Casual writing, chat messages, and social media comments often stretch out letters for emphasis — "sooooo good" or "nooooo way" — which reads fine informally but needs cleaning up for more formal use or text analysis.
This tool collapses any run of repeated identical characters down to your chosen maximum count, turning "soooooo" into "so" (or "soo" if you allow up to 2 repeats), while leaving normal double letters like "tt" in "letter" untouched if you set the limit appropriately.
This is useful for normalizing informal text before analysis, cleaning up scraped social media content, or tidying a quote before including it in more formal writing.
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This kind of task shows up constantly in everyday writing, coding, design, and admin work, which is exactly why a dedicated, focused tool saves so much back-and-forth.
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Frequently asked questions
Will this break words with legitimate double letters, like 'coffee'?
Setting the max repeats to 2 preserves normal double letters like the two e's in 'coffee' while still collapsing longer stretched-out runs of 3 or more.
Does this work on repeated punctuation too, like '!!!'?
Yes, the collapsing applies to any repeated character, including punctuation marks, not just letters.