Every version of the Rice Purity Test
Search for the test and you'll find a dozen things calling themselves the Rice Purity Test, plus a small crowd of spinoffs with the same shape and different questions. Here's what each one actually is, so you know which number you're comparing.
Updated September 5, 2026
The classic 100-question test
The one everything else is measured against: 100 checkboxes, start at 100, lose a point per box, arranged roughly from hand-holding to the far end of the list. This is the wording that circulates at Rice University's O-Week and on the oldest sites hosting it. We list all 100 in the original phrasing, with a plain-English note on each, on the questions page. If someone tells you their score without saying which version, this is the one they mean.
The modern rewrite (the one on this site)
Same scale, same 100 points, same escalation, with the items reworded for the present day and grouped into eight themed sections so the test has rhythm. Scores are directly comparable to the classic because the count and the ladder are the same. Take it here.
The AO3 edition, a.k.a. the fanfic purity test
A 50-question version about what you've read, written, bookmarked and tagged on Archive of Our Own. Same scoring logic (start at 50, lose a point per checkbox), entirely different content, and a very different crowd comparing numbers. It exists because fandom kept building its own purity tests in Google Docs and Tumblr posts; ours is one of the more complete ones. Take the AO3 edition.
The Innocence Test
A newer quiz in the same format: 100 checkboxes, a score out of 100, scored the same way, with its own question set and a slightly softer tone. It rose alongside the TikTok wave of score-sharing videos. Because the scale matches, an Innocence Test score and a Rice Purity score feel comparable even though the questions differ, which is exactly why people mix them up in group chats.
The 400 and 500-question versions
The ancestors. Before the compact 100-item list, purity tests were long, sprawling documents that circulated on Usenet and photocopied handouts in the 1980s and '90s, some running to 400 or 500 items. They are exhaustive, dated, and mostly a curiosity now, but they're where the tradition and a lot of the odd wording came from. The history page traces the lineage.
“Unblocked,” “2023,” “original,” “extended”
These aren't separate tests, just search phrases. “Unblocked” means a version with nothing in the way (no login, no app), which is what our unblocked page is. “2022” or “2023” versions are the same classic list; the wording hasn't materially changed in years. “Original” is the classic list above. “Extended” usually points at the long Usenet-era versions.
Versions we don't host
You'll see adult-themed spinoffs and versions aimed at younger teens floating around. We don't make either. The test is written for adults, and the point of it is a laugh with friends, not a list to work through.
Which one should you take?
If you're comparing with friends, the classic or our modern rewrite; the scores line up. If you're in fandom and the group chat is AO3 people, the AO3 edition. If someone quotes an Innocence Test number, ask which test before you gloat. And whatever you take, the score chart explains what the number means.