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

Most resourceful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.917Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
297.77John Dutton (Yellowstone)
397.322Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
496.813Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
596.317Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
696.317Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
796.222Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
896.139Omar Little (The Wire)
996.1153Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
1095.978Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
1195.527Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife)
1295.353Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1395.379Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)
1495.210Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)
1595.173Lorraine Broughton (Atomic Blonde)
1695.142James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1795.1203Ellen Ripley (Alien)
1895.168Westley (The Princess Bride)
1995.021Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
2095.024Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2194.9116Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
2294.914Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
2394.939Lester Freamon (The Wire)
2494.860Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
2594.732Nathaniel 'Hawkeye' Poe (The Last of the Mohicans)

Most helpless characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.075Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
287.3100Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
385.274Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
483.916Connor Roy (Succession)
582.349The Deep (The Boys)
682.298Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
782.031Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
881.623Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
981.45Duke Orsino (Twelfth Night)
1081.3383Kevin Malone (The Office)
1180.761Denny (The Room)
1280.7150Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
1380.2102Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1479.937Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1579.526Billy Bibbit (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1679.4640Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
1779.425Charlie Cheswick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1879.430Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1979.243Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2079.226Jules Louden (The Cabin in the Woods)
2179.133Michael Groff (Sex Education)
2278.327Donny Dunn (Baby Reindeer)
2378.154Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)
2477.9110Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
2577.628Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)

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 resourceful<--->helpless when aggregated at the character level.

  1. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.83)
  2. pro (not noob) (r=0.82)
  3. alert (not oblivious) (r=0.8)
  4. perceptive (not unobservant) (r=0.78)
  5. genius (not dunce) (r=0.77)
  6. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.77)
  7. independent (not codependent) (r=0.77)
  8. resolute (not wavering) (r=0.77)
  9. accurate (not off target) (r=0.75)
  10. badass (not weakass) (r=0.75)

Notes

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