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

Most overachiever characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.125Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
297.9153Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
397.639Logan Roy (Succession)
496.8166Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
596.8123Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
696.618Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
796.558Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
896.224Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
996.131Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1095.729Lucy MacLean (Fallout)
1195.740Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)
1295.538Randall Pearson (This Is Us)
1395.532Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)
1495.569Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
1595.574Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
1695.544Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation)
1795.48Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)
1895.423Spencer Hastings (Pretty Little Liars)
1995.324Olivia Pope (Scandal)
2095.129John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)
2194.960Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
2294.8117Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton)
2394.889Rachel Berry (Glee)
2494.720Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
2594.224Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives)

Most underachiever characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.556Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
293.517Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
391.446Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
490.2107Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
589.539A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos)
688.864Kevin Malone (The Office)
788.862Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons)
886.386Tommy (Shameless)
985.759Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1085.514Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
1185.489Noah Puckerman (Glee)
1284.678Kermit (Shameless)
1384.525Connor Roy (Succession)
1484.432Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
1584.4127Nick Miller (New Girl)
1684.392Steven Hyde (That 70's Show)
1784.021Bobby Briggs (Twin Peaks)
1883.821Mike McLintock (Veep)
1983.510Spike (The Land Before Time)
2083.557Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
2183.423Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
2282.911Lenny (After Life)
2382.634Jake Harper (Two and Half Men)
2482.4116John Bender (The Breakfast Club)
2582.416Charlie Cheswick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

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 overachiever<--->underachiever when aggregated at the character level.

  1. driven (not unambitious) (r=0.83)
  2. motivated (not unmotivated) (r=0.82)
  3. diligent (not lazy) (r=0.81)
  4. go-getter (not slugabed) (r=0.81)
  5. workaholic (not slacker) (r=0.81)
  6. precise (not vague) (r=0.75)
  7. focused (not absentminded) (r=0.73)
  8. perfectionist (not good-enough) (r=0.73)
  9. self-disciplined (not disorganized) (r=0.73)
  10. persistent (not quitter) (r=0.72)

Notes

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