Random team generator: fair teams in one tap
The random team generator splits any list of names into fair teams in one tap: paste your group, choose the number of teams or the people per team, and everyone is dealt out at random with team sizes never more than one person apart. The draw is seeded, so the link it makes replays the exact same split for anyone who wants proof.
SPLIT BY
EVERY DEAL IS RANDOM. TEAM SIZES NEVER DIFFER BY MORE THAN ONE.
How does the random team generator work?
Paste or type your names, one per line, and pick how you want the group cut: a number of teams from 2 to 8, or a team size, and the generator works out the rest. Press the button and the list is shuffled by a random seed drawn at that moment, then dealt around the teams like cards: first name to Team 1, second to Team 2, and on around until the names run out.
That dealing pattern is what keeps the split balanced: teams can never differ by more than one person, whatever the headcount. And because the shuffle comes from a seed carried in the page link, the identical draw can be reopened on any phone, which settles the "redo it, that was rigged" objection before it starts.
How do you split a group into balanced teams?
The short answer: don't let humans do it. Captains picking sides builds resentment one pick at a time, and "just count off by twos" gets gamed by anyone who can count. A seeded shuffle has no opinion about who carried the project last time or who is suspiciously good at five-a-side.
People arrive here calling it a team splitter, a group generator, or a group randomizer, and they all get the same machine: paste names, choose teams, deal. When the numbers don't divide evenly, the extra people land where the shuffle says, not where the loudest voice suggests.
What can you use the team generator for?
Classrooms, mostly: group work goes down easier when the groups are visibly random, and the class list you keep in the random student picker pastes straight in. PE teachers split squads, quiz nights deal tables, and offices cut a workshop into breakout groups without the awkward shuffling at the door.
It's just as happy with games: five-a-side football, pickup basketball, board game night when eight people need two tables. Names stay in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and the copy button turns the result into plain text for the group chat.
Fair questions
- How does the generator split names into teams?
- It shuffles your list with a random seed, then deals names around the teams one at a time, like dealing cards. Every arrangement is equally likely and team sizes stay within one person of each other.
- Can I set people per team instead of number of teams?
- Yes. Switch the mode to people per team, pick the size, and the generator works out how many teams that makes for your headcount, then deals as usual.
- Is the split really random and balanced?
- Both. The shuffle is seeded from your browser's cryptographic random source, the round-robin deal keeps sizes within one person, and the result link replays the identical draw as proof.
- What if the group doesn't divide evenly?
- Some teams simply get one extra person, and the shuffle decides which ones. Nobody assigns the odd people out by hand, which is usually where the arguments started.
- Are the names I paste saved anywhere?
- Only in your browser and in the result link you share. There is no server, no account, and nothing uploaded.
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