How the crowd draws

10 drawings of its land border and 43 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 25 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Devon

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	6,813 km²2,630 sq mi	6,097 km²2,354 sq mi10.5% smaller
Outline	551 km342 mi	493 km306 mi10.5% shorter
Centre	3.81° W, 50.75° N3.8° W, 50.8° N	3.81° W, 50.76° N3.8° W, 50.8° N1 km north1 mi north
Westernmost	4.55° W, 50.94° N4.6° W, 50.9° N	4.55° W, 50.93° N4.5° W, 50.9° Nthe same
Easternmost	2.89° W, 50.80° N2.9° W, 50.8° N	2.89° W, 50.79° N2.9° W, 50.8° N1 km short0 mi short
Southernmost	3.72° W, 50.20° N3.7° W, 50.2° N	3.82° W, 50.24° N3.8° W, 50.2° N4 km short3 mi short
Northernmost	3.79° W, 51.25° N3.8° W, 51.2° N	3.66° W, 51.26° N3.7° W, 51.3° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond

Near the land border, 54% of the crowd’s lines run inside Devon. Near the coast, 67% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Somerset	121 km in the game	109 km the crowd’s9.9% shorter
Cornwall	104 km in the game	95 km the crowd’s8.7% shorter
Dorset	19 km in the game	26 km the crowd’s36.8% longer
The coast	324 km in the game	267 km the crowd’s17.6% shorter

Watch the drawings

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The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the countyDownload (0.2 MB)

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out7 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 Devon: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Devon 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 53 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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