An analysis of 275,169 responses to Gitori’s “Find the Notes” guitar game maps which fretboard positions players identify most and least accurately. The game, played by more than 10,000 people over three years, asks users to locate a specified note within a highlighted area. Its results show a clear pattern: the middle-to-upper part of the neck is the most confusing, particularly the G string between frets 6 and 9, with the B and D strings around frets 7 to 9 also difficult. The single hardest position is E-flat on the G string at fret 8, where about one in three answers is wrong.
Players do best at the fretboard’s edges. The low E string is easiest overall, followed by the high E; open strings and the 12th fret are missed about 6% of the time, compared with roughly 20% around frets 8 and 9. Note names with sharps or flats cause more trouble than natural notes: about 16% of accidental answers are incorrect, versus 12% for natural notes, and players take around 2.5 seconds to identify them compared with 2.2 seconds for naturals. F-sharp, B-flat, A-flat, and E-flat are the hardest note names, while E is easiest. The findings offer a practical guide to where guitarists may benefit most from focused fretboard practice.
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