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

Most buffoon characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.217Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
295.511Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
394.67Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
492.928Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
592.716Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
692.29Lenny (After Life)
792.225Jonah Ryan (Veep)
890.77Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
990.412Ashley Barrett (The Boys)
1090.412Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
1190.121Ben Chang (Community)
1289.014Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1388.612Michael Groff (Sex Education)
1488.511Mike McLintock (Veep)
1588.420Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1688.113Connor Roy (Succession)
1787.718Vizzini (The Princess Bride)
1887.414Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
1987.323Gino (Baby Reindeer)
2086.510Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
2185.76Dinesh Chugtai (Silicon Valley)
2285.512Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
2385.511David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
2485.447Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
2585.316Ed (Shaun of the Dead)

Most charmer characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.022Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
295.38Lana Kane (Archer)
395.38Rick Blaine (Casablanca)
495.215Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
594.98Olivia Pope (Scandal)
694.915Joan Holloway (Mad Men)
794.812Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (Modern Family)
894.718Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
994.526Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)
1094.411Jeff Winger (Community)
1194.18Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
1293.921Gabrielle Solis (Desperate Housewives)
1393.914John Dutton (Yellowstone)
1493.521Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher)
1593.37Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1693.313Mia Wallace (Pulp Fiction)
1793.020Maeve Millay (Westworld)
1892.99Lagertha (Vikings)
1992.810Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks)
2092.86Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
2192.86Donna Moss (The West Wing)
2292.89Princess Ann (Roman Holiday)
2392.89Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2492.711Vincent Chase (Entourage)
2592.417Michael Scofield (Prison Break)

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 buffoon<--->charmer when aggregated at the character level.

  1. awkward (not charming) (r=0.77)
  2. stuttering (not rhythmic) (r=0.71)
  3. repulsive (not attractive) (r=0.71)
  4. cheesy (not chic) (r=0.67)
  5. cringeworthy (not inspiring) (r=0.66)
  6. incompetent (not competent) (r=0.66)
  7. ugly (not beautiful) (r=0.66)
  8. dorky (not cool) (r=0.66)
  9. stinky (not fresh) (r=0.66)
  10. clumsy (not coordinated) (r=0.64)

Notes

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