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I tried 3 songs:

    * Everybody Has a Dream by Billy Joel
    * Kids by MGMT
    * Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles

0 hits.

I know I'm not the world's best singer, but I was humming the right notes.

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Anecdotally, it's 3/3 for me, one of which was Kids by MGMT. I'm seeing some fairly divergent results here, I wonder if it's highly sensitive to the particular user's voice.

Did you hum or sing? I wonder if that makes a difference. I hummed.

I hummed and it found it on the first try. Same for "In the end". On the other hand, I haven't had any luck humming "Clint Eastwood" by Gorillaz.

I've gotten about 10 hits of 12, with such diverse things as "Bella Ciao" (Italian song), "Space Oddity" (the first few bars are practically a monotone), the Pink Panther (no words) and Kalasnjikov by Bregovic (random Serbian (?) words that I don't know).

It got MGMT's Kids no problem, and I know I sung out out of tune.

I'm very impressed.

I found out worked better if I use "doo dee doo dee doo" rather than humming.

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