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Random team generator

Split your names into teams by team count or maximum team size.

Privacy: runs in your browser

This tool processes your input in this browser. Inputs and results are excluded from analytics. Recent tools save tool names, visit counts and last-visit times. Favorites store only tool names. Draft saving is optional and stays on this device; delete saved text with the draft controls. Loading text from a URL is optional and contacts that server; its URL and your IP address are visible to the server. When a button sends your result to another tool, it waits in this tab until that tool opens it, for up to a minute, and is then deleted.

Copy link includes the inputs you choose to share in the address. Anyone with that link can reopen them. Files and generated results are excluded. Password and key tools share settings only.

Language: English
Open a list from a file

A .txt file with one name per line, or a spreadsheet saved as .csv with the names in the first column. The file is read on this device and never uploaded.

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Sharing and starting over

A copied link includes what you entered and your settings, so anyone with it can see them. Leave private text out. Files and results are not included; random draws are made again.

Start over puts the tool back to its starting values and closes any open file or device. Drafts you saved stay on this device until you delete them.

Give every name a team

Names are shuffled, then dealt across the teams. Team count fixes how many teams you get. Maximum team size works out the team count first. Extra names are spread among the first teams.

Worked example

Five people split into two teams make one team of three and one of two. A maximum size of two makes three teams with sizes two, two and one.

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Before you rely on the result

Skill levels and keep-apart pairs are not considered. Duplicate lines count as separate people, so check the input before making teams.

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