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

Most zesty characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.98Mozzie (White Collar)
295.67Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks)
395.213Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
495.210Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)
594.825Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
694.24Amanita Caplan (Sense8)
793.722Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
893.717Shawn Spencer (Psych)
993.612Roman Roy (Succession)
1093.310Craig Pelton (Community)
1193.172Mateo Liwanag (Superstore)
1293.014Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1392.716Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1492.461Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
1592.28Fez (That 70's Show)
1692.213Randle Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1791.566Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel)
1891.422Damian Leigh (Mean Girls)
1991.39Ben Chang (Community)
2090.97Kira Nerys (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2190.824David Rose (Schitt's Creek)
2290.79Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
2390.614Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2490.510Maeve Millay (Westworld)
2590.457Jacob Hill (Abbott Elementary)

Most stale characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
184.310Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)
283.07Count Alexei Karenin (Anna Karenina)
381.17Henry Francis (Mad Men)
480.739Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
580.511Quentin Lance (Arrow)
680.38Dale Harding (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
780.321Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
880.113Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
980.17Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1079.97Betsy Heron (Mean Girls)
1179.919Lincoln Burrows (Prison Break)
1279.85Jimmy Baxter (Your Honor)
1379.820Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
1479.711Stannis Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
1579.513Black Noir (The Boys)
1679.45C. Carwood Lipton (Band of Brothers)
1779.36Tom Shayes (Damages)
1879.33Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
1979.311Thufir Hawat (Dune)
2079.333Angela Martin (The Office)
2178.913Lieutenant Schrank (West Side Story)
2278.89Edward Cullen (Twilight)
2378.332Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2478.38Clare Edwards (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
2578.213Henry Spencer (Psych)

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 zesty<--->stale when aggregated at the character level.

  1. bold (not serious) (r=0.68)
  2. vibrant (not geriatric) (r=0.67)
  3. 💃 (not 🧕) (r=0.66)
  4. 😜 (not 🤐) (r=0.64)
  5. exuberant (not subdued) (r=0.63)
  6. multicolored (not monochrome) (r=0.63)
  7. expressive (not monotone) (r=0.63)
  8. flirtatious (not prudish) (r=0.6)
  9. 🦄 (not 🐴) (r=0.59)
  10. moist (not dry) (r=0.59)

Notes

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