How the crowd draws

17 drawings of its land border and 36 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 28 October 2026.

Draw East Sussex

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	1,805 km²697 sq mi	1,648 km²636 sq mi8.7% smaller
Outline	254 km158 mi	239 km149 mi5.9% shorter
Centre	0.26° E, 50.94° N0.3° E, 50.9° N	0.29° E, 50.94° N0.3° E, 50.9° N2 km north-east1 mi north-east
Westernmost	0.24° W, 50.86° N0.2° W, 50.9° N	0.22° W, 50.83° N0.2° W, 50.8° N2 km short1 mi short
Easternmost	0.87° E, 50.93° N0.9° E, 50.9° N	0.85° E, 50.92° N0.9° E, 50.9° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost	0.24° E, 50.73° N0.2° E, 50.7° N	0.24° E, 50.75° N0.2° E, 50.7° N2 km short1 mi short
Northernmost	0.14° E, 51.15° N0.1° E, 51.1° N	0.17° E, 51.15° N0.2° E, 51.1° Nthe same

Near the land border, 54% of the crowd’s lines run inside East Sussex. Near the coast, 59% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Kent	89 km in the game	86 km the crowd’s3.4% shorter
West Sussex	71 km in the game	59 km the crowd’s16.9% shorter
Surrey	2 km in the game	0 km the crowd’s100.0% shorter
The coast	92 km in the game	93 km the crowd’s1.1% longer

Watch the drawings

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The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the countyDownload (0.2 MB)

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out8 of 10 drawings from another country needed

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.3 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (0.3 MB)

Where drawings start and endStarts teal, ends pink, piled up blackDownload (0.1 MB)

The drawings stacked as blocksWhere many drawings pass, the stack growsDownload (1.7 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s East Sussex: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside East Sussex or outside it; the median over a short stretch is where the crowd puts the line there, and the real outline moved by it is the crowd’s. Where the move folds a narrow inlet over itself, the loop is cut.

The 53 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, scribbles left out, the real line the game’s own. Area true to scale; the outline copies the real line’s detail, so its length changes only where the shape moves or a loop is cut.

Measuring how far the crowd moves the centre was Matt Forrest’s idea (forrest.nyc).

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