The purity test has been passed between friends and classmates for decades as a way of comparing notes on how much of ordinary life you have got around to yet. It is voluntary, it is scored by nobody but you, and the number it produces is the start of an argument rather than the end of one.
This is not a bucket list. Nothing here is a target, and no score is a goal worth chasing.
Click every item you have done. Your score starts at 100 and drops by one for each box you tick.
How the Rice Purity Test is scored
Everyone begins on 100. Each experience you tick removes one point, so your final number is simply the count of items on the list you have not done. Tick twenty-eight boxes and you finish on seventy-two. There is no weighting, no algorithm, and no pass mark.
Two people can land on the same number having led completely different lives, because the list covers a hundred arbitrary experiences out of the thousands a person actually has. Age does most of the work: a fifteen-year-old and a thirty-year-old will drift apart on a list that includes holding a job, living away from family and travelling abroad, even if they are equally cautious by temperament.
Why people take it
Almost everyone arrives through friends. It works as a group activity, where everybody takes it at once, compares numbers, and then spends far longer arguing about individual questions than about the result. That argument is the real point. The score is a conversation starter wearing the costume of a measurement.
It also makes a decent personal timestamp. People who retake it once a year end up with a small record of how their life has changed, which is more interesting than any single number. If you are running it as a group game, our guide to taking it with friends covers how to keep it light.
About our question list
Every question here was written for this site rather than copied from elsewhere, and the list is deliberately kept suitable for a general audience. It covers school, family, friendship, mischief, travel, money, work and the ordinary embarrassments of growing up, and it produces the same 0 to 100 range the format is known for.
If you want the background first, start with what the Rice Purity Test actually is, or see what a typical score looks like by age.
Before you start
- Answer honestly. Nobody else can see the boxes you tick.
- If a question does not apply to you, leave it unticked.
- Take it in one sitting rather than going back and second-guessing.
- Treat the result as entertainment. It measures nothing meaningful about who you are.