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Rice Purity Test
100 questions. Your story.
The Rice Purity Test is a self-scored checklist of life experiences. Each selected item takes one point off a starting score of 100. The result describes your selections on that list—not your character or how your life should look.
This is an independent website. Taking part is optional, and there is no score you need to reach.
Take the 100-Question Rice Purity Test
Before You Begin
The traditional checklist includes sexual experiences, alcohol and other substances, and encounters with the law. This edition is intended for adults 18 and older.
You can leave any question unchecked or stop whenever you want. You do not owe anyone an answer, explanation, or score. The test is not a list of things to try, and it does not account for every person’s circumstances. Do not treat a score as evidence of consent, safety, or personal worth.
Your 100-question checklist
Select experiences that apply to you. You can leave any item unchecked. Your answers are not saved: reloading or leaving this page clears them.
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Your Rice Purity score
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Traditional 100-question web checklist — owner-supplied snapshot · owner-supplied-2026-10-12-5133ffee2a3b · Questionnaire source
What Is the Rice Purity Test?
The Rice Purity Test is an informal questionnaire associated with Rice University student culture. In the familiar modern format, it contains 100 equally weighted items about experiences such as relationships, intimacy, substances, and rule-breaking.
People use it for entertainment or personal reflection. Despite its name, it does not establish anyone’s “purity,” diagnose a condition, or assign a passing grade. The arithmetic is simple; the meaning people attach to the number is much less certain.
- Items
- 100
- Per selection
- −1 point
- Score range
- 0–100
How to Take the Test
Use the checklist at your own pace. There is no timer or requirement to finish.
Taking it with a partner? Our Rice Purity Test for Couples guide explains private attempts, shared-device clearing, and optional score comparisons.
Read Each Experience
Read the wording before selecting an item. The familiar checklist asks about whether an experience has happened, rather than how often it happens now. An experience listed twice in different ways may appear in separate items, so pay attention to what each one actually asks.
Select What Applies to You
Select an item if it applies and you feel comfortable marking it. You can change a selection before calculating again.
An unchecked item makes no deduction. The engine cannot distinguish “this has not happened” from “I prefer not to answer.” The selected-count indicator tells you how many boxes you checked, not how many questions you reviewed.
Calculate, Review, or Retake
Choose Calculate my score to see the result. Review my selections returns you to the checklist without clearing your choices. Changing a selection hides the previous result so you can calculate an updated one.
Choose Retake test to clear the selections and result. You do not need an account. Reloading or leaving the page also clears progress.
What Your Rice Purity Score Means
Your score is 100 minus the number of selected items. It tells you the size of that selection, not which experiences it contains.
How the Score Is Calculated
Score = 100 − selected experiences
Every item has the same one-point weight. Selecting the same checkbox cannot deduct more than one point, regardless of how many times the experience occurred.
| Selected items | Calculation | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 100 − 0 | 100 |
| 1 | 100 − 1 | 99 |
| 20 | 100 − 20 | 80 |
| 50 | 100 − 50 | 50 |
| 100 | 100 − 100 | 0 |
What a Higher or Lower Score Tells You
A higher score means fewer selected items. A lower score means more. Neither is inherently better.
For example, a score of 80 means 20 items were selected. It does not tell you which 20. Two people can receive the same score with very different selections, and a person who leaves questions unanswered may receive a higher total without having fewer experiences.
What the Score Cannot Tell You
The result cannot measure maturity, morality, health, consent, relationship compatibility, or how much of life someone has experienced overall. It also cannot identify a “normal” result for an age or place.
This website has no representative score dataset and does not collect completed results. We therefore do not publish an average, percentile, or population ranking. Numbers reported by other websites need a documented sample, collection period, and questionnaire version before they can support a meaningful comparison.
Understand your Rice Purity Test score
Understanding the Questions
Understanding an item matters more than trying to fit your experience into someone else’s interpretation. Some wording in circulating editions is dated, ambiguous, or specific to the culture in which it was written.
Topics Covered by the Questionnaire
The questionnaire covers relationships and affection, sexual experiences, alcohol and drugs, school discipline, and legal encounters. Some items involve sensitive or potentially distressing situations. You can leave any item unchecked.
- RelationshipsAffection and connection
- IntimacyPrivate experiences
- SubstancesAlcohol and drugs
- School and the lawDiscipline and legal encounters
Grouping items into ten sections makes a long checklist easier to navigate. It does not change their order or give one topic more weight than another.
Browse the questions and wording explanations
Unfamiliar Terms and Ambiguous Wording
Some editions use MPS, meaning “member of the preferred sex,” for a person someone is attracted to. Other expressions rely on slang or campus jokes. Item 69 is printed as a question mark in the supplied source; its separate editorial note discloses that no expanded meaning is specified here.
Any explanations added here will be identified as editorial help and tied to the selected edition. They should clarify a term without quietly changing what an item measures. If an item remains unclear or uncomfortable, you can leave it unchecked; that choice makes no deduction.
Which Questionnaire Version We Use
We use the traditional 100-question web checklist extracted from the owner-supplied snapshot of the selected source edition. It was reviewed on October 12, 2026. The source order and wording are preserved, including the question mark at item 69; promotional item 0 is excluded.
The dataset version is owner-supplied-2026-10-12-5133ffee2a3b. Editorial help is separate from question text. This is an independent implementation, not an official Rice University service. We do not mix editions; scores from differently worded checklists should not be treated as directly equivalent.
- Reference
- Traditional web checklist
- Edition
- 100-item supplied snapshot
- Rights documentation
- Owner-authorized use; no third-party license recorded
Where the Rice Purity Test Comes From
The name refers to Rice University in Houston, Texas. The questionnaire is associated with student culture and has changed over time; its modern online form should not be described as an unchanged century-old list.
Its Connection to Rice University
The reference website describes the test as a voluntary activity associated with Rice’s Orientation Week, often called O-Week. Rice University’s archives also preserve historical issues of the student newspaper, The Rice Thresher. Rice archive.
myricepuritytest.com is independently operated. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Rice University or The Rice Thresher.
Historical Questionnaires and the Modern Checklist
Rice’s archive preserves the March 7, 1924 newspaper issue cited in histories of the tradition. A later April Fools’ edition, dated April 1, 1988, printed a 150-item questionnaire with scoring based on 150. That historical edition is different from today’s familiar 100-item format. 1924 archive record, 1988 newspaper page.
- 1924Archived newspaper issue
Rice’s collection preserves the March 7 issue cited in histories of the tradition.
View the 1924 archive record - 1988A different questionnaire
The April 1 April Fools’ edition printed 150 items, with scoring based on 150.
Read the 1988 newspaper page - Modern reference100 numbered items
This quiz preserves the supplied modern checklist’s 100 items. It is a different edition from the historical 150-item questionnaire.
These records establish historical predecessors. They do not, by themselves, establish the first publication date, author, or reuse status of every question in the current online list.
Your Answers and Privacy
The implemented quiz engine keeps selections and results in browser memory. It does not submit them to our server or analytics, put them in a URL, or save them for your next visit.
What Stays in Browser Memory
When a complete questionnaire is available, your selections exist only in the open page while you use it. The engine does not write answers or scores to cookies, local storage, or session storage. It does not create an account or upload a result.
Selections + score
Held in browser memoryThe quiz does not send selections or scores to the server or analytics.
Your browser still requests the page and its files. Hosting logs may record request information.
Ordinary page requests can still reach the hosting provider. Access logs may contain information such as the requested page, time, IP address, and browser details. Keeping quiz answers private does not mean browsing a website generates no technical request information.
What Happens When You Reload or Retake
Reloading, leaving the page, or choosing Retake test clears your selections and result. There is no saved session to resume. If you want to keep a score, you can record it yourself; a screenshot or message you share is then outside the quiz’s control.
Sharing is optional. We do not automatically publish results, provide a leaderboard, or send scores to another service.
Rice Purity Test FAQ
How many questions are on the Rice Purity Test?
This quiz contains 100 items in the supplied traditional edition’s order. Promotional item 0 is excluded. Item 69 retains the source’s question mark, with a separate editorial note.
How is my score calculated?
Subtract the number of selected items from 100. Selecting 20 gives a score of 80. See the scoring examples.
Is a higher or lower score better?
Neither. Higher means fewer selections; lower means more. The number does not rank people or their lives. Read what a “good” score means.
Is there a reliable average Rice Purity score?
We do not have evidence for a representative US or universal average. A website’s visitor results are not automatically a population benchmark, especially when editions and collection methods differ.
Can I skip a question?
Yes. Leave it unchecked or stop taking the test. Unchecked items make no deduction, so your result reflects only the selections you choose to make.
What does MPS mean?
It means “member of the preferred sex” in some circulating editions. It refers to someone a person is attracted to. See Understanding the Questions.
Why do different websites use different questions?
Publishers may rewrite, replace, or reorder items. A list with 100 questions can still measure different experiences. Check the edition before comparing totals.
Is this an official Rice University website?
No. myricepuritytest.com is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Rice University or The Rice Thresher.
Are my answers saved or sent anywhere?
The quiz engine does neither. Selections stay in the open page’s memory. Ordinary hosting requests are separate; see Your Answers and Privacy.
What happens if I refresh the page?
Your selections and result are cleared. The quiz does not keep saved progress or restore an earlier attempt.
Can I retake the test?
Retake test clears the current attempt so you can start again. There is no target score to pursue.
Who is the questionnaire intended for?
This edition is for adults 18 and older because the traditional list includes sexual, substance-use, and legal topics. Participation and discussing a result are optional.
Take the questionnaire at your own pace. You can review your selections, retake the test, or keep the result to yourself. Whatever the number, it belongs to one checklist—not the whole story of you.
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