Rice Purity Test – Check Your Score Instantly

The Rice Purity Test is a 100-question quiz that scores your life experiences from 0 to 100. You start at 100 and subtract one point for every experience you have had.

Take it below. No sign-up, no personal details, and your score appears the moment you finish.

What Is the Rice Purity Test?

The Rice Purity Test is a self-graded survey of one hundred life-experience questions. Each item asks whether you have done a particular thing. If it applies to you, you check the box. When you reach the end, your score is 100 minus the number of boxes you checked.

That is the entire mechanism. There is no weighting, no scoring key, and no correct answer. A person who has checked forty boxes has not failed anything — they have simply had forty of the listed experiences. The test measures breadth of experience against one fixed list, which is a much narrower thing than it sounds like when people call it a purity score.

It also has no authority behind it. Nobody validated the question list, nobody chose the hundred items by any principle beyond what a group of students found interesting, and the wording has drifted across every version circulating online. Treat the number as a conversation starter, not an assessment.

Where It Came From

The test traces back to Rice University, whose student newspaper The Rice Thresher published a short purity survey in 1924 — ten questions, put to just over a hundred undergraduates, with items about dancing and drinking that read as almost quaint now. The paper kept returning to the idea over the following decades, usually on its satirical back page, expanding the list each time. The hundred-question format most people know today descends from those later editions rather than the original.

On campus it served a practical purpose. During O-Week, Rice’s orientation period, incoming students would take it in small groups and compare numbers. The point was never the score. It was that comparing scores made strangers talk to each other in the first week of college, which is a hard thing to engineer any other way.

The test escaped campus once it hit the internet, and then spread properly through TikTok, Instagram, and X. What had been a bonding exercise for eighteen-year-olds at one university turned into something taken by millions of people with no connection to Rice at all. That shift matters for how you read your own result: the list was written for a specific group at a specific moment, and you are almost certainly not in it.

How the Scoring Works

• Everyone starts at 100 points
• Each box you check subtracts one point
• More experiences means a lower score; fewer means a higher one
• Every question is worth exactly one point, no matter what it asks
• Neither direction is good or bad

That last mechanical detail trips people up. A first kiss and a felony arrest cost the same single point, because the test has no way to weigh one against the other. It is a count, not a judgment, and any attempt to read moral meaning into the number runs straight into that flat scoring.

What the 100 Questions Cover

The list moves roughly from mild to serious, though not perfectly. Broadly, it breaks into these areas:

• Dating and romance — crushes, first dates, relationships, kissing
• Solo experiences and adult media — a short run of private-behavior questions
• Physical intimacy — escalating degrees of physical contact
• Digital and relationship behavior — messaging, photos, cheating, breakups
• Sexual experience — the largest single cluster, covering acts, partners, and circumstances
• Alcohol and substances — drinking, smoking, recreational and illegal drugs
• Rule-breaking and the law — from skipping class up through arrests and convictions
• Consequences — the tail of the list, covering outcomes rather than acts

A few items use the abbreviation MPS, short for Member of the Preferred Sex, which is worth reading before you start if it is unfamiliar. It is there so the questions read the same regardless of who you are attracted to. If you want to read every item before committing to a score, the full list of all 100 questions is laid out by category.

How to Take the Test

There is no preparation involved and it takes about three to five minutes.

• Read each of the 100 statements in order
• Check the box for anything you have done, at any point in your life
• Leave anything you are unsure about unchecked — consistency matters more than precision
• Do not skip ahead or go back and edit for a nicer number
• Submit to see your score and where it falls against everyone else’s

Answer honestly or the exercise is pointless. Nothing you check is visible to anyone, so there is no audience to perform for.

What Your Score Means

Across the 125,000+ anonymous results submitted on this site, the median score is around 76, and roughly a third of all takers land somewhere in the 70s. Scores below 50 are genuinely uncommon — under 5% of submissions.

• 90–100: Very few experiences checked. Around 10% of takers.
• 80–89: A handful of mostly romantic or social experiences. Around 27%.
• 70–79: The most common range by a wide margin. Around 33%.
• 60–69: A broader mix across several categories. Around 20%.
• Below 60: A wide range of experiences. Around 11% combined.

Read the full breakdown of what each score range means, look up exactly where your number sits on the rice purity score chart, or see the live statistics updated from real submissions.

How Your Score Compares

Averages shift with age, country, and how the question set is worded, so a single number is never the whole story. If you want the comparison in detail, we break it down by group in the average rice purity score guide and the USA-specific breakdown.

Wondering whether your number is a good one? That question has a longer answer than it looks — we cover it in what counts as a good rice purity score.

Why Scores Differ Between Sites

If you have taken the test elsewhere and got a different number, the question list is the reason. There is no canonical version — sites reword items, merge some, split others, and occasionally add questions that were never in any Thresher edition. A near-duplicate pair can cost you two points on one site and one on another for the same experience.

That means cross-site comparison is unreliable, and so is comparing today’s score against one you got years ago on a different version. We looked at where the discrepancies come from if you want the specifics.

Common Myths

• “It is an official Rice University test.” It is not. The university does not administer, endorse, or maintain it, and this site is not affiliated with Rice.
• “A low score means something is wrong with you.” It means you checked more boxes on one arbitrary list. That is all it can mean.
• “There is a correct or target score.” There is no scoring key and nothing to aim for.
• “It is psychologically validated.” It is a novelty self-report survey, not a measurement instrument. We go into why that distinction matters.
• “It is meant for teenagers.” The question list covers explicitly adult territory and is intended for adults.

Other Versions of the Test

The Rice Purity Test has spawned variants with different question sets. The best known is the AO3 purity test, which swaps the campus-life questions for fandom and internet-culture ones. There is also a 50-question version for couples built to be taken together rather than alone.

Explore Your Score

• Rice Purity Score Meaning Explained
• What Percentile Is Your Score?
• Is 70 a Good Rice Purity Score?
• Is 50 a Bad Rice Purity Score?
• What Does a 0 Rice Purity Score Mean?
• What Is a Bad Rice Purity Score?
• Question 69, Explained
• The Full History of the Test

Frequently Asked Questions

Whatever number you got, it is yours. Every experience behind it belongs to your story, and no scale built from a hundred checkboxes can summarize a person. Share it, compare it, argue about it — that is what it was always for.