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Most handy or can't-fix-anything 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 "handy" to "can't-fix-anything". 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 "handy" is the same as 100/100 for "can't-fix-anything". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most handy characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.911Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
299.218Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
398.213Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
498.025Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
597.342Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
696.918Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
796.718Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)
896.39Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
996.221Mike Delfino (Desperate Housewives)
1096.238Mark Watney (The Martian)
1196.230Janet (The Good Place)
1295.520Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
1395.417Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1495.39Olivia Pope (Scandal)
1595.210Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1694.533Noah Calhoun (The Notebook)
1794.37Parker (Alien)
1894.17Lena Luthor (Supergirl)
1994.020Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)
2094.010Jack Traven (Speed)
2194.024Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
2293.99Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2393.86Amos Burton (The Expanse)
2493.712Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead)
2593.414Geordi La Forge (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Most can't-fix-anything characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.323Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
295.08Lisa (The Room)
394.812Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
494.88Jacqueline White (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
594.18Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
694.117Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
793.716Prince John (Robin Hood)
893.413Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
993.213Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
1092.311Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1192.316George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
1292.217Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
1391.914Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
1491.719Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
1591.112Mike McLintock (Veep)
1691.18Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
1790.322Jonah Ryan (Veep)
1890.215Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
1990.212Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
2090.150Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
2189.713Michael Scott (The Office)
2289.719Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2389.617Kevin Malone (The Office)
2489.69Roman Roy (Succession)
2589.611Pierce Hawthorne (Community)

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 handy<--->can't-fix-anything when aggregated at the character level.

  1. resourceful (not helpless) (r=0.74)
  2. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.72)
  3. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.7)
  4. accurate (not off target) (r=0.68)
  5. wise (not foolish) (r=0.67)
  6. alert (not oblivious) (r=0.67)
  7. pro (not noob) (r=0.65)
  8. knowledgeable (not ignorant) (r=0.65)
  9. perceptive (not unobservant) (r=0.65)
  10. inspiring (not cringeworthy) (r=0.63)

Notes

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