What your purity score means
The number is easy to misread. Here is what it is measuring, what it is not, and why two people can share a percentage and not share a result.
What the number actually is
Your purity score is the share of available impurity points you did not collect, expressed as a whole percentage. Each yes adds points; each no adds none. That is the entire calculation.
So the score is a summary of one thing: which of these 30 specific questions you answered yes to. It is not a measurement of your character, your history in general, or anything the test did not ask about.
100% does not mean better. 0% does not mean worse.
This is the part worth being clear about. The scale runs from “said no to everything” to “said yes to everything”, and that is a direction, not a ranking. A 96% is not a better person than a 12%, and a 12% is not a more interesting one. They answered different questions differently.
The word “purity” is a scoring label inherited from the format, the same way another quiz might total up “chaos” or “experience”. Read it as the name of an axis rather than a judgement, because that is all the arithmetic supports.
Why the same score can mean two different things
Two mechanics move the number in ways that are easy to miss.
The test gets heavier as it goes. Questions carry more weight in the later stages, so where your yeses landed matters more than how many there were. Ten small yeses early on and two yeses at the very end can produce a similar percentage from completely different sheets.
Skipping shrinks the pool. A skipped question is removed from your total rather than counted as a no, so it stops being part of the calculation on both sides. Skipping a heavy question does not protect your score — it takes that question out of the maths entirely. If fewer than 5 questions are answered, there is nothing meaningful left to score and the site says so.
Reading the broad zones
Behind the scenes the score maps onto 26 named bands, which you can see listed on the how it works page. For reading a result, though, five broader zones are more useful than ten narrow ones.
The high end
81–100%Most questions came back no, including some built to be difficult to answer no to. The interesting part of a result up here is usually the handful of yeses rather than the number itself — a score in this range is rarely blank, it is just short.
The upper middle
61–80%A real history, kept inside fairly ordinary limits. Scores land here when the early and middle questions collected some yeses and the heavier end mostly did not — a line drawn deliberately rather than by accident.
The middle
41–60%Reaching the middle is harder than it sounds: it takes genuine yeses spread across several stages, not a run of small ones. A score here usually means you have gone looking for things and also stopped somewhere specific.
The lower band
21–40%Yeses across most of the test, including where the questions stop being general. Results in this band often pair what happened with who was never told about it, and the gap between those two things is frequently more revealing than the score.
The far end
0–20%The heaviest questions came back yes. Because those count for the most, this band does not require a long list of yeses to reach — a few at the end will do it. Down here the number stops being the interesting part of the result.
The interpretation is doing more work than the number
Underneath your percentage, the result describes the pattern in your answers rather than restating the total. Each question carries internal categories — honesty, risk, secrecy, betrayal and a few others — and the write-up picks whichever one your answers lean on hardest, then adds a line about anything else worth pointing out.
That is why two people on the same percentage can read something noticeably different. A score built entirely out of early, everyday questions produces a different write-up from the same score built out of two answers at the end, even though the arithmetic matched.
All of it is computed in your browser from your own answers. There is no profile of you stored anywhere and no comparison against other people’s results — the site has neither.
One last thing
For entertainment purposes only. This test is not a scientific or psychological assessment. It is a game with a consistent set of rules, and the rules are published on this site so you can check them. Whatever number comes out, it describes a list of questions — not the person answering them.