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

Most simple characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
190.4193Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
289.924Chet (Fallout)
388.7466Kevin Malone (The Office)
488.128Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
584.917Lenny (After Life)
684.619Spike (The Land Before Time)
783.91416Pumbaa (The Lion King)
883.58Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
983.223Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1083.227Saitama (One Punch Man)
1183.028Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1282.9132Little John (Robin Hood)
1382.8466Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
1482.7669Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
1582.61144Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
1682.3399Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
1781.842Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
1881.416Pop Tate (Riverdale)
1981.0167Charlie Swan (Twilight)
2080.823Neil Fak (The Bear)
2180.710Shuichi Aizawa (Death Note)
2280.724Gino (Baby Reindeer)
2380.6211Chien-Po (Mulan)
2480.6443Bob Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
2580.1303Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)

Most complicated characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.313Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
295.022General Kirigan (Shadow and Bone)
394.618Prairie Johnson (The OA)
494.117Shiv Roy (Succession)
594.015Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
694.013Patty Hewes (Damages)
793.77John Rayburn (Bloodline)
893.531Olivia Pope (Scandal)
993.233Hiram Lodge (Riverdale)
1093.1229Don Draper (Mad Men)
1192.816Yennefer (The Witcher)
1292.648Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1392.411Misty (Yellowjackets)
1492.423Lex Luthor (Smallville)
1592.342Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
1692.3101Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl)
1792.1233River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
1891.840Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
1991.728Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
2091.647Annalise Keating (How To Get Away With Murder)
2191.522Silco (Arcane)
2291.5243Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
2391.41036Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
2491.476Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1)
2591.275Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)

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 simple<--->complicated when aggregated at the character level.

  1. unambiguous (not mysterious) (r=0.67)
  2. lighthearted (not intense) (r=0.65)
  3. slumbering (not insomniac) (r=0.63)
  4. unchallenging (not demanding) (r=0.63)
  5. average (not deviant) (r=0.61)
  6. yes-man (not contrarian) (r=0.61)
  7. open-book (not secretive) (r=0.61)
  8. dull (not sharp) (r=0.6)
  9. transparent (not machiavellian) (r=0.59)
  10. 🐿 (not 🦇) (r=0.58)

Notes

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