How to Split Teams and Groups the Right Way

Team building is the process of splitting a list of names into a set number of teams. The basic principle is to keep each team's size as even as possible while deciding who goes where at random.

How to split people evenly

Shuffle the list at random, then hand out names to teams one at a time in a "round robin" — even if the group doesn't divide evenly by the number of teams, no team will ever end up more than one person ahead or behind.

• 10 people into 3 teams → split evenly as 4, 3, 3
• Because the list is shuffled before dealing, there's no bias based on original order
• Just change the number of teams to instantly re-split the group

If you want to balance skill level

If you want to factor in skill or experience instead of pure randomness, try grouping people into "tiers" of similar skill first, then distributing each tier evenly across teams. For example, drawing one person each from a high, medium, and low tier to form a team narrows the skill gap between teams.

RANDOMBOX's team divider shuffles the list and deals it out round robin, so team sizes come out as even as possible. If you need balanced skill levels, we recommend splitting people into groups first and running it multiple times.

Example uses

You can use it for almost any situation where people need to be split up — sports days, games, group projects, or seating at a work dinner. If you don't like the result, just run it again for a fresh split.