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

Most brawny characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.65Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
297.520Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
396.711Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
495.710Amos Burton (The Expanse)
594.76Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
693.912Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly + Serenity)
793.610John Diggle (Arrow)
893.08Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
992.85Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos (The Wire)
1092.45Jake Ballard (Scandal)
1192.18Jacob Snell (Ozark)
1292.08Chris Partlow (The Wire)
1392.012Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1491.08Tony Soprano (The Sopranos)
1590.812Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
1690.79Rollo Sigurdsson (Vikings)
1790.68Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1890.414Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings)
1990.220Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
2090.230Tom Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)
2189.910Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)
2289.910'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2389.717Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2489.669Vander (Arcane)
2589.528Wolverine (X-Men)

Most dainty characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.612Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
294.03Tycho Brahe (Penny Arcade)
392.88Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities)
490.04Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
589.36Josie Packard (Twin Peaks)
689.26Princess Ekaterina 'Kitty' Shcherbatskaya (Anna Karenina)
789.119Lorna Morello (Orange is the New Black)
889.021Gary Walsh (Veep)
988.77Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1088.520Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
1187.513Kif Kroker (Futurama)
1287.411Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1387.4100Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1487.47Abed Nadir (Community)
1587.211George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1686.918Effie Trinket (The Hunger Games)
1786.617Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
1885.85Ellen Parsons (Damages)
1985.614Craig Pelton (Community)
2085.415John Michael Dorian (Scrubs)
2184.98Meadow Soprano (The Sopranos)
2284.995Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
2384.914Kurt Hummel (Glee)
2484.820Jackie Burkhart (That 70's Show)
2584.1101Beth March (Little Women)

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 brawny<--->dainty when aggregated at the character level.

  1. macho (not metrosexual) (r=0.79)
  2. 🏋️‍♂️ (not 🚴) (r=0.73)
  3. blacksmith (not tailor) (r=0.71)
  4. manly (not girly) (r=0.7)
  5. 🏀 (not 🎨) (r=0.69)
  6. deep-voiced (not high-voiced) (r=0.68)
  7. masculine (not feminine) (r=0.66)
  8. hunter (not gatherer) (r=0.64)
  9. coarse (not delicate) (r=0.61)
  10. chortling (not giggling) (r=0.6)

Notes

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