Hearing Range Test

This is not a hearing test

It is worth being blunt about that. This page cannot measure your hearing, cannot detect hearing loss, and is not a diagnosis or medical advice. A real hearing test is done in a quiet room with calibrated equipment by someone trained to interpret it. This is a tone climbing through the frequencies on whatever speakers you happen to have.

If you are worried about your hearing — if speech is hard to follow in a noisy room, if you have ringing, if something changed suddenly — see an audiologist or a doctor. Nothing on this page should reassure you or alarm you.

What it actually shows

Where a tone disappears for you, today, on these speakers. That number depends on at least five things this page knows nothing about: your speakers or headphones and how high they can reproduce at all, your volume setting, the noise in your room, how close you are, and your own ears.

Most laptop and phone speakers roll off steeply above 15 kHz, so a tone vanishing at 15,000 Hz very often means the speaker stopped, not that you did. Headphones usually go higher. Trying both is more interesting than either number alone.

Using it

1. 1

   Turn the volume down, then press Start. The tone begins at 500 Hz, which everyone hears, and climbs.

2. 2

   Listen, and press "I stopped hearing it" when the tone genuinely disappears — not when it gets quieter, which happens long before it goes.

3. 3

   Read it as a curiosity. The page shows the frequency that was playing when you pressed, and calls it what it is: what you reported.

Why there is no score

Tools like this usually finish by telling you the age of your ears. This one does not, deliberately: the frequency you can hear varies with everything listed above, the relationship between high-frequency hearing and age is a population trend rather than a measurement of an individual, and turning a rough number into an age is a guess dressed as a result.

There is no score, no ranking, no comparison, no history and nothing saved. Reload the page and it starts fresh, because nothing was kept.

To hold a single frequency steady rather than sweep, use the Tone Generator; to check the speakers themselves, the Speaker Test.