# Shuffling a dictionary similar to an array

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**Category:** Swift Apprentice\
**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/shuffling-a-dictionary-similar-to-an-array/59977 "2019-01-17T02:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![dpalme](https://assets.chunter.kodeco.com/user_avatar/forums.kodeco.com/dpalme/32/102075_2.png) [@dpalme](https://forums.kodeco.com/u/dpalme)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/shuffling-a-dictionary-similar-to-an-array/59977/1 "2019-01-17T02:34:21Z")

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Is there a way to shuffle a dictionary similar to the way we can shuffle an array?

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**Author:** ![sgerrard](https://assets.chunter.kodeco.com/user_avatar/forums.kodeco.com/sgerrard/32/93812_2.png) [@sgerrard](https://forums.kodeco.com/u/sgerrard)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/shuffling-a-dictionary-similar-to-an-array/59977/2 "2019-01-17T22:33:41Z")

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Not directly, because a dictionary is stored as a hash table.  
You can make a copy of the keys as an array, though, and sort or shuffle that. You can use that to retrieve the dictionary entries in the order of the keys in the copy.

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**Author:** ![dpalme](https://assets.chunter.kodeco.com/user_avatar/forums.kodeco.com/dpalme/32/102075_2.png) [@dpalme](https://forums.kodeco.com/u/dpalme)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/shuffling-a-dictionary-similar-to-an-array/59977/3 "2019-01-24T15:31:27Z")

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Thanks, I was able to add a line to move its values to an array and then shuffled before reading it out as the dictionary. I hope that makes sense.

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**Author:** ![system](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.raywenderlich.com/community/forum-assets/noun-game-ghost-878668.png) [@system](https://forums.kodeco.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/shuffling-a-dictionary-similar-to-an-array/59977/4 "2019-07-02T18:34:22Z")

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