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Most adventurous or stick-in-the-mud 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 "adventurous" to "stick-in-the-mud". 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 "adventurous" is the same as 100/100 for "stick-in-the-mud". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most adventurous characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.231Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
299.042Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
398.228Shawn Spencer (Psych)
497.861Louise Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
597.224Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
697.060Villanelle (Killing Eve)
796.61137Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
896.6143Robin Hood (Robin Hood)
996.425Sterling Archer (Archer)
1096.417Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
1196.2248Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
1296.034Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1395.735Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)
1495.634Amanita Caplan (Sense8)
1595.4539Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
1695.334Steven Hiller (Independence Day)
1794.981JJ (Outer Banks)
1894.922Randle Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1994.8610Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
2094.8154Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)
2194.7233Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2294.767Westley (The Princess Bride)
2394.6391Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
2494.4481Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2594.434Patrick Jane (The Mentalist)

Most stick-in-the-mud characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.2321Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
294.9325Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
394.4168Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
493.711Matt Braden (After Life)
593.139Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
692.5461Red Forman (That 70's Show)
791.9467Angela Martin (The Office)
891.769Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
991.629Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1091.6228Walter Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
1191.4301Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
1291.328Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul)
1391.024Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1490.4354Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
1590.328Michael Groff (Sex Education)
1689.726General Hux (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
1789.79Abe Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1889.36Malvolio (Twelfth Night)
1989.2290Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter)
2089.019Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
2188.951Uma Heller (Only Murders in the Building)
2288.9137Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
2388.943Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
2488.7914C-3PO (Star Wars)
2588.629Count Alexei Karenin (Anna Karenina)

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 adventurous<--->stick-in-the-mud when aggregated at the character level.

  1. open to new experinces (not uncreative) (r=0.82)
  2. innovative (not routine) (r=0.77)
  3. spontaneous (not scheduled) (r=0.77)
  4. bold (not serious) (r=0.76)
  5. brave (not careful) (r=0.75)
  6. creative (not conventional) (r=0.75)
  7. vibrant (not geriatric) (r=0.74)
  8. varied (not repetitive) (r=0.73)
  9. unorthodox (not traditional) (r=0.73)
  10. freelance (not corporate) (r=0.72)

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