As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "ambitious" to "realistic". 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 "ambitious" is the same as 100/100 for "realistic". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95.2 | 14 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 2 | 94.5 | 11 | Don Quijote (Don Quixote) |
| 3 | 94.1 | 23 | SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 4 | 93.8 | 82 | Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) |
| 5 | 93.7 | 94 | Ash Ketchum (Pokémon) |
| 6 | 93.7 | 34 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 7 | 93.2 | 35 | Tobias Funke (Arrested Development) |
| 8 | 93.1 | 21 | Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 9 | 92.9 | 15 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 10 | 92.7 | 80 | Rachel Berry (Glee) |
| 11 | 92.7 | 11 | Patty Hewes (Damages) |
| 12 | 92.6 | 30 | Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can) |
| 13 | 92.6 | 16 | Buddy Pine (The Incredibles) |
| 14 | 92.4 | 92 | Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton) |
| 15 | 92.1 | 127 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 16 | 92.0 | 7 | Misty (Yellowjackets) |
| 17 | 91.9 | 12 | Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley) |
| 18 | 91.7 | 30 | Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) |
| 19 | 91.6 | 44 | Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel) |
| 20 | 91.6 | 73 | Jenna Maroney (30 Rock) |
| 21 | 91.6 | 8 | Malvolio (Twelfth Night) |
| 22 | 91.1 | 7 | John Galt (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 23 | 91.0 | 118 | Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation) |
| 24 | 91.0 | 34 | Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 25 | 90.6 | 21 | Quark (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 93.4 | 106 | Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation) |
| 2 | 88.7 | 88 | Shikamaru Nara (Naruto) |
| 3 | 88.6 | 33 | Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls) |
| 4 | 88.2 | 64 | Stanley Hudson (The Office) |
| 5 | 87.4 | 34 | Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul) |
| 6 | 87.3 | 31 | Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility) |
| 7 | 87.2 | 37 | Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight) |
| 8 | 86.9 | 22 | Cecil B. Heimerdinger (Arcane) |
| 9 | 86.8 | 73 | Red Forman (That 70's Show) |
| 10 | 86.2 | 21 | Huyang (Ahsoka) |
| 11 | 85.8 | 136 | C-3PO (Star Wars) |
| 12 | 84.9 | 37 | T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day) |
| 13 | 84.9 | 49 | Brooks Hatlen (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 14 | 84.8 | 8 | Amos Burton (The Expanse) |
| 15 | 84.1 | 38 | Henry Spencer (Psych) |
| 16 | 84.0 | 6 | Lenny (After Life) |
| 17 | 82.9 | 11 | Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 18 | 82.9 | 16 | Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso) |
| 19 | 82.5 | 37 | Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 20 | 82.4 | 68 | Pete Hornberger (30 Rock) |
| 21 | 82.2 | 13 | Dale Harding (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 22 | 82.1 | 38 | Berta (Two and Half Men) |
| 23 | 82.0 | 61 | Ennis Del Mar (Brokeback Mountain) |
| 24 | 81.9 | 106 | Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation) |
| 25 | 81.9 | 17 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
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 ambitious<--->realistic when aggregated at the character level.