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

Most playful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.0109Genie (Aladdin)
296.736Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
396.617Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
496.255Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
596.211Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
696.2410Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
796.1600Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
896.0279Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
995.737Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1095.729Amanita Caplan (Sense8)
1195.691Damon Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries)
1295.629Georgia Miller (Ginny & Georgia)
1395.636Ryuk (Death Note)
1495.526SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1595.575Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)
1695.4136Charlie Harper (Two and Half Men)
1795.226Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1895.115Jaskier (The Witcher)
1995.084Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
2094.912Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso)
2194.878Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
2294.768Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
2394.61218Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
2494.621Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
2594.5446Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)

Most shy characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.650Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
290.424Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
389.324Huck (Scandal)
487.523Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
587.483Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
686.834'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
786.589Charlie Kelmeckis (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
886.519Nathan Shelley (Ted Lasso)
986.492Vanya Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
1086.116Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
1185.766Jonathan Byers (Stranger Things)
1285.4234Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
1385.3166Bella Swan (Twilight)
1484.122Clare Edwards (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1583.923Otis Milburn (Sex Education)
1683.917Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
1783.840Mikasa Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
1883.378Anita 'Needy' Lesnicki (Jennifer's Body)
1983.229Kif Kroker (Futurama)
2083.082James (The End of the F***ing World)
2182.9332Evan (Superbad)
2282.7149Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
2382.7382Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
2482.722Aimee Finecky (The Spectacular Now)
2582.431Violet Parr (The Incredibles)

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 playful<--->shy when aggregated at the character level.

  1. extrovert (not introvert) (r=0.85)
  2. exuberant (not subdued) (r=0.82)
  3. 💃 (not 🧕) (r=0.78)
  4. loud (not quiet) (r=0.78)
  5. outgoing (not withdrawn) (r=0.76)
  6. exhibitionist (not bashful) (r=0.75)
  7. bold (not serious) (r=0.75)
  8. flamboyant (not modest) (r=0.75)
  9. cassanova (not love shy) (r=0.74)
  10. 😜 (not 🤐) (r=0.74)

Notes

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