My memory is terrible. I could tell a lot of them were the same pitch but different rhythms and marked them as different. Was that the wrong thing to do?
I auditioned for choir in high school and scored well above the curve by singing back combinations of notes. I know I’m not tone deaf. But I scored only 20 and 23.
22/30 (ugh) and 29/30 (yay!).
Thank you for your participation. You scored 29 out of 30 on the first test and 27 out of 30 on the second test.
Yay, I don’t suck!
I just realized something…
This study is most likely being passed around various music forums primarily… that’s gonna skew the results. People with 0 musical interest/knowledge are going to do worse on this test I’d imagine.
25 and 26
Very reassuring as I have 100% hearing loss in my right ear, due to a severed nerve.
I did the same.
It was interesting that on the melody pairs, when there were differences it was always the second tune that was a little “off” from what I would consider tonal center or a fixed key. And I felt a little frustrated that the rhythmic ones, as played with no accent or dynamic change, made it hard to tell at the outset whether something was in triple or duple meter.
I thought I’d gotten them all on the rhythm section and I missed one more than the first. Strange.
Jennie
This is true. Quick, everybody, go sign up your non-musical friends (come on, some of us have a few) to help them get some more valid results.
Jennie
I was thinking the same thing as I was listening and I wondered if it would be as noticeable if it was the first tune that was “off”.
Two perfect scores, baby!
…what, no new car? No cash prize? No civic monument celebrating my achievemet? 
grumbling off to have a cup of tea…Tom
No, I don’t think that was the wrong thing to do. I believe it was correct to consider that if there was any change in the tune at all it should be marked different.
I am sure you aren’t tone deaf. I think the test has a lot to do with musical memory—you can only tell if the second tune is different if you can remember the first one. If the test is trying to measure other things, then I would have some doubts about how accurately those other things could be measured—but I haven’t read anything about their particular experiment, so I’m not critiqueing it, just wondering.
I think that musical memory can actually be improved—many people say that the more you practice learning by ear, the better you get. And I would think this test would be very similar to what a person encounters when learning by ear, which I find quite hard to do. I would have expected to score lower and I think I made some lucky guesses.
29/30 and 28/30, better than I expected.
Mike
I think this test is bunk because I got 27 and 26 and I am pretty sure I am somewhat tone deaf. i guess this gives me hope though 
I was impressed with my 25s until I read all the other answers. 
I’ll blame it on being a newbie. 
There’s nothing wrong with being average. 
Don’t worry too much, Katie. Nobody has scored as bad as me.
I’m going to tell people when I play and make mistakes that it’s really hard for me being tone deaf and all. It’s a miracle I can play at all!
27 and 23. My heart wasn’t really into it as it does indeed seem to be a test more for musical memory that tone comparisons.
…and a test of attention span! Mercy, it was hard to pay attention for that long!
T