Online hearing test: find your high-frequency hearing limit

How this is calculated

Two big caveats. First, this isn't a clinical audiogram. A real audiogram measures hearing threshold in decibels across the speech band, not just whether you can hear a tone at a comfortable level. Second, your playback chain matters as much as your ears. Cheap laptop speakers and Bluetooth headphones often roll off above 16 kHz, so a 'I can't hear 18 kHz' result can equally mean the speaker can't play it. Use wired headphones for any meaningful result, and don't draw conclusions from a single test session. Where this tool genuinely helps is comparison: testing both ears separately, tracking the cutoff over years, or checking whether a new pair of headphones can actually reproduce the highs you used to be able to hear.

Verdict

A browser tone generator is a great self-test for high-frequency cutoff and a poor substitute for an audiogram. Use wired headphones, test both ears separately, and treat the result as a baseline to compare against the same setup a year from now. Sudden changes or any difficulty in the 1 to 4 kHz speech band should send you to an audiologist.