As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 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 | 19 | Nathaniel 'Hawkeye' Poe (The Last of the Mohicans) |
| 4 | 97.4 | 32 | Man in Black (Westworld) |
| 5 | 97.4 | 50 | El Profesor (Money Heist) |
| 6 | 97.3 | 27 | Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights) |
| 7 | 97.3 | 41 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 8 | 97.2 | 15 | Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time) |
| 9 | 97.1 | 44 | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) |
| 10 | 96.9 | 32 | Hunter Aloysius Percy (The OA) |
| 11 | 96.8 | 38 | Dolores Abernathy (Westworld) |
| 12 | 96.7 | 23 | Ari Gold (Entourage) |
| 13 | 96.6 | 16 | Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) |
| 14 | 96.6 | 11 | Avon Barksdale (The Wire) |
| 15 | 96.6 | 34 | Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls) |
| 16 | 96.6 | 13 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 17 | 96.5 | 14 | Kira Nerys (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 18 | 96.5 | 16 | Silco (Arcane) |
| 19 | 96.4 | 14 | Rebecca Welton (Ted Lasso) |
| 20 | 96.4 | 68 | Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy) |
| 21 | 96.3 | 14 | Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 22 | 96.3 | 52 | Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride) |
| 23 | 96.3 | 21 | Madeline Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) |
| 24 | 96.3 | 20 | Olivia Pope (Scandal) |
| 25 | 96.2 | 59 | Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94.8 | 18 | Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 2 | 93.8 | 6 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
| 3 | 92.9 | 34 | Ed (Shaun of the Dead) |
| 4 | 88.3 | 13 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 5 | 87.8 | 41 | Kermit (Shameless) |
| 6 | 86.9 | 12 | A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos) |
| 7 | 86.4 | 48 | Barney Gumble (The Simpsons) |
| 8 | 84.4 | 40 | Jake Harper (Two and Half Men) |
| 9 | 84.3 | 40 | Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 10 | 83.8 | 10 | Lenny (After Life) |
| 11 | 83.4 | 14 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 12 | 82.9 | 73 | Nick Miller (New Girl) |
| 13 | 82.6 | 34 | Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons) |
| 14 | 82.6 | 39 | Stanley Hudson (The Office) |
| 15 | 81.1 | 18 | Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 16 | 80.9 | 15 | Spike (The Land Before Time) |
| 17 | 80.9 | 46 | Rue Bennett (Euphoria) |
| 18 | 80.3 | 48 | Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons) |
| 19 | 80.2 | 39 | Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) |
| 20 | 80.1 | 22 | Marcus Baker (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 21 | 79.3 | 26 | Charlie Harper (Two and Half Men) |
| 22 | 78.5 | 39 | Meredith Palmer (The Office) |
| 23 | 78.4 | 19 | Heather Davis (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) |
| 24 | 77.6 | 40 | April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation) |
| 25 | 77.5 | 38 | Tommy (Shameless) |
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 motivated<--->unmotivated when aggregated at the character level.