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

Most timid characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.619Gary Walsh (Veep)
294.118Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
392.030Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
491.219Aimee Finecky (The Spectacular Now)
591.241George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
690.829Evan (Superbad)
790.08Kes (Star Trek: Voyager)
888.3177Charlie Kelmeckis (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
988.319Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley)
1087.675Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
1187.634Samwell Tarly (Game of Thrones)
1287.4160Alfredo Linguini (Ratatouille)
1387.185Beth March (Little Women)
1485.513Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
1585.3160Will Byers (Stranger Things)
1685.323Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly (M*A*S*H)
1784.848Waymond Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
1884.65Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities)
1984.417Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
2084.125Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2184.0103Chien-Po (Mulan)
2283.639Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
2383.092Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
2482.834Kif Kroker (Futurama)
2582.515Billy Keikeya (Battlestar Galactica)

Most cocky characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.047Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
296.916Ari Gold (Entourage)
396.484Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
496.424James 'Sawyer' Ford (LOST)
596.4118Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
696.318Denny Crane (Boston Legal)
795.961Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
895.930Jeff Winger (Community)
995.824Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1095.819Rowan Pope (Scandal)
1195.7105Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
1295.747Homelander (The Boys)
1395.3100Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
1495.359Stormfront (The Boys)
1595.344Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
1695.258Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1795.065Sue Sylvester (Glee)
1894.795Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
1994.716Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
2094.723Gabrielle Solis (Desperate Housewives)
2194.739Prince Daemon Targaryen (House of the Dragon)
2294.625Rhett Butler (Gone With the Wind)
2394.6102Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
2494.697Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco)
2594.628Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

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 timid<--->cocky when aggregated at the character level.

  1. sheepish (not smug) (r=0.87)
  2. shy (not bold) (r=0.86)
  3. low self esteem (not narcissistic) (r=0.83)
  4. apologetic (not proud) (r=0.82)
  5. bashful (not exhibitionist) (r=0.8)
  6. humble (not arrogant) (r=0.8)
  7. cooperative (not competitive) (r=0.79)
  8. pacifist (not ferocious) (r=0.78)
  9. meek (not bossy) (r=0.77)
  10. demure (not vain) (r=0.76)

Notes

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