As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "stuck-in-the-past" to "forward-thinking". 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 "stuck-in-the-past" is the same as 100/100 for "forward-thinking". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92.4 | 69 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
| 2 | 92.3 | 6 | Duke Orsino (Twelfth Night) |
| 3 | 91.7 | 81 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 4 | 91.0 | 43 | Javert (Les Misérables) |
| 5 | 90.7 | 4 | Lucas Davidowicz (Ctrl+Alt+Del) |
| 6 | 90.4 | 48 | Lorna Morello (Orange is the New Black) |
| 7 | 88.2 | 40 | Constance Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 8 | 88.0 | 63 | Brooks Hatlen (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 9 | 87.7 | 29 | Mal Cobb (Inception) |
| 10 | 87.6 | 150 | Luther Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy) |
| 11 | 87.6 | 50 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 12 | 87.5 | 41 | Larry Harvey (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 13 | 87.5 | 29 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 14 | 87.0 | 15 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 15 | 86.8 | 74 | Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter) |
| 16 | 86.7 | 45 | Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice) |
| 17 | 86.3 | 56 | Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) |
| 18 | 85.8 | 141 | Topper (Outer Banks) |
| 19 | 85.8 | 40 | Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 20 | 85.7 | 23 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 21 | 85.6 | 30 | Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 22 | 85.2 | 25 | Prince Hamlet (Hamlet) |
| 23 | 85.1 | 32 | Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
| 24 | 85.1 | 90 | Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club) |
| 25 | 85.1 | 61 | Joel Barish (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92.5 | 28 | Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey) |
| 2 | 92.3 | 6 | Francisco d'Anconia (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 3 | 91.5 | 22 | L (Death Note) |
| 4 | 90.0 | 53 | Kim Ki-jung (Parasite) |
| 5 | 90.0 | 34 | The Oracle (The Matrix) |
| 6 | 89.6 | 21 | Number Six (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 7 | 89.6 | 24 | Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire) |
| 8 | 89.3 | 33 | Ilana Wexler (Broad City) |
| 9 | 89.1 | 27 | Abby Sciuto (NCIS) |
| 10 | 88.9 | 15 | Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) |
| 11 | 88.8 | 20 | Peter Gregory (Silicon Valley) |
| 12 | 88.0 | 178 | Mark Watney (The Martian) |
| 13 | 87.7 | 24 | Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 14 | 87.4 | 14 | Heather Davis (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) |
| 15 | 87.3 | 114 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 16 | 87.1 | 170 | Mulan (Mulan) |
| 17 | 86.9 | 73 | Paul Atreides (Dune) |
| 18 | 86.8 | 28 | Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network) |
| 19 | 86.8 | 69 | Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1) |
| 20 | 86.6 | 14 | Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley) |
| 21 | 86.6 | 14 | Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso) |
| 22 | 86.6 | 28 | Sandy Cheeks (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 23 | 86.5 | 19 | Charlie Young (The West Wing) |
| 24 | 86.5 | 24 | Light Yagami (Death Note) |
| 25 | 86.3 | 11 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
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 stuck-in-the-past<--->forward-thinking when aggregated at the character level.