As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "persistent" to "quitter". 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 "persistent" is the same as 100/100 for "quitter". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 98.3 | 268 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 2 | 97.9 | 32 | the Alien (Alien) |
| 3 | 97.8 | 28 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 4 | 97.6 | 19 | Yennefer (The Witcher) |
| 5 | 97.5 | 38 | T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day) |
| 6 | 97.4 | 39 | Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist) |
| 7 | 97.4 | 12 | Jimmy McNulty (The Wire) |
| 8 | 97.2 | 280 | Mulan (Mulan) |
| 9 | 97.2 | 21 | Maeve Millay (Westworld) |
| 10 | 97.1 | 25 | Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher) |
| 11 | 96.9 | 25 | Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) |
| 12 | 96.9 | 27 | John McClane (Die Hard) |
| 13 | 96.8 | 62 | Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton) |
| 14 | 96.8 | 30 | Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 15 | 96.7 | 35 | Genos (One Punch Man) |
| 16 | 96.7 | 60 | Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride) |
| 17 | 96.7 | 26 | Kara Danvers (Supergirl) |
| 18 | 96.6 | 52 | Ellen Ripley (Alien) |
| 19 | 96.5 | 79 | Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) |
| 20 | 96.4 | 18 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 21 | 96.4 | 49 | Olivia Pope (Scandal) |
| 22 | 96.4 | 30 | Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife) |
| 23 | 96.4 | 15 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 24 | 96.3 | 25 | Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 25 | 96.3 | 70 | Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73.8 | 102 | Jake Harper (Two and Half Men) |
| 2 | 73.2 | 14 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 3 | 72.2 | 13 | A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos) |
| 4 | 72.1 | 26 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 5 | 71.7 | 55 | Nick Miller (New Girl) |
| 6 | 71.5 | 117 | Barney Gumble (The Simpsons) |
| 7 | 70.8 | 12 | Peter Doppler (Dark) |
| 8 | 69.3 | 60 | Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development) |
| 9 | 69.1 | 59 | George Costanza (Seinfeld) |
| 10 | 69.1 | 23 | Chet (Fallout) |
| 11 | 68.9 | 18 | Jeff Portnoy (Tropic Thunder) |
| 12 | 67.9 | 35 | Kermit (Shameless) |
| 13 | 67.0 | 7 | Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 14 | 66.5 | 56 | Buster Bluth (Arrested Development) |
| 15 | 65.8 | 352 | The Cowardly Lion (The Wizard of Oz) |
| 16 | 65.4 | 34 | Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 17 | 64.2 | 27 | Garrett McNeill (Superstore) |
| 18 | 63.2 | 104 | Sam Healy (Orange is the New Black) |
| 19 | 63.1 | 195 | Stanley Hudson (The Office) |
| 20 | 63.0 | 24 | Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama) |
| 21 | 63.0 | 29 | Dale Harding (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 22 | 62.9 | 119 | Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) |
| 23 | 62.8 | 218 | Kevin Malone (The Office) |
| 24 | 62.8 | 10 | Joel Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) |
| 25 | 62.2 | 66 | Pete Hornberger (30 Rock) |
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 persistent<--->quitter when aggregated at the character level.