Free Vocal Range Test
Sing three notes and get your range, your voice type, and the famous singer you match — free, no signup, nothing recorded.
🎤 Your Vocal Range Test
Let’s find your range 🎯
We’ll listen to three notes: a comfy middle note, your lowest, and your highest. Sing on an “ah” or hum — whatever feels easy. Your voice stays on your device.
1 · Sing a comfortable note 😌
Hum or sing an easy middle note and hold it. This checks your mic and warms you up.
2 · Find your floor ⬇️
Slide down to the lowest note you can sing cleanly (no vocal fry). Hold it steady, then lock it.
3 · Float to your ceiling ⬆️
Ease up to the highest note you can sing without strain. Head voice counts — vocal fry doesn’t.
🎹 Find your range by ear
No mic needed. Tap a reference tone, sing along, and slide until it matches. Set your lowest and highest comfortable notes.
Get your results + a plan by email
Your range is ready! Enter your email to unlock your full snapshot, the singer you match, and a warm-up plan built for your voice.
🎹 Where your range sits on the piano
Your range is highlighted in orange. The colored bars show the classic voice types.
🚀 How Vocal Refresh helps you grow this range
Your range today is a starting line, not a limit. Here’s what expands it — and builds the stamina to hold it.
Short daily exercises tuned to your exact low and high notes, nudging your ceiling up safely.
Support drills so high notes stop feeling like a sprint and your voice lasts a whole song.
Smooth the chest-to-head transition so your range connects instead of cracking in the middle.
Come back weekly, watch your range widen, and celebrate every new semitone.
Vocal Range Explained: Voice Types, Octaves & the Range Chart
What your notes really mean — and how your voice type is decided by more than range alone.
Read the guide →How to use the vocal range test
Three notes, two minutes, one clearer picture of your voice.
Allow your mic
Tap start and allow microphone access. Nothing is recorded or uploaded — detection happens live on your device.
Sing 3 notes
A comfy middle note, your lowest, and your highest. Sing on an easy “ah” or hum. Lock each one in.
Get your snapshot
See your range on the piano, the singer you match, and a warm-up plan emailed straight to you.
Tips for best results
Background noise confuses pitch detection. A calm, echo-free space gives the cleanest read.
Hum gently for a minute. A cold voice under-reports your true range — especially up top.
Steady open vowels track better than words. Hold each note for a second or two before locking.
Only count notes you can sing cleanly with tone. Creaky fry gives false lows the mic can’t read.
A few inches away, pointed at your mouth. Earbuds with a mic work great too.
Range shifts with sleep, hydration and time of day. Test a few times for your real picture.
Troubleshooting common issues
Check your browser’s site permissions and allow microphone access, then reload. On iPhone, use Safari and confirm the mic isn’t muted. No luck? Use the “test by ear” option.
Usually background noise or fry. Move somewhere quieter, sing a steady “ah,” and hold the note for a second so the reading settles before you lock it.
You may be slipping into vocal fry, which the mic ignores. Only count the lowest note with real tone behind it.
Totally normal after a break. Warm up gently and don’t push. Your ceiling comes back with consistent practice — that’s exactly what Vocal Refresh builds.
Sing a little louder and move closer to the mic. Watch the level bar — if it barely moves, your input device may be wrong in system settings.
That’s expected — range varies daily. Test after a warm-up, a few times across the week, and take the widest clean reading.
That is your passaggio, and it is normal. Voice cracks in adults explains why it happens and how to smooth it.
Female voice types & the singers who own them
Voice type is about more than range — but range is the best place to start. Here’s where the three main women’s voices sit, with famous singers in each.
🕊️ Soprano
The highest women’s voice — bright, agile, and ringing up top. Comfortable soaring above the staff.
🎯 Mezzo-soprano
The most common women’s voice — warm, full and versatile through the middle. The pop powerhouse zone.
🌙 Contralto (Alto)
The lowest and darkest women’s voice — rich, smoky and resonant in the low end. Rare and striking.
🎹 The full picture on a keyboard
Every voice type — women’s and men’s — mapped onto the piano so you can see how they overlap.
Your range and your comfortable range are two different numbers
The test gives you a floor and a ceiling. That is not the number you sing with.
Your tessitura is the stretch in the middle where your voice sits without effort. It is usually narrower than your full range by three or four notes at each end, and it is the honest answer to the question “what can I actually sing?” The top three notes of your range are notes you can reach. They are not notes you can hold through a chorus.
Most women coming back after a break test wider than they expect and sing narrower than they expect. That gap is normal, and it closes with practice.
To find yours: sing a familiar song in a comfortable key and notice where you stop thinking about your voice. That band is your tessitura. Pick songs that live there and you will sound better immediately, without changing a single thing about your technique.
Which songs can you sing right now?
Once you have your range, song choice stops being guesswork.
Look at the highest note in the chorus, not the highest note in the song. Choruses repeat, and repetition is where voices give out. If the chorus peak sits inside your comfortable range with two notes to spare, the song fits you.
If it is close but not quite, transpose it. Dropping a song two or three semitones is standard practice, not cheating. Every professional singer performs in their own keys.
Some rough starting points. Sopranos: most contemporary pop sits comfortably. Mezzos: Adele, Sara Bareilles, and most musical theatre belt repertoire. Contraltos: Lana Del Rey, Amy Winehouse, and anything written low and slow.
If a song leaves you reaching on every chorus, that is not a sign you need to work harder. It is the wrong key.
Is your range good? Here is where you actually stand
Almost everyone asks this, so here is a straight answer.
An untrained adult voice usually measures about 1.5 to 2 octaves. A regular singer with some training lands around 2 to 2.5. Trained and professional voices run 3 octaves and up.
Two octaves covers the overwhelming majority of popular music. You do not need more than that to sing almost anything you actually want to sing.
One number worth ignoring: the five and six octave claims attached to famous singers. Those usually count whistle tones, vocal fry, and notes nobody would ever perform. Measured the way this test measures, the gap between you and a professional is a lot smaller than the internet suggests.
If you tested lower than you expected, the usual culprits are a cold voice, a noisy room, and counting notes you cannot actually hold. Warm up and test again on a different day.
Vocal range chart
Every voice type, with the note range and octave span each one typically covers.
| Voice type | Typical range | Octave span | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soprano | C4 – C6 | 2 octaves | Highest women’s voice; bright and agile above the staff |
| Mezzo-soprano | A3 – A5 | 2 octaves | The most common women’s voice; warm through the middle |
| Contralto (Alto) | F3 – F5 | 2 octaves | Lowest women’s voice; rich and dark, and rare |
| Tenor | C3 – A4 | Just under 2 octaves | Highest common men’s voice; bright at the top |
| Baritone | G2 – F4 | Just under 2 octaves | The most common men’s voice; warm through the middle |
| Bass | E2 – C4 | Just under 2 octaves | Deepest men’s voice; the least common of the six |
Ranges overlap on purpose. Voice type is about where your voice is comfortable and how it sounds, not only about the notes you can reach.
Men’s voice types, briefly
Vocal Refresh is built for women, and everything above is written for women’s voices. But range is range, and the keyboard already maps all six.
Tenor, C3 to A4. The highest common men’s voice, bright and ringing at the top. Freddie Mercury, Bruno Mars, Stevie Wonder.
Baritone, G2 to F4. The most common men’s voice, warm and easy through the middle. Frank Sinatra, John Legend, Hozier.
Bass, E2 to C4. The deepest and the least common. Barry White, and Johnny Cash down at the bottom of his range.
Same rules as everywhere else on this page: test warm, ignore vocal fry, and count only the notes you can hold cleanly.
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