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

Most nerd characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.0259Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
297.662Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor)
397.5403Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
497.599Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
597.225L (Death Note)
696.876Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
796.7296Abed Nadir (Community)
896.612Jeremy Chetri (Wynonna Earp)
996.6161Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
1096.536Louis Tully (Ghostbusters)
1196.320Mozzie (White Collar)
1296.240Dr. Chan Kaifang (Space Force)
1396.217Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1496.260Tina Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
1596.121Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
1696.01063C-3PO (Star Wars)
1796.027Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1896.0315Fogell (McLovin) (Superbad)
1995.8410Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
2095.881George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
2195.8132Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
2295.6450Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
2395.531Gary Walsh (Veep)
2495.4502Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2595.410Rintarou Okabe (Steins;Gate)

Most jock characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.245Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
297.19Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)
395.443Homelander (The Boys)
495.360Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
594.571Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
694.349Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
794.252Johnny Lawrence (Cobra Kai)
893.9334Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
993.722Drew Torres (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1093.448A-Train (The Boys)
1193.4370Shane Walsh (The Walking Dead)
1293.1103Noah Puckerman (Glee)
1392.956Smash Williams (Friday Night Lights)
1492.8111Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
1592.6118Sue Sylvester (Glee)
1692.430Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1792.431Rollo Sigurdsson (Vikings)
1892.219Sterling Archer (Archer)
1992.235Wolverine (X-Men)
2091.461Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things)
2191.151Byron Hadley (The Shawshank Redemption)
2290.924Vi (Arcane)
2390.9118Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
2490.675Dominic Toretto (Fast & Furious)
2590.530Reggie Mantle (Riverdale)

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 nerd<--->jock when aggregated at the character level.

  1. bookish (not sporty) (r=0.88)
  2. 🧠 (not 💪) (r=0.79)
  3. intellectual (not physical) (r=0.77)
  4. 🚴 (not 🏋️‍♂️) (r=0.7)
  5. 🎨 (not 🏀) (r=0.69)
  6. thinker (not doer) (r=0.69)
  7. gatherer (not hunter) (r=0.64)
  8. metrosexual (not macho) (r=0.62)
  9. dorky (not cool) (r=0.62)
  10. mad-scientist (not lumberjack) (r=0.6)

Notes

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