We got a lot of positive feedback on our Can You Hear Like a Teenager? article, and it inspired us to take it just a little bit further.
Check your hearing with a list of tones that go from 8Hz all the way up to 22,000Hz. It’s fairly common for people who are over 25 years of age to not be able to hear above 15kHz and also experience some level of hearing loss or hearing damage such as tinnitus. This online test will help you find out where your high frequency hearing cuts off.
Musicians have a much higher risk of hearing loss that most people do, and many of us don’t really wear proper hearing protection. Even just listening to an iPod for an extended period of time can permanently damage your hearing. We also gradually lose our high-frequency hearing as we age.
Take our online hearing test: listen to each of these tones and let us know where your hearing cuts out. Make sure to turn the volume down on your headphones or speakers and gradually turn them up to a safe level.
8 kHz
10 kHz 12 kHz 14 kHz 15 kHz 16 kHz |
17 kHz
18 kHz 19 kHz 20 kHz 21 kHz 22 kHz |
Importance of Hearing Protection
If you’re around loud music a lot like I am, or if you are experiencing some hearing loss, Iย highly recommend getting a pair of hearing protection earplugs.
The Etymotic earlplugs don’t muffle the sound like conventional earplugs – they basically give you the same frequency response as without, but with a bit lower volume. If I wear them out to a club, they also help me carry on a conversation without yelling. Etymotic earbuds are also great in that they isolate your ear so you don’t have to turn up the volume as much on your MP3 player (ambient noise is one of the biggest reasons we turn up the volume). I love mine.
my right ear stops at 17 while my left ear can hear 18 Something is wrong
I have just turnd 18 And i can hardly hear 18 no problem with 17 is it good.( i listen for long periods to Rock music)
omg, what have i done??! i’m 16 years old and the last one i can hear is 14khz.. oh no.. ๐
I’m 23 and I can go up to 20kHz… I so am gonna buy these etymotic earplugs on eBay, for me and my husband!! Tired of those cheap foam plugs.
I am 21 soon to be 22 and I can hear all of them. I have always had really sensitive hearing and I am using pretty good quality headphones.
I’m 17 but I produce and listen to a lot of music. Highest I heard was 18, I felt up to 21, and the ones past 12 gave me a headache :/
I am 28 and I heard all of them painfully loudly even with my speakers turned down fairly low. Then again, I was tested at an audiologist’s (hearing doctor) because I cringe at sounds no one else can hear… They said I have hypersensitive hearing (there’s a more medical term for it, but I can’t remember what it is right now, oh well). Apparently I can hear above 24kHz (probably not much above that, but they were unsure of the exact point my freakish hearing ends). As nice as it is to know that I can hear really well, it’s kind of a pain because those high frequencies aren’t fun to listen to!
I’m 37. I used to work on turbine generators and play metal guitar. I can hear 16kHz
I’m 13 & Can hear 22 ;D
I’m 17 and a musician. However, I was able to hear all the way up to 22. I couldn’t hear 22 very well, but I heard the very last part of it.
weird.
I’m 18 years old and I heard 15kHz and could barely detect anything higher. By 20kHz there was silence.
I heard up to 12 and I am 37. My 13 year old was in the other room and had a fit cause he could hear up to 17 and it was driving him crazy!
I am 43 and I hear up to 15….
My son is 8 and he heard up to 16….
My daughter is 10 and she heard up to 16….
My daughter is 16 and she heard up to 18 faintly….
i am hurtling toward fifty and i cant see, is this tesco telling me my shoppings at the door.
Only got to 15k with a tail wind! to many live bands i fear
Ugh, I wish I hadn’t of done this, I can only hear up to 15, but now there’s a constant ringing in my ears… By the way, I’m at least 50% deaf in both ears.
I am 37 and couldn’t hear anything over 10. During my 10 years in the Navy I lost significant amounts of hearing.
I’m 19 and I can hear all of them. The last one I can faintly hear though.
26; can hear 19 well and 20 just barely.
I’m a 42 year old musician. I can hear up to 12k fine. I can hear the 14k and 15k, but 14k sounds lower than 12k and 15k sounds lower than 14k. I haven’t tried it on different speakers, but it seems very strange.
At 16 I hear pitch, from then on only clicks. 32 yr old drummer. (little to no hearing protection)
Sweet. I’m 30, was in a death metal band for six years (never wearing ear plugs), and I can hear 16k.
i am 14 and i dont hear tht 19Hz -.-“
I’m 16, stopped on 19.
I’m 17, and can’t hear past 17 kHz
yikes.
Iรขโฌโขm 14 and the last one I can hear is 18.
i heard up to 20, I’m 18.
I’m 27 and can hear 18 but not 19
i’m 36 and I stopped hearing after 15kHz and could not hear anything else apart from the 22kHz one – is this odd?
12 was the last one I could hear! Dx
22 and hearing up to 17.
I’m 22! I have been in bands since i was 15 and listen to my ipod on pretty much full volume daily. I can’t hear 19.
I’m 26 and I’m pretty sure I cut out after 16 kHz.
That is a bit depressing. I’d be interested to see a graph showing the mean and median range for each age. You might what to consider that as a follow-up.
Funny how I’m around 130-150Db sound systems all the time, yet I can hear 20 Hz with ease. I’m 16 btw.
I’m 14, and I can’t hear past 16kHz!! ๐
At first I was kinda sad that I couldn’t hear past 16- it meant that I was just average instead of the awesome super hero with super sonic hearing that I imagined myself to be.
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But then I realized that I all the tones that I did hear were really annoying and gave me a headache and now I’m glad I have bad hearing. It gives me a better quality of life if you ask me. ๐
but we all have our computer’s volume on different level when we take the test, it should change something
Got all the way up to 22. I’m twenty and play bass for a metal band.
I’m 17, and I can just barely hear 15.
the life of a musician
I’m 12 and I can hear up to 22 kHz.
I’m 50 and I can hear 8, 10, 12 and 21. Nothing in between.
I’m 53 and can barely hear 14.
I’m almost 16, and can hear 20, but not 21.
i’m 14 and i can only hear up to 12 ๐
i’m 16 and i could not hear after i passed 17.
I’m turning 15 in july and i cant hear past 14…
I am 29 and I could only hear up to 14khz if I turn my speakers up all the way and mash my ear into one of them. Lame. Does that mean I am going deaf?
I’m 23 and I heard up to 16. My cats went crazy though when I went up higher!
I am 60. I heard 12, but not 14. Is that bad? ๐
I am soon going to be 15 years old, I can’t hear above 16.
Heard them all and I’m 15