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Most playful or serious characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "playful" to "serious". This page lists the 25 characters whose average ratings were the farthest to either side. Because the scale is bipolar, it is reversable. For example, a rating of 1/100 for "playful" is the same as 100/100 for "serious". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most playful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.690Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
295.6192Olaf (Frozen)
395.128Shawn Spencer (Psych)
495.0247Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
595.0446Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
694.737SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
794.5355Donkey (Shrek)
894.4491Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
994.319Ducky (The Land Before Time)
1094.253Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1194.114Gavin 'Spinner' Mason (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1294.126Jaskier (The Witcher)
1393.91238Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
1493.928Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1593.9406Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1693.827Jesper Fahey (Shadow and Bone)
1793.4351George Weasley (Harry Potter)
1893.373Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
1993.245Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
2093.2111Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
2193.2284Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2292.9547Michael Scott (The Office)
2392.21340Pumbaa (The Lion King)
2492.1165Dory (Finding Nemo)
2592.028Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)

Most serious characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.029Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
297.735Javert (Les Misérables)
397.3511Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
495.79Amos Burton (The Expanse)
595.7331Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
695.511Michael Desiato (Your Honor)
795.429Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
895.4253Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
995.422Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1095.227Michael Groff (Sex Education)
1194.684Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
1294.61067Darth Vader (Star Wars)
1394.6549Angela Martin (The Office)
1494.321Huck (Scandal)
1594.228Cho Sang-woo (Squid Game)
1694.229Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1794.1138Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
1894.035Mikasa Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
1994.018Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
2093.3180Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2193.2389Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)
2293.2450Red Forman (That 70's Show)
2393.2234Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)
2493.1351Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)
2593.062Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Similar features

The survey has 525 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with playful<--->serious when aggregated at the character level.

  1. 😜 (not 🤐) (r=0.86)
  2. goofy (not unfrivolous) (r=0.86)
  3. loose (not tight) (r=0.85)
  4. lenient (not strict) (r=0.82)
  5. goof-off (not studious) (r=0.81)
  6. spontaneous (not deliberate) (r=0.81)
  7. funny (not humorless) (r=0.8)
  8. easy (not uptight) (r=0.8)
  9. bubbly (not flat) (r=0.79)
  10. random (not pointed) (r=0.78)

Notes

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