Spot-check a 50,000-URL crawl without reading it: pull a random 100, or every 10th line, in one click.
The example below is already loaded, so you can see exactly what you get. Replace it with your own list and the result updates as you type.
Got a bigger job? The full Notepad runs the same engine on lists of any size — chain this with dedupe, sort and filter, undo any step, and save the whole routine as a recipe for next time.
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Keeps the first N lines, the last N lines, every Nth line, or N lines picked at random — for spot-checking a huge export or pulling a test set.
Cuts a big list down: keep the first N lines, the last N lines, every Nth line, or N lines chosen at random. Random sampling picks without repeats and keeps the original order.
Good for spot-checking a huge export, creating a test set, or staying under a tool’s upload limit.
Yes. Take a Sample of Lines runs entirely in your browser, on this page and in the full Notepad, with no sign-up, no limits, and nothing sent to a server.
Yes. Run it again for a new sample.
No. The chosen lines stay in their original order.
Need rows 1,001 to 2,000? Type the range and get exactly those lines — no scrolling, no selecting.
Turn a raw log or tally into a ranked frequency table in one click — every distinct line with its count.
Long copy is hard to check. Put every sentence on its own line and length, repetition and readability problem…
Give a developer, a CMS or a database exactly the format it wants — HTML, JSON, SQL or CSV — with every quote…
The Random Line Picker is one of the free tools inside Seowolf’s Notepad. Paste a list once, then dedupe, filter, sort, compare and format it in seconds — every step undoable, nothing uploaded, no account.
Open the Notepad — it’s free