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Most sporty or bookish 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 "sporty" to "bookish". 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 "sporty" is the same as 100/100 for "bookish". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most sporty characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.420Dashiell Parr (The Incredibles)
297.142Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
396.418Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)
495.933Troy Bolton (High School Musical)
595.895A-Train (The Boys)
695.448Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
795.223Sterling Archer (Archer)
895.269Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
995.0284Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
1094.674Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1194.298Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
1294.113Ka D'Argo (Farscape)
1393.832Chad Danforth (High School Musical)
1493.726Bob Parr (The Incredibles)
1593.7335Viktor Krum (Harry Potter)
1693.3161Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1793.144Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1892.976Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things)
1992.899Andrew Clark (The Breakfast Club)
2092.893Noah Puckerman (Glee)
2191.981Dominic Toretto (Fast & Furious)
2291.915Ben Scott (Yellowjackets)
2391.778Sue Sylvester (Glee)
2491.763Smash Williams (Friday Night Lights)
2591.3220Ygritte (Game of Thrones)

Most bookish characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.9377Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
298.152Klaus Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
398.09Rintarou Okabe (Steins;Gate)
497.5254Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
597.3275Samwell Tarly (Game of Thrones)
697.269Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
797.228Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
897.125L (Death Note)
996.938Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1096.8175Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
1196.887Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1296.762Cecil B. Heimerdinger (Arcane)
1396.7482Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1496.5403Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
1596.445Joe Goldberg (You)
1696.412Clare Edwards (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1796.330Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama)
1896.1402Leonard Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory)
1995.973Molly Davidson (Booksmart)
2095.9349Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory)
2195.850Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
2295.617Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
2395.612Calvin Weir-Fields (Ruby Sparks)
2495.548Temperance Brennan (Bones)
2595.125Cyril Figgis (Archer)

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 sporty<--->bookish when aggregated at the character level.

  1. jock (not nerd) (r=0.88)
  2. physical (not intellectual) (r=0.85)
  3. 💪 (not 🧠) (r=0.85)
  4. doer (not thinker) (r=0.73)
  5. 🏀 (not 🎨) (r=0.73)
  6. 😎 (not 🧐) (r=0.7)
  7. outdoorsy (not indoorsy) (r=0.64)
  8. lumberjack (not mad-scientist) (r=0.63)
  9. 🏋️‍♂️ (not 🚴) (r=0.63)
  10. 👨‍🔧 (not 👨‍⚕️) (r=0.62)

Notes

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