Perfect Pitch Test
This perfect pitch test plays a single note with no reference tone — you name its pitch class (and, if you like, its octave) across a set of trials. Tones are tuned in equal temperament with A4 = 440 Hz, and you can switch between four synthesized timbres. At the end you get a percentage score with some population context.
⭐ This is a screening / practice indicator, not a clinical diagnosis of absolute pitch. True absolute pitch is rare — a widely-published typical estimate is roughly 1 in 10,000 in the general population (Profita & Bidder, 1988; figures vary by definition). With 12 choices, blind guessing scores about 8% (and lower — about 3% — if you also include the octave, since that needs both right), so only a consistently high score across no-reference trials suggests AP aptitude. AP is largely acquired early in life, but relative pitch can be trained at any age. Use a moderate volume; nothing is recorded or uploaded.
Set up your test
Keep it moderate — just loud enough to hear the note clearly. Headphones help, but any timbre is fair game on speakers too.
Your result
The copied summary is plain text containing your score and a link to this page — nothing is uploaded.
How It Works
Each trial picks a random note and plays it once, with no reference tone first. That is the whole point: people with relative pitch can name an interval between two notes, but naming a single isolated note out of the blue — effectively a "name that note" challenge — is the hallmark of absolute pitch (AP), sometimes called "perfect pitch". This absolute pitch test asks you to tap one of the twelve pitch-class buttons (C, C♯, D…); turn on Include octave to also guess the register, which is harder. All notes are synthesized in 12-tone equal temperament with A4 = 440 Hz, so a note's frequency is exactly f = 440 × 2(m−69)/12, where m is the MIDI note number. That math is precise; what is not precise is your equipment, the timbre, and your ears — which is why this is a practice indicator, not a diagnostic tool. To verify the exact frequency of any pitch, you can cross-check with the Hz to note converter.
The four timbres are all built live in the browser using the Web Audio API's oscillator nodes, with no audio files downloaded. Pure sine is a single fundamental frequency with no harmonics — the cleanest and, for many people, the hardest to place because there are no harmonic overtones to anchor on. Piano-like, bright synth, and guitar-like use additive synthesis, stacking harmonics with different amplitudes and decay envelopes; the words "bright", "warm" and so on are conventional, subjective descriptions, not measurements. Real AP is usually timbre-dependent — many possessors are far better on a familiar instrument than on a bare sine — so testing across timbres is more revealing than any single one. If you want a stable reference tone to orient yourself between tests, the online tone generator lets you play any pitch at a precise frequency.
Your score is simply the percentage of trials you named correctly. With twelve choices, pure guessing lands near 8% (1 in 12) for pitch class only, and lower — about 3% (1 in 36) — if you also include the octave, since a trial then counts only when both are right; so anything in that neighbourhood is chance. A consistently high score across several no-reference tests — especially on the sine timbre, and especially if you also nail the octave — points toward AP aptitude. A single lucky run does not. Think of this perfect pitch quiz as a benchmark, not a final verdict: it tells you where you stand today. Scores are saved only in your own browser (via localStorage) so you can track progress over time; clearing your browser data or using private mode erases them, and the "Copy result" button produces plain text you can paste anywhere — it is never uploaded. If you want to develop this skill further through structured ear training rather than just testing it, the perfect pitch trainer provides structured drills with per-note accuracy tracking and a confusion matrix.