The Race Purity Test follows the same checkbox format as the original Rice Purity Test, where users click on every statement that applies to them and receive a score at the end. Instead of measuring sexual or social "innocence," this version measures racial bias through 100 prompts that cover a wide spectrum of racist attitudes, behaviors, and stereotypes1.

The questions range from relatively mild stereotype acknowledgments ("Believe that Asians are usually good at math") to explicit slur usage ("Called a Mexican person a wetback") to outright holocaust denial, including three escalating prompts about the "6 million" number1. Several questions reference internet-specific culture, like trading the "$NIGGABUTT cryptocurrency" and never falling for call center scams "because the accent always gives it away"3. The higher a user's score, the more prompts they've checked off, meaning a higher number indicates more racist behavior.

The Race Purity Test tapped into a broader internet trend of provocative "how X are you" quizzes that use checkbox formats to gamify sensitive topics. The concept of race in modern contexts is understood by scientists as a social construct rather than a biological reality2, which adds an ironic layer to a quiz attempting to quantify racial bias through self-reported checkbox answers.

The test sparked genuine discourse on X about the line between edgy internet humor and normalizing racist language. Multiple viral posts questioned the motivations of test-takers, with some arguing the quiz simply gave people a framework to publicly admit racist behaviors under the guise of a game3. The inclusion of extremely specific internet culture references, like cryptocurrency names and meme-format phrasing, marked it as a product of the post-ironic, terminally-online humor that defined much of X's culture in 2025.