As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 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 | 91.9 | 83 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 4 | 91.0 | 43 | Javert (Les Misérables) |
| 5 | 89.7 | 49 | Lorna Morello (Orange is the New Black) |
| 6 | 88.2 | 64 | Brooks Hatlen (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 7 | 88.1 | 45 | Constance Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 8 | 87.8 | 154 | Luther Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy) |
| 9 | 87.8 | 30 | Mal Cobb (Inception) |
| 10 | 87.6 | 50 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 11 | 87.0 | 31 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 12 | 87.0 | 15 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 13 | 86.9 | 75 | Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter) |
| 14 | 86.7 | 46 | Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice) |
| 15 | 86.3 | 56 | Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) |
| 16 | 85.7 | 147 | Topper (Outer Banks) |
| 17 | 85.7 | 28 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 18 | 85.6 | 30 | Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 19 | 85.3 | 63 | Joel Barish (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) |
| 20 | 85.2 | 95 | Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club) |
| 21 | 85.1 | 37 | Pierce Hawthorne (Community) |
| 22 | 85.0 | 12 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
| 23 | 85.0 | 26 | Prince Hamlet (Hamlet) |
| 24 | 84.7 | 22 | Man in Black (Westworld) |
| 25 | 84.6 | 52 | Billy Butcher (The Boys) |
| 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 | 92.0 | 25 | L (Death Note) |
| 4 | 90.3 | 36 | The Oracle (The Matrix) |
| 5 | 90.0 | 53 | Kim Ki-jung (Parasite) |
| 6 | 89.6 | 21 | Number Six (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 7 | 89.6 | 24 | Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire) |
| 8 | 89.0 | 34 | Ilana Wexler (Broad City) |
| 9 | 88.8 | 20 | Peter Gregory (Silicon Valley) |
| 10 | 88.3 | 28 | Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 11 | 87.8 | 183 | Mark Watney (The Martian) |
| 12 | 87.8 | 16 | Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) |
| 13 | 87.8 | 28 | Abby Sciuto (NCIS) |
| 14 | 87.4 | 14 | Heather Davis (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) |
| 15 | 87.3 | 26 | Light Yagami (Death Note) |
| 16 | 87.2 | 30 | Sandy Cheeks (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 17 | 87.1 | 115 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 18 | 87.0 | 74 | Paul Atreides (Dune) |
| 19 | 87.0 | 172 | Mulan (Mulan) |
| 20 | 86.8 | 28 | Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network) |
| 21 | 86.7 | 13 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
| 22 | 86.6 | 24 | Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad) |
| 23 | 86.6 | 71 | Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1) |
| 24 | 86.4 | 25 | Amanita Caplan (Sense8) |
| 25 | 86.2 | 14 | Don Shirley (Green Book) |
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 stuck-in-the-past<--->forward-thinking when aggregated at the character level.