# Picking a Random Item from an Array

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [December 2, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/picking-a-random-item-from-an-array/399178 "2014-12-02T00:27:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/picking-a-random-item-from-an-array/399178/11 "2020-12-16T18:57:47Z")

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I’m sure @senocular or @krilnon will have a much better solution, but what I do is just shuffle the array first and then pick all the items in sequence. This ensures no items is picked up more than once.

This article can help:

> **[Shuffling an Array](https://www.kirupa.com/html5/shuffling_array_js.htm)**
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> Use the Fisher-Yates / Knuth approach to quickly shuffle the contents of an array in JavaScript.

🙂

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