Shuffle Text

This tool uses a Fisher-Yates shuffle, an algorithm that produces a genuinely random, unbiased ordering where every possible arrangement is equally likely, unlike naive shuffling approaches that can subtly favor certain orderings.

Shuffling lines is useful for randomizing a list, like quiz questions or a set of names for random assignment. Shuffling words can be used for word games or generating scrambled prompts, and shuffling characters is mostly used for puzzles, since it usually produces unreadable output.

Shuffling the three lines 'Alice', 'Bob', 'Carol' in Line mode produces one of the six equally likely orderings, like 'Carol', 'Alice', 'Bob', a genuinely random result rather than always the same rearrangement. Because the output is random by design, running the tool again on the exact same input produces a different order each time, unlike every other tool in this category.