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Most sporty or bookish characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 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
197.918Dashiell Parr (The Incredibles)
297.040Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
396.217Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)
495.895A-Train (The Boys)
595.320Sterling Archer (Archer)
695.329Troy Bolton (High School Musical)
795.269Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
895.0284Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
994.735Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
1094.471Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1194.197Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
1294.113Ka D'Argo (Farscape)
1393.7335Viktor Krum (Harry Potter)
1493.3159Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1592.943Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1692.927Chad Danforth (High School Musical)
1792.894Andrew Clark (The Breakfast Club)
1892.893Noah Puckerman (Glee)
1992.711Ben Scott (Yellowjackets)
2092.674Dominic Toretto (Fast & Furious)
2192.471Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things)
2292.421Bob Parr (The Incredibles)
2391.778Sue Sylvester (Glee)
2491.763Smash Williams (Friday Night Lights)
2591.3219Ygritte (Game of Thrones)

Most bookish characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.9374Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
297.946Klaus Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
397.88Rintarou Okabe (Steins;Gate)
497.5253Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
597.3274Samwell Tarly (Game of Thrones)
697.166Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
797.127Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
896.928Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama)
996.985Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1096.945Temperance Brennan (Bones)
1196.839Joe Goldberg (You)
1296.8171Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
1396.823L (Death Note)
1496.836Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1596.659Cecil B. Heimerdinger (Arcane)
1696.6480Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1796.6401Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
1896.412Clare Edwards (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1996.1400Leonard Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory)
2095.948Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
2195.9347Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory)
2295.871Molly Davidson (Booksmart)
2395.617Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
2495.612Calvin Weir-Fields (Ruby Sparks)
2595.022David Levinson (Independence Day)

Similar traits

The survey has 400 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=0.87)
  2. physical (not intellectual) (r=0.85)
  3. 💪 (not 🧠) (r=0.84)
  4. doer (not thinker) (r=0.73)
  5. 🏀 (not 🎨) (r=0.72)
  6. 😎 (not 🧐) (r=0.7)
  7. outdoorsy (not indoorsy) (r=0.63)
  8. 🏋️‍♂️ (not 🚴) (r=0.63)
  9. 👩‍🎤 (not 👩‍🔬) (r=0.62)
  10. lumberjack (not mad-scientist) (r=0.62)

Notes

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