As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "motivated" to "unmotivated". 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 "motivated" is the same as 100/100 for "unmotivated". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99.5 | 13 | Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire) |
| 2 | 98.1 | 25 | Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 3 | 97.6 | 45 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 4 | 97.4 | 32 | Man in Black (Westworld) |
| 5 | 97.4 | 51 | El Profesor (Money Heist) |
| 6 | 97.3 | 27 | Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights) |
| 7 | 97.2 | 48 | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) |
| 8 | 97.1 | 19 | Silco (Arcane) |
| 9 | 96.9 | 18 | Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) |
| 10 | 96.9 | 32 | Hunter Aloysius Percy (The OA) |
| 11 | 96.8 | 38 | Dolores Abernathy (Westworld) |
| 12 | 96.8 | 16 | Rebecca Welton (Ted Lasso) |
| 13 | 96.8 | 17 | Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time) |
| 14 | 96.8 | 24 | Ari Gold (Entourage) |
| 15 | 96.6 | 11 | Avon Barksdale (The Wire) |
| 16 | 96.6 | 35 | Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls) |
| 17 | 96.6 | 13 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 18 | 96.5 | 21 | Olivia Pope (Scandal) |
| 19 | 96.4 | 19 | John Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 20 | 96.4 | 20 | Nathaniel 'Hawkeye' Poe (The Last of the Mohicans) |
| 21 | 96.3 | 19 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 22 | 96.3 | 14 | Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 23 | 96.1 | 64 | Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton) |
| 24 | 96.1 | 30 | SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 25 | 95.9 | 28 | Robert Ford (Westworld) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94.8 | 18 | Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 2 | 93.8 | 6 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
| 3 | 89.3 | 38 | Ed (Shaun of the Dead) |
| 4 | 89.1 | 14 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 5 | 87.9 | 14 | A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos) |
| 6 | 87.3 | 44 | Kermit (Shameless) |
| 7 | 86.4 | 48 | Barney Gumble (The Simpsons) |
| 8 | 84.6 | 41 | Jake Harper (Two and Half Men) |
| 9 | 83.8 | 10 | Lenny (After Life) |
| 10 | 83.4 | 14 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 11 | 83.0 | 42 | Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 12 | 82.6 | 36 | Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons) |
| 13 | 82.5 | 75 | Nick Miller (New Girl) |
| 14 | 82.1 | 21 | Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 15 | 81.9 | 42 | Stanley Hudson (The Office) |
| 16 | 81.2 | 25 | Marcus Baker (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 17 | 80.9 | 48 | Rue Bennett (Euphoria) |
| 18 | 80.3 | 48 | Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons) |
| 19 | 79.6 | 42 | Meredith Palmer (The Office) |
| 20 | 79.3 | 26 | Charlie Harper (Two and Half Men) |
| 21 | 78.9 | 16 | Spike (The Land Before Time) |
| 22 | 78.8 | 20 | Heather Davis (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) |
| 23 | 78.8 | 40 | Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) |
| 24 | 77.7 | 43 | April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation) |
| 25 | 77.2 | 51 | George Costanza (Seinfeld) |
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 motivated<--->unmotivated when aggregated at the character level.