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We've seen Roomie do it, we've seen Brett and Eddy do it and now we'll see Ray do it... Hilary Hahn should do it next

“Not because of my prestigious musical background but because I am Asian, and Asians ace everything” -Ray Chen 2020

Ray: *has higher music IQ than 98% of people* Also Ray: I did kinda alright.

This is the highest score I've ever seen.. Roomie, Adam Neely and Twoset all scored about 120

Honestly, ray looks like he’s in his 20’s, did not expect him to be 31 tbh

TwoSet's editor is editor-san. Raybae's editor is editor-chan. LOL cute. I appreciate every editor working hard.

when you're in the top 2% "eh, not bad" so humble uwu

Ray: 133 Brett and Eddy: 115 and 118 Why? Because geniuses are born, not created. Just kidding. Go practice!

Ray: “Not because of my prestigious musical background but because I am Asian, and Asians ace everything” Brett and Eddy: *Cries*

Ray chen: I am asian and asians ace everything Also ray chen: if the test is about reading i am going to fail

Does better than 98% of people. He still says his performance is "not bad" and puts a test graded with an F on the thumbnail... Seriously, Ray...?

I watched twoset do the test before and when your score shows up it makes me laugh. They could have heart attack when they see your score. 🤣🤣🤣

Ray: *literally better than 98% of the players Also Ray: "its not bad...."

*suffers in perfect pitch*

I'm pretty sure that the researchers at Harvard University must be super happy with all the social media hype about their IQ test. Usually you have to force/pay people to answer your research surveys, must be pretty weird having thousands of people excited about it instead

I find it interesting that he's also mentioned that beep "wasn't crisp enough" on the beat alignment test. Adam Neely also mentioned on his video that beep "doesn't have a sharp transient". Might be something worth writing to the test developers about. Anyway, Ray, awesome video as always!

I’d really love to see Hilary answer this test

My musical IQ seems to be negative 5. That can’t be good, how do I break the news to my piano?

I suggested this to TwoSet and now you’re doing it!

btw professional musician and soloist uses Wii music in his background.

98! Wow! Boy Brett and Eddy dishonor their famiry! 😂

warning: don't take the test if you don't have much musical background. you will cry. i cried. but I've been playing piano for 10 years welp

when ur past a point and they all start to sound the same

Calling Ray Chen just a "Violinist" is an understatement.

So Ray used to be a Viola King 👑

The melody test is a killer because the "melodies" they used don't make any actual melodic sense to me, so that trying to remember 3 random (but similar) selections of notes defeats me. Like you, I could manage to spot that "2 and 3 were different" (well, some of the time) but I could not remember whether 1 was the same as 2 or 3. (I'm basing this on watching other people do the test.)

These results actually make a lot of sense. Violinists are especially good at mistuning perception because their instruments don’t have frets. And Ray is a soloist, so it makes sense that his rhythm perception isn’t as good as his pitch perception.

Can I just mention that your streams are always so cool! High quality content!

Man Ray's reaction during the 2nd section was EXACTLY ME, confused af but at the same time still kinda knowing the answer but so puzzled by how edgy they are going with the audio clips

This is the highest score I've seen on the internet whaaaa! Funny how you weren't sure about when you sing out of tune yet your tuning perception score was through the roof! I think you'll know when you're singing out of tune :)

this was so entertaining to watch! thank you for sharing! nice to see others of taiwanese descent on youtube (and in the music world)! sending love and appreciation from Boston, USA!

I like the fact that Ray is producing content on his channel!

Yeah, Jacob Collier name drop! That guy's insane!!! I'd love to see you react to some of his videos, e.g. his theory videos!

I definitely agree w/ Ray here, some parts of the test are just bad from a testing-making perspective, leading to mistakes that are not necessarily the testee's fault... for example the rhythm section, rather than that long beep they should just use a short percussive clap or drum

When I did it I scored pretty awful at the melody comparison test. They're SOOO LOOOOONG! I couldn't fricking remember them by the time all three had played, let alone compare them.

Really respect how at the end you tried to tell people not to get too hung up on this test without totally dissing the test and it’s worth. You’re a great guy.

Oh my gosh, my EXACT thoughts about 2020: this year just shouldn't even count, so I can stay 30 and not turn 31, right? 😩 I want to submit a petition to invalidate quarantine birthdays in particular, haha. Then I'd be covered. This test messed with my brain, though! Once I got one wrong, it was hard to recover, because it was hard for me to "recalibrate" my brain for the next question. Once I saw that my answer was incorrect, I instinctually wanted to recall what I could in my mind's ear and try to figure out where I went wrong, so then I really wasn't listening properly to the next one until a couple seconds had passed. Oh well.

Great video Ray! It was super entertaining and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos! Going to film myself taking this harvard iq test now haha

Awesome, congrats! 👍Interesting, music memory is having a big importance in this testing, well in reality is just one of the components.

This test is getting so famous now. Makes me curious I want to try it

Hey he’s doing the twoset thing! (That’s the only other time I actually saw it)

OMG that “Ling Ling 40 hours” cameo gave me so much JOY 🤣

Ray Chen's voice is really therapeutic.

this was really fun to watch!

“I don’t discriminate melodies?” Oh ray I adore you

enjoy ray's reaction in the second test so much😂

Loved this - I know it's a long time ago - but thanks for sharing

I wanna see a Ray Chen + Adam Neely collab

very interesting video :> ty so much for sharing ;) good to see u there

" that sounds ray-cist" 😂😂😂😂😂

Honestly it's as much or more a test of short term memory and endurance of focus as actual musical skill. They could do a couple of things, such as giving testtakers a "continue" button between questions like Ray mentioned, that would remove the memory and focus from the equation and zoom in on the music skill alone.

Ray's accent: im something of an american myself

I tried this test before the twoset video and got a 111 overall. Honestly, I agree with Brett and Eddy that some of the questions were subjective and no one would have gotten them "technically" correct.

I’ve never watched you but I already like ur content

For the question where it ask you "Can you tell if your singing is out of tune" it's basically asking you are you tone deaf which is definitely a no for you! So you should have chosen yes for that question.

Hi Ray: I learned of the test from Adam Neely today and took it. For pros like yourself I am not surprised with your results! Mine, although still lying on the right half of the bell curve, were much less impressive. Personally I also find the melodic discrimination test more difficult, mostly because I cannot remember all three synthetic 'melodies', especially when they are long. On the other hand, except for a very few close calls, the other two tests are relatively straightforward.

Congratulations! :)

"And 'melodic discrimination'... That sounds racist" 😂

Ray Chen you probably don't remember me, but we met briefly when you sat next to me in the computer room in the 1726 locust st building my first year at Curtis. Anyways great content, keep it up!

His facial expressions always gets me 😂😂😂 love it! Never change!

wow you’re so *amazing*

Amazing! I don't even dare sharing my score. I love you!

*war flashbacks to twoset screaming their lungs out*

This was so fun to watch, i laughed a lot :D

My score was 111 and it was the first round that got me. I realized at the end that I wasn't looking for pitch discrepancy, but rather differences in patterns.. Oh well- it is definitely a neat test and I want my students to try it soon!

Ray is amazing

I'm sending this to my son who is a senior music ed major. Major instrument clarinet minor instrument sax My mother was a Northwestern University honors graduate in choral conducting and piano (at one of her piano juries her professors actually applauded (unheard of in the back in the late '30s and even now), toured Europe as a featured vocal soloist with the Dr. James Allen Dash All America Chorus including singing for Queen Elizabeth. My sister won a full tuition scholarship to the Eastman School of Music, was the harp faculty at the University of Colorado-Denver, first call union harpist and played with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra-Denver. Her husband earned a master's and doctorate on cello from Northwestern University, retired a few years ago after 34yrs in the Denver Symphony and after 25yrs as principal cellist in the Colorado Central City Opera Orchestra. I had a successful clarinet/sax studio for forty years and sang for thirty years in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Chorus including three sold out concerts. The test was very interesting. Thanks

Awww Ray! I did the same with my brother’s when I was 5.

The face you made at 7:50 is exactly my face when I heard that yowling or the first time 😂😂 the out of tune test is even painful for people without perfect pitch lol

Can we just appreciate the background music song choice?

Hi Raaaayyy!!! Nice video (as always!

Cover: fails Actual: 133

so ray has perfect pitch. good luck brett

Ray's reactions are sooooo cute. 😁❤

the "odd one out" test is killing me, like don't they all sound different??? *cries in perfect pitch*

"this is the reggae dream"

I just subscribed to your channel and this is hilarious 😂

Ray's test actually made me want to take the test fr 😂

I went to an ambitious music school - and I know every bit of this - and got very high points at the consetvatory (behind the curtains).

If you prepare a paper and pencil mark down the notes and beat of the first option for sure you can get much higher score. You can't remember how the first one sounds otherwise.

I had the same feeling while doing the test - it's hard to remember the exerpts in the first part, so it's more of a memory test... and for the second test it's kind of hard for classical ears bc of the style of singing

Ray is a genius!

sometimes the "odd tune out" is in the same key, that's what makes it so tricky. Since then it sounds more related to the first tune than the transposed one

Great video! for your next one, could you react to your recording of Mendelssohn violin concerto from the Menuhin Competition?

One of the premier violinists in the world with perfect pitch is close to but not in the 99th percentile. This is one ridiculously strong pool of test-takers.

Apparently people with perfect pitch have a harder time discriminating between different transpositions since the main mode of hearing is more on an individual note-by-note basis rather than primarily depending on using intervals to determine pitch, which is more common in people with relative pitch. Essentially, the mode of pattern recognition that is best at picking out anomalies in transposition is not really used by people with perfect pitch, so not that surprised by the lower melodic discrimination score.

I love how Ray put Breddy's thumbnail first

Ray's faces of torment are great. But the real winner here is that cardigan/jacket thing.

World-level soloist: "I'm pretty confident in my music skills" ._.

omg im a new fan, you're 31 Ray?! REALLY??????!? I truly would have never guessed

Ray is accidentally just the funniest person on KZfaq

not bad...not bad..and this was a fun video too!

living for his eternally scrunchy frustrated face. like same 😂😭😂😭

The Reggae Dream track is awesome

Ray using the wii shop music in 2020, he was so ahead of the time

I just did mine and got 91%. Considering I played piano very intermittently throughout my childhood I think it's not too bad. I didn't do well on beat perception though.

taaa!!! what a challenge!!!

I learned that Ray is a musical genius and needs practice on reading skills. 😂✌🏼 that part were you almost thought you did the same as 98% of people just cracked me up. the disbelief in your eyes that you were not special and everyone who took it is just the same as you😂😂😂😂😂 peace!! and you are a genius!❤❤❤✨✨

“¡Is like question what is more in tune, a Eminem or a rhap!” I died