diff --git a/pysparkling/rdd.py b/pysparkling/rdd.py
index 56cd3dc09..5eb1e8153 100644
--- a/pysparkling/rdd.py
+++ b/pysparkling/rdd.py
@@ -656,6 +656,39 @@ def pipe(self, command, env={}):
             [command]+x if isinstance(x, list) else [command, x]
         ) for x in self.collect())
 
+    def randomSplit(self, weights, seed=None):
+        """
+        Split the RDD into a few RDDs according to the given weights.
+
+        .. note::
+            Creating the new RDDs is currently implemented as a local
+            operation.
+
+        :param weights:
+            Determines the relative lengths of the resulting RDDs.
+
+        :param seed:
+            Seed for random number generator.
+
+        :returns:
+            A list of RDDs.
+
+        """
+        sum_weights = sum(weights)
+        boundaries = [0]
+        for w in weights:
+            boundaries.append(boundaries[-1] + w/sum_weights)
+        random.seed(seed)
+
+        lists = [[] for _ in weights]
+        for e in self.toLocalIterator():
+            r = random.random()
+            for i, lbub in enumerate(zip(boundaries[:-1], boundaries[1:])):
+                if r >= lbub[0] and r < lbub[1]:
+                    lists[i].append(e)
+
+        return [self.context.parallelize(l) for l in lists]
+
     def reduce(self, f):
         """
         :param f:
diff --git a/tests/test_rdd_unit.py b/tests/test_rdd_unit.py
index d7b0b103d..20c403a67 100644
--- a/tests/test_rdd_unit.py
+++ b/tests/test_rdd_unit.py
@@ -223,6 +223,13 @@ def test_pipe():
     assert b'hello\n' in piped
 
 
+def test_randomSplit():
+    rdd = Context().parallelize(range(500))
+    rdd1, rdd2 = rdd.randomSplit([2, 3], seed=42)
+    print(rdd1.count(), rdd2.count())
+    assert rdd1.count() == 199 and rdd2.count() == 301
+
+
 def test_reduce():
     rdd = Context().parallelize([0, 4, 7, 4, 10])
     assert rdd.reduce(lambda a, b: a+b) == 25
@@ -334,4 +341,4 @@ def test_zipWithUniqueIndex():
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
-    test_first_empty_partitions()
+    test_randomSplit()