Did you hear that? We found the best online hearing tests to help you check and monitor your hearing health from home.

The tone of a single frequency, called pure tone, is presented into the ear canal through an earphone. The testing is done across frequencies of human hearing range.

Pure tone audiometry. This test may already be familiar to you if you’ve already had standard screening for your hearing before. You sit in a quiet room and put on a set of headphones.

On the other hand, the simple passive presentation of a pure tone (over 3 weeks) can induce an over-representation of the pure tone frequency, but only in immature animals 8.

A square wave is different from a pure tone signal in that a square wave consists of a specific fundamental frequency and an infinite number of subsequent peaks at odd-numbered harmonics.

Are online hearing tests accurate? One 2019 study found that home hearing tests are an “accurate and cost-effective” method of measuring hearing, specifically with pure-tone tests.