The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard

Back Guitar * Get it? get the joke? Gitori's Find the Notes game challenges users to find a given note in a highlighted area of the fretboard. Over the last 3 years, the game has been played by over 10,000 people , and I've collected 275,169 different data points on note identification . Based on that data, I have a heatmap of the hardest notes to identify on the fretboard. Reds are the hardest and greens are the easiest. Accuracy Speed Source Easiest Hardest × Source 275,169 answers from the Find the Notes Game · refreshed Nov 11, 2026 Summary of findings The upper middle of the neck is hardest. The G string at frets 6 to 9 is the red zone, with the B and D strings at frets 7 to 9 close behind. The single worst spot, the G string at fret 8 (E♭), is answered incorrectly about one-third of the time. F ♯ G A ♭ B ♭ C ♯ D E ♭ E B ♭ F ♯ Source × Source 275,169 answers from the Find the Notes Game · refreshed Nov 11, 2026 The edges are easiest. The low E string is the easiest string, then the high E. Open strings and the 12th fret are missed about 6% of the time, against roughly 20% around frets 8 and 9. E F E ♭ E A E F G E ♭ E Source × Source 275,169 answers from the Find the Notes Game · refreshed Nov 11, 2026 Sharps and flats are harder. What a shocker! 😜 About 16% of answers on accidentals are wrong, against 12% on natural notes, and even the correct ones take about 11% longer to find (roughly 2.5 seconds against 2.2). F♯, B♭, A♭ and E♭ are the hardest note names; E is the easiest. Back to top