On the one hand, this is really quite good. I'm always interested in making my time at the command line more efficient. If I put this in my shell's config, and remember the function names, I'm golden.
On the other hand, I've learned more from continuing to read the manpages than probably anything else. And the OpenSSL commands that I use frequently, such as connecting to a site with TLS, or checking a certificate chain, can now be easily recalled from memory, and I feel I'm better off for it, especially if I'm at a terminal where my OpenSSL functions might not be installed.