The Honest Test is coming — 29 Nov. The purity test that doesn’t punish love.
Rice Purity Test
100 original questions. Free, private, no signup.
Purity tests have been a rite of passage since students at Rice University first passed one around in the 1920s. This is a fresh, modern take — new questions, a live meter, and a result card worth sharing.
Answer each question with an honest Yes or No — one card at a time.
Every Yes costs you exactly 1 point. Watch the live meter as you go.
Get your final score, a verdict, a category breakdown — and a card to share.
Made for fun between friends. There are no wrong answers — only honest ones.
Have you ever…
Where your points went
Put your score on the board
The Purity Meter Leaderboard ranks scores submitted by real takers — and it is just getting started. Be one of the first 100 on the board, and see where your score lands.
See the leaderboard — add my scoreWondering what that number really says? What does my purity score mean?
Everything you admitted to
What the scores mean
Your score is simply 100 minus the number of times you said yes. Lower isn’t worse — it just means you’ve collected more stories.
A quick history
The purity test began in The Rice Thresher, Rice University’s student newspaper in Houston, on 7 March 1924 — not as 100 questions, but as a 10-question survey of 119 female undergraduates, under the headline “Rice Girls Not Quite Half Bad”, with an average score of 62. It grew over the decades — a 150-question version in 1988, a rewritten 100-question version published online in August 2012 — and became an internet classic. Purity Meter keeps the spirit — 100 questions, one honest score — with its own original wording and categories written for life today, phones, group chats and all. Read the full sourced story on our History of the Rice Purity Test page.
From the Purity Meter blog
What the scores mean, where the test came from, and how to share a result without oversharing — seven short reads, each written for one question people actually search for.
Adults 18+ · For fun only — not a psychological test.