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

Most intellectual characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.9459Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
296.4230Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
396.429Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama)
496.2440Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
596.025Mozzie (White Collar)
695.9276Brandon Stark (Game of Thrones)
795.8137Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
895.747Dr. Chan Kaifang (Space Force)
995.533Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network)
1095.2271Robert Ford (Westworld)
1195.2286Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
1295.032L (Death Note)
1395.0298Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
1494.9260Varys (Game of Thrones)
1594.833Cecil B. Heimerdinger (Arcane)
1694.6248Olenna Tyrell (Game of Thrones)
1794.532Q (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1894.39The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
1994.11021C-3PO (Star Wars)
2094.096Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
2193.89Abe Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
2293.645Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
2393.5998Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock)
2493.4356Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
2593.4155Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)

Most physical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.4389Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
295.175Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
394.6425Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons)
493.212Perrin Aybara (Wheel of Time)
593.225Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
693.2452Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
792.448Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
892.1105Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
991.812Amos Burton (The Expanse)
1091.650Byron Hadley (The Shawshank Redemption)
1191.672Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things)
1290.91211Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
1390.857Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1490.538Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
1590.474Noah Puckerman (Glee)
1690.247A-Train (The Boys)
1790.036Arthur Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
1890.048Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
1989.7106Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
2089.645Johnny Lawrence (Cobra Kai)
2189.5336Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
2289.448The Deep (The Boys)
2389.221David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
2488.917Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)
2588.8353Viktor Krum (Harry Potter)

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 intellectual<--->physical when aggregated at the character level.

  1. 🧠 (not 💪) (r=0.93)
  2. bookish (not sporty) (r=0.85)
  3. big-vocabulary (not small-vocabulary) (r=0.77)
  4. nerd (not jock) (r=0.77)
  5. thinker (not doer) (r=0.75)
  6. high IQ (not low IQ) (r=0.7)
  7. reasoned (not instinctual) (r=0.69)
  8. 👩‍🔬 (not 👩‍🎤) (r=0.68)
  9. valedictorian (not drop out) (r=0.68)
  10. overthinker (not underthinker) (r=0.67)

Notes

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