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

Most hard characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.920Logan Roy (Succession)
296.8504Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
396.598the Alien (Alien)
495.9271Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
595.520Rowan Pope (Scandal)
694.9458Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
794.825Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
894.3233Man in Black (Westworld)
994.1335Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
1093.7441Red Forman (That 70's Show)
1193.7509Agent Smith (The Matrix)
1293.37Hunter Aloysius Percy (The OA)
1393.397The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1493.271Stormfront (The Boys)
1592.918Malory Archer (Archer)
1692.736Megatron (Transformers)
1792.7325Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
1892.6312Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
1992.31445Scar (The Lion King)
2092.219Palpatine (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
2192.1269Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
2292.1668Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
2392.1966Coriolanus Snow (The Hunger Games)
2491.8333The Joker (The Dark Knight)
2591.8375Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)

Most soft characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.49Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
297.26Lenny (After Life)
395.727Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
494.727Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
593.024Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
692.974George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
792.6169Olaf (Frozen)
892.561Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)
991.5240Chien-Po (Mulan)
1091.4111Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1191.316Darryl Whitefeather (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1291.130Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1390.926Pop Tate (Riverdale)
1490.774Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
1590.612Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
1690.6124Flounder (The Little Mermaid)
1790.6307Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1890.5195Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1990.4342Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
2090.3112Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
2189.667Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
2289.38Greg Hirsch (Succession)
2389.213Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
2489.071Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
2588.915Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)

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 hard<--->soft when aggregated at the character level.

  1. hard (not soft) (r=0.96)
  2. fighter (not lover) (r=0.88)
  3. armoured (not vulnerable) (r=0.86)
  4. harsh (not gentle) (r=0.84)
  5. savory (not sweet) (r=0.83)
  6. ferocious (not pacifist) (r=0.83)
  7. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.83)
  8. intense (not lighthearted) (r=0.82)
  9. bossy (not meek) (r=0.81)
  10. hunter (not gatherer) (r=0.81)

Notes

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