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Vocal Range Test: Find Your Lowest and Highest Singing Notes
Free vocal range test: sing your lowest and highest comfortable notes into the mic, see your range on a keyboard and staff, and which voice types it fits.
Private by design. Your voice is analysed live in this browser tab. Nothing is recorded, uploaded or stored.
Sing two notes: the lowest and then the highest you can sing comfortably, each held steady for 2 seconds. Use a quiet room and a normal singing voice (chest and head voice, not whistle or vocal fry), and warm up first.
Step 1 of 2: your lowest note
Sing the lowest note you can sing comfortably and hold it steady for 2 seconds.
Hold progress input level
Your range
Keyboard from C2 to C7 (C4 is middle C). Click or tap a key to hear the note; scroll sideways on a small screen.
On the staff
Voice types that overlap your range
Compared with the typical ranges on the voice types and vocal range chart. “Match” is shared notes divided by all notes in either range, so 100% means the two ranges are identical.
All voice types compared
| Voice type | Typical range | Shared notes | Match |
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Range is only part of a voice type. Teachers also listen to tessitura (where the voice sits most comfortably), timbre, and where the voice changes register. A range test cannot tell you your voice type; it tells you which typical ranges your notes fit.
About the Vocal Range Test
The vocal range test is a free tool that finds the lowest and highest notes you can sing comfortably. It runs in your web browser with no sign-up, so you can find your vocal range without creating an account. Your lowest and highest notes appear on a piano keyboard and on the grand staff, and the tool lists the voice types that overlap your range. Use it as a singing range test before a lesson, or as a voice range test to see where your voice sits on the pitch scale. The test also works as a vocal type test, but only as a starting point, since range alone does not decide a voice type.
How to use the Vocal Range Test
- Press 🎤 Start the microphone test and allow microphone access. Everything happens in your browser, and nothing is recorded or sent.
- Step 1: sing the lowest note you can sing comfortably and hold it steady for 2 seconds. The big letter shows the note the tool hears, and the bar fills while you hold it.
- Step 2: sing the highest note you can sing comfortably, again for 2 seconds. Do not strain, and stop if it hurts.
- Read your range in notes, semitones and octaves, on the keyboard and on the staff. If a note is off by a semitone or two, correct it with the − and + buttons beside Lowest note or Highest note, then press ▶ Hear to check it against the piano tone.
- No microphone, or a noisy room? Press Choose notes by ear instead, click keys on the piano keyboard to hear them, and set the lowest and highest notes you can match.
Start this step again redoes the current step, and Stop and go back ends the test. Test again starts a new run from the beginning. Click any key from C2 to C7 to hear it before you set a note by ear.
Sing notes you can hold comfortably, not your most extreme squeak or growl, and stop if anything hurts. Hold each note steady, since sliding or wavering restarts the two-second count. Sing in a quiet room, close to the microphone.
What is my vocal range?#
Your vocal range is the set of pitches your voice can produce, from lowest to highest. In singing, it usually means the usable notes in the modal register, the one used in speech and most singing, not whistle, falsetto or vocal fry. That is why the test asks for comfortable notes rather than the most extreme squeak or growl.
There is no single normal number of octaves. Ranges vary widely between people and with training. On the voice types chart, seven of the eight voice types have a typical range of exactly two octaves (24 semitones), and the boy treble has 20. That is a convention for describing voice types, not a minimum you need.
How do notes, semitones and octaves get named?#
Your range is written in scientific pitch notation, where middle C is C4 and the octave number changes at C. The span is counted in semitones, the distance between neighbouring piano keys, and twelve semitones make an octave. A range from A2 to A4 is 24 semitones, exactly two octaves.
Frequencies use equal temperament with A4 = 440 Hz: f = 440 × 2^((n − 69) / 12), where n is the MIDI note number. The note frequency calculator shows the same table for every piano key.
How does the test decide a note is mine?#
The tool measures pitch many times a second with the YIN pitch-detection algorithm, then rounds each reading to the nearest equal-tempered note. It accepts a note only when you hold it steady, within about half a semitone, for 2 seconds. A slide between notes or a wavering pitch restarts the count.
How is the voice type match calculated?#
The tool counts the notes your range shares with each typical range, then divides by the number of notes in either range. A match of 100% means identical ranges. The typical ranges come from the Wikipedia article “Voice type” (CC BY-SA 4.0). Other references draw the lines a few semitones differently, and the voice types chart shows how far the sources disagree.
Neighbouring voice types overlap, so a voice in the middle of the scale can score well for more than one type. Range alone cannot separate them.
Does a match tell me my voice type?#
Not by itself. Voice type also depends on tessitura (where the voice sits most comfortably), timbre and the points where the voice changes register, which a teacher judges by listening. Singing teachers define range as the musically useful pitches, those you can produce with good tone and control. The extreme ends are less reliable and tiring to hold, so treat the match as a starting point. If you want a number for a lesson, repeat the test on a few different days and warm up gently first.