How the crowd draws

1,739 drawings of its land border and 2,616 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s US map, 24 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Wisconsin

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	145,000 km²56,000 sq mi	143,000 km²55,000 sq mi0.9% smaller
Outline	1,995 km1,240 mi	1,750 km1,087 mi12.3% shorter
Centre	89.99° W, 44.62° N90.0° W, 44.6° N	89.97° W, 44.62° N90.0° W, 44.6° N2 km east1 mi east
Westernmost	92.89° W, 45.62° N92.9° W, 45.6° N	92.84° W, 45.60° N92.8° W, 45.6° N4 km short2 mi short
Easternmost	86.98° W, 45.29° N87.0° W, 45.3° N	87.52° W, 44.92° N87.5° W, 44.9° N43 km short26 mi short
Southernmost	87.82° W, 42.49° N87.8° W, 42.5° N	87.79° W, 42.50° N87.8° W, 42.5° Nthe same
Northernmost	90.87° W, 46.96° N90.9° W, 47.0° N	90.77° W, 46.72° N90.8° W, 46.7° N27 km short17 mi short

Near the land border, 52% of the crowd’s lines run inside Wisconsin. Near the coast, 53% run inland.

Borders and coast

4 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Minnesota	505 km in the game	471 km the crowd’s6.7% shorter
Michigan	361 km in the game	361 km the crowd’sthe same
Illinois	232 km in the game	231 km the crowd’s0.4% shorter
Iowa	145 km in the game	137 km the crowd’s5.5% shorter
The coast	768 km in the game	557 km the crowd’s27.5% 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 (2.0 MB)

Another country and the USFrom where are you from; no answer left outDownload (2.0 MB)

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (2.8 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (2.8 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 (2.8 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Wisconsin: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Wisconsin 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 4,355 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 4,355.

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

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