diff --git a/gptc/tokenizer.py b/gptc/tokenizer.py
index 1d6ca10..9902291 100644
--- a/gptc/tokenizer.py
+++ b/gptc/tokenizer.py
@@ -39,13 +39,14 @@ def tokenize(text: str, max_ngram_length: int = 1) -> List[str]:
         return ngrams
 
 
+def hash_single(token: str) -> int:
+    return int.from_bytes(
+        hashlib.sha256(token.encode("utf-8")).digest()[:6], "big"
+    )
+
+
 def hash(tokens: List[str]) -> List[int]:
-    return [
-        int.from_bytes(
-            hashlib.sha256(token.encode("utf-8")).digest()[:6], "big"
-        )
-        for token in tokens
-    ]
+    return [hash_single(token) for token in tokens]
 
 
 def normalize(text: str) -> str: