Text Repeater
Repeat, Shuffle, Build And Flip Text

What A Text Repeater Does For You

A text repeater copies a piece of text again and again. You choose how many times, and what goes in the gaps. So you never paste the same words fifty times by hand.

This tool does more than repeat. First, it can repeat each word, each line or each character. Then it can shuffle lines, build numbered strings from a template, flip text upside down and fix quote marks.

People use a text repeater to fill a design with sample text, to stress test a form, or to make a list of test data. Also, writers use it for patterns and for fun.

Everything runs in your browser. So your text never leaves your device.

How The Text Repeater Works

You type or paste some text and pick a mode. Then the tool builds the result as you type. The counts of characters, words and lines update at once.

Copy the result, save it as a text file, or send it back in as your next input.

For more detail, see: Wikipedia article on the Fisher-Yates shuffle.

Repeat Text Many Times

Pick Repeat the text, then set how many times. The tool repeats the whole text and joins the copies with the separator you choose.

For example, three copies with a new line after each one make a list of three lines.

Choose What Goes In The Gap

The separator can be a new line, a space, a comma and a space, a tab or nothing at all. You can also type your own text, such as a pipe or a dash.

So one setting turns the same copies into a list, a sentence or a single long string.

Number Each Copy

Tick Number each copy, and every copy starts with 1., 2., 3. and so on. This works when you repeat the whole text.

Repeat Each Word, Line Or Character

Switch the Repeat list to Each word, and every word appears the number of times you set. So hello world becomes hello hello world world.

Each line works the same way for lists. Then Each character turns hi into hhii.

Shuffle Lines, Words And Letters

Shuffle mixes your text in a fair random order. You can shuffle the lines, the words, the letters inside each word, or every character.

When you shuffle inside words, the first and last letter stay put. So the text stays readable.

Pick Random Lines

Type a number in Keep only this many to pick that many lines at random. This turns the tool into a name picker or a raffle draw.

Then click Run again to draw a new set.

How Fair The Shuffle Is

The shuffle uses the Fisher-Yates method and the secure random numbers of your browser. So every order has the same chance, and no order wins out.

Build Strings From A Template

Write one line with tokens, and the tool repeats it with changing values. The token {n} counts up, {i} counts from zero, and {n:3} pads a number to three digits.

Also, {r:1-100} gives a random whole number, and {c:red|green|blue} cycles through a list.

Set The Start And The Step

Set the first number and the step. A start of 10 and a step of 5 gives 10, 15, 20 and so on. A negative step counts down.

Flip Text Upside Down

The flip mode swaps each letter for a look-alike character that seems turned around, and it reverses the order. So your text reads upside down on screen.

Untick Also reverse the order to flip the letters only.

Where Upside Down Text Works

It works in chats, bios and posts, since the result is plain text made of Unicode characters. However, some fonts lack a few of the symbols, so check the result where you plan to post it.

Fix Quote Marks

Word processors turn straight quotes into curly ones, and code editors dislike that. Pick Straight quotes to turn every curly mark back into a plain one.

Or pick Curly quotes to make your text look typeset.

Smart Quotes Done Right

The curly mode looks at the character before each mark. So a quote after a space opens, and a quote after a letter closes.

An apostrophe in it is or Jo is turns into the right mark too. Years such as the 90s keep their apostrophe.

Dashes And Dots

Tick Also fix dashes and dots. Then two hyphens turn into an en dash, three turn into an em dash, and three dots turn into one ellipsis character.

In straight mode, the tool does the reverse.

Limits

The tool reads up to 200,000 characters of input and writes up to 2 million characters. You can ask for up to 10,000 copies.

If a result grows past the cap, the tool cuts it and tells you.

Safe By Design

First, the tool works in your browser. It sends nothing, and it stores nothing. So your text stays yours.