As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "optimistic" to "pessimistic". 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 "optimistic" is the same as 100/100 for "pessimistic". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99.4 | 19 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 2 | 96.5 | 41 | Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel) |
| 3 | 96.4 | 996 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 4 | 96.2 | 71 | Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock) |
| 5 | 96.1 | 173 | SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 6 | 95.7 | 96 | Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) |
| 7 | 95.7 | 15 | Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary) |
| 8 | 95.6 | 41 | Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 9 | 95.1 | 176 | Olaf (Frozen) |
| 10 | 95.0 | 32 | Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation) |
| 11 | 94.2 | 88 | Jess Day (New Girl) |
| 12 | 94.1 | 11 | Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso) |
| 13 | 94.0 | 25 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
| 14 | 94.0 | 35 | Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) |
| 15 | 94.0 | 15 | Don Quijote (Don Quixote) |
| 16 | 94.0 | 33 | Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 17 | 94.0 | 68 | Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) |
| 18 | 93.8 | 29 | Mumen Rider (One Punch Man) |
| 19 | 93.7 | 51 | Phil Dunphy (Modern Family) |
| 20 | 93.5 | 539 | Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office) |
| 21 | 93.5 | 61 | Ash Ketchum (Pokémon) |
| 22 | 93.3 | 22 | Lucy MacLean (Fallout) |
| 23 | 93.1 | 47 | Rapunzel (Tangled) |
| 24 | 93.1 | 322 | Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 25 | 92.9 | 370 | Ned Flanders (The Simpsons) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 96.3 | 171 | Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 2 | 92.2 | 476 | Red Forman (That 70's Show) |
| 3 | 92.0 | 36 | Michel Gerard (Gilmore Girls) |
| 4 | 91.8 | 207 | Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley) |
| 5 | 91.7 | 272 | Sandor Clegane (Game of Thrones) |
| 6 | 90.8 | 25 | Prince Hamlet (Hamlet) |
| 7 | 90.5 | 37 | Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 8 | 90.3 | 88 | Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) |
| 9 | 90.3 | 15 | Marcus Baker (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 10 | 90.1 | 951 | April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation) |
| 11 | 90.0 | 26 | Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) |
| 12 | 89.7 | 283 | Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey) |
| 13 | 89.6 | 335 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 14 | 89.1 | 578 | Stanley Hudson (The Office) |
| 15 | 89.0 | 553 | Angela Martin (The Office) |
| 16 | 88.3 | 338 | Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons) |
| 17 | 88.2 | 418 | George Costanza (Seinfeld) |
| 18 | 88.2 | 280 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
| 19 | 88.2 | 24 | Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 20 | 88.0 | 23 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 21 | 87.9 | 34 | Violet Harmon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 22 | 87.9 | 43 | Ray Ploshansky (Girls) |
| 23 | 87.8 | 20 | Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) |
| 24 | 87.8 | 24 | Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 25 | 87.8 | 73 | John Murphy (The 100) |
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 optimistic<--->pessimistic when aggregated at the character level.