One sound
A tenth of a second holds a single sound — a snare crack, a hi-hat tick, a breath, the attack of a piano chord. That sound is the fingerprint.
Guess the Song in 0.1 Second is Song Guesser's shortest mode: hear a tenth-of-a-second clip of a real song, then pick the right title from four answers — A, B, C or D. No typing, no lyrics, just one sound and your memory.
A tenth of a second. That's all you get.
A tenth of a second is shorter than a camera shutter, shorter than a heartbeat. Yet it's often enough to name a song you know — and that's the whole game. Hear a 0.1-second clip of a real track, then pick the right title from four answers.
It's the Heardle idea pushed to its limit: Heardle started its clips at one second, and this game starts ten times shorter. No typing, no lyrics — just a sliver of sound and your memory. There's no scoreboard, because the score is self-evident: the less you hear, the deeper the song is filed in your head.
Less than a blink
In a tenth of a second you hear almost nothing — and that's exactly the point.
A tenth of a second holds a single sound — a snare crack, a hi-hat tick, a breath, the attack of a piano chord. That sound is the fingerprint.
Your brain names familiar music in milliseconds, before you can say why. The 0.1-second clip just gives that reflex room to fire.
It isn't trivia. It's a question of how deeply the song is filed in your head — the deeper the file, the shorter the clip you need.
Five rungs, five kinds of clue
Every wrong answer moves you up one rung, and each rung reveals a different kind of clue.
A transient, a breath, a chord attack. Enough for a song you know cold.
The opening note or the start of a riff. The shape of the melody begins.
The intro groove, the first line, the texture of the production.
The beat and the vocal settle in. Most songs are named by now.
The chorus. If you needed this long, the song wasn't filed deep.
Train the ear, not the trivia
Recognition is a skill, and it sharpens fast. These four habits turn a sliver into an answer.
The first 100ms is mostly attack — a snare, a synth stab, a piano hammer. That's the production's fingerprint.
The shape of a melody — up, down, a leap — survives even a 0.1s slice. Follow the direction.
An 80s gated snare, a 90s boom-bap loop, a 2010s 808. The era's sound gives the song away.
Recognition arrives before explanation. The first answer is usually the right one.
Short answers
The questions people ask before the shortest clip.
Yes. Your brain recognizes familiar music in a fraction of a second, so a tenth of a second is often enough to name a song you know well — and this game proves it.
You hear a 0.1-second clip of a real song, then pick the right title from four answers — A, B, C or D. A wrong pick reveals a longer clip until you get it.
Five — 0.1, 0.5, 2, 8 and 15 seconds. You start at 0.1s, and each wrong answer moves you one rung up the ladder.
Because recognition is instant. You don't need the chorus — a drum hit, a breath or the first chord is often enough to recall a song you've heard before.
Yes. Free in the browser, no signup, no download, no daily limit.
Yes. Use the Guess after controls to start at any length, and the filters to narrow the pool by genre, decade or artist.
A tenth of a second. That's the test.
Press play above and see how deep the songs are filed.
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