Draw an audiogram-shaped chart from tones you say you could hear
Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Updated on 24 Oct 2026.An audiogram plots six frequencies, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and 8000 hertz, against the quietest level at which each one was heard, with the better results drawn nearer the top. The chart here has that shape and those frequencies, but its vertical axis is decibels below the loudest tone this device played, not dB HL. Read the shape, not the numbers, and never compare it with a clinical chart.
Press Show an example chart to see the layout: left ear as circles, right ear as squares.
Put on headphones and press Start the screening.
Answer each tone; the levels you still heard are plotted at 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1, 2, 4 and 8 kHz.
Read the chart shape and the two ears side by side; the scale is relative to this device, not dB HL.
This page plays tones at the six frequencies a clinical audiogram uses, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and 8000 Hz, one ear at a time, starting loud and getting quieter in ten decibel steps. You say whether you heard each one, and the answers are drawn as a chart with the shape of an audiogram.
A clinical audiogram is measured in dB HL, a scale defined against calibrated headphones on a calibrated audiometer in a sound-treated booth. None of those three things exists here. The output level of your device is unknown, it changes with the system volume slider, and your room has noise of its own. So this page produces no dB HL figure, describes no result as normal or otherwise, and names no condition. It cannot diagnose anything, and it is not intended to.
Answer honestly. Pressing "I heard it" when you are not sure moves the chart, and the only person misled is you. The whole run takes about three minutes and roughly thirty presses, because the ladder brackets each frequency rather than marching through every level.
The rest of the article, and all 7 questions about Hearing Screening, are on the Hearing Screening page.
Not in absolute terms, and this page does not claim to be one. A clinical result is measured in dB HL against calibrated headphones and a calibrated audiometer in a quiet booth. A browser knows none of those quantities, so the chart here shows relative levels on your own device and nothing more.
Six frequencies are standard: 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and 8000 hertz. Speech lives mostly between 500 and 4000, which is why those four matter most in conversation, while 8000 tends to change earliest with age. The same six are played here, starting at 1 kHz as audiometry does.
Most likely the hardware rather than your ears. Laptop speakers and many earphones produce very little below 300 Hz, and a tone that is not being played cannot be heard. Try a different pair of headphones before reading anything into a low-frequency result, and check the volume is where you set it.
Hearing above about 15 kHz usually fades with age, which is why a 15 kHz tone is audible to most teenagers and to fewer adults each decade. This screening stops at 8 kHz, the highest frequency a clinical audiogram uses, so it will not answer that. Use the Tone Generator, which has a 15 kHz preset, and listen for yourself.
Still stuck? Ask about Hearing Screening and anybody who knows can answer. No account needed.
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