(You found your problem while I was composing this - I made a mistake at first and got nonsense, but corrected myself and now it shows that it is possible to decode serial data manually.)
Great, so if you can mock up a grid to show each bit time, or pair of bit times, and align it so you can mark off sets of ten bit-times, can you arrange that so you see a zero start bit then 8 data bits then a one stop bit? I think you probably can, and that's encouraging.
I think I see these pulse widths:
Code:
412111 11112211 321211 321211 141211 6121 13111111 141211 212311 321211 312211 11...
which is
Code:
0 0001 0010 1
0 1010 0110 1
0 0011 0110 1
0 0011 0110 1
0 1111 0110 1
0 0000 0100 1
0 1110 1010 1
0 1111 0110 1
and so on...
which would be
Code:
48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 57 6F...
which makes "Hello Wo..."