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Most perfectionist or good-enough 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 "perfectionist" to "good-enough". 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 "perfectionist" is the same as 100/100 for "good-enough". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most perfectionist characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.28Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
298.974Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
398.813Carmen Berzatto (The Bear)
498.716Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
598.326Rachel Berry (Glee)
698.235Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives)
797.97Olivia Pope (Scandal)
897.517Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
997.45Rowan Pope (Scandal)
1097.454Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
1197.012Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1297.017Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1396.810Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1496.5135Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
1596.5106Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
1696.138Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
1795.916Monica Geller (Friends)
1895.7106Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1995.614Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation)
2095.422Temperance Brennan (Bones)
2195.4202Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2295.25Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
2395.1103Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
2494.916Javert (Les Misérables)
2594.89Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)

Most good-enough characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.013Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
294.918Noah Puckerman (Glee)
394.313Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
492.913Pamela Poovey (Archer)
592.418Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
692.456Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
792.213Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
892.071Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
991.86David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
1091.816Steven Hyde (That 70's Show)
1191.626Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1291.452Nick Miller (New Girl)
1390.77Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
1490.618Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
1590.691Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
1690.527Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
1790.510Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1890.316Berta (Two and Half Men)
1990.119Gavin 'Spinner' Mason (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
2090.020Bob Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
2189.712Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly + Serenity)
2289.67Lenny (After Life)
2389.58George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
2489.48Pete Martell (Twin Peaks)
2589.427Mike McLintock (Veep)

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 perfectionist<--->good-enough when aggregated at the character level.

  1. fussy (not sloppy) (r=0.74)
  2. OCD (not ADHD) (r=0.73)
  3. studious (not goof-off) (r=0.73)
  4. overachiever (not underachiever) (r=0.73)
  5. neat (not messy) (r=0.72)
  6. eloquent (not unpolished) (r=0.72)
  7. valedictorian (not drop out) (r=0.71)
  8. presidential (not folksy) (r=0.7)
  9. highbrow (not lowbrow) (r=0.7)
  10. precise (not vague) (r=0.7)

Notes

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