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

Most works hard characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.917Carmen Berzatto (The Bear)
295.024Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
394.9328Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
494.912Lloyd (Yellowstone)
594.9202Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
694.311Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
793.533Temperance Brennan (Bones)
893.2165Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
993.143Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
1092.7156Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
1192.723Viktor (Arcane)
1292.5277Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1392.526Saanvi Bahl (Manifest)
1492.412Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
1592.2296Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones)
1692.221Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
1791.919Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
1891.742Fantine (Les Misérables)
1991.519Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
2091.4233Bernard Lowe (Westworld)
2191.3417Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
2291.227Spencer Hastings (Pretty Little Liars)
2391.1288Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey)
2491.124Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
2590.944Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor)

Most plays hard characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.489Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
293.9444Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
393.8434Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
493.337Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
592.036Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
691.435Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
791.3155Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
891.3182Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
991.234Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1091.2141Charlie Harper (Two and Half Men)
1191.1432Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1290.820Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1390.3103Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
1489.723Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1589.6571Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1689.423Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1789.338Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1889.217Sterling Archer (Archer)
1989.1339Lydia Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
2089.092Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
2189.0241Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
2288.9342George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice)
2388.840Jessa Johansson (Girls)
2488.7261Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
2588.731Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)

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 works hard<--->plays hard when aggregated at the character level.

  1. workaholic (not slacker) (r=0.85)
  2. sober (not indulgent) (r=0.82)
  3. diligent (not lazy) (r=0.79)
  4. on-time (not tardy) (r=0.78)
  5. studious (not goof-off) (r=0.78)
  6. mature (not juvenile) (r=0.77)
  7. self-disciplined (not disorganized) (r=0.77)
  8. orderly (not chaotic) (r=0.76)
  9. sensible (not ludicrous) (r=0.76)
  10. factual (not exaggerating) (r=0.75)

Notes

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