How the Vanilla Purity Score is calculated
You start at 100. Each of the 60 questions is a yes or a no, and the questions are split evenly across five categories of twelve. Each category scores the percentage of its questions you answered “no”; the Vanilla Purity Score is the average of the five, rounded to a whole number — exactly 100 minus your percentage of yeses. 90–100 is Certified Vanilla, 0–14 is Vanilla Left the Building.
Method at a glance
- Version
- v1 · 2026-10-04
- Input
- 60 questions across 5 dimensions
- Result
- A 0–100 index in 6 bands, plus a score per dimension
- Scoring
- Deterministic: the same input always gives the same result. No randomness, no AI model.
- Where it runs
- Your answers stay in your browser; they are not sent to analytics.
- Method last updated
- Wabiro Insights
- Collecting: published once the sample passes the thresholds
The Vanilla Purity Test is the softer cousin of the purity test: same rule, lighter questions. Here is exactly how the number is made.
The questions
The 60 questions are original to Wabiro. They are about ordinary life — crushes, parties, trips, small cover stories, awkward moments — and were written so that anyone can take the test and read it aloud with friends: nothing explicit, no substances, nothing risky named as a goal. Every question is a have you ever and every answer is yes or no. If it happened once, it is a yes.
They are split evenly across five categories:
| Category | Questions | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Dating & crushes | 12 | 20% |
| Social life | 12 | 20% |
| Adventure | 12 | 20% |
| Rule-bending | 12 | 20% |
| Bold & awkward | 12 | 20% |
The questions are shown one category at a time in rotation, and each round of five is a little less vanilla than the one before: the test opens with near-universal yeses (a crush on someone you barely knew) and closes on the rarer ones (skydiving, a public romantic gesture). The order does not change the score.
How a yes becomes a number
Every question is a protective item: a “no” is worth the full 3 points, a “yes” is worth 0. Your category score is your points in that category divided by the maximum, times 100 — the percentage of that category you said no to.
Your Vanilla Purity Score is the average of the five category scores, rounded once at the end to the nearest whole number. Because every category has the same number of questions and the same weight, this is exactly 100 minus the percentage of questions you answered “yes”: each yes takes 1⅔ points off.
The six bands
| Score | Result |
|---|---|
| 90–100 | Certified Vanilla |
| 75–89 | Mostly Vanilla |
| 55–74 | Vanilla With Plot Twists |
| 35–54 | Definitely Not That Vanilla |
| 15–34 | Chaos Has Entered the Chat |
| 0–14 | Vanilla Left the Building |
The band names your result. The neighbouring band (towards the middle of the scale) is shown as your “also close to”, so an 89 and a 90 share a second identity even though the line falls between them. Certified Vanilla is meant to be rare: it allows at most six yeses out of sixty.
How it differs from the Purity Test
The Purity Test asks 50 questions that include nightlife and riskier experiences. The Vanilla Purity Test keeps the same direction — 100 means you said no to everything — but its questions stay in everyday territory, so it suits a much broader audience. The two scores are not comparable with each other: a 70 on one does not mean a 70 on the other.
What it is not
It is not a personality test, a measure of maturity, worth or morality, and it is not a scientific assessment. “Vanilla” here means the ice-cream flavour: classic, predictable, in a nice way. A high score and a low score are both just a description of which of these 60 things have happened to you so far. Your answers never leave your device: if you share your result, only the score, the band and the result name travel with it.
Versioning
This is version 1 of the Vanilla Purity Test. If a question, a weight or a band ever changes, a new version is published and older results keep the version they were computed with.
Vanilla Purity Test
How vanilla are you, really? Answer 60 quick yes-or-no questions about dating, social life, adventure and everyday chaos, and get your Vanilla Purity Score out of 100.
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