I can relate to you 
26/26 but they’d been very kind, some could have been really tricky with just a single deviant note
needs to be a guitar-based one, like 26 versions of the solo from “Devil Take The Hindmost” and you have to rank them in order of how many of the notes are correct
You correctly identified **26 tunes (out of 26) on the Distorted Tunes Test. This score suggests that you may have trouble distinguishing pitch.
Wait… what?
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Ha.
Kidding aside this test is presumably measuring sensory capabilities but is mostly just testing your familiarity with the tunes. If you don’t know the tunes, and the notes aren’t obviously detuned or distorted in some way, I don’t see how anyone is going to know those are the wrong ones.
I also appreciate the difficulty of figuring out a test that avoids this issue, of course.
I got 26 / 26 and it says I may have trouble distinguishing pitch 
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You correctly identified 26 tunes (out of 26) on the Distorted Tunes Test. This score suggests that you may have trouble distinguishing pitch.
There were a couple I didn’t know, but as soon as they played any notes that weren’t in the original key it was an instant nope. On the other hand, most tunes that you could expect a lot of people to know don’t have a lot of accidentals, so I can see that being a tricky line to walk for the creators of the test.
I got the same message after I took it with a 24/26. I didn’t know all the songs so some of the wrong ones kinda sounded neat to me so I selected it as right.
Speaking of familiar tunes sounding different…
EDIT: 26/26.
This reminds me of a section in one of Scott Henderson’s instructional videos where he plays familiar tunes with correct rhythm (Jingle Bells, Raindrops) and with the wrong notes, even the wrong melodic contour. You can instantly recognise the tunes because the rhythms are so strong.
I’m pretty sure I could actually do that.
Maybe Holdsworth fanatics need a different test.
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The wrong ones sounded pretty dissonant to me like a Grateful Dead jam or something. And the score result is trippy/odd as well.
Yay! 25/26 I am really happy with that haha
25/26, didn’t know a lot of them and I know which one I got wrong. I was thinking to myself technically it’s correct, but it’s missing a note 
Still, best to get sorted with my hearing aid now I guess
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Just did the test and got the same message about having trouble distinguishing pitch, despite scoring 100%. I’ve emailed them suggesting they may have trouble with their site!
Although familiarity with tunes helps, I don’t think it’s essential, because a few of the examples had egregiously wrong notes from other keys (without being jazz tunes, lol)
You correctly identified 26 tunes (out of 26) on the Distorted Tunes Test. Congratulations! You have a fine sense of pitch.
Didn’t know half the tunes - just went on if they we’re in a simple scale and didn’t modulate!
Ha! They fixed it.
I think you can take the credit for this!
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Yes, they emailed back to say they’d fixed it! Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
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If I scored 26/26, that’s pretty much definitive proof the test is bunk. 
Though several of those snippets were very life-like portrayals of me attempting to sing those tunes!
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I wouldn’t say I feel tone deaf, I feel more like mute. Just don’t know what to say on the spot. I can arrange and come up with nice lines and phrases before hand, and arrange them around in a nice way. But in my mind it feels more mute than tone deaf.
Yeah, I was going to do this until I quickly figured that out. You certainly could make a guess about those tunes that you don’t know based on what sounds “off”, but that “offness” is really just dictated by our culture and our expectations on how music is supposed to sound. If one takes that aside, then there’s nothing off about these tunes. There are notes that we wouldn’t expect normally but could fit depending on the context and whatever the author wanted to express. Calling that tone deafness is really just reinforcing the notion that music is supposed to adhere to our expectations of how it should sound. The methodology of this study is not really valid, imo.
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