Sort Text Lines

How to sort your lines

1. Paste your list into the Lines to sort box — one item per line.
2. Pick a Sort order: A–Z, Z–A, by length, numeric, or random shuffle.
3. Tick any cleanup options — Case-insensitive, Remove duplicate lines or Remove blank lines.
4. Click Apply, then hit Copy to grab the sorted result.

What each sort order does

• A → Z — natural alphabetical order. With case-insensitive on, capitalisation is ignored and numbers inside text sort in human order (so item2 comes before item10).
• Z → A — the same comparison, reversed, for descending order.
• By length — shortest lines first, longest last. Handy for spotting outliers or tidying ragged lists.
• Numeric — reads the first number in each line and sorts low to high; lines without a number drop to the bottom.
• Random shuffle — an unbiased Fisher–Yates shuffle that reorders your lines randomly, great for picking draws or randomising quiz questions.

Cleaning up while you sort

The three checkboxes run before sorting so your output is exactly what you expect. Remove blank lines strips empty or whitespace-only rows. Remove duplicate lines keeps the first occurrence of each line and drops repeats — and when Case-insensitive is on, Apple and apple count as the same item, so casing never leaves you with sneaky duplicates. The live counters show how many lines went in versus how many came out, so you can see at a glance how much was deduplicated or trimmed.

Is it private?

Yes — every sort and cleanup runs in your browser with plain JavaScript. Your list is never sent to a server, stored, logged or seen by anyone. Once the page has loaded you can even use the tool offline.

Frequently asked questions

Related: clean up messy text · change text case · count words & characters