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

Most picky characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.756Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
295.436Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
394.414Winn Adami (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
494.230Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
593.629Sharpay Evans (High School Musical)
692.849Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
792.026Taylor Doose (Gilmore Girls)
891.926Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
991.660Rachel Berry (Glee)
1091.442Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
1190.8134Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
1290.715Rowan Pope (Scandal)
1390.76Gina Baxter (Your Honor)
1490.617Logan Roy (Succession)
1590.133Eleanor Sung-Young (Crazy Rich Asians)
1689.615Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
1789.536Angela Martin (The Office)
1889.560Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
1989.122Malory Archer (Archer)
2089.055King George III (Hamilton)
2188.852David Rose (Schitt's Creek)
2288.527Michel Gerard (Gilmore Girls)
2388.352Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
2488.251Jackie Burkhart (That 70's Show)
2587.716Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)

Most always down characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.323Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
289.323Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
387.231Neil Fak (The Bear)
485.916Spike (The Land Before Time)
585.913Pamela Poovey (Archer)
685.917Sam Evans (Glee)
785.439Meredith Palmer (The Office)
884.343Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
983.615Vince Masuka (Dexter)
1083.219Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
1182.835Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1282.597Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1382.2111JJ (Outer Banks)
1481.658Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1580.768Noah Puckerman (Glee)
1680.49Natalie (Yellowjackets)
1779.9136Olaf (Frozen)
1879.918Gavin 'Spinner' Mason (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1979.778Brittany Pierce (Glee)
2079.721Denny (The Room)
2179.220Jesper Fahey (Shadow and Bone)
2278.632Shawn Spencer (Psych)
2378.628SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
2478.457Westley (The Princess Bride)
2578.320Murphy MacManus (The Boondock Saints)

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 picky<--->always down when aggregated at the character level.

  1. uptight (not easy) (r=0.74)
  2. strict (not lenient) (r=0.72)
  3. rigid (not flexible) (r=0.7)
  4. businesslike (not chivalrous) (r=0.7)
  5. tight (not loose) (r=0.67)
  6. formal (not intimate) (r=0.65)
  7. perfectionist (not good-enough) (r=0.64)
  8. fussy (not sloppy) (r=0.64)
  9. OCD (not ADHD) (r=0.64)
  10. presidential (not folksy) (r=0.64)

Notes

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