RANDOM.ORG
@random.org
True random number service, based on atmospheric noise.
Our services are affected by the global outage at Cloudflare today. Large parts of the Internet are affected. Further details here: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Our services are affected by the global outage at Cloudflare today. Large parts of the Internet are affected. Further details here: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
We're delighted to hear our service was helpful! And we're always excited about research and education. Thank you for letting us know, @cody.im 🤩🙏
My two large class (n=80, 140) exams are on Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon this year... so I booked a room with ~40 seats for a Monday morning alternate exam.
Way more people interested than seats available... seemed like a great opportunity to use @random.org's third party draw service.
Way more people interested than seats available... seemed like a great opportunity to use @random.org's third party draw service.
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We're delighted to hear our service was helpful! And we're always excited about research and education. Thank you for letting us know, @cody.im 🤩🙏
Exactly today, RANDOM.ORG has been providing true random numbers to humanity for 27 years 🥳🎈🎉 It took five months for the Internet Archive to find us, but here is what we looked like back then: web.archive.org/web/19990117...
random.org
True random number service with CORBA and WWW interfaces.
web.archive.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Exactly today, RANDOM.ORG has been providing true random numbers to humanity for 27 years 🥳🎈🎉 It took five months for the Internet Archive to find us, but here is what we looked like back then: web.archive.org/web/19990117...
We are back. Our cloud company is still resolving their issue, but the workaround we put in place is keeping us running. Thank you for your patience.
May 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We are back. Our cloud company is still resolving their issue, but the workaround we put in place is keeping us running. Thank you for your patience.
We are experiencing an outage at our cloud company and are looking into the problem. All our services are affected. Next update in 15 minutes.
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We are experiencing an outage at our cloud company and are looking into the problem. All our services are affected. Next update in 15 minutes.
We really enjoyed Heather McCalden's beautiful article about true randomness in the Financial Times today. And thanks for mentioning us! www.ft.com/content/a660... via @ft
How random, really, is Spotify’s shuffle feature?
A writer sets out to uncover if true randomness exists in the universe
www.ft.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We really enjoyed Heather McCalden's beautiful article about true randomness in the Financial Times today. And thanks for mentioning us! www.ft.com/content/a660... via @ft
Today, we're launching a new randomizer that lets you place points randomly on a 2D canvas and draw lines between them. We made it on request for artist David Row (davidrow.com), but we’re sharing it with everyone. Enjoy! www.random.org/points/2d
2D Random Point Generator
Use true randomness from atmospheric noise to place points randomly in a 2D box and draw lines between them.
www.random.org
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Today, we're launching a new randomizer that lets you place points randomly on a 2D canvas and draw lines between them. We made it on request for artist David Row (davidrow.com), but we’re sharing it with everyone. Enjoy! www.random.org/points/2d
Very nice write-up about the importance of high-quality randomness (and the history of Random.org!) by
@chrisbaraniuk.com for BBC Future 🙌🎲
@chrisbaraniuk.com for BBC Future 🙌🎲
July 12, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Very nice write-up about the importance of high-quality randomness (and the history of Random.org!) by
@chrisbaraniuk.com for BBC Future 🙌🎲
@chrisbaraniuk.com for BBC Future 🙌🎲
We found the following article about how to use randomness in your daily life a thoughtful and enjoyable read: numinousinsight.substack.com/p/flip-your-... - enjoy!
Flip your way to freedom
How to use coin flips in your day to day
numinousinsight.substack.com
April 27, 2024 at 11:05 AM
We found the following article about how to use randomness in your daily life a thoughtful and enjoyable read: numinousinsight.substack.com/p/flip-your-... - enjoy!
Randomness has interesting uses for art and music. Our Random Jazz Scale Generator was designed to help students of jazz guitar and was co-designed with Gareth Hougham from our user community: www.random.org/jazz-scales/
RANDOM.ORG - Jazz Scale Generator
This form allows you to generate random jazz scales, which are intended to be useful for students of jazz guitar. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than t...
www.random.org
October 13, 2023 at 11:37 AM
Randomness has interesting uses for art and music. Our Random Jazz Scale Generator was designed to help students of jazz guitar and was co-designed with Gareth Hougham from our user community: www.random.org/jazz-scales/
Did you know you can explore the Earth using true randomness? Our random geographic coordinate generator will pick a random location on the planet's surface and show it with #OpenStreetMap or #GoogleMaps
www.random.org/geographic-c...
www.random.org/geographic-c...
RANDOM.ORG - Geographic Coordinates
This page will pick a random location on the planet using the true random number service RANDOM.ORG.
www.random.org
October 3, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Did you know you can explore the Earth using true randomness? Our random geographic coordinate generator will pick a random location on the planet's surface and show it with #OpenStreetMap or #GoogleMaps
www.random.org/geographic-c...
www.random.org/geographic-c...