Rice Purity Test - How Pure Are You?

How Scoring Works

The classic format has 100 yes-or-no items. You start at 100 points, and each item you check subtracts one point — so your final score is simply the number of statements that do not apply to you. There are no right answers and no time limit; most people finish in five to ten minutes.

Alongside that score, the result page groups your answers into the same eleven categories the list uses and weighs rarer items more heavily than common ones — which is why two people who check the same number of boxes can still see different category profiles. The 0–100 number remains the one everyone compares.

Rice Purity Score Meaning: What Your Number Tells You

Scores run from 0 to 100. Because every checked item subtracts a point, a higher score means fewer checked items and a lower score means more of them. The bands below are the same ones you will see on your result page — they describe breadth of experience, not virtue:

One thing before you read on: a low score does not make you a bad person, and a high score does not make you boring. The number is a snapshot of which boxes you happen to check today — not a measure of your worth, your character, or how interesting your life is.

What Is the Average Rice Purity Score?

There is no official scientific average — the test was never normed on a representative sample. The most widely cited benchmark comes from The Rice Thresher, Rice University's student newspaper, which compiled about 125,000 responses (an average of 61.46, from submissions before 2018); more recent self-selected samples on online test sites typically report averages somewhere in the 60s.

Treat every average as a rough benchmark rather than a norm — and remember that online samples over-represent people who enjoy sharing their scores.

The 100 Questions, and What They Ask

The items span eleven rough categories, from romantic and affectionate contact through substance use, discipline and legal matters, and more explicit territory. The list starts innocently — holding hands, dating — and gets progressively more mature, which is why the page carries an 18+ notice. The result breakdown groups your answers into the same labels below.

You answer alone, at your own pace, and nothing is submitted anywhere: you check only what applies to you, and the tally updates as you go. Skipping is fine too — the list works just as well as a "how much of this have I even heard of" read as something you score seriously.

Original vs. New Version: Which One Is This?

Versions of the test have circulated since at least the mid-twentieth century, and the wording has drifted with every generation that retyped it. The "original" most sites mean is the classic 100-item list; "new" or "updated" versions are edits that soften outdated wording, drop items that no longer make sense, or add a few modern ones.

This page implements the classic 100-question format, with the items grouped into the eleven categories used by the result breakdown. If you took a differently-worded version elsewhere and got a different score, that is expected — a few changed items can move the total by several points.

Is the Rice Purity Test Safe? Privacy and Sharing

The test itself is about as risky as a magazine quiz: nothing to install, no account needed, and on this page your answers are tallied in your browser and never uploaded or stored — reload the page and they are gone. The two real considerations are content and company: the list contains mature themes, so it is for adults; and it is more fun (and more honest) taken privately than in a group chat where scores get judged.

On Reddit and TikTok, the test mostly lives as a social ritual: people post reaction threads, compare cohort averages ("my whole dorm averaged 71"), and meme about the extremes. Threads surface in waves with each viral cycle — worth a scroll for the humor, but treat the anecdotes there the same way you would treat the averages above: self-selected, unverified, and part of the joke.

Tests Like the Rice Purity Test

If the appeal was the mix of self-report and curiosity, there are a few close cousins on this site. The Sex Values Test comes from the same genre of viral questionnaire; the Rorschach Inkblot Test is more projective and interpretive; and the fun tests collection gathers similar quick quizzes. Each is linked below.