Check this out guys! Pretty neat.
I will refrain to post my thoughts on it, so I don’t ruin it for anyone, but I got 80 percent. For some reason once you get the hang of it, it gets easier. Post your score!
Oooh fun! I got a 95% overall after missing one. Apparently my “contour discrimination” is my weakest skill, while “musical memory” is my strongest. I’ve done really simple ones of these while teaching little kids- they were more like one wiggly, straight, up or down line, and they had to choose which picture best fit the sound I was making. Fun!
What I found difficult to accept was that there is one right answer to each of those - I must admit I got a bit tired of seeing “sorry not correct” for what I thought were perfectly legitimate answers so I didn’t complete the test. Is there justification at the end for why his choices are correct?
Okay, i’ll explain how it works, at least in my opinion in a spoiler box…
Basically I didn’t exactly know how to do it in the beginning. But really all you have to do is think about things in a different way. Just listen to the seperate melodies going on. For example, there was one with a box, and a smaller red box that overlapped the right half of the larger black box. In the music, you heard a melody and then a second melody that began halfway through and ended at the same time. The choices were a square with a smaller red square covering the left half of the box (no good because the second melody started later) one like I described above, and finally one that shows two squares, one red and one black that overlap each other. But that would mean that the second melody (red box) goes on even after the first one (black box) stopped.
Once I knew the trick was to interpret individual melodies as being represented by shapes, I got most of them right.
I got a 100%, but I did have to replay a few early on when I didn’t realize they’d be layering multiple phrases on top of each other. Very cool test, though. It’s definitely easier once you know what the symbols represent: you know what to listen for.
And actually, looking at it, even though I got everything right, I didn’t get a 100% on some of the subscales. I wonder if it tracks how often you replay a question…
95% first try.
A random internet test has made me feel proud! Woo!
…though I’m angry about the one I missed. Great test, very interesting concept.
80% here, first shot.
Maybe I can use this to convince my mother that I’m not tone deaf. 
Yes, there is a justification for why the “correct” choices are correct. The description of the test isn’t very good, it’s more like testing your ability to recognize patterns between sounds and shapes.
Anyway, here are the rules (more or less, I only got 85% right, so some of these might be off somewhat)
First, the x axis is time. The further right something is, the later it happened in the song. The y axis is pitch (though if two separate tunes are being played at the same time, they appear one on top of the other). The higher something is, the higher it is on the screen. Different colors indicate different instruments. Different shapes indicate different tunes. Changes in the shape indicate changes in the tune, for example, if it plays one tune, then the same tune with one note higher than the first time, it will have a square then a square with a upward bump.
Total score: 95%
Pitch discrimination: 95.7%
Musical memory: 97%
Contour discrimination: 91.6%
Attention: 92.5%
Musical/visual abstraction: 94.3%
Hmm… I just played it a second time, and got 100%. But I got 95.2% for contour discrimination and 97.8% on attention. 100% on all the other parts though. Odd…
Well great now I’m pissed because I’m very musical and I only got a 70%, despite getting I think 15/20 correct.
My subscores were crap too.
Pitch discrimination: 68.1%
Musical memory: 71.5%
Contour discrimination: 67.5%
Attention: 64.5%
Musical/visual abstraction: 74.0%
Bah humbug.
Exactly, I was expecting something based on the Bouba/Kiki effect. In one of my classes I do a variation on the classic test described in the link using non-verbal sounds and abstract drawings. The results are interesting and in line with the classical Bouba/Kiki results: almost everyone agrees on which sound corresponds to which shape despite both being meaningless and of no clear origin. Maybe I should put my version on line some time.
Anyway, this is really just a musical listening test that can be taken by people who can’t read music.
I got 100% (first try).
It must factor in your use of ‘replay’ because two of my sub-scores were under 100% (contour discrimination 95.2% and attention 97.8%).
I am not musical, I can’t carry a tune in a bucket, and I had no idea what I was supposed to do, but I still got 75% somehow.
I got 60% on my only try.
Pitch discrimination: 53.6%
Musical memory: 54.1%
Contour discrimination: 65.1%
Attention: 60.2%
Musical/visual abstraction: 62.2%
Once again I have the distinct honor of rounding out the bottom of the bell curve. 45% overall.
As of two weeks ago, I have a bachelor’s degree in music composition. I got 80% on this, but I seem to have missed that you could replay things.
Pitch discrimination: 88.4%
Musical memory: 82.0%
Contour discrimination: 83.1%
Attention: 79.6%
Musical/visual abstraction: 67.2%
I didn’t get the hang of the test until around the middle, and I got a 70%.
I’m getting just a blank page. 
Tried disabling NoScript (in Firefox), tried opening the page in MSIE, tried inserting “www”, tried both deleting the final slash and replacing it with “.html”, tried accessing just the home page and also got a blank.
I even tried Googling “Jake Mandell” and actually got to the home page that way (and also found another NoScript parameter to kill), but the links still took me to a blank page. Yesterday I upgraded to the new version of AVG, so I even went in there and temporarily disabled everything I could think of, and now I get “The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading” errors, even after restoring the AVG settings.
I wanna play too! Any ideas what’s going on?