As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 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 | 267 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 2 | 97.8 | 30 | the Alien (Alien) |
| 3 | 97.8 | 15 | Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist) |
| 4 | 97.6 | 22 | Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 5 | 97.6 | 19 | Yennefer (The Witcher) |
| 6 | 97.2 | 279 | Mulan (Mulan) |
| 7 | 97.2 | 21 | Maeve Millay (Westworld) |
| 8 | 97.1 | 23 | Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher) |
| 9 | 97.0 | 16 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 10 | 97.0 | 32 | T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day) |
| 11 | 96.8 | 29 | Ellen Ripley (Alien) |
| 12 | 96.7 | 56 | Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton) |
| 13 | 96.7 | 29 | Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 14 | 96.6 | 59 | Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride) |
| 15 | 96.6 | 23 | Kara Danvers (Supergirl) |
| 16 | 96.6 | 9 | Jimmy McNulty (The Wire) |
| 17 | 96.5 | 21 | John McClane (Die Hard) |
| 18 | 96.5 | 79 | Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) |
| 19 | 96.4 | 49 | Olivia Pope (Scandal) |
| 20 | 96.4 | 15 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 21 | 96.3 | 25 | Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 22 | 96.3 | 70 | Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity) |
| 23 | 96.3 | 123 | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) |
| 24 | 96.3 | 55 | Westley (The Princess Bride) |
| 25 | 96.3 | 29 | Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73.7 | 100 | Jake Harper (Two and Half Men) |
| 2 | 72.6 | 52 | Nick Miller (New Girl) |
| 3 | 72.2 | 13 | A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos) |
| 4 | 71.5 | 117 | Barney Gumble (The Simpsons) |
| 5 | 71.2 | 13 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 6 | 70.8 | 12 | Peter Doppler (Dark) |
| 7 | 70.8 | 24 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 8 | 69.3 | 60 | Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development) |
| 9 | 68.6 | 17 | Jeff Portnoy (Tropic Thunder) |
| 10 | 68.5 | 56 | George Costanza (Seinfeld) |
| 11 | 66.9 | 34 | Kermit (Shameless) |
| 12 | 66.5 | 56 | Buster Bluth (Arrested Development) |
| 13 | 65.7 | 348 | The Cowardly Lion (The Wizard of Oz) |
| 14 | 63.6 | 28 | Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 15 | 63.6 | 192 | Stanley Hudson (The Office) |
| 16 | 63.5 | 25 | Mary Alice Young (Desperate Housewives) |
| 17 | 63.4 | 35 | Ed (Shaun of the Dead) |
| 18 | 63.3 | 28 | Garrett McNeill (Superstore) |
| 19 | 63.3 | 57 | George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice) |
| 20 | 63.2 | 104 | Sam Healy (Orange is the New Black) |
| 21 | 62.9 | 217 | Kevin Malone (The Office) |
| 22 | 62.6 | 23 | Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama) |
| 23 | 62.5 | 117 | Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) |
| 24 | 62.4 | 28 | Dale Harding (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 25 | 62.1 | 64 | Pete Hornberger (30 Rock) |
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 persistent<--->quitter when aggregated at the character level.