Entertainment test
Purity test
Fifty situations, one question each time: done it, or not yet. You start at 100 and every ticked box brings the score down. Entertainment, no scientific value.
1What this test counts
1.1The themes counted
Your answers are spread across 4 themes, each counted on its own.
| Theme | Questions |
|---|---|
| Nights out | 13 |
| Rules and mischief | 12 |
| Heart and feelings | 13 |
| Thrills and the unplanned | 12 |
- Each question feeds a single theme: the column total is the number of questions in the test.
1.2Limits of this test
This questionnaire says nothing about your health, your personality, your values or your private life. It counts situations you have already lived through, nothing more. A low score is not a flaw, a high score is not a reward, and neither compares usefully with anyone else's.
2How this test is made
This test is written for Brain Quiz, for fun: the situations are invented and the score counts answers in a game.
The fifty situations in this questionnaire were written for Brain Quiz. No existing list is reproduced and no published scale is used. It cites no reference because it has none: this is a game, not a piece of research.
Sources. This test is written from end to end for Brain Quiz.
Publisher. Brain Quiz writes, publishes and maintains this test. Who writes this site
2.1How the score is counted
The fifty items are yes or no questions, all with equal weight and all reversed. Answering no is worth 4 points, answering yes is worth 0. Answering no to everything therefore gives 100, and every situation you have already lived through pulls the score down: that is the meaning this format has always had, a high score means few experiences ticked and certainly not a merit. Each theme is computed the same way, as a percentage of the maximum reachable on its own questions. The bands were set by the editorial team, they rest on no measurement and no calibration.
3About this test
The purity test is one of the oldest formats on the internet and it refuses to die: a long list of situations, a yes or a no for each one, and a final score between 0 and 100. The rule is simple and slightly counter-intuitive. You start at 100, and every situation you have already lived through takes points off. A high score does not mean you are worth more than anyone else, it means the list has barely caught up with you. A low score means exactly the opposite and nothing more. Our version runs fifty situations across four themes: nights out and the mornings that follow, your relationship with rules and harmless mischief, matters of the heart, and a taste for the unplanned while travelling. The original format runs to a hundred items, we kept fifty, chosen to cover the same ground in half the time and rewritten from scratch. Every item stays allusive: nothing is described, nothing is named, and no substance is mentioned anywhere. The result gives you an overall score, a band to read it with, and a breakdown by theme showing where your record filled up fastest. That breakdown is usually the funny part: two people can land on the same score with completely opposite profiles. The test assumes a bit of perspective on the situations it describes. It measures nothing, ranks nobody, and says nothing about your health, your personality or your worth. It is a conversation game, best played with friends who are ready to compare numbers.
4Frequently asked questions
No, and that is the whole point. The purity test is a conversation game: it measures nothing, rests on no research and says nothing about your personality. The only number it produces is a count of situations you have already run into.
From an American student tradition that started at Rice University: a list of life situations that newcomers compared with each other. It grew longer over the decades, then got copied across the internet in dozens of versions. Ours reuses none of them, the fifty situations were written for Brain Quiz, with nothing described explicitly and no substance mentioned.
No. No account is required and no health data is collected. For exactly what the site processes, the Privacy page is the reference.
You start at 100 and every situation you have already lived through brings the number down. A high score means few boxes ticked, a low score means many. Neither is good news or bad news, and comparing scores is worth nothing beyond the laugh.
16 and over. The wording stays allusive and nothing is described, but several themes call for a bit of perspective, so the test is flagged 16 and over.
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