Paste your names, choose teams or group size, and get fair random teams in one click.
Real groups rarely divide evenly. Here is what the generator does with 10 people:
| Setting | Keep teams even: on | Keep teams even: off |
|---|---|---|
| 3 teams | 4, 3, 3 | 4, 3, 3 |
| 4 people per team | 3 teams of 4, 3, 3 | 4, 4, 2 |
| Pairs (2 per team) | 5 pairs | 5 pairs |
| 3 people per team | 4 teams of 3, 3, 2, 2 | 3, 3, 3, 1 |
For fixed numbers of teams, sizes are always spread evenly. "Keep teams even" matters when you choose people per team: on, nobody is left alone in a tiny group; off, every team is full except the last.
The list is shuffled with a Fisher-Yates shuffle using your browser's cryptographically secure random generator, so every possible arrangement is equally likely. Names are processed only in your browser and are never uploaded or saved. Read more on our fairness page.
Need to pick winners instead of teams? Use Instant Draw for many winners at once, the Spin Wheel for a live draw, or the Yes or No Wheel and the coin flip for a quick decision.
A random split is fair in the sense that nobody chose the teams, but with a small group it can still put the three strongest players on one side. The generator does not know who is good at what, so here is a simple way to get balanced teams that are still random:
Each team ends up with one person from every level, and the draw inside each level is still random. The same trick works for mixing year groups in a school, departments at a company event, or beginners and experienced players at a club night.
For pair work choose People per team and set it to 2. With an odd number of people the last pair is a single person, so for 7 people switch to Number of teams and ask for 3: you get groups of 3, 2 and 2 and nobody works alone. For groups of 3, "Keep teams even" is what matters: 10 people become 3, 3, 2 and 2 instead of 3, 3, 3 and a lonely 1.
If you want new partners every week, press Shuffle again each time. The generator has no memory of earlier rounds, so the same two people can occasionally land together again. In a class of 30, the chance that a student gets last week's partner again is about one in 29.
Teams feel fairer when people watch them being made. Put the page on a projector or share your screen, paste the names while everyone can see the list, and press Generate. The teams appear one after another with a short animation. Type team names such as colours or table numbers into the optional box so everyone knows where to go, then press Print for a sheet to pin on the wall.
Keep your list somewhere else as well. The page does not save anything, which is good for privacy but means a refresh starts from an empty box.
As many as you need. Lists of several hundred names work instantly.
Yes. Type team names one per line, such as Red, Blue, Green. If there are more teams than names, the rest are numbered.
Not automatically. Shuffle again until the mix works, or move one name by hand after copying the result.
No. Close the page and the list is gone, so keep your own copy of long lists.
Yes. "anna" and "Anna" count as the same person, and the first spelling in your list is the one that appears in the teams.
Each person gets a team of their own and a note explains why. Lower the number of teams or add more names.
Yes. The page works in any modern mobile browser, and Copy puts the teams on your clipboard ready for a group chat.