What is Pitchdle?
Pitchdle is a daily music game that tests your ear for pitch. It plays a thirty-second preview of a song that has been shifted away from its original key and asks you to name the track or artist. Once you have locked in a guess, you drag a slider to restore the audio to its true pitch by ear, with no visual markers showing the correct position. Each day offers three songs across pop, hip-hop and rock tabs. Only the pitch-correction phase earns points.
How to play Pitchdle
- Choose a song from one of the three genre tabs at the top: pop, hip-hop, or rock.
- Press the play disc to hear a 30-second preview in the wrong pitch.
- Enter a song title or artist in the search field and submit your guess. You get five attempts, or you can choose SKIP THIS SONG.
- Next, adjust the pitch by dragging the slider until the audio matches the record you remember. Lock in your answer when it sounds right.
- Do the same for the other two songs. Your final score is the average of the three pitch results.
Naming the song widens your margin; it does not add points
The game treats the identification round as preparation. Each song scores zero to one hundred based purely on how close your slider position lands to the original pitch. Guessing the title or artist correctly does not increase your score. Instead, it expands the pitch tolerance the game applies when scoring phase two. A correct name buys you a larger target, making small slider errors less costly.
The five-dot counter beside the player and the "5 GUESSES LEFT" text are the only live indicators during phase one. There are no coloured tiles or streak feedback. Pitchdle reveals your pitch score only after you submit the slider, and the day's final number is the mean of the three song results.
Tips for a tighter score
Use your guesses to secure a correct title if you recognize the track. The wider tolerance is the entire reason phase one exists. If a song means nothing to you, the SKIP option keeps the day's average viable by passing directly to the pitch task.
Nothing labels the original key in phase two. You are matching the shifted audio against your memory of the record. Humming the melody or chorus while dragging the slider is more reliable than watching the slider position itself.
Each genre tab is independent, so a weak result in pop can be balanced by a strong performance in rock. The final score averages all three, making every song equally important to the day's outcome.