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

Most explorer characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.2151Princess Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
292.71010Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
392.141Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
491.951Ash Ketchum (Pokémon)
591.918Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
690.7280Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
790.76Viola (Twelfth Night)
890.414Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
990.417Sterling Archer (Archer)
1089.7118Nemo (Finding Nemo)
1189.3388Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
1289.335Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1389.198Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
1489.124Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1589.0130Dory (Finding Nemo)
1688.921Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
1788.927Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings)
1888.7823Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)
1988.5618Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
2088.2192Lilo Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch)
2188.11175Han Solo (Star Wars)
2288.0649Peter Jason Quill (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
2388.024Chiana (Farscape)
2487.933Shawn Spencer (Psych)
2587.913Jaskier (The Witcher)

Most builder characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
188.318Logan Roy (Succession)
287.516Perrin Aybara (Wheel of Time)
387.31175Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
486.7507Red Forman (That 70's Show)
586.617Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
686.430Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
785.919Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
885.636Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)
984.915Betty Pearson (Fallout)
1084.864Lord Business (The Lego Movie)
1184.651Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
1284.556Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
1384.3344Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)
1484.119John Dutton (Yellowstone)
1584.128Colossus (X-Men)
1683.7112Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire)
1783.6332Eleanor Sung-Young (Crazy Rich Asians)
1883.525Mr. Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1983.1109Galen Tyrol (Battlestar Galactica)
2083.0235Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
2182.926Mellie Grant (Scandal)
2282.424Carol 'Mom' Miller (Futurama)
2382.315Rebecca Welton (Ted Lasso)
2482.215Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
2582.135Mike Delfino (Desperate Housewives)

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 explorer<--->builder when aggregated at the character level.

  1. spontaneous (not scheduled) (r=0.7)
  2. adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud) (r=0.7)
  3. spontaneous (not deliberate) (r=0.67)
  4. freelance (not corporate) (r=0.63)
  5. astonishing (not methodical) (r=0.63)
  6. open to new experinces (not uncreative) (r=0.6)
  7. unorthodox (not traditional) (r=0.6)
  8. bold (not serious) (r=0.59)
  9. abstract (not concrete) (r=0.59)
  10. avant-garde (not classical) (r=0.59)

Notes

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