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

Most patient characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.1248Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
294.325Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
393.418Joe (Ginny & Georgia)
491.455Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
591.117Pop Tate (Riverdale)
690.924Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
790.7158Mamá Coco (Coco)
890.4153Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
989.982Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
1089.734Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
1189.524Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1289.112Lisa Johnson (After Life)
1388.818Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
1488.7189Carlisle Cullen (Twilight)
1588.628'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1688.547Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1788.3192Esme Cullen (Twilight)
1888.328Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1987.830Penelope (The Odyssey)
2087.8142Vision (WandaVision)
2187.7141Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
2287.618Watari (Death Note)
2387.5148Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
2487.525Lincoln Rice (Broad City)
2587.4124Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)

Most impatient characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.4151Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
296.231Sterling Archer (Archer)
395.463Eric Cartman (South Park)
494.839Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
594.7144Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
694.628Malory Archer (Archer)
794.521Dashiell Parr (The Incredibles)
894.5878Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
994.241Scarlett O'Hara (Gone With the Wind)
1094.142Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1194.064Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1293.7160Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
1393.7160Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1493.431Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1593.319Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1693.0196Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
1792.931Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1892.821Han Mi-nyeo (Squid Game)
1992.675Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
2092.5164Prince John (Robin Hood)
2192.5106Sue Sylvester (Glee)
2292.531Commodus (Gladiator)
2392.536Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
2492.365A-Train (The Boys)
2592.2101Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)

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 patient<--->impatient when aggregated at the character level.

  1. attentive (not interrupting) (r=0.83)
  2. respectful (not rude) (r=0.81)
  3. stable (not moody) (r=0.8)
  4. gracious (not feisty) (r=0.76)
  5. good-manners (not bad-manners) (r=0.75)
  6. humble (not arrogant) (r=0.74)
  7. demure (not vain) (r=0.72)
  8. accommodating (not stubborn) (r=0.72)
  9. cooperative (not competitive) (r=0.72)
  10. sensible (not ludicrous) (r=0.71)

Notes

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