Free Pitch Test: Are You Still Singing in Tune?
Hear a note, sing it back, and see how close you landed. Eight notes across your range, scored in cents. You get a pitch score, your steadiest zone and the one that drifts.
Sing eight notes back, about two minutes
Each note plays for a second. Sing it on an open “ah” and hold it for two. The page hears the pitch, measures how far above or below the note you are, and moves on. Nothing is recorded — detection happens on your device.
This only picks which eight notes you hear. “Not sure” is fine.
Prefer to explore first? (an example, not your voice)
Cents are hundredths of a semitone. Within ±10 sounds in tune to nearly everyone; ±25 is where a listener starts to notice.
Which note is higher?
Two notes play, one after the other. Pick the higher one. This checks whether your ear hears pitch, which is the part that can’t be taught. It doesn’t check your voice — that’s the microphone test.
5 of 5. Your ear works.
Pitch perception is the one part of singing in tune that can’t be trained, and yours is fine.
In tune. Mostly.
Your result will appear here once you finish the eight notes.
Add your email below and it opens here and lands in your inbox.
Add your email below and it opens here and lands in your inbox.
See your score, and get the five-minute fix for your weakest zone
Add your email and we send your pitch map — all eight notes, how far off each one was, and which zone to work on — plus a five-minute drill aimed at exactly the notes you missed. This also puts you on the Vocal Refresh waitlist.
- Your pitch map, note by note, as a download
- A five-minute drill aimed at your drifting zone
- The songs whose key keeps you in your steady zone
- Retest any time and watch the number move
This adds you to the Vocal Refresh waitlist. We’ll email your results so you can track progress.
Your pitch map is open below, and the five-minute drill for — is on its way. Retest whenever you like — the number is the point.
Pitch is accuracy. Range is width. The free vocal range test takes three notes and two minutes, and puts your steady zone on the piano.
Take the free range testWhat to do with a flat top
Flat above the break is almost always breath and a chest voice carried too high. Two reads, then a routine: head voice vs chest voice, breathing exercises for singing, and the warm-up routine builder for a five-minute set aimed at the top of your range.
How the pitch test scores you
Hear the note
A clean tone plays for one second. The eight notes span roughly an octave and a half, placed by the answer you gave on the start card.
Sing it back and hold
About two seconds on “ah”. The page reads the pitch around 20 times a second and keeps the steady middle of the hold, so a wobble at the start or a crack at the end doesn’t count against you.
Read the miss in cents
100 cents is one semitone. The score is 100 minus your average miss, so 14 cents off on average scores 86. Skipped notes don’t count either way.
What this test is not
It isn’t a voice-type test, a range test or a tone-deaf diagnosis. It measures one thing: how close your sung note lands to the one you heard, right now, in this room. The vocal range test answers the “how wide” question; the how to sing in tune guide covers what to do about the answer.
What your pitch score means
Every adult who sings drifts. The question is by how much, and where. This is how to read the number, and what a trained ear hears at each band.
| Score | Average miss | What a listener hears | What to work on first |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90–100 | under 10¢ | In tune. Nobody in a room notices. | Nothing on pitch. Spend the time on tone and range. |
| 75–89 | 11–25¢ | In tune on most notes, with a zone that leans flat or sharp. | The zone. Usually breath at the top or chest voice at the bottom. |
| 55–74 | 26–45¢ | Noticeably off on some notes, close on others. A good choir hides it. | Match one note a day against a reference. Ten minutes. |
| under 55 | over 45¢ | Often a semitone or more off. Sounds like the wrong note, not a wobble. | Take the ear test first. If your ear passes, this is coordination, and it trains. |
Bands are a coach’s working rule, not a clinical scale. Nerves, a cold and a bad mic all push the number down; retest on another day before you believe a low one.
Get a reading you can trust
Hum the note first
Hear it, hum it, then sing it. The hum sets the pitch before the open vowel can drift.
Sing it in your own voice
No falsetto to reach the top, no growl for the bottom. If a note needs a trick, skip it. Skips don’t count.
Warm up for two minutes
A cold voice reads flat at the top. Three lip trills and a hum cover it.
Use headphones if you can
Then the microphone hears you and not the reference tone. Without them, wait for the tone to finish before you sing.
Hold, don’t swoop
Land on the note and stay. Sliding up to it reads as flat even if you get there.
Retest another day
Two readings a week apart tell you more than one. The number moves with sleep, hydration and nerves.
Is this a tone deaf test?
Half of it is. True tone deafness (the clinical kind, amusia) is about the ear, not the voice: the person can’t hear that two notes are different. It is rare. The on this page checks exactly that, and if you can hear which of two notes is higher, you are not tone deaf.
What most adults who call themselves tone deaf actually have is a sung note that lands somewhere near the one they meant. That is what the microphone half of this page measures, in cents, note by note. It is coordination between what you hear and what your voice does, and coordination trains at 25, at 45 and at 70.
If your ear passes and your sung score is under 55, read how to sing in tune next. It takes the three usual causes apart, and none of them is your ear.
Pitch test questions
Is the pitch test free?
Yes. Sing the eight notes and see your score, no account. Your note-by-note pitch map and the five-minute drill are emailed, which is also how you join the Vocal Refresh waitlist.
Does it record my voice?
No. The pitch is measured on your device about 20 times a second and only the number is kept for the length of the test. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored after you leave.
What is a good pitch test score?
90 or above means you average under 10 cents from the note, which is in tune to any listener. Most untrained adults who sing regularly land between 70 and 90, with one zone that drifts.
What is a cent?
One hundredth of a semitone. The gap between A and A♯ is 100 cents. Most people can’t hear a difference under about 10 cents; around 25 it starts to sound off.
Why do I go flat on high notes?
Breath, almost always. The note needs more air pressure than the one below it and you give it the same amount, so it sags. A second cause is carrying chest voice above where it wants to go. Both fix with practice, not talent.
How is this different from the vocal range test?
The range test finds your lowest and highest notes: how wide your voice is. This one plays notes inside that range and measures how accurately you hit them. Take both; the results pages link to each other.
The microphone won’t connect.
Inside the Pinterest and Instagram apps the browser often can’t reach the mic. Open the page in Safari or Chrome, or take the ear test here, which needs no microphone.
Am I tone deaf if I score low?
Not from this number alone. A low sung score with a passed ear test is coordination, which trains. Tone deafness means the ear can’t tell two notes apart, and the ear test on this page checks for that in a minute.
Read next
How to Sing in Tune: Why You Sing Off Pitch and How to Fix It
The three causes, none of them your ear, and the drill for each.
Read →Head Voice vs Chest Voice, Explained Simply
Why the top of your range goes flat when chest voice is carried too high.
Read →Breathing Exercises for Singing
The support that keeps a high note from sagging under.
Read →Vocal Range Chart: Find Your Voice Type from Two Notes
Where your steady zone sits on the six-voice-type chart.
Read →Vocal Range Explained
What range actually measures, and why two singers can share a range and sound nothing alike.
Read →Can You Learn to Sing as an Adult? Yes, and Here’s How
Pitch is a skill. Here is the order to build it in.
Read →Turn your score into a plan
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