Rice Purity Test score 95: Pure Soul
Is 95 a good score?
There is no good or bad Rice Purity Test score. 95 means 5 of the 100 items were checked and 95 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 95 can have checked completely different items.
A handful of the mildest statements applied, and nothing beyond them.
A score this close to the ceiling comes from the opening romance statements. The drinking, sexual and law-breaking questions are still untouched.
What checking 5 boxes actually covers
Scoring 95 means 5 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so those checks usually sit inside romance & dating and stop there.
Where 5 checks reach on the classic list
- 3.Been in a relationship?
- 4.Danced without leaving room for Jesus?
- 5.Kissed a non-family member?
6.Kissed a non-family member on the lips? — the first item a 95 leaves unchecked.
Question order is fixed, so this is where the count lands, not a guess about you.
A 95 sits 45 points above the halfway mark of the scale, so more of the questionnaire is still unchecked than checked.
What a 95 rules out
95 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 95 cannot have come from the Teen Purity Test, Couples Purity Test, College Purity Test, LGBTQ Purity Test. It is reachable on Rice Purity Test (5 ticks), Innocence Test (5 ticks) and AO3 Purity Test (5 ticks).
Because the order of the questions is fixed, 5 checks leaves 6 blocks of the questionnaire untouched from the first item to the last: sexual experience (60 questions, first at 12), parties & nightlife (5 questions, first at 15), 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 95 says nothing about any of them, which is worth remembering before reading the number as a description of somebody.
On the band chart, 95 sits 0 points into Pure Soul (95–99). 1 more check moves it down to 94 and into Mostly Innocent. One fewer would have been 96, and 100 is where Untouched begins.
Which parts of the list 5 checks can come from
All 5 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.
One point either way
Is 95 a bad Rice Purity Test score?
No, and not because 95 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. 95 means 5 statements applied to you and 95 did not. That is the entire claim it makes.
What it cannot tell you is which 5. Two people on 95 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 95 sits from the edges of Pure Soul
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 — Untouched, which starts at 100, is behind you for good. Ticking 1 more of the 100 statements would put you at 94, the top of Mostly Innocent.
95 against the full scale
9 bands cover 0 to 100. These are the Pure Soul row that holds 95 and what sits either side of it — the full chart is on the score page.
| Score | Band | What the number describes | Detail page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Untouched | Nothing on the list applied. That is the ceiling of the test.The top of the scale means every statement was left unchecked. The list opens with the mildest situations it has — holding hands, a first kiss — so holding the ceiling means none of those applied either. | Score 100 — Untouched example page |
| 95–99 — the band your score falls in | Pure Soul | A handful of the mildest statements applied, and nothing beyond them.A score this close to the ceiling comes from the opening romance statements. The drinking, sexual and law-breaking questions are still untouched. | Score 97 — Pure Soul example 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 |
Questions people actually ask
What does a Rice Purity Test score of 95 mean?
95 falls in the Pure Soul band. Scoring 95 means 5 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so those checks usually sit inside romance & dating and stop there.
Is 95 a bad Rice Purity Test score?
No — "bad" is not a property the scale has. 95 means 5 of the 100 statements applied to you and 95 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 5 you ticked.
How many more questions would move a 95 out of the Pure Soul band?
1. Pure Soul runs from 95 to 99, so ticking 1 more of the 100 statements takes the score to 94, the top of Mostly Innocent. It cannot move the other way: the statements are past tense, so a checked one stays checked.
How many questions does a score of 95 mean you checked?
5. Each of the 100 statements is worth one point, so the score is 100 minus the number of boxes ticked.
Get your own number
7 versions of the questionnaire, each scored the same way and compared against its own pool of submissions.
- Rice Purity TestAdults 18 and over who want the full, unedited 100-item list.100 questions
- Teen Purity TestStudents aged 13-17, and anyone who wants the version without the adult questions.50 questions
- Couples Purity TestCouples at any stage who want a structured way to compare what they have actually done together.50 questions
- Innocence TestAnyone who wants a life-experience score they can compare at a family dinner.100 questions
- College Purity TestUndergraduates, and anyone who wants their university years scored rather than their whole life.50 questions
- LGBTQ Purity TestLGBTQ readers and anyone who wants a list that does not assume how their dating life is shaped.50 questions
- AO3 Purity TestAO3 readers and writers, and anyone who wants to know how far into fandom they have actually gone.100 questions