Rice Purity Test question 1 of 100 · Romance & dating
“Held hands romantically?”
The sheet opens with the mildest contact it can name: two people holding hands because they both meant it that way. A parent’s hand at a kerb does not count, and neither does a handshake, so the item turns on intent — the distinction the whole questionnaire runs on. Nothing on this list is weighted. Question 1 sits first among the 11 questions of the opening romance run, one of 13 romance & dating items, and like every other line on the sheet it moves a score by exactly one point.
Checking it costs one point, and how often other people tick it appears here once 30 of them have opted in to share their answers.
What “Held hands romantically” means
What it is worth, test by test
Each questionnaire divides 100 points across its own question set, so the same idea is worth different amounts depending on which test you took.
| Test | Question | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Rice Purity Testthis page · 100 questions | #1 — Held hands romantically? | 1 of 100 |
| Innocence Testclosest matching item · 100 questions | #85 — Held hands with someone romantically? | 1 of 100 |
A matching row means the wording is close, not identical — the sets were written separately, so treat it as the nearest equivalent rather than the same question.
Where it sits on the sheet
The classic list is not one straight escalation: it opens with romance, works through sexual experience to question 43, breaks off for drink, school and the police, then comes back at 67 for thirty-four variations on intercourse. Inside each of those runs the neighbouring questions are the best guide to what this one is being measured against.
Previous question
Nothing — this is the first item on the sheet, and the mildest thing it asks about.
Answer all 100 and get a number
This question is one point of the hundred. What the total means is set out score by score.