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When blogger Geoff Micks first raised this vital question in 2012, I responded with a spreadsheet rating the 43 men who have served as US president on six variables: Coalition-Building Ability, Visual Inconspicuousness, Expertise in Hand-to-Hand Combat, Willingness to Kill (a.k.a. Badass Quotient, or BQ,) Physical Fitness, Spatial Awareness. The numbers I assigned each president under each variable came from the POOMA Institute, but I think they look pretty reasonable. So here it is again:
| President | Coalition Building | Visual Inconspicuousness | Hand to Hand | BQ | Physical Fitness | Spatial Awareness | Total |
| Washington | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 21 |
| J Adams | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 16 |
| Jefferson | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
| Madison | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| Monroe | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 24 |
| J Q Adams | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| Jackson | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 24 |
| Van Buren | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
| W Harrison | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 |
| Tyler | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Polk | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| Taylor | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 19 |
| Fillmore | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
| Pierce | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| Buchanan | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
| Lincoln | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 22 |
| A Johnson | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| Grant | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 21 |
| Hayes | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| Garfield | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 22 |
| Arthur | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| Cleveland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| B Harrison | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| McKinley | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 24 |
| T Roosevelt | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 23 |
| Taft | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Wilson | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| Harding | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
| Coolidge | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| Hoover | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 19 |
| F Roosevelt | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
| Truman | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 22 |
| Eisenhower | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 19 |
| Kennedy | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| L Johnson | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| Nixon | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| Ford | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| Carter | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 18 |
| Reagan | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| G H W Bush | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 18 |
| Clinton | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
| G W Bush | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| Obama | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
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