Rice Purity Test
Adults 18 and over who want the full, unedited 100-item list. Scored the second you finish.
100 questions · 8 min · no ads · no signup
Version française — the same 100 statements, in French.
18+. The list includes explicit questions about sex and hard drugs, and is written for readers 18 and over. 65 of the 100 are explicit. Under 18? Take the Teen Purity Test instead — same scoring, explicit items removed.
Check what you have done. Blank counts as no.
Romance & datingQuestions 1–11
Sexual experienceQuestions 12–13
Romance & datingQuestions 14–14
Parties & nightlifeQuestions 15–15
Sexual experienceQuestions 16–31
Online & modern lifeQuestions 32–34
Romance & datingQuestions 35–35
Sexual experienceQuestions 36–43
Alcohol & drugsQuestions 44–44
Parties & nightlifeQuestions 45–45
Alcohol & drugsQuestions 46–46
Rule-breaking & mischiefQuestions 47–47
Alcohol & drugsQuestions 48–52
Rule-breaking & mischiefQuestions 53–55
Parties & nightlifeQuestions 56–58
Law & consequencesQuestions 59–66
Sexual experienceQuestions 67–100
What is the Rice Purity Test?
The Rice Purity Test is a list of 100 statements about things people have done, scored by subtraction: you start at 100, tick everything that has applied to you, and each tick takes a point off. The number left over counts the statements you did not tick, which is the whole of what it measures.
Nobody owns or certifies the list, no organisation maintains it, and it has never been validated as a measure of anything — what a purity test is and why there is no official version set out what is actually documented, which is less than the internet repeats.
How the Rice Purity Test works
You start at 100. Every statement you check costs 1 point.
There is no weighting and no hidden algorithm: 100 statements, 1 point each, 100 minus what you checked. Check every one and you finish on 0. Check nothing and you keep the full 100. A low number means more of the list has happened to you, not that you did anything wrong.
What the number does not measure: it counts experiences you have had, so it says nothing about your character, your values, your health or how good a partner, friend or student you are. Whether it measures anything at all is a longer answer, and it is not flattering to the format.
What the 100 statements cover
- Sexual experience60
- Romance & dating13
- Law & consequences8
- Alcohol & drugs7
- Parties & nightlife5
- Rule-breaking & mischief4
- Online & modern life3
The nine bands
Every whole number has its own page.
- UntouchedNothing on the list applied. That is the ceiling of the test.100
- Pure SoulA handful of the mildest statements applied, and nothing beyond them.95–99
- Mostly InnocentEnough checked to cover dating and kissing, and little past it.85–94
- CuriousDating is behind you and the bolder questions have started to land.70–84
- Average ExplorerThe middle of the scale: a third to just under half the list applied.55–69
- ExperiencedAbout half the list applied.40–54
- Wild CardThree fifths to three quarters of the list applied.25–39
- VeteranMost of the list applied; what is left is the specific and the rare.10–24
- Off the ChartsNearly everything on the list applied — the floor of the test.0–9
Other versions of the same idea
Same arithmetic, different question lists. Each one is scored and stored separately, so your results do not mix.
Teen Purity Test
Students aged 13-17, and anyone who wants the version without the adult questions.
50 questionsCouples Purity Test
Couples at any stage who want a structured way to compare what they have actually done together.
50 questionsInnocence Test
Anyone who wants a life-experience score they can compare at a family dinner.
100 questionsCollege Purity Test
Undergraduates, and anyone who wants their university years scored rather than their whole life.
50 questionsLGBTQ Purity Test
LGBTQ readers and anyone who wants a list that does not assume how their dating life is shaped.
50 questionsAO3 Purity Test
AO3 readers and writers, and anyone who wants to know how far into fandom they have actually gone.
100 questionsQuestions people actually ask
How is the Rice Purity Test scored?
You start at 100 and lose one point for each of the 100 statements you check. A 100 means you checked nothing; a 0 means you checked everything. Nothing is weighted — kissing someone costs exactly as much as an arrest.
What counts as a good Rice Purity Test score?
There is no good side of the scale. A high number usually reflects age and circumstance rather than restraint, and a low number reflects how many of these specific situations you have been in — not judgement, health or character. The only comparison that means much is against people in the same life stage as you.
What is the average Rice Purity Test score?
Averages quoted elsewhere differ wildly because each site draws a different crowd, and most of those numbers have no sample size attached. Ours is recalculated as people finish and is broken down by test on the statistics page.
Who created the Rice Purity Test?
No author and no first edition have ever been documented. Student accounts trace it to Rice University in Houston, handed round on paper during orientation week, but the university never administered it and has no role in the versions circulating today.
Do you save my answers?
Not by default. The checkboxes are handled in your browser; when you finish, it sends two values — the final number and which test it came from — and the server stores those plus the time it wrote the row. No account, no email, no answer-by-answer record. Above the submit button there is one unticked box that also sends the list of statements you checked; ticking it adds those to per-question counters, and even then no row links a set of answers to one person.
Is the Rice Purity Test accurate?
It is an accurate count of boxes you ticked and nothing more. It has no psychometric validation, no control for how people interpret vague items, and no way to tell a genuine answer from a joke one. Read it as a conversation starter, not a measurement.
What the Rice Purity Test actually is
The questionnaire started at Rice University in Houston as a paper survey passed around during orientation week, a way for new students to compare notes without having to say anything out loud. Student accounts place it in circulation by the 1980s, though that decade is itself repeated rather than documented: no dated first edition has surfaced, and the university never administered it officially. It spread by photocopier, then by mirrored web pages in the late 1990s, and the wording has drifted at every hop — which is why two sites can hand you two different scores for the same life.
The 100 statements are not a random grab bag, and they are not evenly divided either. Sixty of them are about sexual experience; thirteen cover romance and dating, eight the law, seven alcohol and drugs, five nightlife, four rule-breaking, and three explicit messages and photographs. The list opens on the mildest social firsts — holding hands, a slow dance, a first kiss — and grows heavier as it goes, so a rice purity score encodes roughly how far down the list you have travelled. It also means that past a certain point the sexual block is unavoidable: only forty statements sit outside it.
The revival is a format story. A purity score is a single integer, which makes it captionable, and it invites the one thing short-form video is built on — someone else replying with theirs. Around 2020 the test became a recurring TikTok bit, then a group activity in dorms and group chats, and the number started being used as shorthand for a whole personality. That last part is where it stops being accurate: the test counts events, and events are not identity.
If the classic list feels wrong for you, 6 other versions exist — a teen edition, which is not this list with the explicit items cut but 50 statements of its own, sharing none of them, a couples edition built to be taken side by side, a college edition, an LGBTQ edition, and an AO3 fandom edition, and an innocence test that keeps the 100 questions and the same scale but swaps sex and substances for travel, work, money and driving. Compare them on the tests page.
Read the list, or read a number
Two ways in, depending on what you came for. If you want to know what a rice purity score means before you have one, start with the number. If you want to know what the test actually asks, start with the questions.
Popular numbers: 100 · 90 · 80 · 70 · 64 · 50 · 40 · 20 · question 69
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After the number
Every score, explained
101 pages, one per whole number, with the bands and the questions that usually separate a 62 from a 58.
Live statistics
The distribution of scores submitted here, updated as people finish — no borrowed averages from other sites.
Writing on the test
Where the questionnaire came from, how the scoring shifted online, and what the numbers do and do not say.