 <p>You can try using <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api-4_0_0-BETA/org/apache/solr/schema/RandomSortField.html" rel="nofollow">RandomSortField</a> which will enable you to sort results randomly.<br> For ordering the for the first few results, you can boost the criteria e.g. <code>bq=name:Peter</code> and try using random as secondary sort e.g. <code>sort = score desc, random_1 desc</code></p>