As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 1,750 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 | 95.8 | 9 | Don Quijote (Don Quixote) |
| 2 | 95.2 | 14 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 3 | 94.1 | 23 | SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 4 | 93.8 | 82 | Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) |
| 5 | 93.7 | 94 | Ash Ketchum (Pokémon) |
| 6 | 93.1 | 11 | Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley) |
| 7 | 93.1 | 21 | Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 8 | 93.0 | 34 | Tobias Funke (Arrested Development) |
| 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 | 16 | Buddy Pine (The Incredibles) |
| 13 | 92.4 | 92 | Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton) |
| 14 | 92.1 | 28 | Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can) |
| 15 | 92.1 | 127 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 16 | 92.0 | 7 | Misty (Yellowjackets) |
| 17 | 91.7 | 30 | Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) |
| 18 | 91.6 | 73 | Jenna Maroney (30 Rock) |
| 19 | 91.6 | 8 | Malvolio (Twelfth Night) |
| 20 | 91.1 | 7 | John Galt (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 21 | 91.0 | 118 | Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation) |
| 22 | 90.6 | 30 | Nathan Bateman (Ex Machina) |
| 23 | 90.6 | 74 | Michael Scott (The Office) |
| 24 | 90.6 | 21 | Quark (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 25 | 90.4 | 57 | Ivar Ragnarsson (Vikings) |
| 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 | 85.8 | 136 | C-3PO (Star Wars) |
| 11 | 84.9 | 37 | T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day) |
| 12 | 84.9 | 49 | Brooks Hatlen (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 13 | 84.8 | 8 | Amos Burton (The Expanse) |
| 14 | 84.1 | 38 | Henry Spencer (Psych) |
| 15 | 84.0 | 6 | Lenny (After Life) |
| 16 | 83.6 | 36 | Berta (Two and Half Men) |
| 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 | 82.0 | 61 | Ennis Del Mar (Brokeback Mountain) |
| 23 | 81.9 | 106 | Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation) |
| 24 | 81.9 | 17 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
| 25 | 81.6 | 36 | Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey) |
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.