Frequently asked questions
Short, direct answers about how the test works and what happens to what you type into it.
About the test
What is the Purity Test?
It is a 30-question checklist about things you have personally done. You answer yes, no, or “prefer not to answer”, one question at a time. At the end you get a purity score between 0 and 100 and a written interpretation of the pattern in your answers. It takes a few minutes and there is nothing to sign up for.
The questions start with small, ordinary things and get progressively more personal. You can always see which stage you are in, so the escalation is never a surprise.
Is the Purity Test scientific?
No. For entertainment purposes only. This test is not a scientific or psychological assessment. There is no research behind it, no clinical model, and no expert panel. It is a fixed set of rules applied consistently to the answers you give.
What it does honestly is respond to your actual answers rather than handing everyone the same text. That is arithmetic and authored copy, not psychology.
Why is the test intended for adults?
Intended for adults (18+). Some questions cover mature topics. The later questions ask directly about sex, drinking, drugs and betrayal. That is the whole point of the format, but it makes the test unsuitable for children, and the site is not written or presented as family content.
Scoring
How is the Purity Score calculated?
Every yes adds impurity points. Every no adds none. Your score is the share of the available points you did not collect, rounded to a whole percentage:
score = 100 × (1 − impurity points ÷ points available)
Answer no to everything and you land at 100%. Answer yes to everything and you land at 0%. Everything else falls in between. The full mechanism is written out on the how it works page.
Why do later questions matter more?
Because the admissions are not the same size. Owning up to a small lie is not equivalent to what the final stretch asks about, and treating every yes as interchangeable would flatten the result into something meaningless.
So questions carry more weight as the test progresses, in six stages. Two people who both answered yes ten times can end up with very different scores depending on wherethose yeses fell. The exact multipliers are not shown during the test — seeing them mid-question would change how people answer, which would make the result less honest rather than more transparent.
What happens when I skip a question?
It is removed from your total entirely. Skipping is not a quiet yes and it is not a quiet no — the question stops being part of the calculation on both sides, so it can neither raise nor lower your score.
Skip as many as you like. The one limit is that if you answer fewer than 5 questions there is not enough left to measure, and the site will tell you so instead of inventing a flattering number.
Does a low Purity Score mean something negative?
No. The score measures one specific list of behaviours in a game, and the list is not the whole of anyone. A high score is not a prize and a low one is not a verdict — they describe which questions you happened to say yes to, and nothing else.
If it helps: the word “purity” here is a scoring label, in the same way a quiz might score “chaos” or “experience”. There is more on how to read the number on the purity score guide.
Your answers and your privacy
Are my answers saved?
Not on any server. Your answers are held in your browser’s session storage purely so that a refresh does not wipe your progress. Closing the tab discards them, and “Restart test” clears them immediately.
Nothing is written to a database, because there is no database of answers. There is also no account, no email field and no login.
Can anyone see my answers?
No. They never leave your browser, so there is nobody on this end to look at them. Your score is calculated on your own device, not on a server.
Individual answers also never appear in a URL, a share message, page metadata or a social preview — only the score and the profile name do, and only if you choose to share. The privacy policy sets out the full picture.
Results and sharing
Can two people with the same score get different interpretations?
Yes, and this is intentional. The same percentage can be reached from very different sheets — a run of small yeses early on, or two heavy yeses at the end. The written write-up picks whichever category your answers lean on hardest, then adds a line about anything else worth pointing out.
All of that is computed from your own answers in your own browser. There is no model of you and no comparison against anyone else’s results.
Can I retake the test?
As many times as you want. “Restart test” during the quiz, or “Take it again” on the result page, clears the current attempt and starts over from question one. Nothing about a previous attempt is kept.
Can I share my result?
Yes. The share button uses your device’s native share sheet where one is available, and copies the text to your clipboard otherwise. What gets shared is your percentage, your profile name out of 26, and a link to the site — never your answers.
Still stuck?
If a question reads badly, something is broken on your device, or you spotted a mistake, the contact page is read by a person.