The Associative Musical/Visual Intelligence Test
 

Take this test. (Look for the white arrow in the black circle.) Post your score.

Whaddya know, I'm normal after all.

Wants me to create an account.

Really? You are going down to about middle page? White arrow in the black circle? You aren't clicking an ad are you?

I didn't get that and have no account. Everyone tells me "You're no account for nothing."

Try it here.

I had no problem either. And I got 90%. which is funny 'cause I sing like Garfield and can't play any instuments

60% - and most of that guesswork.
i simply could not match symbols to music, and had terrible trouble working out when things went up or down.

It's not unexpected. I can learn lyrics and scripts in a heartbeat, and given backing music can hold a tune no problem. But harmonies I have always had to work at. Close harmonies I've had to learn in isolation, until I'm completely confident.
I have no real ear for music.

I thought the test was kind of fun.

I scored a 95% but was really surprised at that.

I just made random guesses, none of it made any sense to me. I got 35%. Afterwards I re-read the instructions, if you can call them that, and I think it is more about "decoding" their symbol shorthand and less about any type of synesthesia.

What do I know?

I know I have perfect pitch and I have excellent musical memory, I don't know about those other things though.

neat

look i am as dumb as i thinks i is!

50%

This. The whole concept of synesthesia is that it is fairly unique for each person who experiences it--one might very strongly sense a certain sound or concept as blue, while another might be just as sure that the same input equaled square. It is definitely not about a one-to-one correlation of pictures shifting upward a bit to represent higher pitches. That's called musical notation.

I saw similarities in the shapes and the music's path. like...there were two parts of the music; one was rising in pitch, and the other falling, the one with corresponding shapes was the right one. or there were 3 parts to the music, and three shapes in the right choice. I did have to guess on a couple though because i wasn't getting any association.

I bet if I were in college and stoned on some sensimilla I would have nailed it. I saw similar shapes listening to Heartbeat City on my Walkman, back in the glory days of "good shit."

But you know, this test? I don't even get it. I think it's a social experiment. :lol2:

I wasn't sure how the test worked at first, so I flubbed the first two, I probably really score above 90%.

Yes, I have a musical background.

But of course, I am exceptional anyway.

This time I listened and concentrated.
I had to replay them, but I did not guess.

80%

Pitch discrimination: 73.9%
Musical memory: 83.5%
Contour discrimination: 84.3%
Attention: 79.6% [I dispute this]
Musical/visual abstraction: 74.0%

I still can't make out the different lines in music of even my most favourite songs though, singing along with whoever takes the lead. I was trying to puzzle out a duet once and my friend said, "It's easy - she follows the line of the organ here..." I've listened again countless times and can't even discern the organ. Then again, he's a sound engineer.

50%, about what I expected with only one hearing aid in.