diff --git a/asv_bench/benchmarks/indexing.py b/asv_bench/benchmarks/indexing.py
index 836d3ca8602ec..74e0a3a434cde 100644
--- a/asv_bench/benchmarks/indexing.py
+++ b/asv_bench/benchmarks/indexing.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def setup(self, index):
         }
         index = indexes[index]
         self.s = Series(np.random.rand(N), index=index)
-        self.indexer = [True, False, True, True, False] * 20000
+        self.indexer = np.random.randint(0, N, size=N)
 
     def time_take(self, index):
         self.s.take(self.indexer)