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Purity Test

How it works

The scoring is simple, deterministic, and the same for everyone. Here is the whole mechanism.

The questions

There are 30 questions, shown one at a time. Each one asks about something you personally chose to do. That framing is deliberate: a yes should mean you did something, not that something happened to you, that someone sent you something, or that you were in the room when someone else did it.

Where intent changes the meaning of a question, the wording says so — deliberately, knowingly, intentionally. One question covers one behavior rather than bundling several together.

Yes, no, and skip

  • Yes adds that question’s impurity points.
  • No adds nothing, but the question still counts toward your total.
  • Prefer not to answer removes the question from your total altogether. It cannot help you and it cannot hurt you.

That last point is the one people get wrong. Skipping is not a hidden no. Your score is calculated only against the questions you actually answered, so skipping a heavy question shrinks the pool rather than filling it with a zero.

The formula

Your score is the share of available points you did not collect, as a whole percentage between 0 and 100:

score = 100 × (1 − impurity points ÷ points available)

“Points available” is the combined weight of the questions you answered yes or no to. Answer everything and it is the full test. Skip a heavy question and it drops out of both sides of the calculation.

Why later questions count for more

The test runs through six stages, and the questions get heavier as it goes. Admitting you once lied to get out of trouble is not the same size of admission as what the final stretch asks about, and the scoring reflects that rather than treating every yes as interchangeable.

  1. 1. Warm-upQuestions 1–5
  2. 2. Getting personalQuestions 6–10
  3. 3. PersonalQuestions 11–15
  4. 4. IntenseQuestions 16–20
  5. 5. HardQuestions 21–25
  6. 6. ExtremeQuestions 26–30

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.

When there is no score

If you answer fewer than 5 questions, there is not enough left to measure and the site tells you so. It will not show you a flattering 100% built out of an empty sheet.

What you get at the end

Underneath the number you get a title and a short read on the pattern in your answers. Each question carries internal categories — things like risk, secrecy or loyalty — and the write-up picks the one your answers lean on hardest, then adds a line about anything else worth mentioning.

It is written to be funny at your expense, not to diagnose you. Everything is computed in your browser from your own answers: there is no model, no profile of you, and no comparison against anyone else. Two people on the same percentage can still read something different, because the same score can be reached from very different sheets.

The score bands

There are 26 bands across 0–100, so the title you get is fairly specific rather than a rough quarter of the scale. Every score lands in exactly one of them, and 100% has a band entirely to itself.

  1. Public Safety Concern0–3%
  2. Selectively Innocent52–55%
  3. Absolute Purity100–100%

Three of the 26, for illustration.

What this is not

For entertainment purposes only. This test is not a scientific or psychological assessment. It is not a diagnosis, not a personality assessment, and not research. It is a game with a consistent set of rules, and the rules are the ones written on this page.

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