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A hundred questions, explained properly
Four articles, written to answer the question in the first two sentences. Where the test actually came from and which parts of that story are unsourced folklore. Why “is my score good?” has no answer, and what the ranges do tell you. How the four versions differ enough that their scores cannot be compared. And what a percentile claims — which is far less than most people assume.
- ExplainerScores
Is the Rice Purity Test accurate?
Accurate at counting which of 100 fixed statements you tick, and invalid as a measure of innocence: 60 of those statements are sexual, and every one costs the same point.
5 min read
- ScoresQuestions
What your Rice Purity score says about you
It says how many statements applied, never which — but the composition of the list puts hard limits on the possibilities. Only 40 of the 100 statements are non-sexual, so past 59 ticks the sexual block is unavoidable by arithmetic.
5 min read
- PrivacyHow it works
Where your answers go on a purity test
Four places a checkbox quiz can leak your answers, what we found in the page source of two rival sites on 3 September 2026, and how to check any of them yourself.
5 min read
- StatisticsExplainer
Why purity scores fall with age
A lifetime checklist only ratchets one way, so a lower score at 30 measures elapsed time rather than character. Why a by-age table cannot separate ageing from selection.
5 min read
- StatisticsScores
How to read your percentile
A percentile counts only the submissions below you. How that differs from the average and the median, and what selection bias does to your position.
6 min read
- TestsComparison
Purity test vs innocence test
Both names describe the same countdown-from-100 mechanism. What differs is the question set, which makes scores from different versions non-comparable.
6 min read
- ScoresExplainer
What is a good, bad or normal Rice Purity Test score?
There is no good one, no bad one, and nobody with a representative sample has published a normal one. What the ranges do tell you is which question clusters you checked, and why age moves the number more than anything else about you.
8 min read
- HistoryOrigins
Where the Rice Purity Test came from
The Rice University origin traced to two dated items in Rice's own archive — a ten-question survey in 1924 and a 150-question parody test in 1988 — plus the move to the browser and the TikTok revival.
6 min read
Reading about it is slower than taking it
The classic list is 100 checkboxes and takes about 8 minutes. Your result comes with the live distribution, so the articles here will make more sense with a number in hand.