As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 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.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97.6 | 15 | Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers) |
| 2 | 97.3 | 6 | John Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 3 | 97.3 | 13 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 4 | 96.8 | 13 | Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse) |
| 5 | 96.6 | 21 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 6 | 96.1 | 152 | Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 7 | 96.1 | 16 | Aeryn Sun (Farscape) |
| 8 | 96.1 | 16 | Neal Caffrey (White Collar) |
| 9 | 95.9 | 37 | Omar Little (The Wire) |
| 10 | 95.9 | 78 | Arya Stark (Game of Thrones) |
| 11 | 95.5 | 60 | Westley (The Princess Bride) |
| 12 | 95.5 | 27 | Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife) |
| 13 | 95.3 | 79 | Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity) |
| 14 | 95.3 | 13 | Beth Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 15 | 95.2 | 72 | Lorraine Broughton (Atomic Blonde) |
| 16 | 95.2 | 22 | Jack Traven (Speed) |
| 17 | 95.1 | 51 | Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) |
| 18 | 95.0 | 201 | Ellen Ripley (Alien) |
| 19 | 95.0 | 24 | Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 20 | 94.9 | 113 | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) |
| 21 | 94.8 | 40 | James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies) |
| 22 | 94.8 | 38 | Lester Freamon (The Wire) |
| 23 | 94.7 | 9 | Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans) |
| 24 | 94.7 | 58 | Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal) |
| 25 | 94.6 | 66 | Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 91.9 | 74 | Buster Bluth (Arrested Development) |
| 2 | 87.9 | 13 | Connor Roy (Succession) |
| 3 | 87.3 | 100 | Barney Gumble (The Simpsons) |
| 4 | 85.2 | 74 | Tobias Funke (Arrested Development) |
| 5 | 83.3 | 4 | Duke Orsino (Twelfth Night) |
| 6 | 82.5 | 20 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 7 | 82.3 | 49 | The Deep (The Boys) |
| 8 | 82.2 | 97 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
| 9 | 81.5 | 30 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 10 | 81.3 | 382 | Kevin Malone (The Office) |
| 11 | 80.7 | 61 | Denny (The Room) |
| 12 | 80.5 | 149 | Michael Kelso (That 70's Show) |
| 13 | 80.4 | 27 | Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) |
| 14 | 80.4 | 101 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 15 | 79.5 | 26 | Billy Bibbit (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 16 | 79.4 | 639 | Karen Smith (Mean Girls) |
| 17 | 79.3 | 42 | Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) |
| 18 | 79.2 | 26 | Jules Louden (The Cabin in the Woods) |
| 19 | 79.1 | 33 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 20 | 79.0 | 35 | Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation) |
| 21 | 78.9 | 49 | Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park) |
| 22 | 78.8 | 24 | Charlie Cheswick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 23 | 78.3 | 106 | Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 24 | 78.1 | 27 | Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 25 | 76.7 | 33 | Mike McLintock (Veep) |
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 resourceful<--->helpless when aggregated at the character level.