As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "classical" to "avant-garde". 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 "classical" is the same as 100/100 for "avant-garde". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94.5 | 119 | Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 2 | 91.2 | 25 | Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 3 | 90.1 | 14 | Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods) |
| 4 | 89.5 | 26 | Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility) |
| 5 | 89.4 | 15 | Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 6 | 87.7 | 37 | Richard Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) |
| 7 | 87.7 | 13 | Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) |
| 8 | 87.2 | 29 | Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul) |
| 9 | 87.1 | 20 | Capt. Oliver Queenan (The Departed) |
| 10 | 86.9 | 14 | Logan Roy (Succession) |
| 11 | 86.9 | 81 | Leo McGarry (The West Wing) |
| 12 | 86.6 | 165 | Charlotte York (Sex and the City) |
| 13 | 86.2 | 25 | Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 14 | 86.2 | 27 | Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility) |
| 15 | 86.0 | 39 | Melanie Hamilton (Gone With the Wind) |
| 16 | 85.9 | 373 | Angela Martin (The Office) |
| 17 | 85.9 | 30 | Frank Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 18 | 85.8 | 10 | Matt Braden (After Life) |
| 19 | 85.8 | 9 | Harry Kim (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 20 | 85.7 | 8 | Abigail Baker (Blue Bloods) |
| 21 | 85.7 | 12 | Pop Tate (Riverdale) |
| 22 | 85.5 | 36 | Miles O'Brien (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 23 | 84.9 | 280 | Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) |
| 24 | 84.6 | 75 | George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1) |
| 25 | 84.4 | 81 | Ned Flanders (The Simpsons) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92.1 | 8 | Natalie (Yellowjackets) |
| 2 | 91.9 | 23 | Ilana Wexler (Broad City) |
| 3 | 90.2 | 246 | Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians) |
| 4 | 89.8 | 30 | Amanita Caplan (Sense8) |
| 5 | 88.5 | 71 | Tracy Jordan (30 Rock) |
| 6 | 88.4 | 43 | Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 7 | 86.7 | 25 | Chiana (Farscape) |
| 8 | 86.7 | 99 | Arya Stark (Game of Thrones) |
| 9 | 86.4 | 35 | Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) |
| 10 | 86.4 | 123 | Ed (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 11 | 86.1 | 107 | Abby Sciuto (NCIS) |
| 12 | 85.7 | 64 | Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy) |
| 13 | 85.3 | 26 | Lily Iglehart (Sex Education) |
| 14 | 85.2 | 25 | Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama) |
| 15 | 84.7 | 601 | Janis Ian (Mean Girls) |
| 16 | 84.7 | 557 | April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation) |
| 17 | 84.6 | 68 | Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) |
| 18 | 84.5 | 88 | Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) |
| 19 | 84.3 | 33 | Jessa Johansson (Girls) |
| 20 | 84.2 | 70 | Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club) |
| 21 | 84.1 | 62 | Wyldstyle (The Lego Movie) |
| 22 | 83.9 | 54 | Ben Chang (Community) |
| 23 | 83.9 | 101 | Tyler Durden (Fight Club) |
| 24 | 83.8 | 44 | Darlene (Mr. Robot) |
| 25 | 83.7 | 39 | Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel) |
The survey has 400 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with classical<--->avant-garde when aggregated at the character level.