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

Most serious characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.010Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
290.7587Angela Martin (The Office)
390.432Michael Groff (Sex Education)
490.128Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
589.122Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul)
688.616Count Alexei Karenin (Anna Karenina)
787.428Uma Heller (Only Murders in the Building)
887.169Peter (The Room)
987.1193Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1086.627Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
1186.423Doc (Baby Driver)
1285.9279Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1385.920Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
1485.843Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1585.875Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
1685.534Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
1785.4202Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
1885.356Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
1984.853Javert (Les Misérables)
2084.71085C-3PO (Star Wars)
2184.632Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
2284.4331Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2384.450Ashley Wilkes (Gone With the Wind)
2484.2235Cobra Bubbles (Lilo & Stitch)
2584.197Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)

Most bold characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.537Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
295.822Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
393.926Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
493.8436Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
592.811Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
692.433Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
792.320Maxine Baker (Ginny & Georgia)
891.851Shawn Spencer (Psych)
991.431Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1091.2623Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
1190.950Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)
1290.930Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1390.890Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
1490.81194Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
1590.4437Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
1690.378Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1789.937Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1889.644Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
1989.521Amanita Caplan (Sense8)
2089.2236Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2189.17Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
2289.177Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
2389.162Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
2489.136SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
2588.7424Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)

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 serious<--->bold when aggregated at the character level.

  1. scheduled (not spontaneous) (r=0.82)
  2. 🤐 (not 😜) (r=0.81)
  3. 🧕 (not 💃) (r=0.8)
  4. deliberate (not spontaneous) (r=0.8)
  5. methodical (not astonishing) (r=0.8)
  6. subdued (not exuberant) (r=0.77)
  7. serious (not playful) (r=0.77)
  8. stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous) (r=0.76)
  9. cautious (not impulsive) (r=0.76)
  10. tight (not loose) (r=0.76)

Notes

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