> you'll match the last few and first few letters just as fast in your head
Definitely true, in fact I tend to prefer hex for this purpose. But one minor note - assuming the whole thing is cryptographic-strength random, there's no need to compare first and last, just do first only or last only (last is usually preferred for UUIDs due to them sometimes containing a timestamp at the start), the odds of an accidental match is the same and the visual processing time of switching from one end to the other is lower.
Definitely true, in fact I tend to prefer hex for this purpose. But one minor note - assuming the whole thing is cryptographic-strength random, there's no need to compare first and last, just do first only or last only (last is usually preferred for UUIDs due to them sometimes containing a timestamp at the start), the odds of an accidental match is the same and the visual processing time of switching from one end to the other is lower.