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diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 535f2aa..cae4f88 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,9 +21,4 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 name = "cat2text"
 path = "src/main.rs"
 
-[features]
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a0929de..1d4dd40 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -66,4 +66,4 @@ This currently only supports lowercase text in the latin alphabet, and byte arra
 - Improve CLI
 - Add error handling
 - Do `AsRef` stuff
-- Optimize code
+- Add u16/2-byte encoding in addition to just u8 for greater efficiency
diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bede55..0000000
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,165 +0,0 @@
-// this is a separate feature for *optional* dependencies to ensure clap doesn't get compiled if you're just using the library
-use cat2text::{self, anybase, core};
-use clap::{CommandFactory, Parser, Subcommand};
-use clap_complete::aot::{generate, Bash, Fish, PowerShell, Zsh};
-use std::{
-    io::stdout,
-    time::Instant,
-};
-
-#[derive(Parser)]
-#[command(version, about, long_about = None)]
-pub(crate) struct Cli {
-    #[command(subcommand)]
-    pub command: Commands,
-}
-
-#[derive(Subcommand, Debug)]
-pub(crate) enum Commands {
-    ///Generate bash completions
-    GenerateBashCompletions,
-    ///Generate zsh completions
-    GenerateZshCompletions,
-    ///Generate fish completions
-    GenerateFishCompletions,
-    ///Generate PowerShell completions,
-    GeneratePowershellCompletions,
-    ///Encodes text/data to mrow~
-    ///
-    ///The default is base 4 text encoding, to match the original program, but it can encode either text or binary data in up to base 16 meows :3
-    Encode {
-        ///What base to encode using - up to base 16
-        #[arg(short, long, default_value_t = 4)]
-        base: u8,
-        #[arg(long, default_value_t = false)]
-        ///Whether to use byte encoding or English text encoding; text encoding can only handle a-z (lowercase)
-        bytes: bool,
-        text: String,
-    },
-    ///Decodes mrow~ to text/data
-    ///
-    ///The default is base 4 text encoding, to match the original program, but it can decode either text or binary data in up to base 16 meows :3
-    Decode {
-        ///What base to decode using - up to base 16
-        #[arg(short, long, default_value_t = 4)]
-        base: u8,
-        #[arg(long, default_value_t = false)]
-        ///Whether the input is using byte encoding or English text encoding
-        bytes: bool,
-        text: String,
-    },
-    Benchmark {
-        ///What base to benchmark using - up to base 16
-        #[arg(short, long, default_value_t = 4)]
-        base: u8,
-        ///Whether to use byte encoding or English text encoding; text encoding can only handle a-z (lowercase)
-        #[arg(long, default_value_t = false)]
-        bytes: bool,
-        ///How many iterations to run each benchmark for
-        #[arg(short, long, default_value_t = 1000)]
-        iterations: u128,
-        text: String,
-    },
-}
-
-pub(crate) fn run() {
-    let cli = Cli::parse();
-
-    match cli.command {
-        Commands::GenerateBashCompletions => {
-            generate(
-                Bash,
-                &mut Cli::command(),
-                clap::crate_name!(),
-                &mut stdout(),
-            );
-        }
-        Commands::GenerateZshCompletions => {
-            generate(Zsh, &mut Cli::command(), clap::crate_name!(), &mut stdout());
-        }
-        Commands::GenerateFishCompletions => {
-            generate(
-                Fish,
-                &mut Cli::command(),
-                clap::crate_name!(),
-                &mut stdout(),
-            );
-        }
-        Commands::GeneratePowershellCompletions => {
-            generate(
-                PowerShell,
-                &mut Cli::command(),
-                clap::crate_name!(),
-                &mut stdout(),
-            );
-        }
-        Commands::Encode { base, text, bytes } => {
-            println!("{}", encode(base, text, bytes))
-        }
-        Commands::Decode { base, text, bytes } => {
-            println!("{}", decode(base, text, bytes))
-        }
-        Commands::Benchmark {
-            base,
-            text,
-            bytes,
-            iterations,
-        } => {
-            let mut start = Instant::now();
-            for _ in 0..iterations {
-                let _ = encode(base, text.clone(), bytes);
-            }
-            let encode_time = start.elapsed();
-            println!("Encode time: {}", encode_time.as_millis());
-
-            start = Instant::now();
-            for _ in 0..iterations {
-                let _ = decode(base, text.clone(), bytes);
-            }
-            let decode_time = start.elapsed();
-
-            println!("Decode time: {}", decode_time.as_millis());
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-fn encode(base: u8, text: String, bytes: bool) -> String {
-    match bytes {
-        true => {
-            return format!(
-                "{}",
-                anybase::bytes::encode(
-                    text.as_bytes(), // make the string into a Vec<u8>
-                    base as u32,
-                    core::bytes::char_length(base as u32)
-                )
-            );
-        }
-        false => {
-            return format!(
-                "{}",
-                anybase::encode(text, base as u32, core::char_length(base as u32))
-            );
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-fn decode(base: u8, text: String, bytes: bool) -> String {
-    match bytes {
-        true => {
-            return anybase::bytes::decode(
-                text,
-                base as u32,
-                core::bytes::char_length(base as u32),
-            )
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(|item| item.to_string() + " ")
-            .collect::<String>()
-            .trim()
-            .to_string();
-        }
-        false => {
-            return anybase::decode(text, base as u32, core::char_length(base as u32));
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 23796ea..c883fbd 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,32 @@
-#[cfg(feature = "bin")]
-mod cli;
+extern crate cat2text;
+use cat2text::base4;
+use std::io::{self, stdout, Write};
 
 fn main() {
-    #[cfg(feature = "bin")]
-    cli::run()
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+    let stdin = io::stdin();
+    let mut input;
+
+    loop {
+        println!("Pick your translation:");
+        println!("1) cat to text");
+        println!("2) text to cat");
+        input = "".to_string();
+        stdin.read_line(&mut input).unwrap();
+        print!("~> ");
+        stdout().flush().unwrap();
+        let trimmed = input.trim();
+        if trimmed == "1".to_string() {
+            input = "".to_string();
+            stdin.read_line(&mut input).unwrap();
+            println!("{}", base4::decode(input.trim().to_string()));
+        } else if trimmed == "2".to_string() {
+            input = "".to_string();
+            stdin.read_line(&mut input).unwrap();
+            println!("{}", base4::encode(input.trim().to_string()));
+        } else {
+            println!("Invalid input, exiting...");
+            break;
+        }
+        println!();
+    }
+}