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

Most competent characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.215Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
298.027Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
397.419Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)
497.3335Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
596.924Sun Bak (Sense8)
696.927Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher)
796.821Inej Ghafa (Shadow and Bone)
896.4267Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
996.312Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
1096.123Shirley Schmidt (Boston Legal)
1196.0143Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1)
1295.954Temperance Brennan (Bones)
1395.9336Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
1495.8121Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1595.716Diane Lockhart (The Good Wife)
1695.639Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
1795.5115William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
1895.5218C. J. Cregg (The West Wing)
1995.415Erwin Smith (Attack on Titan)
2095.413Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife)
2195.3325Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2295.3524Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
2395.224Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
2495.2259Maeve Millay (Westworld)
2595.238Michael Scofield (Prison Break)

Most incompetent characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.6247Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
291.633Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
391.0368Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
490.395Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
590.1379Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
690.1470Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
789.775George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
889.720James Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
989.6295Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
1089.483Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1189.4237Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1289.121Connor Roy (Succession)
1388.7135Prince John (Robin Hood)
1488.329Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1588.151The Deep (The Boys)
1687.973Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
1787.843Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1887.391Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
1987.049Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2086.5684Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
2186.3303Ben Chang (Community)
2286.098Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
2385.4495Kevin Malone (The Office)
2485.036Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
2584.828Kirk Gleason (Gilmore Girls)

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 competent<--->incompetent when aggregated at the character level.

  1. accurate (not off target) (r=0.87)
  2. wise (not foolish) (r=0.87)
  3. knowledgeable (not ignorant) (r=0.87)
  4. genius (not dunce) (r=0.86)
  5. perceptive (not unobservant) (r=0.84)
  6. high IQ (not low IQ) (r=0.84)
  7. resourceful (not helpless) (r=0.83)
  8. legit (not scrub) (r=0.8)
  9. alert (not oblivious) (r=0.79)
  10. tactful (not indiscreet) (r=0.77)

Notes

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