How the crowd draws

28 drawings of its land border and 35 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Lincolnshire

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	7,154 km²2,762 sq mi	6,642 km²2,565 sq mi7.2% smaller
Outline	494 km307 mi	437 km271 mi11.6% shorter
Centre	0.28° W, 53.18° N0.3° W, 53.2° N	0.27° W, 53.18° N0.3° W, 53.2° N1 km south-east0 mi south-east
Westernmost	0.95° W, 53.52° N0.9° W, 53.5° N	0.81° W, 53.57° N0.8° W, 53.6° N9 km short6 mi short
Easternmost	0.36° E, 53.19° N0.4° E, 53.2° N	0.34° E, 53.10° N0.3° E, 53.1° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost	0.50° W, 52.64° N0.5° W, 52.6° N	0.49° W, 52.65° N0.5° W, 52.6° N1 km short1 mi short
Northernmost	0.61° W, 53.72° N0.6° W, 53.7° N	0.50° W, 53.71° N0.5° W, 53.7° N1 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 62% of the crowd’s lines run inside Lincolnshire. Near the coast, 57% run inland.

Borders and coast

7 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Nottinghamshire	104 km in the game	84 km the crowd’s19.2% shorter
Cambridgeshire	59 km in the game	62 km the crowd’s5.1% longer
East Riding of Yorkshire	37 km in the game	46 km the crowd’s24.3% longer
Rutland	33 km in the game	43 km the crowd’s30.3% longer
Leicestershire	29 km in the game	28 km the crowd’s3.4% shorter
Norfolk	23 km in the game	16 km the crowd’s30.4% shorter
South Yorkshire	20 km in the game	19 km the crowd’s5.0% shorter
The coast	196 km in the game	141 km the crowd’s28.1% shorter

Watch the drawings

See every line on The Drawn UK →

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the countyDownload (0.3 MB)

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out5 of 10 drawings from another country needed

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.4 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (0.4 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 (1.8 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Lincolnshire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Lincolnshire 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 63 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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