# Test your musical ear... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445 "2006-11-22T18:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445/81 "2006-11-26T09:55:26Z")
I got 88.9%. I’m probably younger than the rest of you though, so let’s pretend that makes me better. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445/82 "2006-11-26T12:26:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sherwin Nuland] 58.3 Do you think I should switch careers to music? I once took a music class and I had a hard time telling if a chord was major or minor. The major chord was supposed to sound happier and the minor chord sadder. I always thought they sounded the same. I have no ear. [/QUOTE] 55.6% But I don’t think it’s necessarily a matter of my hearing the tones - I got bored with it shortly after I started and just wanted to be done with it. And I couldn’t decide if I was listening to the tones of the music or the beat of the music - so I switched that partly through (was listening to the beat, then switched to the tone and I think the first part killed me). I might take it again when I’m more motivated. Right now I have to go to Target. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445/83 "2006-11-26T21:29:55Z")
80.3%. I’ll take it ! It also made me feel better to see that the ones I missed were ones that few people got correctly. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445/84 "2006-11-26T21:47:39Z")
80.6 I play harmonica badly and am otherwise untrained. ---
**Author:** ![kezami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@kezami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kezami)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445/85 "2006-11-26T23:17:19Z")
88.9% I listen with a critical ear to voices. I should be an ‘Idol’ judge, Simon Cowell would have nothing over me. I have very rudimentary musical training, which is almost none. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445/86 "2006-11-27T02:06:34Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] Only 72.2%. I have to say I’m disappointed with that. [/QUOTE] I concur wholeheartedly. I got exactly the same, and thought I was better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445/87 "2006-11-27T02:37:54Z")
52.6%, folks! That’s a solid “potential pitch perception or musical memory deficiency”! I, as they say, have roxxored your boxers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-musical-ear/381445.md?page=4)