How the crowd draws

4 drawings of its land border and 25 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 3 October 2026 to 28 October 2026.

Draw Banffshire

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	1,639 km²633 sq mi	1,622 km²626 sq mi1.0% smaller
Outline	370 km230 mi	442 km274 mi19.5% longer
Centre	3.03° W, 57.44° N3.0° W, 57.4° N	3.05° W, 57.44° N3.1° W, 57.4° N1 km west1 mi west
Westernmost	3.68° W, 57.09° N3.7° W, 57.1° N	3.74° W, 57.10° N3.7° W, 57.1° N3 km beyond2 mi beyond
Easternmost	2.27° W, 57.69° N2.3° W, 57.7° N	2.35° W, 57.68° N2.4° W, 57.7° N5 km short3 mi short
Southernmost	3.66° W, 57.07° N3.7° W, 57.1° N	3.55° W, 57.05° N3.6° W, 57.0° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost	2.85° W, 57.71° N2.8° W, 57.7° N	2.43° W, 57.68° N2.4° W, 57.7° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 45% of the crowd’s lines run inside Banffshire. Near the coast, 62% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Aberdeenshire	199 km in the game	251 km the crowd’s26.1% longer
Moray	58 km in the game	59 km the crowd’s1.7% longer
Inverness	55 km in the game	83 km the crowd’s50.9% longer
The coast	61 km in the game	50 km the crowd’s18.0% shorter

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 county14 of 20 drawings needed on each side

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out3 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 (1.3 MB)

How it is measured

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