Am I tone deaf?
Hear a note, sing it back, see how close you were. Five notes, about two minutes. Your voice stays on your device.
Which is closer to your speaking voice?
Ready when you are
What “tone deaf” really means
True tone deafness (congenital amusia) is rare: about 1.5% of people, in the largest study so far (Peretz & Vuvan (2017), European Journal of Human Genetics). Most people who think they're tone deaf can hear the difference between notes; they haven't yet trained their voice to land on them. That's a skill, and it improves with feedback.
How we score it
A cent is a hundredth of a semitone. We measure the middle of each note you sing, ignoring the first moment while your voice settles, and compare it with the note you heard. If you sing it an octave lower or higher, that still counts as a match. Within 50 cents means you landed closer to the right note than to its neighbour.