> And pre-culled "popular" values similarly demolishes the personal quality of
> the process.
I'm assuming you mean that, by making it random, it enhances the
correctness of the final result.
Not so much "correctness" as truth. It allows you to focus on reacting to the pair by taking away the mechanics of the process.
My only motivation in my suggestion was cutting down on the number of
combinations which may make the test more appealing and less likely to
have people give up (I almost did). But, of course, quantity is not
quality.
I have been surprised at how many people have used the tool over the years. I haven't done a count recently but it was hundreds several years ago. Now I am curious and will have to go check. The only complaints I get are when people don't narrow down the list to 10 to 12 values and complain that it takes too long.
Also, there is a bug because the array will overflow at some point when you have too many values but I think that is a limit to the implementation of arrays in PHP. Never bothered to check. :)