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

Most hard characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.817Logan Roy (Succession)
297.7133Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
395.532Darlene Snell (Ozark)
495.2182the Alien (Alien)
595.117Malory Archer (Archer)
694.493Man in Black (Westworld)
794.466Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
894.414Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
994.3143Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1094.282Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
1194.197Stormfront (The Boys)
1294.113Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
1393.721Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1493.720Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
1593.226Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
1693.1140Red Forman (That 70's Show)
1792.913Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1892.21188Scar (The Lion King)
1992.2248Agent Smith (The Matrix)
2092.25Gina Baxter (Your Honor)
2192.116Roy Kent (Ted Lasso)
2292.093The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
2391.818Carol 'Mom' Miller (Futurama)
2491.614Patty Hewes (Damages)
2591.627Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos (The Wire)

Most soft characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.432Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
293.918Ducky (The Land Before Time)
393.8106Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
493.838Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
593.473Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
692.522Gary Walsh (Veep)
792.5150Olaf (Frozen)
892.4289Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
992.347Phil Dunphy (Modern Family)
1092.286Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1191.967Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
1291.934Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1391.874George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1491.811Lenny (After Life)
1591.790Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
1691.522Darryl Whitefeather (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1791.320Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
1891.131SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1991.177Jess Day (New Girl)
2090.7155Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
2190.3241Chien-Po (Mulan)
2290.2132Flounder (The Little Mermaid)
2390.114Aimee Finecky (The Spectacular Now)
2490.078Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
2589.6577Beth March (Little Women)

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 hard<--->soft when aggregated at the character level.

  1. hard (not soft) (r=0.96)
  2. fighter (not lover) (r=0.88)
  3. armoured (not vulnerable) (r=0.86)
  4. harsh (not gentle) (r=0.84)
  5. savory (not sweet) (r=0.83)
  6. ferocious (not pacifist) (r=0.83)
  7. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.83)
  8. intense (not lighthearted) (r=0.82)
  9. bossy (not meek) (r=0.81)
  10. suspicious (not awkward) (r=0.81)

Notes

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