List Randomizer

A list randomizer takes items you already have and puts them in a random order. It is the everyday tool for drawing a raffle winner, deciding who presents first, splitting a class into an order of turns, picking a random restaurant from a shortlist, or seeding a bracket without arguing about who got the easy side.

Paste your list and it shuffles immediately. Items are read one per line by default, which matches what you get when you copy a column out of a spreadsheet, and you can switch to comma or space separated when the list is written out on a single line. Blank lines and stray spacing around items are ignored, so a messy paste still produces a clean result. Turning on Remove duplicates drops repeats before the draw, and Number the result prefixes each line so you can read the order straight off the screen.

The order is drawn fresh each time you press Shuffle again, and it also changes whenever you edit the list. Every arrangement is equally likely, which matters if the result decides something people care about. If you want a random number rather than a random order, use the random number generator, and if you want the list in a fixed order instead, the line sorter will alphabetize it. To clean up a list first, remove duplicate lines does exactly that.