You might have a musical ear without knowing it.
10 music games to find out. 30 seconds a game, scored out of 10. Free, no sign-up, no music theory.
Three ways to play
The 10 music games
Each game takes thirty seconds of ear training and gives a score out of ten.
A timbre, a tempo, a loop, a machine. What you actually hear.
- InstrumentOne instrument plays a tune you know. Six families, twenty-one instruments: which one do you hear?
- TempoFifteen seconds of listening, a slider, a metronome: find the beats per minute.
- RhythmA loop that never stops. Tap along with it, then play it alone: three tries, the best one counts.
- Human or AIMachines write music now, and it shows less and less. One clip, one call, one mistake allowed.
Finding a track from almost nothing: one second, one detail, three lines.
What you know without ever having learned it: the numbers, the names, the dates.
- Stream DuelTwo tracks head to head, one has more streams. How far can you go without slipping?
- ArtistName an artist and it gets compared to the mystery one: genre, country, era. Seven tries to find them.
- Release yearA clip plays. Slide the marker along the timeline: within five years you level up, otherwise you lose a life.
All that listening finally counts
You listen to music on the way to work, while cooking, while working, after a breakup. Thousands of hours, without ever thinking about it. That listening left something behind: a memory of timbres, choruses and tempos you have never had the chance to measure.
That is what Mozart Benchmark is for. Ten free music games, thirty seconds each, scored out of ten. You name an instrument from its timbre, play a rhythm back, hunt for the tempo of a track, date a song from the way it was recorded, unmask music written by a machine. No music theory required: rhythms are tapped on the space bar, answers are given with a click, and every game explains its method below the stage.
Three ways to play. In practice mode, you play as many rounds as you like. In the daily challenge, five games are drawn from the ten, the same for everyone until midnight, with a single try each and a score out of 100 to share. And with friends, you open a private room, share the code, and everyone plays the same games at the same time. Warming up first is the better plan.
Nothing here is an official test: the scores are there to place you, not to judge you. But a musical ear is not only something you are born with. It is built song after song, in all those hours you thought you were only listening.