Open-Source Psychometrics Project
( home · about )

A Nightmare on Elm Street characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What A Nightmare on Elm Street character are you?" test, click the link above to access it. This page aggregates the crowd sourced data that the quiz is built upon.

Characters

The dataset has 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
89.2Freddy Krueger
74.3Nancy Thompson
51.6Glen Lantz
36.0Marge Thompson
32.35Donald Thompson

To see how each character was rated by users, view their individual page.

Viewership

The graph below shows what percent of people selected this universe as something they knew well enough to rate characters from by the age of the user (for users between 16 and 60 years of age).
24% 0%
16
20
30
40
50
60

Rating

As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate A Nightmare on Elm Street?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 40
2 It's bad 40
3 It's okay 1139
4 It's good 2049
5 It's my favorite 312

This gives it an average score of 3.71 / 5. Making it 303rd out of the 369 universes in the dataset ordered by rating.

The average rating may be hard to generalize, though; the users of one online personality quiz could not be representative of the population in important ways. And there are some very obvious things you can point to: users of this quiz are more likely to be young and more likely to be women.

There are several different ways that average ratings can be broken down. Here are average scores by gender:

Gender Average rating
Male 3.72
Female 3.71

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below shows the correlation between a user's response to a specific self report item and their rating of this universe.

Item Correlation with rating n
haunted (not blissful)0.09912593
arcane (not mainstream)0.07833682
nerd (not jock)0.06853698
awkward (not charming)0.06563868
outlaw (not sheriff)0.0653664
creative (not conventional)0.06173873
reclusive (not social)0.05613669
lenient (not strict)0.05413802
meek (not bossy)0.04763701
stinky (not fresh)0.04613672
demonic (not angelic)0.04583661
deranged (not reasonable)0.04343712
indulgent (not sober)0.04133667
spiritual (not skeptical)0.043837
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03872674
rebellious (not obedient)0.03733745
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03633658
frugal (not lavish)0.03623654
beta (not alpha)0.0363660
masculine (not feminine)0.03483885
intimate (not formal)0.03253745
artistic (not scientific)0.03132802
chaotic (not orderly)0.0283760
deep (not shallow)0.02663781
altruistic (not selfish)0.02293672
emotional (not logical)0.02273806
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.02243675
creepy (not disarming)0.02123693
juvenile (not mature)0.02042614
feisty (not gracious)0.01553668
loyal (not traitorous)0.0123860
sarcastic (not genuine)0.01162679
genius (not dunce)0.00953706
wild (not tame)0.00412626
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0023662
stylish (not slovenly)0.0013753

How these items predict the ratings for this universe can be compared to how the same items predict the ratings of other universes. The universes with the most similar patterns on the predictors are:

Notes

  1. Notability is computed as the average of 204: important (not irrelevant) and 401: main character (not side character).
  Updated: 24 February 2026
  Feedback: info@openpsychometrics.org
  Copyright: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  Privacy policy