Random team and group generator
A free team randomizer: paste your list, choose how to divide it, and get fair random teams or groups in one click.
One name per line, or separated by commas.
Your teams will appear here.
What people use it for
Random groups for a class
Split a class into groups for a project, a lab or a discussion. Paste the register, pick how many groups, and shuffle.
Breakout rooms
Assign people to breakout rooms for a workshop or an online session, then paste the result into the chat.
Hackathon and game jam teams
Mix the people who came alone into teams at the start of a jam, so nobody spends the first hour looking for one.
Sports and PE teams
Pick sides for a match or a PE lesson without anyone being chosen last.
Pairs and partners
Set two people per group for pair programming, peer review or study partners.
Meetings and icebreakers
Shuffle a team into small groups for an icebreaker or a retrospective, differently every week.
How it works
Paste your list of names, one per line. Commas work too, so a list copied out of a spreadsheet or a chat message is fine.
Choose whether you want a fixed number of teams or a fixed team size. The generator shuffles the list and deals names out one at a time, so team sizes never differ by more than one person.
Hit shuffle again for a completely different draw, or copy the result straight into your slides, chat or spreadsheet.
Why draw teams at random
When a person picks the teams, somebody always asks why they ended up where they did. When a randomiser picks them, that conversation does not happen — which is the real reason teachers, coaches and facilitators reach for one.
Reshuffling regularly also stops the same cliques re-forming week after week, and gives quieter participants a chance to work with people they would not have chosen.
Questions
- Can I make random groups for my class?
- Yes. Paste your class list, choose the number of groups or students per group, and shuffle. Copy the result or download it as a spreadsheet.
- Is a random team generator the same as a random group generator?
- Yes. Teams, groups, pairs or tables are the same draw: choose a number of groups, or how many people go in each.
- Is anything I paste stored?
- No. The tool runs entirely in your browser — your list never leaves your device and we never see it.
- What if the names do not divide evenly?
- The generator deals names out one at a time, so the leftovers spread across teams. Sizes differ by at most one person.
- Can I balance teams by skill instead of at random?
- Not here — this tool is deliberately random. Balancing by skill needs to know something about each person, which is what our platform's team formation does.
- Is there a limit on how many names?
- No hard limit. It comfortably handles a few hundred.
Running a real event?
This splits a list at random. If you are running an event where people sign up individually and you need teams balanced by skill — plus registration, judging and certificates attached — that is what HackathonHost does.
Every tool here runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to us or stored anywhere.