6 Minute Pitch Perception Test

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:34 pm

Ok this is cool:

http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=20563

I scored 91.7.

See how you do.

--James

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:59 am

77.8. I was expecting to do rather better.
I'll try again after some sleep and caffeine. In that order.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:25 am

72.2
Hurrah! I'm Normal!

Ha! Now I have some ammunition. I can TELL them I'm normal! I have PROOF!
I'll teach them to make cracks ...mutter ...mutter...

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:26 am

This is, apparently for me, more a psychology test than a tone perception test. I expected it to try to fool me with hairline differences the first time I took it and supposed that I heard fractional differences in some of the chords. I chose different in the vast majority of cases. I scored an impressive 69.something or other. Then I took it again, (I'll acknowledge that this could be construed as cheating,) deciding to pick different only when I definitely heard an out of joint tone, and assuming that it wasn't trying to measure my perception to the millihair. That time I scored 91.7. I'm not at all sure what this says about my tone perception. Apparently I can tell the difference between the obvious mismatches and the matches. But I'm also subject to psyching myself into imagining differences where there are none.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:36 am

Doesn't work for me.

djm

Whistling Pops · Post by **Whistling Pops** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:37 am

75%

If I'm normal why am I having such a hard time learning to play?

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:11 am

83.3% Correct

Wow! Now if I could just manage to get that accuracy to hold from my input files to my output files.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:47 pm

I've discovered that you can get a completely different randomly generated set of sequences if you try it again.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:28 pm

That was hard! I got an 89.something.

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:06 pm

It is difficult. I think I would score better if there were a way to repeat. Without that, the variables of short term memory and attention span are not eliminated.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:07 pm

Folks, don't put too much stock in it, either way.

It's just a fun thing, not a serious one.

--James

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:48 pm

Well, I had a rough start with the first couple trying to figure out what constituted a "phrase" and how those darned buttons worked, but I ended up with an 83.3.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:21 pm

I got a 2. No wonder I can't play musical instruments.

WhistlingArmadillo · Post by **WhistlingArmadillo** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:35 pm

75, but having my son playing the built-in tunes on a Yamaha keyboard in the background might have skewed things a bit -- after a while, everything sounded like a jazz version of "Greensleeves"...

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:57 pm

94.4 here. I don't know which ones I missed. I would have expected much better being such a conceited person and all.