
I utterly disagree with all that, Joe. This can't be compared to an IQ test; it's much more objective. Assuming the room is silent and your speakers can reproduce the tones, you can either hear these differences or you can't.
Yep, IQ tests depend on your knowledge and experience; this in no way does.
Wow, that's really interesting! I got .225 (99.1%) the second time and .6 the first...
I think I'd rather listen to your fiddle playing than my own, too!
It doesn't give a score when I finish--just brings up a survey.
I had perfect scores until I hit the 0.18 Hz tone difference.
Which needs to be referenced to the fundamental to mean anything.
OK so it is at 500 hz.
I took it again and it says I was reliable to .3 which amounts to 99.1%ile
I am surprised at how poor the middle of the bell curve is!
edit: Jim explained it. I think that makes sense. If it were gathered rather more scientifically, perhaps the bell would look narrower and farther to the right.
My ADHD comes to the fore on a test like this. By tone 16 or 20whatever, I was anxious for the thing to finish, and stopped listening as closely. In particular the rhythm tests and the tone deaf. One of them had 36 samples, I was a bit impulsive and hit my response before listening all the way through - then I noticed that sometimes the sample differed right at the end. Oops. was averagely tone deaf, but in 90 somethingth % on the rhythm. Not sure what that all means but its fun.
"I am surprised at how poor the middle of the bell curve is! "
It's probably skewed by people just clicking through it to see what happens and by poor first attempts.
My long-time suspicions were confirmed when I got a poor score on the rhythm test. But I have ADHD too and I think it was because I couldn't remember that long. :-)
Er, what was the question?
There needs to be an aditional rhythm test, one that tests ability to discern ability to "swing," that is, play ahead or behind the beat at will.
Wow! I feel pretty inadequate. First time I scored 3.3, second time 2.4. Maybe I should give up violin and take up piano. No wonder my teacher always harps about my intonation.
.4875, 94th percentile, first go (but lots of re-listens).
"At 500 Hz, you can reliably differentiate two tones 0.6 Hz apart."
my neighbour,the flutist was here tonite
i gave her the test
she scored in the top 3%...
forever and a day,i'll have to live with
her 'golden' ear...
i'll not hear the end.
i'll just ignore her
but that will not happen
she does have a better ear
and i commend her for this ability.......
Here are the statistics:
(A table was supposed to go here, but it came out unreadable)
The 5% trimmed geometrical mean and sd are 0.67 Hz and a factor of 2.0, respectively.
Compared to the numbers on the testing site, violinists seem to have good musical ears.
(or they are reluctant to make a mediocre result public ;)
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October 2, 2008 at 10:15 PM · The results page says that I can distinguish pitches that are 4,8 HZ apart (being a semitone aproximately 30Hz apart).
I am quite happy :D
However, the average when I took the test was 3,98HZ... I think this has been taken only by musically trained people...