Rice Purity Test score 73: Curious

Is 73 a good score?

There is no good or bad Rice Purity Test score. 73 means 27 of the 100 items were checked and 73 were left unchecked: the test opens at 100 and removes a point for each item you have done, so the number counts situations you have been in, not merit. Two people on 73 can have checked completely different items.

Dating is behind you and the bolder questions have started to land.

Roughly a sixth to a third of the list applied — enough to clear the romance block and reach the first questions about drinking or sex, with the drug and law-breaking end untouched.

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What checking 27 boxes actually covers

Scoring 73 means 27 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so those checks usually sit inside romance & dating, sexual experience and parties & nightlife and stop there.

Where 27 checks reach on the classic list

25.Undressed or been undressed by a MPS (Member of Preferred Sex)?
26.Showered with a MPS?
27.Fondled or had your butt cheeks fondled?

28.Fondled or had your breasts fondled? — the first item a 73 leaves unchecked.

Question order is fixed, so this is where the count lands, not a guess about you.

A 73 sits 23 points above the halfway mark of the scale, so more of the questionnaire is still unchecked than checked.

What a 73 rules out

73 is an odd number, and four of the seven lists on this site hold 50 questions worth two points each — they can only land on even totals. So a 73 cannot have come from the Teen Purity Test, Couples Purity Test, College Purity Test, LGBTQ Purity Test. It is reachable on Rice Purity Test (27 ticks), Innocence Test (27 ticks) and AO3 Purity Test (27 ticks).

Because the order of the questions is fixed, 27 checks leaves 4 blocks of the questionnaire untouched from the first item to the last: online & modern life (3 questions, first at 32), alcohol & drugs (7 questions, first at 44), rule-breaking & mischief (4 questions, first at 47) and law & consequences (8 questions, first at 59). A 73 says nothing about any of them, which is worth remembering before reading the number as a description of somebody.

On the band chart, 73 sits 3 points into Curious (70–84). 4 more checks move it down to 69 and into Average Explorer. One fewer would have been 74, and 85 is where Mostly Innocent begins.

Which parts of the list 27 checks can come from

All 27 checks could sit outside the sexual block, since 40 of the 100 statements do. Whether they actually do is the part a score cannot tell you. Each block below links to its opening question, and every statement has its own page.

All 100 questions in order · What each range forces

One point either way

One box more checked72Curious One box fewer checked74Curious

Is 73 a bad Rice Purity Test score?

No, and not because 73 is a comfortable number — because “bad” is not something this scale measures. It counts how many of 100 statements you have done, one point each, with the heaviest item on the sheet worth exactly what holding hands is worth. 73 means 27 statements applied to you and 73 did not. That is the entire claim it makes.

What it cannot tell you is which 27. Two people on 73 can have ticked entirely different statements — the score is a count, so it holds the number and drops the rest. If you are comparing yourself to someone, the comparison is only meaningful against a score from the same 100-statement list, and even then it compares two counts, not two lives.

How far 73 sits from the edges of Curious

Above the floor3Curious starts at 70

Below the ceiling11Curious ends at 84

Ticks to leave it4and Average Explorer begins

Only one of those three numbers can ever change. The list is past tense, so a checked statement stays checked and a retake can move the score down and never up — Mostly Innocent, which starts at 85, is behind you for good. Ticking 4 more of the 100 statements would put you at 69, the top of Average Explorer.

73 against the full scale

9 bands cover 0 to 100. These are the Curious row that holds 73 and what sits either side of it — the full chart is on the score page.

The score band this number falls into, with the band above and below it.
Score	Band	What the number describes	Detail page
85–94	Mostly Innocent	Enough checked to cover dating and kissing, and little past it.Under a sixth of the list applied. That is room for the romance block without reaching the questions about sex, drinking or anything with legal consequences.	Score 90 — Mostly Innocent example page
70–84 — the band your score falls in	Curious	Dating is behind you and the bolder questions have started to land.Roughly a sixth to a third of the list applied — enough to clear the romance block and reach the first questions about drinking or sex, with the drug and law-breaking end untouched.	Score 77 — Curious example page
55–69	Average Explorer	The middle of the scale: a third to just under half the list applied.Scores here usually span dating, drinking and part of the sexual block while leaving the drug and arrest questions empty. Both halves of the list are in play, neither of them finished.	Score 62 — Average Explorer example page

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What does a Rice Purity Test score of 73 mean?

73 falls in the Curious band. Scoring 73 means 27 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so those checks usually sit inside romance & dating, sexual experience and parties & nightlife and stop there.

Is 73 a bad Rice Purity Test score?

No — "bad" is not a property the scale has. 73 means 27 of the 100 statements applied to you and 73 did not, at one point each, with no statement weighted above another. It is a count of experiences on one particular list, not a rating of them, and it cannot say which 27 you ticked.

How many more questions would move a 73 out of the Curious band?

4. Curious runs from 70 to 84, so ticking 4 more of the 100 statements takes the score to 69, the top of Average Explorer. It cannot move the other way: the statements are past tense, so a checked one stays checked.

How many questions does a score of 73 mean you checked?

27. Each of the 100 statements is worth one point, so the score is 100 minus the number of boxes ticked.

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