Paste a list of names, choose the number of groups or how many people go in each, and get random groups instantly. Free, with no sign-up, for classes, workshops and meetings.
Type or paste one name per line, for example a class list copied from a spreadsheet. The counter shows how many names there are.
Pick a number of groups, or a number of people per group, and the line under the buttons shows the result before you generate it. Make pairs splits everyone into groups of two.
Press Generate groups. Shuffle again for a new draw, then copy, print, download a CSV or open the groups on a big screen.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Number of groups | Splits the names into 1 to 50 groups whose sizes differ by at most one person. |
| People per group | Makes groups of the size you choose, for example 4 per group. Make pairs sets it to 2. |
| Leftover names | When the names don't divide evenly, the extras are spread one per group (30 names by 4: five groups of 4 and two of 5), or they form one smaller group (seven groups of 4 and one of 2). |
| Leaders | Start a name with * and it goes first in its group, one leader per group. Extra leaders are placed like everyone else. |
| Keep apart | Write pairs like "Ava / Liam", one per line, and those two never share a group. If that is impossible with the chosen number of groups, the page tells you. |
| Avoid repeats | Remembers your last 5 rounds and re-draws so that people who already worked together land in new groups, as long as enough new combinations exist. |
| Group names | Group 1, 2, 3, colors, animals, Greek letters or the NATO alphabet. |
| Copy, print, CSV, big screen | Copy the groups as text, print only the group cards, download a CSV for a spreadsheet, or open a full-screen view for a projector. |
To pair up a class, press Make pairs. With an odd number of names the extra person joins one pair as a group of three, or choose "Put them in one smaller group" to leave one person on their own. A class of 30 makes 15 pairs.
Use Keep apart for partners who should not work together again, and Shuffle again for a new set of partners every lesson.
Project groups, lab partners, reading circles and table groups. Random groups mix the class and end the "who works with whom" debate.
Breakout rooms and discussion tables of a fixed size, with facilitators marked as leaders so every table has one.
Random coffee pairs, peer reviews and hackathon teams, without anyone choosing their friends.
Quiz teams and pickup games. Want to draft teams one by one on a spinning wheel? Use the Random Team Generator wheel.
The names are shuffled with the browser's cryptographically secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues) and dealt into groups of the planned sizes, so every way of splitting the list is equally likely. Leaders are shuffled separately and placed one per group.
With keep-apart rules the whole split is drawn again, up to 500 times, until no pair shares a group, so the result stays a fair random choice among the splits that follow your rules. Names stay in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
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