You finished the 100 questions, the gauge stopped, and now you have a number. This page explains exactly what that number means on the Purity Meter. The short version: your score is 100 minus the number of times you answered Yes, and it places you in one of eight bands. Find your band below — then read the honest part afterwards, about what your score does not mean.
| Score | Band | In plain words |
|---|---|---|
| 97–100 | Practically a Saint | Three or fewer Yes answers in a hundred questions. Either genuinely sheltered, very disciplined — or an elite-level liar. |
| 90–96 | Certified Innocent | A handful of adventures and nothing more. You have dipped a toe in the water. |
| 75–89 | Mostly Pure | A well-behaved life with a few stories you are happy to tell at dinner. Balanced, normal, quietly fun. |
| 60–74 | Mildly Mischievous | A solid stack of Yes answers — broken rules, bent rules, and a few you would rather not explain. |
| 45–59 | Seasoned Adventurer | Right in the wild middle. You have lived enough to have the stories. |
| 30–44 | Certified Rebel | Rules are more like suggestions in your world. |
| 15–29 | Wild Card | The questions were running out of things you had not done. |
| 0–14 | Legend Status | You said Yes to almost everything on the list. Nothing left to confess — only memoirs left to write. |
How to read your band properly
Your band is a description of a count, nothing more. A score in the Mostly Pure range does not certify you as a good person, and a score in the Wild Card range does not certify you as a bad one. The bands are written to be fun to read out loud in a group chat — that is their job. If you want a more useful reading, look at your category breakdown on the result screen instead. A low Romance score with a saintly Habits score tells a much better story than the single headline number.
Why your score differs from a friend’s — and from other sites
Three ordinary reasons explain almost every score argument. First, different lives: a 30-year-old has simply had more years to collect Yes answers than an 18-year-old. Second, different honesty: the quiz runs on the honour system, and everyone knows one friend whose answers deserve an audit. Third, different questions: every purity site asks its own list, so a 72 here and a 58 somewhere else can both be “true” at the same time. Scores are only comparable when the question set is the same — which is why the fairest comparison is two people taking this same quiz.
Is a higher score better?
No — and any site that ranks people as winners and losers by this number is missing the point of a game that is a century old. Some players protect a high score like a trophy. Others treat a falling score as a life being lived out loud. Both are playing correctly. The only genuinely good use of the number is the conversation it starts: which questions surprised you, which categories cost you most, and which answers your friends simply refuse to believe.
What does my purity score mean — frequently asked questions
Can my score go up if I retake it?
Only if you answer differently — the maths never forgets a Yes.
Is 100 rare?
A perfect 100 means No to all 100 questions; it happens, and it usually starts an argument.
What is a normal score?
There is no official normal — see our honest guide to the average-score question, linked below.
One band, many different lives
It also helps to remember that a band is a wide road, not a pigeonhole. Two players can both land in Seasoned Adventurer for completely opposite reasons: one collected Yes answers steadily across all five categories, while the other stayed saintly in four categories and lost almost everything in a single glorious category — Digital life is the usual suspect. That is why the result screen shows the breakdown, and why arguing about the breakdown is more fun than arguing about the number. Your band tells people roughly where you landed. Your categories hint at how you got there.
No score yet? Take the free Purity Meter, find your band in under five minutes, then come back to this page and read what it really says about you — and what it does not.
Keep reading: Average Purity Score by Age: An Honest Answer · How to Share Your Purity Result Without Oversharing
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