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This may indirectly answer your question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-Ipsat90c

TLDW: We don't pick numbers at random. At all. We're so bad at it that you can make money off this fact.

This is why, when someone asks me to pick a random number, I try to think of some random process going on in my surroundings, and from there derive the random number.

And still, you always come up with 4.

a truely randall number

That's very cool. Do you have any examples? It's the kind of thing you can't give much thought to on the spot

A common tactic for Poker players who want to make some of their actions in a common scenario random (call in one instance, or perhaps re-raise instead) is to look at their wrist watch, and depending on where the second hand is they can simulate a coin flip or a dice roll.

That’s cool. Seed(Time()) is as old as… it’s old.

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