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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 2,000 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)
290.616Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
390.414Omar Little (The Wire)
490.112Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
590.136Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
689.98Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
788.588Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
888.416Ka D'Argo (Farscape)
987.918Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1087.914Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
1187.410Henry Francis (Mad Men)
1287.317Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
1386.920The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
1486.818Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
1586.728Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1686.527Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1786.122Sun Bak (Sense8)
1885.819Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
1985.77Frank Sobotka (The Wire)
2085.411Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
2185.418Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2285.311Joey Lucas (The West Wing)
2384.120Kira Nerys (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2483.710Sgt. Sean Dignam (The Departed)
2583.610Jian-Yang (Silicon Valley)

Most long-winded characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.511Jaskier (The Witcher)
288.965Vizzini (The Princess Bride)
388.610Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
488.29Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
587.439Michael Scott (The Office)
686.115Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
785.320Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
884.819Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
984.319Neelix (Star Trek: Voyager)
1084.141Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1184.124Hannah Horvath (Girls)
1284.05Matt Braden (After Life)
1383.834Shawn Spencer (Psych)
1483.569Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1583.211Jonah Ryan (Veep)
1682.917Johnny 'Drama' Chase (Entourage)
1782.823John Michael Dorian (Scrubs)
1882.838Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1982.516Winn Adami (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2082.29Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
2182.214Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
2281.916Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)
2381.932Craig Pelton (Community)
2481.331Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
2581.117Mike McLintock (Veep)

Similar traits

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

  1. no-nonsense (not dramatic) (r=0.73)
  2. stoic (not hypochondriac) (r=0.71)
  3. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.71)
  4. down2earth (not head@clouds) (r=0.7)
  5. reserved (not chatty) (r=0.69)
  6. coordinated (not clumsy) (r=0.68)
  7. still (not twitchy) (r=0.68)
  8. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.68)
  9. grounded (not fantasy-prone) (r=0.67)
  10. realistic (not fantastical) (r=0.67)

Notes

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