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

Most focused characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.65Dembe Zuma (The Blacklist)
299.012Tissaia (The Witcher)
398.920Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)
498.86Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
598.325John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)
697.910Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
797.78Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)
897.612Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
997.521Inej Ghafa (Shadow and Bone)
1097.48Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1197.312Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
1297.316Henry Spencer (Psych)
1397.17Wallace Boden (Chicago Fire)
1497.08Rachel Berry (Glee)
1596.97Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1696.921Agent Smith (The Matrix)
1796.97Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
1896.811Omar Little (The Wire)
1996.79Man in Black (Westworld)
2096.635Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2196.616Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
2296.69Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
2396.410Stella Gibson (The Fall)
2496.312Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
2596.323T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)

Most absentminded characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.211Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
295.934Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
393.815Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
493.58Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
593.511Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
692.86Midge Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
792.516Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
892.114Jake Harper (Two and Half Men)
991.710Brittany Pierce (Glee)
1091.522Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1191.111Kevin Malone (The Office)
1291.023Gene Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
1390.631Alan (The Hangover)
1490.235Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
1590.113Rex (Toy Story)
1689.820Olaf (Frozen)
1789.610Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
1889.37David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
1989.220Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
2089.243Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
2188.810Noah Puckerman (Glee)
2288.810Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
2388.77Lenny (After Life)
2488.517Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
2588.58Luke Dunphy (Modern Family)

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 focused<--->absentminded when aggregated at the character level.

  1. pointed (not random) (r=0.85)
  2. self-disciplined (not disorganized) (r=0.84)
  3. coordinated (not clumsy) (r=0.81)
  4. alert (not oblivious) (r=0.81)
  5. precise (not vague) (r=0.8)
  6. workaholic (not slacker) (r=0.8)
  7. studious (not goof-off) (r=0.79)
  8. diligent (not lazy) (r=0.78)
  9. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.78)
  10. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.77)

Notes

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