The BBC are running an experiment on their Labs site regarding one's relationship with music.

The quiz looks at the ability to classify music (after hearing a .5s snippet), keep time, identify when an element is off beat, compare two tunes at different pitches and asks general questions about the relationship with music.

To take part in the experiment, visit the BBC's site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/musicality/ (or click on the provided link in the 'Related Links' section)

The results are broken down into five categories, and mine are as follows:

• Enthusiasm for Music - 94% (High)
• Musical Perception - 98% (High)
• Emotional Connection - 76% (High)
• Social Creativity - 70% (High)
• Musical Curiosity - 65% (Medium)

I am broadly pleased with the results, although I have to admit to being mildly disappointed with the latter. I thought my 'musical curiosity' would be higher but I feel that is probably let down by my lack of attendance to live gigs and what I consider to be an unconscious limit in my favourite musical styles to Alternative/Indie Rock/Pop. Perhaps this should be a wake-up call for me to broaden my horizons and embrace a wider range of styles and attend more live events (something that I've been meaning to do for a while).

The results of the specific audible tests are also provided at the end of the quiz, and I scored as follows:

Group the Music

• 1st Group: POP/JAZZ/POP/POP
• 2nd Group: ROCK/HIPHOP/ROCK/ROCK
• 3rd Group: HIPHOP/JAZZ/JAZZ/JAZZ
• 4th Group: HIPHOP/POP/ROCK/HIPHOP

This test is the ability to identify a musical genre after hearing only a .5s snippet of a track. It seems I didn't too terribly but there is clearly room for improvement. Although Group 4 was a bit discouraging, all of the other groups I managed to put three tracks of one genre together.

Match the Beat

• Correct: 15
• Incorrect: 3

This is a test to identify whether a beep was played in time with the music or not.

The results here I am very happy with, although for those that were incorrect I would have liked to have known if the tones were subtly off or clearly off. I presume subtly since I got them wrong.

Tap to the Beat

• Medium Accuracy: 5
• High Accuracy: 4

In this test, you are asked to tap the space-bar to the beat of a playing track.

I'm really quite disappointed here. I didn't think I'd get perfect results, but perhaps one or two more in the High Accuracy category. Would it look like sour grapes if I said perhaps using a laptop space-bar doesn't provide for good accuracy in it's own right?

Melody Memory

• Correct: 8
• Incorrect: 4

Here, a tune is played twice. The second time is in a different pitch to the first and may or may not have some differences. The task is to identify whether it does have differences or not.

During this test I thought I'd do really badly. Some tunes I couldn't be entirely sure at all. To see these results then, is quite pleasing.

I've never consider myself to be a chav. Perish the thought. I couldn't think of anything worse. I did take an online test to check though.

After answering 40 questions, I can reveal that I am 10% chav! Yes okay, that's 10% too much but it could have been a lot worse. I did answer a few of the questions in an unfavourable way and was a little concerned that my result would be in the 20% region. Fortunately my fears were unfounded.

Even though I have such a low chav rating, I couldn't resist finding out my chav name. Say hello to Harvey-Nike! :)

I must say though, I never realised owning a pay-as-you-go phone would lower my score. Does that fact that I now own two make it worse?

It doesn't seem like a year ago that the BBC ran it's last National IQ Test, but it must be since this years programme was broadcast on BBC One today.

Unfortunately, both Kate and I missed the main TV programme, but I did take the online version of the test, and scored what I consider to be a measly 99.

Saying that though, compared to the statistics it wasn't too bad. It's only when comparing to last year, that my score seems poor.

Here are my results:

• Brain Teasers: 7/13
• Memory: 14/15
• Logic: 7/14
• Reasoning: 9/9
• Perception: 6/11
• More Brain Teasers: 7/8

• Total: 50/70 (72%) - IQ: 99

And for comparison, here are the national statistics:

• IQ for England: 92
• IQ for London: 92
• IQ for Males: 94
• IQ for Right-handed: 93
• IQ for Pisces: 93
• IQ for Age 21-30: 88

I'm watching BBC Breakfast news as I usually do on a weekday morning, and one of the news stories shown is that Tom Baker is now the voice of SMS text messages on landline phones (if you send a text message to a landline that can't natively support text messages they get read out by an automated service).

I reckon it's obvious that the most popular text message to be sent this morning is "I am the doctor". Well it's what I sent to try out the service anyway.

Unfortunately it doesn't sound quite the same as when heard on TV (the text message was read too quick), but it was good fun.

Okay. I know that you know your surname. But do you KNOW your surname?

I've come across an interesting site (via Digital Spy) that will give you a profile of your surname.

For example, I can tell you that as of 1998 my surname is most frequently found in the South / South West of England followed by North Wales, Northern England and the Midlands. Just to show how uncommon my surname is, there are only 16 people per million with the same name, occuring 590 times.

Just for comparison, in 1881 14 people per million shared my name, occuring 375 times. Back then, the name was mainly found in the South of England and the Isle of Wight. There was a small count in North Wales and slightly more to the North West of London.

If you're going to have a look at the site, be aware that at the time of writing it does seem to have some issues with traffic levels, but do keep trying. It's one of the useless pieces of information that is quite nice to know.