Name the song from a one-second clip.
You get six guesses. Every miss or skip unlocks a little more of the intro.
Free, no sign-up, and it works on your phone.
Three ways to play
Unlimited
Random songs from every genre, as many rounds as you like. Good for a long listening session.
Play unlimitedDaily challenge
One puzzle shared by everyone, and it resets at 00:00 UTC. Stuck? Read today's hint.
Play the daily50 challenge levels
A fixed set of levels across Easy, Medium and Hard. Work through them at your own pace.
See level answersPlay by decade
Seventy years of music. Listen for 1950s tape delay, 80s gated reverb and 90s grunge tones.
Browse all decadesPlay by genre
Tune your ear to one sound at a time, from hip-hop 808s to rock guitar riffs and EDM sidechain drops.
Browse all 16 genresHow the six guesses work
Heardle Unlimited is a music guessing game and a bit of ear training. Each wrong guess or skip plays a longer piece of the song's opening. Solve it on the first guess and you earn the 1-second badge.
Read the official rules or the full how-to-play guide.
- Guess 1
1 second. The first hit, snare or riff.
- Guess 2
2 seconds. Tempo and groove start to show.
- Guess 3
4 seconds. The chord pattern begins.
- Guess 4
7 seconds. The rhythm section locks in.
- Guess 5
11 seconds. The lead-in to the verse.
- Guess 6
16 seconds. The full intro melody.
Clips that start instantly
Most music quizzes embed a streaming player, which means buffering and songs that are blocked in some countries. Here the audio is generated in your browser with the Web Audio API, so there is nothing to load. See supported devices or how it's built.
Four ways to guess faster
More in how to recognize songs faster and our winning strategies.
Listen to the drums
Drum sounds date a song fast. Gated reverb points to the 1980s, and 808 sub-bass points to hip-hop and trap.
Count the tempo
Above 160 BPM usually means punk or synthwave. Around 120 to 128 BPM is typical of pop and disco.
Spot signature instruments
DX7 chimes, Rhodes keys in R&B or pedal steel in country narrow the genre right away.
Skip on purpose
If the first second is only room noise, skip to 2s or 4s instead of taking a wild guess.