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Difficulty guide

The hardest countries to draw

These 57 countries carry more border detail per unit of area than any human freehand stroke can reproduce. Scoring above 50 on this list genuinely means something; scoring above 70 means you have drawn it before. Treat these as the boss fights.

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The 20 hardest borders, ranked

Ranked by measured border detail, highest first. The detail figure counts outline vertices relative to the country's footprint.

  1. 01Norwaydetail 23.39
  2. 02Chiledetail 21.47
  3. 03Philippinesdetail 16.39
  4. 04Kiribatidetail 15.98
  5. 05Solomon Islandsdetail 15.66
  6. 06Indonesiadetail 15.34
  7. 07Bahamasdetail 15.17
  8. 08Marshall Islandsdetail 14.96
  9. 09Vanuatudetail 14.75
  10. 10Canadadetail 13.21
  11. 11Cape Verdedetail 12.78
  12. 12Japandetail 12.09
  13. 13Greecedetail 10.99
  14. 14Malaysiadetail 10.59
  15. 15New Zealanddetail 9.34
  16. 16United Kingdomdetail 9.08
  17. 17Tongadetail 8.81
  18. 18Vietnamdetail 8.53
  19. 19The Gambiadetail 8.36
  20. 20United Statesdetail 8.29

Why these borders break people

Coastlines are fractal

Norway's border keeps getting longer the closer you look. A single pen stroke can only approximate the outermost envelope of a fjord system, which puts a hard ceiling on the score no matter how steady your hand is.

Archipelagos punish memory, not skill

Indonesia and the Philippines are not one shape but hundreds. You cannot draw what you cannot recall, and nobody recalls the relative position of every island.

Extreme proportions get flattened

Chile is over ten times longer than it is wide. Almost everyone draws it too fat, and because scoring compares filled area, that single error dominates the result.

All 57 hard countries