Many thanks for your feedback!
To counter the randomness, there will spawn green bits (0 and 1's) around the level. If you collect 8 of them you will get 1 correct character.
They spawn randomly within 10 seconds, but if you get one a new one will spawn immediately.
This way it's a bit encouraged to stay alive as well. It can really help to get the first few characters of the word.
When you know what character you want dying could be the faster method if you are already close to the correct one.
As Rileys Legacy already suggested, I should have made a tutorial level ;)