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Most concise or long-winded 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 "concise" to "long-winded". 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 "concise" is the same as 100/100 for "long-winded". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most concise characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.216Chris Partlow (The Wire)
290.437Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
389.98Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
489.817Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
588.715Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
688.615Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
788.590Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
888.416Ka D'Argo (Farscape)
987.718Omar Little (The Wire)
1087.723The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
1187.317Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
1286.818Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
1386.728Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1486.68Frank Sobotka (The Wire)
1586.222Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1686.122Sun Bak (Sense8)
1785.819Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
1885.311Joey Lucas (The West Wing)
1985.021Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2084.513Lloyd (Yellowstone)
2184.413Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
2284.120Kira Nerys (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2383.918Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives)
2483.930Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2583.832the Alien (Alien)

Most long-winded characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.511Jaskier (The Witcher)
289.611Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
389.166Vizzini (The Princess Bride)
488.29Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
587.733Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
687.243Oliver Putnam (Only Murders in the Building)
786.316Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
885.840Michael Scott (The Office)
985.221Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
1085.120Neelix (Star Trek: Voyager)
1184.826Hannah Horvath (Girls)
1284.612Jonah Ryan (Veep)
1384.135Shawn Spencer (Psych)
1484.141Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1584.05Matt Braden (After Life)
1683.810Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1783.470Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1883.039Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1982.917Johnny 'Drama' Chase (Entourage)
2082.534Craig Pelton (Community)
2182.516Winn Adami (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2282.224John Michael Dorian (Scrubs)
2382.022Shoshanna Shapiro (Girls)
2481.732Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
2581.69Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

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 concise<--->long-winded when aggregated at the character level.

  1. no-nonsense (not dramatic) (r=0.74)
  2. stoic (not hypochondriac) (r=0.72)
  3. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.71)
  4. down2earth (not head@clouds) (r=0.71)
  5. reserved (not chatty) (r=0.69)
  6. coordinated (not clumsy) (r=0.69)
  7. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.68)
  8. grounded (not fantasy-prone) (r=0.68)
  9. still (not twitchy) (r=0.68)
  10. realistic (not fantastical) (r=0.67)

Notes

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