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

Most shy characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.1117Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
288.779George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
388.421Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
487.828Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
586.3346Beth March (Little Women)
686.2153Alfredo Linguini (Ratatouille)
786.114Aimee Finecky (The Spectacular Now)
885.283Charlie Kelmeckis (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
984.828Joel Barish (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1084.619Violet Parr (The Incredibles)
1184.5485Raj Koothrappali (The Big Bang Theory)
1284.019Billy Bibbit (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1383.4455Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
1483.357Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly (M*A*S*H)
1583.318Peter Doppler (Dark)
1682.7436Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
1782.771James (The End of the F***ing World)
1882.419Connor Deslauriers (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1982.0328Evan (Superbad)
2081.6375Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
2181.478Brian Johnson (The Breakfast Club)
2281.394Vanya Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
2380.818Cyril Figgis (Archer)
2480.533Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
2580.575Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)

Most bold characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.032Sterling Archer (Archer)
299.040Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
398.441Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
498.345Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
597.323Sharpay Evans (High School Musical)
697.380Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
797.3647Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
897.027Olivia Pope (Scandal)
997.070Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)
1097.0355The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1197.045Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1296.9412Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1396.927Georgia Miller (Ginny & Georgia)
1496.822Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
1596.812Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1696.814Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1796.718Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
1896.621Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1996.689Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
2096.4143Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
2196.415Ari Gold (Entourage)
2296.322Denny Crane (Boston Legal)
2396.283Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
2496.240Tokio (Money Heist)
2596.235Cooper Howard (Fallout)

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 shy<--->bold when aggregated at the character level.

  1. timid (not cocky) (r=0.86)
  2. passive (not assertive) (r=0.81)
  3. meek (not bossy) (r=0.79)
  4. bashful (not exhibitionist) (r=0.79)
  5. submissive (not dominant) (r=0.78)
  6. apologetic (not proud) (r=0.78)
  7. sheepish (not smug) (r=0.78)
  8. mild (not spicy) (r=0.77)
  9. self-conscious (not self-assured) (r=0.75)
  10. beta (not alpha) (r=0.74)

Notes

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