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Shuffle Text
Randomise a text at the level you choose: lines, words or letters.
Quick Tool Overview
Shuffle Text randomises a text at whichever level you choose — lines, words, sentences, paragraphs or characters — using a Fisher-Yates shuffle, the only common algorithm that produces a genuinely uniform result. Sorting by a random key, which many tools do, is measurably biased.
- What it does
- Randomises text order at the level you pick
- You give it
- A list, document or set of items
- You get back
- The same content in a fresh random order
- Best for
- Quiz answers, running orders, puzzles and classroom exercises
About the Shuffle Text
Shuffling text has more legitimate uses than it sounds. Randomising the order of quiz answers stops the correct one always being third. Shuffling a list of names picks a fair running order. Scrambling letters inside words makes a puzzle. Randomising sentences breaks a document into a reordering exercise for a language class.
This shuffles at whichever level you choose — lines, words, sentences, paragraphs or characters — using a Fisher-Yates shuffle, which is the only common algorithm that produces a genuinely uniform result. The naive approach of sorting by a random key is subtly biased and produces some orders far more often than others.
Key features of the Shuffle Text
Five shuffle levels
Lines, words, sentences, paragraphs or characters — the same tool covers a running order and a word puzzle.
Genuinely uniform
Fisher-Yates gives every possible order an equal chance, unlike the random-key sort most tools use.
Reshuffle freely
Each press produces an independent order, so you can keep going until the result suits.
Word boundaries respected
Character shuffling can scramble letters inside each word while keeping the words separate.
Nothing is lost
Counts before and after are shown, so you can confirm shuffling only reordered your text.
How to use the Shuffle Text
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Paste your text
A list, a document or a set of items to randomise.
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Choose the level
Shuffle lines, words, sentences, paragraphs or individual characters.
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Press shuffle
Each press produces a new random order, so you can keep going until you like the result.
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Copy the shuffled text
Copy or download the result.
Frequently asked questions
It uses a Fisher-Yates shuffle driven by the browser's random number generator, which produces a uniform result — every possible order is equally likely. Sorting by a random key, which many tools do, is measurably biased.
Yes. Every press of shuffle produces an independent random order, so you can keep going until you get one you are happy with.
Yes, character-level shuffling has a mode that keeps word boundaries, so each word's letters are scrambled but the words stay separate — which is what a word puzzle needs.
No. Shuffling only reorders, so the character and word counts before and after are identical. Those counts are shown so you can confirm it.
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