That's... not how hashes work. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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Sure it doesn't guide you to guesses that are closer and closer to the original, but that's not the point. If I understand Randall's original intent, he wanted a a random school so he could use a university in a comic and this sounds like it would have been a fun competition back before the comic solidified.
I mean... Isn't that?
It's "~~beat~ [guess] the hash [with distributed gamified brute force]"