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What your score means
The bands below are descriptive shorthand, not categories with any real backing. They exist because a bare number is boring, not because a 71 is meaningfully different from a 69.
95 to 100 — Very sheltered
Almost nothing on the list has happened yet. This is common among younger takers and among people whose lives have simply run along different lines than the list assumes. It is not a statement about caution or character.
85 to 94 — Cautious
A few small rebellions, nothing that left a mark. Most people who took the test in their mid-teens land somewhere around here.
70 to 84 — Fairly typical
The most crowded band, and where a large share of people finishing school or starting university end up. Enough stories to be interesting, not enough to raise eyebrows.
55 to 69 — Well travelled
You have said yes to most things that came along. This band fills up quickly once people move out, start working, and travel.
40 to 54 — Adventurous
Rules have been treated as suggestions more than once. Usually a mix of genuine appetite for experience and a few years of opportunity.
20 to 39 — Been everywhere
Very little on the list is unfamiliar. Common among people well into their twenties and thirties, since a long list of ordinary adult experiences accumulates on its own.
0 to 19 — Off the chart
Almost every box ticked. Worth checking whether you were ticking honestly or ticking for fun, because both happen.
What is a normal score?
There is no reliable answer, and any site quoting a precise average is inventing it. No version of this quiz collects a representative sample — the people who take it are self-selected, the question lists differ between sites, and nobody verifies anything. Anecdotally, scores cluster in the 60s and 70s among people in their late teens and early twenties, but that is an observation about who takes internet quizzes, not a statistic about anyone's life.
Should you share your score?
That is entirely up to you, and there is no obligation either way. A number on its own reveals little, but the conversation that follows tends to draw out specifics people did not plan to share. If you would rather not discuss the details, it is fine to keep the number to yourself — and it is fine to decline the whole exercise. Nobody is owed your answers.