Pitch Matching Game
Can I sing in tune? Hear a note, sing it back, and the mic grades you in cents — eight rounds, octave-up or down counts, targets tuned to your voice. Free, in your browser, nothing recorded.
8 rounds. A tone plays, you sing it back, the mic grades you in cents. Matching an octave up or down counts. Nothing is recorded.
How the Sing-It-Back Game Works
Hear, hum, hold — eight rounds and you know where you stand.
Pick Your Voice Band
Low, mid, or high — targets stay inside a register you can hum comfortably. Allow the mic and the first tone plays.
Listen, Then Sing It Back
The tone plays, then the mic opens. Sing or hum the note and hold it steady — your first stable note becomes the attempt.
See Your Accuracy
Each round shows what you sang and how many cents sharp or flat you were; eight rounds add up to a score and an honest verdict.
A Pitch Accuracy Test That Plays Fair
Fair targets, fair grading, and no tape of your practice notes.
Graded in Cents
Every attempt is measured against the target in cents — Perfect within 15, Close within 35, Almost within 75 — so you see exactly how sharp or flat you sang.
Octave-Up or Down Counts
Scoring is octave-agnostic: matching the pitch class an octave above or below the target is full credit, the same way choirs handle out-of-range notes.
Three Voice Bands
Pick low, mid, or high voice and every target lands in a register you can actually sing — no basses straining at A4, no sopranos growling at A2.
The Speaker Never Grades Itself
Listening starts only after the tone finishes playing, so the mic can't hear the speaker and score the game's own note as your attempt.
Sing With Nothing Saved
Your voice is analyzed on your device and discarded frame by frame — no recording, no upload, and the mic shuts off the moment the game ends.
Any Device, Any Voice
Works in the browser on iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge — practice on the couch, in the car, or in the practice room.
The Wrong Notes Stay Between You and the Math
Learning to match pitch means singing plenty of notes that miss — and nobody improves with an audience. Every hum is analyzed on your own device and discarded frame by frame: no recording, no storage, no upload, and the microphone shuts off the moment you finish or press End game.
No Recording
Your voice is measured, never kept
No Upload
All grading happens in your browser
You're in Control
End game cuts the mic instantly
Who Practices Pitch Matching
Anyone whose voice should land where their ear points.
Answer the Big Question
Get an objective read on 'can I sing in tune?' instead of guessing from recordings
Beginner Singers
Pitch matching is lesson one of singing — drill it before anything else
Instrumentalists Who Sing
Tighten the ear-to-voice loop that makes humming solos and hooks accurate
Choir Warm-Ups
Eight quick rounds before rehearsal gets the whole section listening
Prove You're Not Tone Deaf
Watch 'Off' become 'Close' become 'Perfect' within a week of tries
Daily Voice Check
A two-minute calibration that tells you how your ear and voice are talking today
Pitch Matching Is Where Singing Starts
Before tone, before breath support, before style, there is one skill: hear a note, produce that note. Everything else in singing is built on top of this ear-to-voice loop, and it’s the loop this game measures and trains — one graded note at a time.
The ear-to-voice loop
Matching pitch involves three systems in a chain: your ear hears the target, your brain maps it to a muscle setting, and your vocal folds tense to produce it — then your ear checks the output and corrects. Untrained singers usually don’t have a hearing problem or a voice problem; they have a calibration problem in the middle of the chain. That’s why graded feedback works so well: seeing “22 cents sharp” teaches the correction that “sounds a bit off” never could.
“Tone deaf” almost never means tone deaf
Genuine tone deafness — congenital amusia, the inability to perceive pitch differences at all — affects only a few percent of people. If a wrong note in someone else’s karaoke makes you wince, you can perceive pitch fine, and what’s missing is only the untrained calibration between hearing and producing. The label does real damage: people told they “can’t sing” in childhood often simply stopped, decades before their loop had a chance to calibrate. Eight rounds a day for a couple of weeks moves most beginners a full grade band.
Why the octave doesn’t matter
If the target is A4 and you sing A3, this game scores it as a match — and that’s not leniency, it’s music theory. Notes an octave apart share the same pitch class and the same letter name precisely because our ears hear them as the same note, higher or lower. Transposing a target into your own register is what every choir does when the melody leaves their range; punishing it would test anatomy, not accuracy. The grading folds your note to the nearest octave of the target and measures the remaining error in cents.
Practice tips that move the score
The single best trick: hum along quietly while the tone is still playing, then keep humming after it stops — you carry the pitch instead of recalling it, and your held note becomes the graded attempt. Hum rather than belt; a soft, steady tone is easier to bend into tune. If a round lands sharp or flat, replay the target and slide your voice slowly onto it to feel the correction. And when your band starts feeling easy, don’t stop — switch bands, because matching pitch across your whole voice is the real goal.
The rest of your ear’s gym
Pitch matching trains the voice half of your ear — the listening half has its own games. Learn to name the distances between notes with the interval ear training game, find out whether you can name lone notes cold with the perfect pitch test, map your lowest and highest notes with the vocal range test, and keep the vocal pitch monitor open while you practice songs to watch your intonation live.
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Vocal Range Test
Sing your lowest and highest notes — get your voice type.
Ear Training
Interval recognition game — name the distance between notes.
Perfect Pitch Test
Hear a note with no reference — can you name it?
Vocal Pitch Monitor
Watch your voice draw a live pitch line across a note grid.
Pitch Detector
Read the live pitch of any sound — Hz, note, and cents.
Note Identifier
Sing or play a note and see its name instantly.
Pitch Matching Game FAQ
How does the pitch matching game work?
Eight rounds. A tone plays through your speakers, then you sing or hum it back and hold the note. The microphone measures how close you landed in cents and grades the attempt — Perfect within 15 cents, Close within 35, Almost within 75 — and your points add up to a final score with a verdict.
Does matching an octave up or down count?
Yes, on purpose. Scoring is octave-agnostic: if the target is A4 and you sing A3, that's full credit. Matching the pitch class in your own register is exactly what trained singers do when a note sits outside their range — insisting on the exact octave would punish low voices for physics.
I score badly — am I tone deaf?
Almost certainly not. True tone deafness (congenital amusia) affects only a few percent of people; if you can tell when someone else sings badly, you're not one of them. Low scores nearly always mean the link between ear and voice is untrained — and that link responds to practice within days, not years.
What's a cent, and how close is 'in tune'?
A cent is one hundredth of a semitone — a very fine unit. Most listeners hear anything within about 15 cents as perfectly in tune, which is why that's the Perfect band. Even professionals drift by a handful of cents; nobody sings at zero.
Which voice band should I pick?
The one where humming feels effortless: low (around A2–G3) for most male voices, mid (E3–D4) as the general default, high (B3–A4) for most female and higher voices. If several rounds feel like a stretch, switch bands — straining teaches nothing about pitch.
Is my singing recorded or uploaded?
No. The mic signal is analyzed on your own device frame by frame and discarded — nothing is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere, and the microphone switches off when the game ends or you press End game. Grading also only begins after the tone stops, so the game never listens while its own speaker is sounding.
Is it free?
Completely free — no account, no install, no round limits. It runs entirely in your browser, so play it daily if you want the fastest improvement.