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

Most exuberant characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.1120Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
296.432Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
396.320Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
495.425Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
595.2107Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
694.847Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation)
793.931Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
893.644The Joker (The Dark Knight)
993.252Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
1093.255Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1193.138Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)
1293.131Shawn Spencer (Psych)
1392.825Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1492.818Miss Patty (Gilmore Girls)
1592.614Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso)
1691.662Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1791.533Craig Pelton (Community)
1891.511Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1991.3123Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
2091.326Ari Gold (Entourage)
2191.037Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
2290.9108Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
2390.8112Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
2490.6102Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
2590.436Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

Most subdued characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
186.383'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
286.017Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary)
385.617Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
484.519Fern (Nomadland)
584.513Matt Braden (After Life)
683.927Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
783.633Felix Lutz (Westworld)
883.316Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
983.328Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
1082.716Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
1182.231Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
1282.19Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
1380.941Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
1480.723Kimball Cho (The Mentalist)
1580.621Jim Burns (The Fall)
1680.614Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1780.550Ed Hurley (Twin Peaks)
1880.429Caleb Smith (Ex Machina)
1980.416Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
2080.323Matt Saracen (Friday Night Lights)
2180.318Frank Vernon (Succession)
2280.051Niko Polastri (Killing Eve)
2379.817Nathan Shelley (Ted Lasso)
2479.580Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
2579.282Peter (The Room)

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 exuberant<--->subdued when aggregated at the character level.

  1. loud (not quiet) (r=0.82)
  2. playful (not shy) (r=0.82)
  3. flamboyant (not modest) (r=0.8)
  4. energetic (not mellow) (r=0.79)
  5. extrovert (not introvert) (r=0.78)
  6. bold (not serious) (r=0.77)
  7. expressive (not monotone) (r=0.76)
  8. 💃 (not 🧕) (r=0.76)
  9. 😜 (not 🤐) (r=0.75)
  10. chatty (not reserved) (r=0.74)

Notes

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