How the crowd draws

6 drawings of its land border and 31 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 18 October 2026 to 26 October 2026.

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RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	977 km²377 sq mi	866 km²334 sq mi11.4% smaller
Outline	175 km109 mi	185 km115 mi6.0% longer
Centre	2.43° W, 56.95° N2.4° W, 56.9° N	2.41° W, 56.94° N2.4° W, 56.9° N1 km south-east1 mi south-east
Westernmost	2.76° W, 56.96° N2.8° W, 57.0° N	2.72° W, 56.92° N2.7° W, 56.9° N3 km short2 mi short
Easternmost	2.09° W, 57.09° N2.1° W, 57.1° N	2.05° W, 57.12° N2.1° W, 57.1° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Southernmost	2.46° W, 56.75° N2.5° W, 56.7° N	2.48° W, 56.74° N2.5° W, 56.7° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost	2.52° W, 57.13° N2.5° W, 57.1° N	2.12° W, 57.12° N2.1° W, 57.1° N1 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 57% of the crowd’s lines run inside Kincardineshire. Near the coast, 60% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Aberdeenshire	57 km in the game	52 km the crowd’s8.8% shorter
Angus	41 km in the game	50 km the crowd’s22.0% longer
City of Aberdeen	19 km in the game	21 km the crowd’s10.5% longer
The coast	66 km in the game	66 km the crowd’sthe same

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Not enough drawings yet

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the county16 of 20 drawings needed on each side

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out5 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 (1.6 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Kincardineshire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Kincardineshire 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 37 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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