Hearing · Your Results
Your hearing, explained by your score.
Find your band below. Your app result points you straight to it. Of the five senses, hearing has the strongest link to long-term brain health, which makes a change here worth acting on.
Hearing, monitored over time.
Hearing is one of your five senses. Complete all five within 14 days to generate your full Sensory Score.
First, the most important idea
Of the five senses, hearing has the strongest link to long-term brain health. It is considered the largest modifiable risk factor for dementia, and in older adults at higher risk, treating hearing loss has been shown to slow cognitive decline. The likely reason is simple: when sound gets harder to follow, the brain works harder to fill the gaps and engages less with the world around it. That is why a change in hearing is worth acting on, and why the direction matters more than any single score: a reading drifting down from your own baseline is the signal to act.
How to read your result
This test is taken without hearing aids, on purpose. It measures your underlying hearing, not what your aids do for you, so read a low score against your own situation.
If hearing loss is new to you, a low or declining reading is a signal worth checking, the test may have caught it before you noticed. If you already wear hearing aids or know about hearing loss, an unaided low score is expected and simply confirms it. For you the point is the trend: whether your underlying hearing is holding or slipping, and whether your aids and care are keeping up. Track the direction and share it with your audiologist.
For the most accurate reading, test with clear ears and not right after loud noise, since both can lower a score for a while. If either was true, retest.
Superior or Strong
Your hearing is strong. Keep it that way.
Good news. Your hearing is working well. The most important job now is protection, because noise damage builds up quietly and does not come back.
- Protect it from loud noise. Use ear protection around tools, concerts, and loud work, and keep headphone volume moderate. This is the one cause of hearing decline you can largely prevent.
- Be gentle with your ears. Skip cotton swabs, which push wax deeper. Let ears clean themselves or have wax removed properly.
- Keep a record. Re-measure once a year, so a strong score becomes a strong trend.
When to re-measure
Once a year. That yearly point is what turns a score into a trend.
Average or Typical
Your hearing is in the typical range.
Nothing here calls for action today. Lock this in as your baseline and re-measure each year. The first sign worth catching is a drop from your own number.
- Set this as your baseline. Re-measure annually, and sooner if you start turning the volume up or straining to follow conversation in noisy rooms.
- Protect it from loud noise. Prevention now is the cheapest hearing care there is.
- Notice the early signs. Trouble in restaurants and groups often shows up before a quiet room ever feels hard.
When to re-measure
Once a year, or sooner if following conversation gets harder.
Low or declining
Your hearing score is low. Here's what to do.
A low score means your hearing is reduced right now, measured without aids. The right next step is a professional one, and that is good news, because correcting hearing is one of the best-supported things you can do for both your hearing and your brain. One quick cause is worth ruling out first.
Rule out earwax first
Wax buildup is one of the most common and most reversible reasons hearing drops, and it is easy to miss. A clinician can check and clear it quickly. Do not dig with cotton swabs, which pack it in deeper.
Get a hearing evaluation
An audiologist can measure exactly what is happening and what helps. If it is age-related hearing loss, properly fitted hearing aids are the high-impact step, and modern ones are excellent. This is where the brain payoff is: correcting hearing has strong evidence for listening and quality of life, and treating it is tied to slower cognitive decline.
- Hearing aids are worth it, and underused. Many people wait years. Acting earlier is better for your hearing and your brain.
- There is now an over-the-counter path for mild-to-moderate difficulty, ideally set up with professional support.
- If you already wear hearing aids, treat this as a check-in, not a discovery: ask whether your trend is holding and whether your current fitting still matches your hearing.
- Bring your SuperSenses result to the appointment so they can see what changed.
Protect and support what you have
- Protect from further loud noise. Damage already done will not return, so guarding the rest matters.
- Make conversations easier. Face people, cut background noise, and keep the room well lit so you catch visual cues.
- Stay socially engaged. Pulling back from conversation is part of how hearing loss reaches the brain, so staying in it matters.
When to re-measure
After wax is cleared or hearing aids are fitted, re-measure to confirm the gain and set your new baseline.
When it is urgent
Sudden hearing loss is a medical emergency, because the treatment that helps works best in the first days:
- Hearing that drops suddenly, especially in one ear
- Sudden loss with dizziness or strong ringing
- Ear pain, discharge, or a feeling of fullness with fever
If any of these happen, seek same-day care from a doctor or an ear, nose, and throat specialist. Do not wait it out.
One practical note. Reduced hearing can mean missing alarms, doorbells, and traffic. Make sure you can hear or otherwise be alerted by your smoke alarm. And the cost of untreated hearing loss is not only safety, it is connection and cognition, so this is not one to wait years on.
