What's amusing is that you are trolling. There is no "password nearness". The entered password is either in the same bucket (identified by an N-bit ID) as the

What's amusing is that you are trolling. There is no "password nearness". The entered password is either in the same bucket (identified by an N-bit ID) as the stored password, or it is not. That's it. In former case the hint indicator is black, in latter it's not (though it is animated to a random state).