How the crowd draws

2 drawings of its land border and 27 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 27 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Renfrewshire

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	614 km²237 sq mi	653 km²252 sq mi6.4% bigger
Outline	170 km106 mi	188 km117 mi10.4% longer
Centre	4.55° W, 55.84° N4.5° W, 55.8° N	4.56° W, 55.83° N4.6° W, 55.8° N1 km south-west1 mi south-west
Westernmost	4.90° W, 55.89° N4.9° W, 55.9° N	4.89° W, 55.88° N4.9° W, 55.9° N1 km short0 mi short
Easternmost	4.22° W, 55.71° N4.2° W, 55.7° N	4.22° W, 55.71° N4.2° W, 55.7° Nthe same
Southernmost	4.25° W, 55.68° N4.3° W, 55.7° N	4.25° W, 55.68° N4.3° W, 55.7° Nthe same
Northernmost	4.79° W, 55.97° N4.8° W, 56.0° N	4.79° W, 55.95° N4.8° W, 56.0° N2 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 46% of the crowd’s lines run inside Renfrewshire. Near the coast, 81% run inland.

Borders and coast

4 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Ayrshire and Arran	77 km in the game	86 km the crowd’s11.7% longer
City of Glasgow	30 km in the game	30 km the crowd’sthe same
Dunbartonshire	19 km in the game	21 km the crowd’s10.5% longer
Lanarkshire	18 km in the game	24 km the crowd’s33.3% longer
The coast	28 km in the game	30 km the crowd’s7.1% longer

Watch the drawings

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Not enough drawings yet

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the county13 of 20 drawings needed on each side

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out6 of 10 drawings from another country needed

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.2 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (0.2 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 (1.2 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Renfrewshire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Renfrewshire 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 29 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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