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

Most cool characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.6103Blondie (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
293.36Amos Burton (The Expanse)
393.232Sarah Connor (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
492.8329Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
592.739Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
692.674Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
792.513Melissa Schemmenti (Abbott Elementary)
892.424Maeve Millay (Westworld)
991.739Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)
1091.524Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1191.212Omar Little (The Wire)
1291.225Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
1390.877Veronica Fisher (Shameless)
1490.838James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1590.834Rick Blaine (Casablanca)
1690.874Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
1790.737the Alien (Alien)
1890.553Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
1990.5105Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
2090.514Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
2190.3173Steven Hyde (That 70's Show)
2290.326Valencia Perez (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2390.329Lagertha (Vikings)
2490.224Joan Holloway (Mad Men)
2590.0120Prudence Night (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Most dorky characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.077Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
294.356Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
394.124Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
493.639Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
593.370Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
693.2103Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
793.0100Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
892.927Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
992.828Jacob Hill (Abbott Elementary)
1091.336Misty (Yellowjackets)
1191.029Gary Walsh (Veep)
1290.928Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
1390.920Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1490.825Denny (The Room)
1590.458Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)
1690.259George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1790.041Louis Tully (Ghostbusters)
1889.827Jonah Ryan (Veep)
1989.820Peter (The Room)
2089.711Malvolio (Twelfth Night)
2189.549Ian Duncan (Community)
2288.825Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
2388.814Curtis Holt (Arrow)
2488.7133Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
2588.619Petrie (The Land Before Time)

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 cool<--->dorky when aggregated at the character level.

  1. mighty (not puny) (r=0.75)
  2. charming (not awkward) (r=0.75)
  3. badass (not weakass) (r=0.73)
  4. alpha (not beta) (r=0.73)
  5. rhythmic (not stuttering) (r=0.72)
  6. lion (not zebra) (r=0.71)
  7. comfortable (not awkward) (r=0.7)
  8. chic (not cheesy) (r=0.7)
  9. suspicious (not awkward) (r=0.67)
  10. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.66)

Notes

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