How the crowd draws

1,466 drawings of its land border and 1,949 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s US map, 25 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Michigan

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	150,000 km²58,000 sq mi	157,000 km²61,000 sq mi4.6% bigger
Outline	3,759 km2,335 mi	3,437 km2,135 mi8.6% shorter
Centre	85.36° W, 44.30° N85.4° W, 44.3° N	85.33° W, 44.28° N85.3° W, 44.3° N4 km south-east3 mi south-east
Westernmost	90.41° W, 46.57° N90.4° W, 46.6° N	90.41° W, 46.57° N90.4° W, 46.6° Nthe same
Easternmost	82.42° W, 42.97° N82.4° W, 43.0° N	82.41° W, 43.01° N82.4° W, 43.0° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Southernmost	84.80° W, 41.70° N84.8° W, 41.7° N	84.79° W, 41.71° N84.8° W, 41.7° N1 km short1 mi short
Northernmost	87.98° W, 47.48° N88.0° W, 47.5° N	87.71° W, 47.45° N87.7° W, 47.4° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 53% of the crowd’s lines run inside Michigan. Near the coast, 42% run inland.

Borders and coast

4 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Wisconsin	362 km in the game	351 km the crowd’s3.0% shorter
Canada	280 km in the game	272 km the crowd’s2.9% shorter
Indiana	172 km in the game	169 km the crowd’s1.7% shorter
Ohio	113 km in the game	112 km the crowd’s0.9% shorter
The coast	2,905 km in the game	2,581 km the crowd’s11.2% shorter

Watch the drawings

See every line on The Drawn USA →

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the stateDownload (2.3 MB)

Another country and the USFrom where are you from; no answer left outDownload (2.2 MB)

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (3.1 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (3.1 MB)

Where drawings start and endStarts teal, ends pink, piled up blackDownload (0.5 MB)

The drawings stacked as blocksWhere many drawings pass, the stack growsDownload (3.4 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Michigan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Michigan 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 3,415 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s US 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. The map lays the 1,000 most recent; the heat map, the crowd’s shape and every figure use all 3,415.

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

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