A fast encoding algorithm was presented which made full use of two characteristics of a vector, its sum and variance. In this paper, a vector was separated into two subvectors, one is the first half of the coordinates and the other contains the remaining coordinates. Three inequalities based on the characteristics of the sums and variances of a vector and its two subvectors were introduced to reject those codewords which are impossible to be the nearest codeword. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is faster than the improved equal-average eaual-variance nearest neighbor search (EENNS) algorithm.