Reverse a List

Flips your list upside down: the last item becomes the first. No sorting, just the opposite order.

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Three kinds of reverse

  • Reverse order flips the list itself. Use it for newest-first logs, countdowns, or any list that came out upside down.
  • Swap words in each line reverses the words within each item. “Smith, John” becomes “John, Smith”, and “John Smith” becomes “Smith John”.
  • Mirror text writes each line backwards, letter by letter. Good for puzzles and palindromes.

For reverse alphabetical order, use Z → A on Alphabetize a list.

Reverse the order

Before
first
second
third
fourth
After
fourth
third
second
first

Swap words in each line

Before
Smith, John
Doe, Jane
Ada Lovelace
After
John, Smith
Jane, Doe
Lovelace Ada

Mirror text

Before
stressed
live
Sort My List
After
desserts
evil
tsiL yM troS

Questions

Does reversing work on comma separated lists?

Yes. The format is detected automatically, or you can choose it under “Items are separated by”.