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

Most tense characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.930General Hux (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
295.726Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
395.715Scorpius (Farscape)
495.4206Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
595.318Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
695.147Javert (Les Misérables)
795.0540Angela Martin (The Office)
895.033Carmen Berzatto (The Bear)
995.020Michael Groff (Sex Education)
1094.829Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1194.7105Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
1294.5487Red Forman (That 70's Show)
1394.225Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul)
1494.247Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
1594.041Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1694.030Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives)
1793.8349Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
1893.8500Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
1993.841Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)
2093.8338Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
2193.719Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
2293.6150Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
2393.585Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
2493.527Amy Brookheimer (Veep)
2593.444Ashley Barrett (The Boys)

Most relaxed characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.1139Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
291.8531Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
390.8335Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
490.516Spike (The Land Before Time)
590.545Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
690.2187Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
789.826Oh Il-nam (Squid Game)
889.51225Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
989.1210Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
1089.021Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1189.024Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1288.336Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
1388.311Lenny (After Life)
1487.6428Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1587.633Saitama (One Punch Man)
1687.4152Robin Hood (Robin Hood)
1786.9286Mamá Coco (Coco)
1886.6331George Weasley (Harry Potter)
1986.398Brittany Pierce (Glee)
2085.925Pepper (Mamma Mia!)
2185.9176Olaf (Frozen)
2285.721Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
2385.3465Ty Lee (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2485.320Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
2585.2113Jake Harper (Two and Half Men)

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 tense<--->relaxed when aggregated at the character level.

  1. uptight (not easy) (r=0.8)
  2. hurried (not leisurely) (r=0.78)
  3. offended (not chill) (r=0.75)
  4. tight (not loose) (r=0.74)
  5. rigid (not flexible) (r=0.72)
  6. serious (not playful) (r=0.69)
  7. triggered (not trolling) (r=0.68)
  8. angry (not good-humored) (r=0.68)
  9. 😭 (not 😀) (r=0.67)
  10. strict (not lenient) (r=0.66)

Notes

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