Random Team Generator
Paste your names, choose how many teams, and get fair random groups whose sizes never differ by more than one.
Tip: Ctrl + Enter (⌘ + Enter on Mac) runs it, from the list or from the page.
My saved lists
Keep a few lists on this device (a class, a team, a chore rota) and reload them in any tool.
Leave some out for now
Absent, already picked, not today? Tap an entry to leave it out of the draw without deleting it.
Your teams will appear here.
How it works
- Paste or type the names of everyone taking part.
- Choose Teams (2 to 10 teams), Pairs, or Random order.
- Press the button. Not satisfied? Press again to reshuffle — each result is independent.
- Copy the result as text, or press Share result to send it with a link that opens the same list.
What people use it for
Sports and games
Fair sides for five-a-side, volleyball, board games or trivia night.
Class and workshops
Quick breakout groups, study partners, or a random order for presentations.
Work
Hackathon squads, retro groups, random coffee pairs, or who speaks first at stand-up.
Questions
- What if the number of people doesn't divide evenly?
- Teams are as even as possible: sizes differ by at most one person. With 9 people and 2 teams you get 5 and 4.
- What happens to the odd person out in Pairs?
- Nobody is left alone: with an odd number of people, the last pair becomes a group of three.
- Is the shuffle fair?
- Yes. Names are shuffled with an unbiased Fisher-Yates shuffle driven by the browser's cryptographic random generator.
- Can I keep two people together?
- Not in this version. Random means random; for constraints, reshuffle until you like the result or draw the teams manually.