---
title: "Random picker and team generator — free, runs in your browser"
description: "Pick a winner from a list, split into teams, or generate a random order. Free, no sign-up, and nothing you enter leaves your browser."
url: https://atoneplace.net/tools/random-picker/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Random picker and team generator

Pick a winner from a list, split into teams, or generate a random order.

## How it works

Paste a list of names or items and pick one at random, draw several without repeats, split into teams, or shuffle into a running order.

Team splitting deals round-robin from a shuffled list rather than filling one team then the next, which keeps sizes even when the count does not divide cleanly. With seven people and three teams you get 3-2-2, and which team gets the extra is itself random rather than always the first.

The shuffle is Fisher–Yates driven by the cryptographic random number generator. Sorting with a random comparator — the obvious approach — produces measurably biased orderings, which matters if you are using this to decide anything.

Genuinely random results contain runs and clusters. The same name appearing twice in consecutive draws is expected, not evidence of a broken generator.

> This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server, logged or stored, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.

## Common questions

### Is this fair for a prize draw?

It uses the browser’s cryptographic random number generator with an unbiased shuffle, so every ordering is equally likely. It is not auditable by a third party, which is a different requirement.

### How are uneven teams handled?

By dealing round-robin from a shuffled list, so sizes differ by at most one and the extra place falls randomly rather than always on the first team.

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## Sources

- Calculated on this page — At One Place (/about/)