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

Most straightforward characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.833Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
293.631Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
392.99Lenny (After Life)
492.3476Red Forman (That 70's Show)
590.730Lucy MacLean (Fallout)
689.818Vi (Arcane)
789.510The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
889.3568Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
989.313Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
1089.138Mammy (Gone With the Wind)
1188.616Chet (Fallout)
1288.6256Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones)
1388.6110Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
1488.5341Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
1588.4596Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)
1688.325Teri (Baby Reindeer)
1788.226Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
1888.211Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1988.1148George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
2088.0183Miles O'Brien (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2187.971Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
2287.861Erica Sinclair (Stranger Things)
2387.824James P.Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)
2487.8345Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
2587.7540Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Most cryptic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.2268Petyr Baelish (Game of Thrones)
290.4262Robert Ford (Westworld)
389.317Mozzie (White Collar)
489.1276Benjamin Linus (LOST)
589.0174Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
688.0338River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
787.026Rose Armitage (Get Out)
886.9281Varys (Game of Thrones)
986.723Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher)
1086.4269Brandon Stark (Game of Thrones)
1185.014Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1284.9137Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
1384.8278Melisandre (Game of Thrones)
1483.9112Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
1583.822Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1683.8459The Oracle (The Matrix)
1783.234Lord Larys Strong (House of the Dragon)
1883.1134Leland Palmer (Twin Peaks)
1983.1146Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
2082.821Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
2182.2486Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
2281.9499Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2381.8378Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
2481.720General Kirigan (Shadow and Bone)
2581.7267John Locke (LOST)

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 straightforward<--->cryptic when aggregated at the character level.

  1. one-faced (not two-faced) (r=0.55)
  2. unambiguous (not mysterious) (r=0.54)
  3. real (not philosophical) (r=0.53)
  4. transparent (not machiavellian) (r=0.51)
  5. literal (not metaphorical) (r=0.5)
  6. honorable (not cunning) (r=0.48)
  7. reliable (not experimental) (r=0.48)
  8. healthy (not sickly) (r=0.48)
  9. loyal (not traitorous) (r=0.47)
  10. normie (not freak) (r=0.47)

Notes

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