diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b1de99..ffc1ca8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ RRD RBO RKD M  DRBU MBRRRKD RDOR
 
 You can also use emojis:
 ```shell
-$ echo -n uwonsmth | aces 🥇🥈🥉
-🥇🥉🥇🥇🥉🥈🥇🥈🥈🥉🥈🥉🥈🥈🥈🥉🥇🥈🥇🥈🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥇🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥇🥇🥈
+$ echo -n yay | aces 🥇🥈🥉
+🥇🥈🥉🥇🥉🥇🥉🥉🥇🥉🥉🥇🥈🥇🥉🥇🥉🥉🥇🥉🥇🥈🥇
 ```
 
 With Aces, you can see the actual 0s and 1s of files:
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Examples:
   echo Calculus | aces 01                                            # what's stuff in binary?
   echo Aces™ | base64 | aces -d
   ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/   # even decode base64
-  echo -n uwonsmth | aces 🥇🥈🥉                                    # emojis work too! 
+  echo -n yay | aces 🥇🥈🥉                                          # emojis work too! 
   Set the encoding/decoding buffer size with --bufsize <size> (default 16KiB).
 
   File issues, contribute or star at github.com/quackduck/aces
diff --git a/aces.go b/aces.go
index a663381..cf9e01c 100644
--- a/aces.go
+++ b/aces.go
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const defaultBufSize = 16 * 1024
 
 // size of the byte chunk whose base is converted at a time when the length of the character
 // set is not a power of 2. See NewCoding for more detail.
-const defaultNonPow2ByteChunkSize = 8
+const defaultNonPow2ByteChunkSize = 4
 
 // sliceByteLen slices the byte b such that the result has length len and starting bit start
 func sliceByteLen(b byte, start uint8, len uint8) byte {
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ type Coding interface {
 //
 // This is because most encoders interpret data as a number and use a base conversion algorithm to convert it to the
 // character set. For non-power-of-2 charsets, this requires all data to be read before encoding, which is not possible
-// with streams. To enable stream encoding for non-power-of-2 charsets, Aces converts a default of 8 bytes (adjustable
+// with streams. To enable stream encoding for non-power-of-2 charsets, Aces converts a default of 4 bytes (adjustable
 // with Coding.SetByteChunkSize) of data at a time, which is not the same as converting the base of the entire data.
 func NewCoding(charset []rune) (Coding, error) {
 	seen := make(map[rune]bool)
@@ -329,9 +329,9 @@ func (c *anyCoding) Encode(dst io.Writer, src io.Reader) error {
 
 var resultBuf = make([]rune, 0, 64)
 
-func encodeByteChunk(set []rune, octet []byte, rPerChunk int) []rune {
+func encodeByteChunk(set []rune, chunk []byte, rPerChunk int) []rune {
 	resultBuf = resultBuf[:0]
-	i := bytesToInt(octet)
+	i := bytesToInt(chunk)
 	resultBuf = toBase(i, resultBuf, set)
 	//return append([]rune(strings.Repeat(string(set[0]), rPerChunk-len(resultBuf))), resultBuf...)
 	for len(resultBuf) < rPerChunk {
diff --git a/cmd/aces/main.go b/cmd/aces/main.go
index 2ecf7d8..34d58e6 100644
--- a/cmd/aces/main.go
+++ b/cmd/aces/main.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Examples:
    echo Calculus | aces 01                                            # what's stuff in binary?
    echo Aces™ | base64 | aces -d
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/   # even decode base64
-   echo -n uwonsmth | aces 🥇🥈🥉                                    # emojis work too! 
+   echo -n yay | aces 🥇🥈🥉                                          # emojis work too! 
 Set the encoding/decoding buffer size with --bufsize <size> (default 16KiB).
 
 File issues, contribute or star at github.com/quackduck/aces`