diff --git a/crates/bpe/src/byte_pair_encoding.rs b/crates/bpe/src/byte_pair_encoding.rs
index 04d4fe6..7882b5f 100644
--- a/crates/bpe/src/byte_pair_encoding.rs
+++ b/crates/bpe/src/byte_pair_encoding.rs
@@ -166,6 +166,32 @@ fn hash_bytes(bytes: &[u8], factor: u64) -> u32 {
     ((hasher.finish().wrapping_mul(factor)) >> 32) as u32
 }
 
+/// Find a suitable hash factor for the given tiktoken dictionary that prevents collisions
+/// when constructing a [`BytePairEncoding`] from those tokens.
+#[cfg(all(feature = "tiktoken-rs", feature = "rand"))]
+pub fn find_hash_factor_from_tiktoken(bpe: &tiktoken_rs::CoreBPE, len: usize) -> u64 {
+    find_hash_factor(|i| bpe._decode_native(&[i]), len)
+}
+
+/// Find a suitable hash factor for a set of given tokens that prevents collisions when
+/// constructing a [`BytePairEncoding`] from those tokens.
+#[cfg(feature = "rand")]
+pub fn find_hash_factor(tokens: impl Fn(usize) -> Vec<u8>, len: usize) -> u64 {
+    use std::collections::HashSet;
+
+    use rand::Rng;
+
+    let mut rnd = rand::thread_rng();
+    loop {
+        let factor: u64 = rnd.gen();
+        let mut seen = HashSet::with_capacity(len);
+        if (0..len).all(|i| seen.insert(hash_bytes(&tokens(i), factor))) {
+            println!("hash factor: {factor}");
+            return factor;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 fn find_token_by_bytes(
     all_tokens: &[u8],
     token_starts: &[u32],
@@ -191,8 +217,12 @@ impl BytePairEncoding {
         &BPE_O200K
     }
 
-    /// Construct a BytePairEncoding instance frmo a tiktoken dictionary.
-    /// A suitable hash factor may be necessary to prevent hash collisions. You can find on eusing the [`find_hash_factor`] test.
+    /// Construct a BytePairEncoding instance from a tiktoken dictionary.
+    /// A suitable hash factor may be necessary to prevent hash collisions,
+    /// which can by found using [`crate::data::find_hash_factor_from_tiktoken`].
+    ///
+    /// The recommended approach is to store the serialized value and reuse that,
+    /// to prevent repeating the cost of computing the hash factor and encoding.
     #[cfg(feature = "tiktoken-rs")]
     pub fn from_tiktoken(
         tiktoken_bpe: &tiktoken_rs::CoreBPE,
@@ -205,8 +235,12 @@ impl BytePairEncoding {
         )
     }
 
-    /// Construct a BytePairEncoding instance from an iterator which enumerates all tokens.
-    /// A suitable hash factor may be necessary to prevent hash collisions. You can find on eusing the [`find_hash_factor`] test.
+    /// Construct a BytePairEncoding instance from an iterator that enumerates all tokens.
+    /// A suitable hash factor may be necessary to prevent hash collisions, which can be
+    /// found using [`crate::data::find_hash_factor`].
+    ///
+    /// The recommended approach is to store the serialized value and reuse that,
+    /// to prevent repeating the cost of computing the hash factor and encoding.
     pub fn from_dictionary(iter: impl Iterator<Item = Vec<u8>>, hash_factor: Option<u64>) -> Self {
         let hash_factor = hash_factor
             .inspect(|f| assert_ne!(*f, 0, "hash factor must be larger than zero"))
@@ -574,53 +608,25 @@ mod tests {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod data {
-    use std::collections::HashSet;
     use std::fs::File;
     use std::path::PathBuf;
 
-    use rand::Rng;
     use serde::Serialize;
-    use tiktoken_rs::{cl100k_base, o200k_base, CoreBPE};
-
-    use super::*;
 
-    const BPE_CL100K_LEN: usize = 100256;
-    const BPE_O200K_LEN: usize = 199998;
-
-    /// Use this to find a hashing factor for [`hash_bytes`] that prevents collisions.
-    /// 1. Set the `(bpe, len)` value to the tiktoken tokenizer you want to find a hash factor for.
-    /// 2. Update the hash factor in [`hash_bytes`].
-    /// 3. Run [`update_token_dicts`] tests below to update data files.
-    ///    Note: If you forget this, the next test run will update the files, but
-    ///          all other tests might fail because the data was not up-to-date.
-    #[test]
-    #[ignore = "run manually to find a suitable hash factor"]
-    #[allow(unreachable_code, unused_variables)]
-    fn find_hash_factor() {
-        let (bpe, len): (CoreBPE, _) = todo!("replace with BPE instance and token count");
-        let mut rnd = rand::thread_rng();
-        loop {
-            let factor: u64 = rnd.gen();
-            let mut seen = HashSet::with_capacity(len);
-            if (0..len).all(|i| seen.insert(hash_bytes(&bpe._decode_native(&[i]), factor))) {
-                println!("hash factor: {factor}");
-                return;
-            }
-        }
-    }
+    use crate::byte_pair_encoding::BytePairEncoding;
 
     #[test]
     fn update_token_dicts() {
         serialize_tokens(
             "cl100k",
-            &cl100k_base().expect("tiktoken initialization must not fail!"),
-            BPE_CL100K_LEN,
+            &tiktoken_rs::cl100k_base().expect("tiktoken initialization must not fail!"),
+            100256,
             17846336922010275747,
         );
         serialize_tokens(
             "o200k",
-            &o200k_base().expect("tiktoken initialization must not fail!"),
-            BPE_O200K_LEN,
+            &tiktoken_rs::o200k_base().expect("tiktoken initialization must not fail!"),
+            199998,
             17846336922010275747,
         );
     }