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

Most social climber characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.616Dan Egan (Veep)
296.115Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
395.911Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
495.812Tom Wambsgans (Succession)
594.431Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
693.811Alison DiLaurentis (Pretty Little Liars)
793.39Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
893.026Selina Meyer (Veep)
992.813Pete Campbell (Mad Men)
1092.812June George (Mean Girls)
1192.48Madelyn Stillwell (The Boys)
1292.213Jacqueline White (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1392.214Tom Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)
1492.18Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape)
1591.86A-Train (The Boys)
1691.56John Smith (The Man in the High Castle)
1791.313Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
1890.914Rogelio De La Vega (Jane the Virgin)
1990.914Amy Brookheimer (Veep)
2090.531Schmidt (New Girl)
2190.433Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You)
2290.411Lily van der Woodsen (Gossip Girl)
2390.420Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
2490.39Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2590.010Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)

Most nonconformist characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.613Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
295.717L (Death Note)
394.929Kat Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
494.836Doc Brown (Back to the Future)
594.77Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
694.721Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
794.520Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
894.117Natalie (Yellowjackets)
994.122Adam Sackler (Girls)
1093.713Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
1193.519Max Rockatansky (Mad Max: Fury Road)
1293.48Chiana (Farscape)
1393.410Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)
1493.114'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1592.98Omar Little (The Wire)
1692.821River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
1792.518Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1892.38Lillian Kaushtupper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1992.219Perry Cox (Scrubs)
2092.020Marty Mikalski (The Cabin in the Woods)
2191.517The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
2291.513Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2391.19Murphy MacManus (The Boondock Saints)
2491.113Elisa Esposito (The Shape of Water)
2591.025Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)

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 social climber<--->nonconformist when aggregated at the character level.

  1. pop (not indie) (r=0.63)
  2. mainstream (not arcane) (r=0.63)
  3. preppy (not punk rock) (r=0.59)
  4. capitalist (not communist) (r=0.58)
  5. bourgeoisie (not proletariat) (r=0.58)
  6. 🤑 (not 🤠) (r=0.57)
  7. fake (not real) (r=0.56)
  8. corporate (not freelance) (r=0.56)
  9. shallow (not deep) (r=0.56)
  10. cliché (not original) (r=0.54)

Notes

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