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How to play: A note appears on the staff. Press its keys on the diagram, then hit done — the stopwatch is running.

About the oboe fingering game

A note appears on the staff and you press its keys straight onto the oboe diagram, then hit done. A stopwatch runs on every note, so what you find out isn't only whether you know a fingering — it's how long it takes you to find it.

There are five levels, of five, ten, fifteen, twenty and twenty-five notes. Level one is the first five notes; the levels after it work outward to the half-hole notes and the top of the range. Notes that can be spelled two ways are asked both ways, because B♭ and A♯ are the same key and different things to read. Alternate fingerings count as correct wherever the instrument really has one.

The half-hole plate is its own tap target rather than part of the first finger, so a half-holed note is answered the way it's actually played. When a round ends you get your total time, your accuracy, your average per note, and a list of the notes that still need work.

It's free and it runs in this browser tab, with nothing to install. You can look through the levels without signing in, but starting one asks you to make a free account, because a round writes its time and accuracy to your progress — and if a teacher assigned it, to theirs. The fingering chart the game is built on needs no account at all.