This website is an experiment that was created to help us learn more about a certain part of the human mind. Specifically the part that is used when choosing random numbers and letters. We need to do this often when creating passwords or anything that needs to be random. So it’s important to know just how good we are at it.

Humans are not capable of creating perfectly random choices of any kind. Just like computers, humans are surprisingly predictable on some sort of fundamental level. This experiment is designed to help us understand how random we are capable of being. With that information we can more easily calculate how dependable human generated randomness can be.

For now we see a few practical uses for the data gathered from a tool like this:

1) We might be able to help people actually get better at being more random because as you enter new random strings of characters you are provided immediate feedback about just how random you were, giving you the ability to try to improve your randomness.

2) The data can also be used to help software developers build new types of prediction algorithms to help inform users just how random they’re being so that they can create more secure passwords.

3) It can also be used to help improve the randomness of computer generated randomness by making the algorithm purposely avoid strings of text that are likely to be created by humans and therefor could be susceptible to being guessed more easily.

4) Understand the reliablity of human generated reference codes used as bookmarks for many purposes such as bug reports.

Let us know if you have any question or would like to collaborate.