Hearing Range
Tones from 8 kHz up to 20 kHz find the top of your hearing range. Typical upper limit is about 20 kHz in your teens, 16 kHz in your 30s and 12 kHz in your 50s. Use headphones.
Seven tones from 8 kHz up to 20 kHz. Say yes or no to each; the test ends at the first one you cannot hear. About a minute. Use headphones at a comfortable volume; laptop speakers lose the high tones.
Run the tones to see the top of your hearing range.
Look up a value: Can you hear 15,000 Hz? and other percentile lookups.
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About this test
The module plays tones from low to high and asks for the highest you can hear. Use headphones; laptop speakers roll off well before the limit. The result is compared to typical upper limits by decade: about 20 kHz in your teens, 18 kHz in your 20s, 16 in your 30s, 14 in your 40s, 12 in your 50s, 10 in your 60s and 8 kHz at 70 and over.
High-frequency loss with age (presbycusis) is nearly universal and starts earlier than most people expect. The percentile is coarse: each decade bracket is about 14 percentage points wide. Sources: Rodriguez Valiente et al. (2014), International Journal of Audiology, n=645; ISO 7029:2017.
What frequency can humans hear?
Roughly 20 Hz to 20 kHz in young, healthy ears. The top end drops by about 2 kHz per decade of adult life, so a typical 50-year-old tops out near 12 kHz. The bottom end barely moves.
Is 15 kHz good hearing?
It depends on your age. 15 kHz sits between the 40s norm (14 kHz) and the 30s norm (16 kHz); on the module's scale that is the 40s bracket, around the 53rd percentile. For someone over 50 it is good; for a 20-year-old it is below the 18 kHz typical for that age.
Why can't I hear the test tones?
Usually the equipment. Laptop speakers and cheap earbuds attenuate above about 15 kHz, and browser audio output can be limited by the system sample rate. Try wired headphones at moderate volume. The test is a screen, not an audiogram; an audiologist does those.
Percentiles above come from the same parameters the Hearing Range module uses. See the methodology for how they are calculated.