Vocal pitch test
Measure how accurately your voice hits a note: ten notes scored in cents, from your own comfortable range. Free, in your browser, with nothing recorded.
Sing ten notes back and see how close you get.
Takes about 3 minutes. It uses your microphone. Your browser measures the pitch and keeps no recording.
How it works
- 1Press Start and allow the microphone. Somewhere quiet works best.
- 2Sing one comfortable “aah” so the test can find your range.
- 3Each note plays, then it's your turn: sing it back and hold it for about two seconds. Afterwards a line shows where your voice landed against the note.
- 4You see your average distance from the notes in cents and how many were in tune, within 50 cents.
Questions
Is my voice recorded?
No. Your browser measures the pitch of your voice many times a second and throws the sound away. Nothing is recorded, stored or uploaded, and the microphone switches off when the test ends.
What counts as in tune?
Within 50 cents (half a semitone) of the note. Trained singers are usually within 25. Singing the right note an octave higher or lower counts as right, since men and women often sing the same tune an octave apart.
I was way off. Can I get better?
Yes. Pitch matching improves quickly with practice and feedback: hear the note, see where your voice landed, adjust. Singing slowly helps too. In one study most people who sang off-key at normal speed sang in tune when they slowed down (Dalla Bella and colleagues, 2007).
It says it can't hear me. What do I do?
Sing a little louder, move closer to the microphone, and make the room quieter. A laptop's built-in microphone works; a headset microphone works better.