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About Random Team Chooser

Paste names, choose how many teams or how many people per team, and press Make teams. Team sizes never differ by more than one. Mark captains, give people a skill level from 1 to 5 to balance the teams, spread tags like #girl and #boy evenly, and keep chosen people together or apart. Reveal picks one at a time like a draft, pick a random leader for each team, and copy the teams or download them as a CSV or an image.

Random team generator for classes, sports, and games

Paste a class list, a roster, or the names of everyone at game night, set the number of teams, and press Make teams. Each team gets its own color and card, and members are dealt into the cards one by one so you can watch the split happen.

Sizes stay as even as the numbers allow. The line under the controls tells you what you'll get before you press the button, for example 23 names → 3 teams of 6 and 1 of 5.

Random group generator by group size

Switch to People per team when you care about group size more than the number of groups. Set it to 2 for partners, 3 for lab groups, or 5 for a five-a-side match, and the tool works out how many groups that makes.

Leftovers are spread across the groups instead of forming a tiny last group. With an odd number of people in pairs, one group of 3 is made so nobody works alone.

Team generator with captains, skill levels, and tags

A few markers in the names list make fairer teams without extra forms. The help under Captains, skill levels and more shows each one with an example.

  • *Name makes a captain. Captains go one per team and are listed first.
  • Name|4 sets a skill from 1 to 5. Teams are balanced by their skill totals.
  • Name #tag spreads a group evenly, such as #girl and #boy or #grade5 and #grade6.
  • Ava + Ben on one line keeps two people on the same team.

Team picker with a draft-style reveal

Turn on Reveal one by one to show the teams pick by pick, the way a draft works. Each press of Reveal next, or the space bar, adds the next person to the team whose turn it is, and the small dial spins to that team's color.

After the teams are set, Pick a leader highlights one random person on each team to speak first, keep score, or collect equipment.

A random team chooser wheel without the waiting

Spinning a wheel once per person gets slow with a full class. This tool splits everyone at once and still gives you the suspense of a wheel through the one-by-one reveal, so you can run it on a projector and announce each pick.

When you're done, copy the teams as text, download a CSV for a spreadsheet, save a PNG image with each team's color, or send them from your phone's share menu.

FAQ

Paste the names into the box, one per line or separated by commas, choose Number of teams or People per team, and press Make teams. Press Shuffle again for a new split with the same settings.

Team sizes never differ by more than one, so 11 people in 3 teams gives two teams of 4 and one of 3. With People per team, the number is the most people on a team. If one person would be left alone, they join another team instead, so 11 people in pairs gives four pairs and one group of 3.

Yes. Add a skill from 1 to 5 after a name, like Sarah|4. The tool then places the strongest people first and keeps each team's skill total as even as it can. Anyone without a skill counts as 3, and each card shows the team's average.

Put people on one line with a plus sign, like Ava + Ben, to keep them on the same team. To keep people apart, open Captains, skill levels and more and list them on one line in the Keep apart box, like Ava, Ben. If the rules can't all be met with your team count, the tool says so instead of quietly breaking one.

Yes. The list is shuffled with crypto.getRandomValues and a Fisher-Yates shuffle, so every split is equally likely when you only paste names. Captains, skill levels, tags, and keep-apart rules steer where people go on purpose, and ties between equally good spots are still broken at random.

Yes, on the same device. The last names list and settings are saved locally and load again when you come back. Press Clear to empty the list.