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

Most unambitious characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.7369Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
290.5195Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
385.4477Kevin Malone (The Office)
485.259Kermit (Shameless)
583.811Tony Johnson (After Life)
682.021Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
781.953Tommy (Shameless)
881.917Marcus Baker (Ginny & Georgia)
981.6117Jake Harper (Two and Half Men)
1081.326Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1181.238Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
1280.914Lenny (After Life)
1380.419Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia)
1479.9503Stanley Hudson (The Office)
1579.5350Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
1679.021Chet (Fallout)
1778.1314Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
1877.5467Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1976.134Dale Harding (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2075.7117Pete Hornberger (30 Rock)
2175.597Nick Miller (New Girl)
2275.416Gino (Baby Reindeer)
2375.0460Steven Hyde (That 70's Show)
2475.031Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
2574.7448Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)

Most driven characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.1984Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
298.043Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
397.947Olivia Pope (Scandal)
497.9113Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire)
597.513Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife)
697.416Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
797.0253Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
896.8501Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
996.528Selina Meyer (Veep)
1096.569Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)
1196.5151Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
1296.325John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)
1396.2110Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
1496.1318Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1596.020Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
1695.9507Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
1795.817John Dutton (Yellowstone)
1895.7382Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
1995.5509Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2095.5281Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
2195.5247Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
2295.426Georgia Miller (Ginny & Georgia)
2395.3233Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
2495.322Scorpius (Farscape)
2595.317Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)

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 unambitious<--->driven when aggregated at the character level.

  1. unmotivated (not motivated) (r=0.85)
  2. underachiever (not overachiever) (r=0.83)
  3. slugabed (not go-getter) (r=0.82)
  4. quitter (not persistent) (r=0.78)
  5. lazy (not diligent) (r=0.71)
  6. absentminded (not focused) (r=0.69)
  7. slothful (not active) (r=0.69)
  8. slacker (not workaholic) (r=0.68)
  9. dull (not sharp) (r=0.66)
  10. helpless (not resourceful) (r=0.66)

Notes

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